Entries for the Roddy Read Song Writing Award are now open and will close at 5pm AEST, Friday 16th September 2022.
The award is again sponsored by Maton Guitars, with a prize of a guitar and hard case. The winner will perform your winning song on the Progress Hall stage on Sunday 30th Oct and also be guaranteed a place in the 2023 Maldon Folk Festival.
Contest coordinators: Trevor Shard (m) 0404 069019 and Lee Merzel (m) 0411 783532
Entry for the Roddy Read Memorial Songwriting Contest can be made online. The closing date is 5pm AEST, Friday 16th September 2022.
Roddy Read Songwriting Award Entry Form
Previous Winners
2019 Matt Glass – ‘The Last Time’
2018 Hannah Schmidli – ‘Elanor’
2017 Cathy Dobson – ‘Jericho Rose’
2016 Tracey Hogue – ‘Forget You Not’
2015 Peny Bohan – ‘Jonny’
2014 Ann-Maree McKee & Bernard Robertson – ‘If You’
2013 Melissa Main – ‘Black Silk’
2012 Michael Waugh – ‘Heyfield Girl’
2011 Oh Pep! – ‘Fooling Around’
2010 Lauren Lee Williams – ‘Stash Your Dreams’
2009 Tony English – ‘Leaving Liverpool’
2008 Geoff McArthur – ‘Sparkle and Shine’
2007 Rose Bygrave – ‘Erarerama’
2006 Neil Robertson – ‘Celebration’
2005 Heidi Hibberd – ‘Lyndee I Have Lost Your Number’
2004 Mark Cryle – ‘Anytime You’d Fall’
2003 Caithlin Meave – ‘Buddha and Steel’
2002 Bruce Watson – ‘Dad’s Clothes’
2001 Bek Fletcher – ‘Fly’
2000 Ben Smith – ‘One Little Black Face’
1999 Graham Dodsworth – ‘Excuse Me’
1998 Mark Jackson & Cassy Nunan – ‘I Just Received’
1997 Tiffany Eckhardt – ‘On My Knees’
1996 Geraldine Hughes – ‘Caravans’
1995 Enda Kenny – ‘My Own Road’
1994 Steve Dennis – ‘Don’t Cry for Me’
1993 Don Cowling – ‘The Ordinary Man’