Song Contest Closed for Submissions
Get Ready for the upcoming 2013 Event.
Venue
Country Inn & Suites
5975 Lusk Boulevard
San Diego CA 92121
Date:
November 5th, 2012 7:00pm
Three Ways to Enter
1) Submit Online
- Entry Fees: Submit submission fee of $10 for each song. (limit 2)
- Provide Song Information: Once your fee is accepted, you will be directed to an information form. This form will allow your to enter your contact information, song lyrics, and upload your an MP3 of your song.
- Deadline for online submission: is 3:00pm Sunday, November 4th, 2012
- Contest Event: Come out to the event on November 5th
Online submission closed
2) Enter by Mail:
- Entry Form: Download, completed and signed Entry Form, see below, photocopy is OK. Each song must be a separate submission. One form per song entered. (limit 2)
- Audio CD: Each song must be submitted on its own individual CD. You must indicate the track number of each song submitted on CD.
- Lyric Sheets: 5 copies of typed lyric sheets Sheets are not required for instrumental compositions. Performer’s/songwriter’s names must not appear on lyric sheets.Entries will be number coded to assure impartiality in judging.
- Entry fees: $10 per song for members and $15 per song for non-members Fees paid in U.S. Dollars. Payments may be by check or money order.
- Contest Event: Come to the event on November 5th at the Country Inn Suites
- Mail In Deadline: Entries must arrive no later than one week prior to the contest event. Monday October 29th, 2012
- Mail Entries To:
San Diego Songwriters Guild
Song Contest
4809 Clairemont Dr. #413
San Diego, CA 92117
Download Entry Form
Mail In submissions closed
3) Submit At Event
- Registration: Registration will start at 6:00pm at the Country Inn & Suites. Come early to allow for processing time. Walk in submission will close at 7:00pm
- Entry Form: Completed and signed Entry Form, see below, photocopy is OK. One form per song entered. (limit 2)
- Audio CD: Each song must be submitted on its own individual CD. You must indicate the track number of each song submitted on CD.
- Lyric Sheets: 5 copies of typed lyric sheets Sheets are not required for instrumental compositions. Performer’s/songwriter’s names must not appear on lyric sheets. Entries will be number coded to assure impartiality in judging.
- Entry fees: $15 per song for active members and $20 per song for non-members. Payment to be in U.S. Dollars. Payments may be by check, cash or money order. (Limited numbers of entrants may be accepted)
Download Entry Form
Judges
This year’s panel of judges includes Mark “Mookie” Kaszor from FM 94.9, touring singer/songwriter and producer Will Edwards, studio owner and writer/producer extraordinaire Josquin des Pres, and the winner of our 20th Annual Song Contest, Lindsay White.
Prizes
We’ll be giving away great prizes, donated by San Diego Songwriter’s Guild sponsors, to the top four songs plus honorable mentions, too.
San Diego Songwriter’s Guild Song Contest Rules
- Song entries will be judged by a committee consisting of industry professionals and songwriters. Judges will score entries on five criteria: lyrics, melody, form, originality and presentation. All styles of music are eligible, but instrumentals will receive no lyric score.
- Each entry must be the contestant’s original work.
- Contestants and their collaborators retain all rights to works submitted, but entries will not be returned by SDSG.
- Contest is open to amateur songwriters, meaning one who has not been employed as a staff writer for a publishing company, who is not being paid for such services, and/or who has not received more than $2,500 in song royalty income within the past year. No song previously recorded and released through major national distribution in any country is eligible.
- Past Grand Prize (Platinum) winners of the San Diego Songwriter’s Guild Song Contest are not eligible to enter the contest. All other previous entrants are eligible.
- The contest is open to songwriters who are 18 years of age or older on the date of entry submission. Any entrant who is a minor in his or her jurisdiction of legal residence must submit written permission from his or her parent or legal guardian to participate in the contest.
- Entrants (or a representative) must be present at the awards presentation on November 5, 2012 to win. Entrants who are not present or personally represented at the awards presentation will be disqualified from consideration for prizes and awards.
- Prize winning songs from prior SDSG Song Contests may not be entered. This does not include songs from SDSG Performing Songwriters contests.
- Prizes for this year’s contest have yet to be determined. Check out prizes from prior years at our website Note: many of the prizes are “San Diego” based and can only be redeemed in San Diego stores, offices, and studios.
- Winners are responsible for division of prizes and taxes.
- No more than 70 entries will be accepted.
- A maximum of two of entries will be accepted per writer. Co-writes count proportionately toward this total. (For example: an entry with two writers counts as 1/2 of one entry for each writer.) SDSG reserves the right to limit entries further.
- Entries that violate these rules may be disqualified, and submitted fees will not be returned. All judges’ decisions are final.
- SDSG is not responsible for late, lost, damaged, misdirected, postage due, stolen, or misappropriated entries.
Contest Date: November 5th. 2012
Join SDSG or renew your expired membership when you enter and you may enter at member rates. Membership Applications are available at Online and at the event.
After early registration has past, we encourage entrants to submit entries in person at the Contest to avoid entries being late due to mail delays.
Admission to the live event is FREE to SDSG Members; $10 for non-members.
Just an editing note…
Sunday, Nov. 4th