With over $25,000 in cash and prizes, more opportunities and more great music then ever before we are excited to welcome you to the 2009 Songwriting Contest.

With the most recent success of past winners Kate Voegele, Company Of Thieves and Mieka Pauley, we are once again on the search for the best songwriters out there today. Submissions are now being accepted from songwriters worldwide in all musical genres.

We are thrilled to announce the top 12 finalists who will be competing live at our Contest finals, November 18th and 19th, 2009 at The Bitter End in New York City.

Click here for the top 12

Congratulations also go out to our top 3 Young Songwriter Award finalists. The following three artists will go head to head on fashionfantasygame.com where over 100,000 members of their online community will vote for their favorite song.

Click here for the top 3 Young Songwriter Award Finalists

With thousands of great submissions this year was the hardest one yet for our judges and listening team to make a decision. We wanted to acknowledge many additional submissions who got very close to being a part of our top 12 with an honorable mention.

Click here for the list of honorable mentions