DSA INTERNATIONAL SONG CONTEST 2025 OPENED JUNE 1
DSA INTERNATIONAL SONG CONTEST 2025
More than $5,000 in cash & prizes in 9 categories
Dallas, TX - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Opened June 1 – Deadline September 30th
It’s time to enter your best songs in the annual Dallas Songwriters International Song Contest, which offers more than $5,000 in cash and prizes for the best songs in 9 categories, plus grand prize winners. Categories include Christian/Inspirational, Country, Americana/Folk/Bluegrass, Pop/Rock/RnB/Alternative, Love Songs/Easy Listening, Children’s/Novelty, Singer/Songwriter, Instrumental, and 18 and Under Young Songwriters. Judges are industry pros. Entries are $25 per song
Enter here: https://dallassongwriters.org/dsa-annual-song-contest
and $15 for Young Songwriters. Enter here: https://dallassongwriters.org/young-songwriters-contest/
The DSA International Song Contest is truly a global affair. Past contests have included entries and winners from Iceland, Sweden, the UK, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, France, Canada, and all over the United States. Entries can be submitted through the https://dallassongwriters.org website or through our Song Contest Submission Partner, https://broadjam.com. A complete breakdown of the rules, and details about past winners can be found at https://dsasongcontest.blogspot.com/
The International Song Contest helps to fulfill the DSA mission to promote the craft of songwriting, provide realistic, educational opportunities to better navigate the music industry, and to provide exclusive performance opportunities, both LIVE and VIRTUAL. It provides a benchmark for popular song writing competency. The new “DSA Global” initiative is also a way to connect the international music community to the Texas music scene.
The Grand Prize Judge, Roy Elkins, wrote, “It seems that every year the songwriters are ‘upping’ their game and the entries are getting better and better.” Elkins ranks the top songs based on specific criteria, including Lyric, Melody, Hook, Structure, Truth, and Originality.
The 2024 Grand Prize Winning song, “Song For Tim” was written by Andrew Wolf who won a Casio Privia PX-S1000 Keyboard.
More about last years winners can be found here: https://dsapress.blogspot.com/2025/03/andrew-wolf-wins-grand-prize-and-runner.html
Semifinalists were invited to play live at the DSA Song Contest Awards Program, which was held virtually on January 19, 2025 and streamed to Facebook.
Live performances and camaraderie with fellow songwriters make up the soul of DSA, and since the Coronavirus, DSA is using https://zoom.us to facilitate our virtual events, which are creating new opportunities for membership and participation from anywhere in the world.
DSA is a 501 C3 nonprofit organization. Please join DSA as we celebrate 38 years of motivating and uplifting songwriters through education. https://dallassongwriters.org/join-dsa/
For media, interviews, contact: Barbara McMillen
Press Room
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
DSA INTERNATIONAL SONG CONTEST 2025 OPENED JUNE 1
Thursday, May 28, 2020
DSA INTERNATIONAL SONG CONTEST 2020 OPENS JUNE 1
DSA INTERNATIONAL SONG CONTEST 2020
More than $5,000 in cash & prizes in 9 categories
Dallas, TX - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Opens June 1 – Deadline September 30th
It’s time to enter your best songs in the annual Dallas Songwriters International Song Contest, which offers more than $5,000 in cash and prizes for the best songs in 9 categories, plus grand prize winners. Categories include Christian/Inspirational, Country, Americana/Folk/Bluegrass, Pop/Rock/RnB/Alternative, Love Songs/Easy Listening, Children’s/Novelty, Singer/Songwriter, Instrumental, and 18 and Under Young Songwriters. Judges are industry pros. Entries are $25 per song and $15 for Young Songwriters. https://dallassongwriters.org/dsa-annual-song-contest
The DSA International Song Contest is truly a global affair. The 2019 contest included entries and winners from Iceland, Sweden, the UK, and all over the United States. Entries can be submitted through the https://dallassongwriters.org website or through our Song Contest Submission Partner, https://broadjam.com. A complete breakdown of the rules, and details about the 2019 winners can be found at https://dsasongcontest.blogspot.com/
The International Song Contest helps to fulfill the DSA mission to promote the craft of songwriting, provide realistic, educational opportunities to better navigate the music industry, and to provide exclusive performance opportunities, both LIVE and VIRTUAL. It provides a benchmark for popular song writing competency. The new “DSA Global” initiative is also a way to connect the international music community to the Texas music scene.
The 2019 Grand Prize Judge, Roy Elkins, wrote, “It seems that every year the songwriters are ‘upping’ their game and the entries are getting better and better.” Elkins ranks the top songs based on specific criteria, including Lyric, Melody, Hook, Structure, Truth, and Originality.
The 2019 Grand Prize Winning song, “Unless” was written by Dam Stasi and Kickbend with Mesus, who won a Casio Privia PX-S1000 Keyboard. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=444966422937309
Semifinalists were invited to play live at the DSA Song Contest Awards Dinner, which was held on January 18, 2020 at Sons of Hermann Hall in Dallas, and attended by more than 70 people. Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69Ov2xo-Acs
Live performances and camaraderie with fellow songwriters make up the soul of DSA, and because of the Coronavirus, DSA is using https://zoom.us to facilitate our virtual events, which are creating new opportunities for membership and participation from anywhere in the world.
DSA is a 501 C3 nonprofit organization. Please join DSA as we celebrate 33 years of motivating and uplifting songwriters through education. https://dallassongwriters.org/join-dsa/
For media, interviews, contact: Don Wall, Director of Public Relations
Friday, August 30, 2019
New Casio Privia PX-S1000 is this year's Grand Prize for Dallas Songwriters Song Contest
- Country
- Pop/Rock/RandB/Alternative
- Americana/Folk/Bluegrass
- Christian/Inspirational
- Love Songs/Easy Listening
- Children's/Novelty
- Singer-Songwriter
- Instrumental