GRAND PRIZE!  
Unisong offers Grand Prizes that are not awarded by any other songwriting competition. This year's Grand Prize winner will win a one week all expenses paid writing and performing retreat to your choice of Ireland, Costa Rica, Denmark, Crete, Sweden, Iceland, Spain, Big Sur, or New Zealand courtesy of Listening Room International Songwriter Retreats & Music Bridges. And check out all the other cool prizes below too!!!.
   
   
To try and give you some sense of what one of our Grand Prize retreats looks, sounds and feels like, here is a montage of photos and a link to a video made by our most recent Grand Prize winner Judith de los Santos. Judith chose to take part in our recently completed retreat on Inisheer, the smallest of the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland as her prize. As you can see from the pictures below, a good time was had by all. This could be you next time around!!!
 

McGilligan's Island? No, Judith's island!
Better known as Inisheer, and it's a real Irish beauty!

 

 

Watch Judith's video of her experiences in Ireland with her Grand Prize winning song "Everything" as the musical soundtrack!

 
 

Lots of co-writing! That's Judith working with Maria Lopez of Sweden.

Hanging with the boss men! Judith sandwiched between the ever dashing Alan Roy Scott and Brett Perkins.

And a gig too! Judith with Anja from Denmark performing their new song in concert on their final night on Inisheer.

Saturday night fever, Irish pub style!

Brett's Angels. (Eat you heart out Charlie!)

 

The best little hotel on Inisheer. (The ONLY one!)

The whole international gang. What a talented group!
 
   
Past Unisong Grand Prize winners have had the opportunity to write with the likes of Burt Bacharach, Peter Buck, Jimmy Buffet, Gary Burr, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Stewart Copeland, Rodney Crowell, Lamont Dozier, Mick Fleetwood, Peter Frampton, Indigo Girls, Montell Jordan, Gladys Knight, Lisa Loeb, Me'Shell Ndegeocello, Joan Osborne, Lee Roy Parnell, Bonnie Raitt, Brenda Russell, Andy Summers, Don Was, and many others at "Music Bridges" retreats organized by Unisong co-founder Alan Roy Scott
Past Unisong Grand Prize Winner Ruth Merry (UK) in Cuba
Ruth hanging with Beth Neilsen Chapman and Woody Harrelson. Ruth meeting Fidel Castro at Presidential palace. Ruth spending time with Brenda Russell and Andy Summers of
The Police
Past Unisong Grand Prize Winner Lindy Robbins (USA) in Ireland
Lindy and Liam O'Maonlai ("Hot House Flowers") perform the song they wrote in Dublin concert. The 'Guinness 6' featuring Brenda Russell, Speech from 'Arrested Development' and Alan. Group hug! Lindy with Irish superstar Brian Kennedy and Alan.
Past Unisong Grand Prize Winner Claire Dallison (UK) in Germany
Claire collaborating on lyrics
with the legendary
Lamont Dozier 		Musical Detente' in studio.
Claire with Moustafa
from Egypt. 		Musical Detente' II.
Claire sings-along with Danny Sanderson from Israel.
 
PRIZES!
FIRST PRIZE
(in all 18 regular categories)		 SECOND PRIZE
(in all 18 regular categories)		 THIRD PRIZE
(in all 18 regular categories)		 FOURTH PRIZE
(in all 18 regular categories)

$1,000 USD

Cakewalk
Your choice of Rapture, Dimension Pro, SONAR Home Studio, or Z3TA+ software

SongLink International
 One Year Subscription

MusicSUBMIT
 200 Submissions Package

$500 USD

Sibelius
G7 Kontakt Edition software
(specifically designed for songwriters)

TAXI
One Year Membership

Songsalive!
One year General membership

$100 USD

VSS
Lyricist or TrackNotes downloadable software (your choice)

Music Media Entertainment Group
 Copy protection software and web site design

SongU.com
Platinum Membership for 3 months

Disc Makers
$50 discount coupon

Music Player Network
One Year Subscription to your choice of
EQ, Keyboard, Guitar Player,
or Bass Player Magazines

JohnBraheny.com
Signed copy of John Braheny's latest book
"The Craft and Business of Songwriting (3rd ed.)"

SongU.com
 Platinum Membership for 3 months
 
$1000 "BEST PERFORMANCE" PRIZE
 
We are debuting a Performance Option where the vocal or instrumental performance of any song, in any category, will be judged separately for the $1000 “Best Performance" Prize we are offering. When you check this option, only the Vocal or Instrumental Performance will be judged for this prize, not the song (music and lyrics), arrangement, or Production.
 
 
L.U.N.C.H. CATEGORY PRIZES
We’re very proud and excited to debut our special 19th category in partnership with "L.U.N.C.H" and CSA (Connecticut Songwriters Association). All net proceeds from this category will go to benefit social programs they sponsor in the areas of hunger, homelessness, substance abuse, and domestic abuse. All songs entered in this special category should address any of these four main themes or similar variations. This category will also feature its’ own separate prize package and Compilation CD drawn just from the Top 10 selected songs in this special category. So here's a chance to make an immediate difference in the world with your songs
FIRST PRIZE
(L.U.N.C.H. category only)		 SECOND PRIZE
(L.U.N.C.H. category only)		 THIRD PRIZE
(L.U.N.C.H. category only)		 FOURTH PRIZE
(L.U.N.C.H. category only)

$1,000 USD

CSA (Connecticut Songwriters Association)
Lifetime Membership

IMC Conference
Free admission to conference of your choice

Songbridge
 One year subscription

L.U.N.C.H.
Featured spotlight on website

$500 USD

CSA (Connecticut Songwriters Association)
Lifetime Membership

IMC Conference
Free admission to conference of your choice

Songbridge
 One year subscription

L.U.N.C.H.
Featured spotlight on website

$100 USD

CSA (Connecticut Songwriters Association)
Lifetime Membership

IMC Conference
Free admission to conference of your choice

Songbridge
 One year subscription

L.U.N.C.H.
Featured spotlight on website

CSA (Connecticut Songwriters Association)
Lifetime Membership

IMC Conference
Free admission to conference of your choice

Songbridge
 One year subscription

L.U.N.C.H.
Featured spotlight on website

 
 
WINNER OF THE MONTH
 

The “Winner of the Month” is an additional “contest-within-a-contest” feature where one winner will automatically be selected from all entries in a given month and awarded an extra $250 prize, a one year membership in Songbridge www.thesongbridge.com, a free “killer drum track” by world class session drummer Chet McCracken www.chetmccracken.com, and a one month individual spotlight of the writer and their song on the Unisong website.

There will be a “Winner of the Month” selected in this edition of Unisong for the months of November, December, January and February. This feature is judged in-house and separately from the main contest, and wining this prize has NO bearing on the regular contest judging afterwards. You don’t have to do anything extra to be considered for this mini competition, just enter your songs in the regular contest from November through February. Click here to see and hear our previous Winners of the Month/

 
 
PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD
 
The "People's Choice Award" of $500 USD will be awarded to the best song as voted for by the public online during an extra voting period (after the announcement of the winners as selected by the judging panels). This award is one more way to win a cash prize and gain some extra recognition and exposure. Once we officially announce the top four winning songs in all 19 categories, those 76 songs will be posted on our web site, and the public is invited to vote for their favorite song from this pool over a two-week period. The song which has received the most votes will win this bonus cash prize. Click here to see our last People's Choice Award winner.
 
 
UNISONG / DISC MAKERS
WINNERS CD VOL 3!
 
Unisong has teamed up again with Disc Makers to produce "WINNERS CD VOL 3". which will feature ALL of the First Place songs from the 11th Annual edition of the Unisong contest. We'll be getting copies in front of all of our publishing, A&R and film music friends worldwide! We're excited to be able to promote our winners with such a CD. A big thanks to our partners at Disc Makers for making this possible!