> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.hypebot.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # International Songwriting Competition Announces Winners, U.S. Musician Grabs Grand Prize - URL: https://www.hypebot.com/international-songwriting-competition-announces-winners-us-musician-grabs-grand-prize/ - Published: 2013-05-06T08:16:44.000Z - Updated: 2013-05-06T08:16:44.000Z - Description: The International Songwriting Competition (ISC) has announced the winners for the 2012 edition of the contest. ISC's Grand Prize was awarded to Joshua Hanson of Irvine, California, USA, for his. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2013/05/international-songwriting-competition-announces - Author: Bruce Houghton - Tags: Conventions & Awards, DIY Advice & Tips, Songwriting & Music Publishing, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:43 [![image from www.mylasmith.com](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2017eeadc2c8a970d-100wi "image from www.mylasmith.com")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2017eeadc2c8a970d-popup?ref=hypebot.com) The International Songwriting Competition (ISC) has announced the winners for the 2012 edition of the contest. ISC's Grand Prize was awarded to Joshua Hanson of Irvine, California, USA, for his song "Monsters With Misdemeanors," which was entered in the Folk/Singer-Songwriter category. That grand prize win nets Hanson $25,000 in cash (US) and an additional $40,000 in merchandise and services. You might recognize the grand-prize winning Hanson as the frontman and songwriter for the award-winning indie folk/rock trio Yellow Red Sparks. A total of 68 winners from 119 countries worldwide were selected from over 20,000 entries, and for the first time this year, more than half of the winning submissions originated from outside of the U.S. Past winners of the contest include Gotye, The Band Perry, Kasey Chambers, Amanda Palmer, Gin Wigmore, King Charles, Kimbra, Passenger, Andrew Bird, and numerous others. Winners were selected by a panel of judges drawn from both the creative and business side of the music industry. The list of judges includes Tom Waits; Nas; Janelle Monae; Martina McBride; Susan Tedeschi & Derek Trucks; Black Francis; Avicci; Tegan & Sara; Susan Vega; Richard Stumpf (President, Imagem Music US); Bruce Iglauer (Founder/President, Alligator Records); Alison Donald (Co-President, Columbia Records UK); Dan McCarroll (President, Capitol/Virgin Label Group); Steve Lillywhite (Producer) and Monte Lipman (President, Universal Republic Records) among others. **The complete list of ISC 2012 winners is as follows.** [![image from www.songwritingcompetition.com](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2019101d49c3d970c-150wi "image from www.songwritingcompetition.com")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2019101d49c3d970c-popup?ref=hypebot.com) Grand Prize Winner: Joshua Hanson Grand Prize Monsters With Misdemeanors – Joshua Hanson (Yellow Red Sparks) – Yellow Pine, Idaho, USA **AAA (Adult Album Alternative)** First Place Love Letter – Clairy Browne, Darcy McNulty, Steven Schram (Clairy Browne & The Bangin’ Rackettes) – Melbourne, VIC, Australia Second Place Brother – Matt Corby – Sydney, NSW, Australia Third Place Whispers – James David – Los Angeles, CA, USA **Adult Contemporary (AC)** First Place K.I.S.S. – Lara Johnston, Robbie Nevil, Mike Krompass – Novato, CA, USA Second Place Drums – Alexander Gow (Oh Mercy) – Melbourne, VIC, Australia Third Place What Makes Me Happy – Jehangir Aziz Hayat – Peshawar, Pakistan **Americana** First Place Love Inside A Jar – David Garnham (David Garnham & The Reasons To Live ) – Darwin, NT, Australia Second Place You Might Come Around – Dale Boyle – Dorval, QC, Canada Third Place When You’re Dreamin’ – Ed Romanoff, Josh Ritter – Brooklyn, NY, USA **Blues** First Place How Long To Heal – Nico Wayne Toussaint – Bayonne, France Second Place Don’t Blow My Cover – William Troiani, Haykon Haye, Ian F. Johannessen, Alexander Pettersen (Billy T Band) – Oslo, Norway Third Place High Gas Prices – William Morganfield (Big Bill Morganfield) – Stone Mountain, GA, USA **Children’s Music** First Place Always Be A Unicorn – Helen Austin – Comox Valley, BC, Canada Second Place Wag More Feat. Indigo Girls – Franklin Bunn (Boxtop Jenkins), Glenn Matullo – Atlanta, GA, USA Third Place Fairy Tale Love – Lisa Sniderman (Aoede) – San Francisco, CA, USA **Comedy/Novelty** First Place Handjob, Blandjob, I Don’t Understand Job – Kate Micucci, Riki Lindhome (Garfunkel and Oates) – Los Angeles, CA, USA Second Place Mom Worked The Farm – Pat Godwin – Dallas, PA, USA Third Place There’s A Picture – Eric Schwartz – Los Angeles, CA, USA **Country** First Place This Ain’t A Love Song – Denis Dufresne, Lynae Dufresne (Pear), Bryan Wayne – Calgary, AB, Canada Second Place Anonymous – Rachel Honza – Nederland, TX, USA Third Place The Suitcase – Liz Hengber, James Dean Hicks, Anthony Smith – Franklin, TN, USA **Dance/Electronica** First Place Crystallize – Lindsey Stirling, Marco Glodolja – Gilbert, AZ, USA Second Place Unity – Thierry Matrat (Funk Embassy) – Montreal, QC, Canada Third Place Urban Daemon – Jose Gustavo Gallo Aranibar (THEREMYN–4) – Lima, Peru **Folk/Singer-Songwriter** First Place Golden Hearts – Teejay Terblanche (Black Handed Kites) – Cape Town, South Africa Second Place Blood And Bone – Wes Carr (Buffalo Tales), Eric Silver – Sydney, NSW, Australia Third Place Festival Song – Tim Easton – Nashville, TN, USA **Gospel/Christian** First Place All Things New – Alan Thomas – Little Rock, AR, USA Second Place Cross Of Love – Derek Henbest (The Waiting Kind), Phil Wickham – Boise, ID, USA Third Place Chasing Me – Joseph Pfeifer, Jimmy Robeson – San Diego, CA, USA **Instrumental** First Place Auctioneering Everything – Jaron Freeman-Fox (Jaron Freeman-Fox & The Opposite Of Everything) – Toronto, ON, Canada Second Place New Life – Valters Puce (DaGamba), Richard Cerenkov – Riga, Latvia Third Place Remembrance – Jens Olav Haugen – Akkerhaugen, Norway **Jazz** First Place Angustia – Omar Sosa – Camagüey, Cuba Second Place Benny’s Tune – Lionel Loueke – Brooklyn, NY, USA Third Place Black Lace Freudian Slip – René Marie – Warrenton, VA, USA **Latin** First Place Ultimo Aire – Montserrat López Ros (Montse), Néstor Alejandro Martínez Lara – Mexico City, Mexico Second Place Isabela – Oscar Jimenez – Sydney, NSW, Australia Third Place Hasta Que Te Vi – Oscar Olavarria – Santiago, Chile **Lyrics Only** First Place I Wanted New York – Leonie Casanova – London, England Second Place Grace Me With Your Love – Sukanya Sreedhar – New Delhi, India Third Place The Boulevard – Richard Dames (Endless Naps) – New York, NY, USA **Music Video** First Place Honey – Kahn Morbee (The Parlotones) – Johannesburg, South Africa Second Place Follow Me – Maïa Vidal – Ithaca, NY, USA Third Place Building Houses – Wesley Jensen (Wesley Jensen And The Banquet) – Redding, CA, USA **Performance** First Place Separated – Stijn Cole (Stan Lee Cole) – Antwerp, Belgium Second Place Fire Escape – Matthew Mayfield, John Paul White – Birmingham, AL, USA Third Place Mr. No Regrets – Yohan Sung (John Sung) – Manila, Philippines **Pop/Top 40** First Place Good Intent – Kimbra Johnson (Kimbra), Francois Tetaz – Auckland, New Zealand / Melbourne, VIC, Australia Second Place Lay Down Your Ghosts – Stephen Hughes, Ed Carlile, Andy McConkey, Leon Rossiter (MoRo) – London, England Third Place Reaction – Acres Of Lions – Victoria, BC, Canada **R&B/Hip-Hop** First Place Battle Scars Ft. Lupe Fiasco – Guy Sebastian, Lupe Fiasco – Sydney, NSW, Australia / Chicago, IL, USA Second Place Jay-Z Stole My Girl – John Davenport – Memphis, TN, USA Third Place A Happy Day – Kaindu Chiluba (Blaze Blackheart) – Cape Town, South Africa **Rock** First Place Cold Heart – Tyler Bryant (Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown), Jaren Johnston – Nashville, TN, USA Second Place Let It Live Free – Robert Kolar (He’s My Brother She’s My Sister) – Los Angeles, CA, USA Third Place Six Months In A Cast – Thomas Calder (The Trouble With Templeton) – Brisbane, QLD, Australia **Teen** First Place You Would Know – Louis McDonald (Five Mile Town) – Auckland, New Zealand Second Place Drift Away – Victoria Celestine – San Antonio, TX, USA Third Place Backs Of Our Eyelids – Matt Jaffe (Matt Jaffe & The Distractions) – Mill Valley, CA, USA **Unsigned Only** First Place Misdiagnosed – Harry Hookey – Cowwarr, VIC, Australia Second Place Swimming With Sharks – Ilya Lagutenko (Mumiy Troll) – Vladivostok, Russia Third Place Broken Bones – Tommy Ashby – Peebles, Scotland **World** First Place Bahlawan-Acrobat – Mira Awad – Rameh, Israel Second Place Sofrimento – Waldemar Bastos – Los Angeles, CA / Luanda, Angola Third Place Boom Boom – Dachee – Maplewood, NJ, USA **People’s Voice Award** Coming Home – Paul Cowderoy, David Carter, Jane E Robertson – Brisbane, QLD, Australia Related articles [![](http://i.zemanta.com/98568290_80_80.jpg)](https://www.hypebot.com/how-im-building-a-career-as-a-songwriter/)[How I'm Building a Career as a Songwriter](https://www.hypebot.com/how-im-building-a-career-as-a-songwriter/) [![](http://i.zemanta.com/99404457_80_80.jpg)](https://www.hypebot.com/a-look-into-songwriting-competitions-and-the-international-songwriting-competition/)[Why Songwriting Contests Matter: An Interview With ISC's Candace Avery](https://www.hypebot.com/a-look-into-songwriting-competitions-and-the-international-songwriting-competition/) [![](http://i.zemanta.com/164094064_80_80.jpg)](http://www.prweb.com/releases/prweb2013/4/prweb10660249.htm?ref=hypebot.com)[2013 Kerrville Folk Festival: Grassy Hill Kerrville New Folk Finalists Announced](http://www.prweb.com/releases/prweb2013/4/prweb10660249.htm?ref=hypebot.com) [![](http://i.zemanta.com/165425551_80_80.jpg)](http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10697965.htm?ref=hypebot.com)[Grammy Nominated Songwriter Helps Independent Musicians Find A Voice In The New Music Industry](http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10697965.htm?ref=hypebot.com)