SongCircle Launches 5th Annual Songwriting Contest!
Over $25,000 in cash & prizes including a recording, publishing, and label services contract with SongCircle/EMI. Past winners include Kate Voegele, Company of Thieves, Mieka Pauley, and Reed Waddle. Formerly The New York Songwriters Circle and through its live showcases, SongCircle (sm) has helped launch the careers of notable artists such as Kate Voegele, Company of Thieves, Norah Jones, Jesse Harris, Lisa Loeb, Vanessa Carlton and Gavin DeGraw.

Do you ever notice when you aren’t trying, pushing or beating down a door, and just using your pure intention to guide you, the right people, places and circumstances arrive to give to you just what you needed, and so much more?

Well, in a nutshell, that's how the New York Songwriter’s Circle Inc. came about.

Modeled after the famous "Writers in the Round" nights at Nashville's Bluebird Cafe, the NYSC began as the brainchild of Randi Michaels, currently the Booking Manager / Tin Pan South Shows Coordinator of the Nashville Songwriters Association International who proposed it to Ken Gorka, Manager and Booking agent for the Legendary Bitter End in New York City.When Randi Michaels moved to Nashville to sign a publishing deal, she offered the Circle to Singer/Songwriter Tina Shafer, who nurtured and developed the circle to make it what it is today.