Free Lyric Contests

[emilyrose]

Does anyone know of any free songwriting competitions for people who just want to submit lyrics?

[Niveous]

Hey Emilyrose. Nice to see you back around here. Why don't you write lyrics for Songfighters? There's a lyric-mart thread where you can post lyrics and if a band likes them they can do them. Or you can ask a band around here if you can write some lyrics for them. I've had some great results from writing lyrics for my fellow songfighters.

[king_arthur]

You have to be a little bit careful of lyric-writing contests - sometimes, they're run by the song shark types. If you enter a lyric writing contest and get something back that says, 'we really liked your lyric, send us $49.95 to put it to music and promote it...' that's one of the scams they run. A LOT of people will get that same reply, mostly those whose lyrics fit to one of the tunes the songsharks have already put a few hundred other lyrics to, at $49.95 a pop...

But, yeah, you'd be quite welcome to write lyrics for songfighters, if that fits in with what you're trying to do...

Charles (KA)

[jimtyrrell]

I would definitely like to try my hand at setting some other people's lyrics to music.

[roymond]

Me too. I only charge $42.99

No, really, I can't invest in the lyric much these days and would love to collaborate.