The International Songwriting Competition (ISC) in partnership with StarNow is now accepting entries for the 2012 competition.

ISC has doubled the amount of merchandise for this year's Grand Prize winner - to more than $40,000 in prizes plus $25,000 in cash (US). You can win a custom Lowden acoustic guitar (valued at over $11,000), a Marshall full stack amp, a studio package from Solid State Logic, a duplicator from Discmakers, and much more! Click here for a full list of prizes. Not only do ISC winners receive great prizes and media recognition, but winners also receive a lot of industry attention. Many previous winners have gone on to great success and garnered record deals, publishing deals, licensing deals, and even Grammys! ISC's newest success story are past ISC winners Gotye and Kimbra whose song "Somebody That I Used To Know" recently charted at #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart for an amazing eight weeks in a row

Judges for 2012 include: My Morning Jacket, Tom Waits, Tori Amos, Jeff Beck, Massive Attack, Kelly Clarkson, Wynonna and record label executives - both major and independent.

Please apply now for further information.