Manitoba Music
Call for Submissions: SOCAN Song House Songwriting Workshop at BreakOut West 2025
Deadline: Friday, August 1
Submissions are now open for the SOCAN Song House Songwriting Workshop at BreakOut West 2025, taking place September 24-25, in Winnipeg, MB.
SOCAN Song House 2025 at BreakOut West will be hosted by Canadian songwriter Karen Kosowski.
Karen is a versatile multi-genre writer and producer based in Nashville, TN. Raised on a wide variety of pop, rock, classical and country music in the Canadian prairie city of Winnipeg, in the early 2000’s she packed up her car and drove herself, her instruments and her recording gear to Toronto where she spent many years creating both pop and country music before following her heart and relocating her studio to Nashville, Tennessee. With her formal musical training, traditional songwriting background, multi-instrumentalist abilities, varied influences and two decades of producing, pop programming and engineering skills, she is a virtual Swiss army knife in both the writing room and recording studio. As such, she has contributed to a wide resume of hits - sometimes as a producer, sometimes as a writer, sometimes as a mixer, and sometimes all three at once.
Twelve songwriters will be selected to participate in this 2-day interactive songwriting workshop. Participants from Western Canada will be selected to participate based on their songwriting skill and will gain valuable insight into the craft of writing a hit song. This initiative aligns with SOCAN’s Creative strategy to help members with craft development opportunities to reach new heights in their careers. There will be an optional group dinner of September 23 for available participants.
Songwriter participants must meet the following criteria:
- Must be SOCAN member
- Must be a a member of one of the six Western Canadian music industry associations (Alberta Music, SaskMusic, Manitoba Music, Music BC, Music Yukon, Music NWT)
- Must be attending BreakOut West, and be available to participate September 24-25
- Willing to take their writing craft to the next level
Submissions will be evaluated based on following criteria:
- Songwriting
- Rationale for how SOCAN Song House fits your development plan