Sponsoring Institution: BMI Foundation

Type: Songwriters Scholarship 

Eligibility:

• Current student or alumna at a U.S. college/university
• Between the ages of 17 and 24 as of the submission deadline
• No rights to the submitted work may have been assigned to a major music publisher or to a major record label
• Is not a prior BMI Foundation John Lennon Scholarship winner

Application Deadline: N/A (They do have a waitlist)

Highlight: Are you a songwriter or someone who loves to compose contemporary music (genres including alternative, pop, rock, indie, electronica, R&B, and experimental), but cannot afford the cost of this art? Well lucky for you the BMI foundation, a nonprofit that supports the creation, performance, and study of music through awards, scholarships, grants, and commissions, offers a plethora of scholarships. One of those is the John Lennon scholarship program, a songwriting scholarship that honours the memory of one of the greatest songwriters of the 20th century and his enormous creative legacy. This songwriting scholarship is easy to apply to! All you need is to be a college/university student between the ages of 17 and 24, and you cannot have been a prior winner of the award, nor can you be assigned to a major music publisher or  record  label. If you match all those criterias you’ll be added to a waitlist – (I know! I guess it’s pretty popular!) –so that you can receive  information for the dates and details to actually apply for this fine arts scholarship. Here’s why it may be so popular:  this songwriting scholarship has three winners, each of whom will be awarded scholarships totaling $20,000 USD!! Pretty sweet deal, especially since being a devoted composer and songwriter takes time and effort but doesn’t provide much revenue… for a while, anyway…So start humming and strumming and note your new tunes, and get onto that wait list for your chance to win this simple and easy songwriting scholarship!