We are now accepting applications to the 2025 Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee! Submissions are due by March 1st, 2025.

Last year, we relocated this program to Nashville after 17 successful years at Northwestern University. This move allowed us to reinvigorate the Songwriters Project in the songwriting capital of the world. “Victoria Banks, Nashville hit songwriter and Belmont master teacher, fit right in with veteran JMF master teachers Craig Carnelia and Stephen Bray,” said our Executive Vice President Jonathan Brielle. “It was wonderful watching our program take off so naturally in Nashville.”

You can find all of the program details (including the application link) here and you can read more about last year’s successful program cycle in Broadway World here.