Songwriting Organizations

First of all, if you haven't done it already (this is mostly for the newer writers), I would suggest joining a songwriting organization. This can improve your skills quicker, help you to meet people and make contacts and really just be a lot of fun!

I personally liked the idea of a larger organization for some of the benefits that they can offer and a smaller one for meeting people (networking), performing updates and fun also.

I choose NSAI, Nashville Songwriter Association International for the larger one.

I highly recommend the NSAI song evaluation service! I believe that the song evalutions (all from published songwriters) has done me more good than anything else, other than just writing more songs!

I choose Chicago Songwriters Collective for the local organization. This is much better for meeting people, networking and local performing information (of course, I live in the Chicago area :-) ).

No use in re-inventing the wheel here. Here is an extensive listing on songwriting organizations.

http://www.musesmuse.com/misc-orgs.html