Canadian Folk Music Award for English Songwriter of the Year

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The Canadian Folk Music Award for English Songwriter of the Year is a Canadian award, presented as part of the Canadian Folk Music Awards to honour the year's best songwriting in Canadian folk music. Unlike many songwriting awards, the nomination is given in consideration of all of the songwriting on a whole album rather than singling out individual songs. Awards are also presented for French Songwriter of the Year and Indigenous Songwriter of the Year.

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2000s

YearNomineeAlbumRef
2005
1st Canadian Folk Music Awards
Lynn Miles Love Sweet Love
Melwood Cutlery Campfire
Connie Kaldor Sky with Nothing to Get in the Way
James Keelaghan Then Again
Joel Plaskett La De Da
2006
2nd Canadian Folk Music Awards
Stephen Fearing Yellowjacket [1]
Lennie Gallant When We Get There [2]
Ron Hynes Ron Hynes
Romi Mayes Sweet Somethin' Steady
Sarah Noni Metzner Daybreak Mourning
2007
3rd Canadian Folk Music Awards
Suzie Ungerleider Short Stories [3]
Jon Brooks Ours and the Shepherds [4]
Bruce Cockburn Life Short Call Now
David Francey Right of Passage
Emm Gryner The Summer of High Hopes
Keri Latimer, Shelley Marshall Key Principles
2008
4th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Corb Lund Horse Soldier! Horse Soldier! [5]
Tim Hus Bush Pilot Buckaroo [6]
Lindsay Jane Lovers Find Reasons
Wyckham Porteous 3AM
Garnet Rogers Get a Witness
2009
5th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Susan Crowe Greytown [7]
Jon Brooks Moth Nor Rust [8]
William Hawkins Dancing Alone: Songs by William Hawkins
Rob Heath One More Day Above Ground
Rob Lutes Truth & Fiction

2010s

YearNomineeAlbumRef
2010
6th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Ian Tamblyn Gyre [9]
Amelia Curran Hunter, Hunter
Lennie Gallant If We Had A Fire / Le coeur hante
Chris MacLean Feet Be Still
Justin Rutledge The Early Widows
2011
7th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Lynn Miles Fall for Beauty [10]
Bruce Cockburn Small Source of Comfort [11]
David Francey Late Edition
Ron Hynes Stealing Genius
Mae Moore Folklore
2012
8th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Catherine MacLellan Silhouette [12]
Annie Lou Grandma's Rules for Drinking
Jon Brooks Delicate Cages
Dala Best Day
The Deep Dark Woods The Place I Left Behind
Pear Sweet 'n Gritty
2013
9th Canadian Folk Music Awards
David Francey So Say We All [13]
John Wort Hannam Brambles and Thorns [14]
Old Man Luedecke Tender Is the Night
Lynn Miles Downpour
Justin Rutledge Valleyheart
2014
10th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Shari Ulrich Everywhere I Go [15]
Del Barber Prairieography [16]
James Keelaghan History
Lennie Gallant Live Acoustic at the Carleton
Chris Ronald Timeline
2015
11th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Amelia Curran They Promised You Mercy [17]
Catherine Allan, Andrew James O'Brien The Bliss — Fortunate Ones [18]
Jon Brooks The Smiling and Beautiful Countryside
Luke Doucet, Melissa McClelland Leave No Bridge Unburned
Jenn Grant Compostela
2016
12th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Donovan Woods Hard Settle, Ain't Troubled [19]
Cara Luft, J. D. Edwards Wondrous Traveler — The Small Glories [20]
Danny Michel Matadora
The Strumbellas Hope
Royal Wood Ghost Light
2017
13th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Ken Yates Huntsville [21]
Scott Cook Further Down the Line [22]
Amelia Curran Watershed
Stephen Fearing Every Soul's a Sailor
Oh Susanna A Girl in Teen City
2018
14th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Lynne Hanson, Lynn Miles Heartbreak Song for the Radio — The Lynnes [23]
Noosa Al-Sarraj Wasted Time [24]
Bruce Cockburn Bone on Bone
Dana Sipos Trick of the Light
Donovan Woods Both Ways

2020s

YearNomineeAlbumRef
2020
15th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Abigail Lapell Getaway [25]
Ben Caplan, Christian Barry Old Stock [26]
Lennie Gallant Time Travel
Dave Gunning Up Against the Sky
Kaia Kater Grenades
Cara Luft, J. D. Edwards, Neil Osborne, Catherine MacLellan Assiniboine & The Red — The Small Glories
Madeleine Roger Cottonwood
Justin Rutledge Passages
2021
16th Canadian Folk Music Awards
William Prince Reliever [27]
Coco Love Alcorn Rebirth [28]
Basia Bulat Are You in Love?
Pharis and Jason Romero Bet on Love
Sarah Jane Scouten Confessions
Julian Taylor The Ridge
2022
17th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Allison Russell Outside Child [29]
Scott Cook Tangle of Souls [30]
Rick Fines Solar Powered Too
Rob Lutes Come Around
Noah Reid Gemini
Ian Tamblyn A Longing for Innocence
2023
18th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Abigail Lapell Stolen Time [31]
T. Buckley Frame by Frame [32]
John Wort Hannam Long Haul
Li'l Andy The Complete Recordings of Hezekiah Procter (1925–1930)
Matt Patershuk An Honest Effort
Yael Wand Saltwater Heartwood
2024
19th Canadian Folk Music Awards
Jacob Brodovsky I Love You and I'm Sorry [33]
Tim Chaisson, Koady Chaisson, Jake Charron, Colin MacDonald, Carleton Stone House of Dreams [34]
Noah Derksen Sanctity of Silence
Luke Doucet, Melissa McClelland I'm Not Crying, You're Crying
Dave Gunning The Same Storm
Noah Zacharin Points of Light

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