This is the 30A Songwriters Festival first-ever Visit South Walton Song Contest.

Submissions will be accepted through Sonic Bids in the categories of Americana, Folk, Singer/Songwriter, Adult Contemporary and Country. The review panel is made up of 30 A Songwriters Festival staff and Visit South Walton staff. A critique will not be provided. Songs MUST be representative of the South Walton brand. Read below for some South Walton inspiration. For terms and conditions and to submit a song, go to www.sonicbids.com/30asongwritersfestivalsongcontest.

The winner(s) will receive the following:

• Headlining performance at the Festival Kick-off party
• Additional performance opportunities throughout Festival Accommodations in South Walton for up to five nights $500
• Inclusion in the 2012 30A Songwriters Festival compilation CD
• $500.00

Here is some great inspiration for your song! Things Visitors to South Walton are saying...

Picture perfect / Your beach / Sugar white sand / Turquoise waters / Quiet / Unique neighborhoods / Family places and family stories / Laughter / Memorable - a place for lasting memories / Strand of beaches / Windswept dunes / You Only Live Once - the home of YOLO boarding / Precious environment - from wooded uplands to coastal dune lakes / Traditions - annual - places you come back to year after year / Generations / Relaxing vacation at any age / A blast every time we're there / Only in South Walton / Never want to leave / If you can't be happy in South Walton, you can't be happy. / Only place where you can totally relax and let the world go / The only place we ever visit / A little slice of heaven / Relaxed look on my husband's face is worth a million words to me / Charming, family-friendly villages / Beauty on the coast - no other beaches compare / Feels like you've stepped back in time / We already found Heaven. / Our favorite home away from home / It's a place where we live, laugh and love

Visit South Walton's Brand Story

Everyone needs to have their own beach. Sounds simple enough.

Start with the purest white quartz sand filtered down from the Appalachians eons ago and washed westward along the blue-green Gulf of Mexico.

Form it into wave-like dunes topped with sea grasses.

Frame the dunes with pines, spreading broad swathes of green against the perfect blue of the sky.

Scoop out freshwater lakes to reflect all that blue. And back it all with huge inland estuary teeming with all forms of life.

People have been drawn to theis restorative beauty ever since they've been drawn to the South. The culture that has grown up here from residents and visitors alike has ever been peaceful, respectful of the natural uniqueness and well spiced with the flavors of Southern and Gulf Coast character. The result is a necklace of individual beach neighborhoods, each with its distinct emothional hue, its own cultural traditions and feel, its own visual style. All linked not only to each other, but also to the bountiful natural gifts they are committed to preserve and perpetuate. This is our promise: somewhere along this strand, you will find your perfect place, your partner's beach ideal, your family's epitome of what the word beach was meant to be. That's South Walton.

Find your perfect beach.

Images of South Walton

Visit www.visitsouthwalton.com/photos-videos to see gorgeous images of South Walton's fifteen beach neighborhoods.