# Canadian Folk Music Award for English Songwriter of the Year

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.

## 2000s

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

## 2010s

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

## 2020s

| Year | Nominee | Album |
| 2020 15th Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2020 15th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Abigail Lapell | Getaway |
| 2020 15th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Ben Caplan, Christian Barry | Old Stock |
| 2020 15th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Lennie Gallant | Time Travel |
| 2020 15th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Dave Gunning | Up Against the Sky |
| 2020 15th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Kaia Kater | Grenades |
| 2020 15th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Cara Luft, J. D. Edwards, Neil Osborne, Catherine MacLellan | Assiniboine & The Red — The Small Glories |
| 2020 15th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Madeleine Roger | Cottonwood |
| 2020 15th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Justin Rutledge | Passages |
| 2021 16th Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2021 16th Canadian Folk Music Awards | William Prince | Reliever |
| 2021 16th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Coco Love Alcorn | Rebirth |
| 2021 16th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Basia Bulat | Are You in Love? |
| 2021 16th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Pharis and Jason Romero | Bet on Love |
| 2021 16th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Sarah Jane Scouten | Confessions |
| 2021 16th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Julian Taylor | The Ridge |
| 2022 17th Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2022 17th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Allison Russell | Outside Child |
| 2022 17th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Scott Cook | Tangle of Souls |
| 2022 17th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Rick Fines | Solar Powered Too |
| 2022 17th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Rob Lutes | Come Around |
| 2022 17th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Noah Reid | Gemini |
| 2022 17th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Ian Tamblyn | A Longing for Innocence |
| 2023 18th Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2023 18th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Abigail Lapell | Stolen Time |
| 2023 18th Canadian Folk Music Awards | T. Buckley | Frame by Frame |
| 2023 18th Canadian Folk Music Awards | John Wort Hannam | Long Haul |
| 2023 18th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Li'l Andy | The Complete Recordings of Hezekiah Procter (1925–1930) |
| 2023 18th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Matt Patershuk | An Honest Effort |
| 2023 18th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Yael Wand | Saltwater Heartwood |
| 2024 19th Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2024 19th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Jacob Brodovsky | I Love You and I'm Sorry |
| 2024 19th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Tim Chaisson, Koady Chaisson, Jake Charron, Colin MacDonald, Carleton Stone | House of Dreams |
| 2024 19th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Noah Derksen | Sanctity of Silence |
| 2024 19th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Luke Doucet, Melissa McClelland | I'm Not Crying, You're Crying |
| 2024 19th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Dave Gunning | The Same Storm |
| 2024 19th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Noah Zacharin | Points of Light |
| 2025 20th Canadian Folk Music Awards |
| 2025 20th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Celeigh Cardinal, Brennan Cameron | Boundless Possibilities |
| 2025 20th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Adrian Glynn, Brendan McLeod (The Fugitives) | No Help Coming |
| 2025 20th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Shaina Hayes | Kindergarten Heart |
| 2025 20th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Kellie Loder | Transitions |
| 2025 20th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Ndidi Onukwulu | Simple Songs for Complicated Times |
| 2025 20th Canadian Folk Music Awards | Ruth Moody | Wanderer |