She was runner up in the 2001 John Lennon Songwriting Contest, and winner of the 2007 Next Big Hit competition, which landed Jag Star a week’s feature on iTunes.
Finding out about Sonicbids around the same time, Austin submitted to and won the international John Lennon Songwriting Contest for Pop and a subsequent Lennon Award for the track.
She and co-writer Larry Murante won the Grand Prize, Folk category /Session 1, in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest (2009).
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