She lost out on the Polaris Music Prize, but Kathleen Edwards has won the 2012 SOCAN Echo Songwriting Prize for A Soft Place to Land.
Co-written with John Roderick, the song received more votes than four other finalists: House that Heaven Built, written and performed by Japandroids; Postwar Blues, performed and co-written by Dan Mangan; Unkind, written and performed by Sloan; and When I Write My Master's Thesis, written and performed by John K. Samson.
The award, which is voted on by fans online, comes with a $5,000 prize.
The winner of the French-language prize was Koriass for the song St-Eustache.
