Mary Anne Lonergan Lyrics Writer/Poet
Mary Anne Lonergan is a 58 year old hearing impaired mother, who along with her husband Mike put their 4 children through college and universities, and now have 3 grandchildren with one more on the way. Now that she has time she volunteer’s with the Canadian Hearing Society in her town.
She has written over 350 lyrics for songs, many of them won awards in different contests, her biggest win was in 2005-06 with International UNISONG, her lyrics took 2nd place, the same lyrics took 1st place for the Peoples Choice Award in the lyrics only division. As well 2 more of her other lyrics took placements. With more lyrics into their contest, she’s looking forwards to the winning announcement come June 15th for 2006-07 contest, and keeping her fingers crossed. Being a hard of hearing lyrics writer is one of the hardest profession there is unless you are lucky enough to have a singing family member.
For this reason, Mary Anne like’s the idea of working alone and loves writing poems several which have won in grade school contests. As of now, she is writing her first non-fiction book, a romance/mystery.
Mary Anne is a members of the Canadian Poetry Association, Stellar Showcase Journal, Songwriters Associations of Canada -SAC, SOCAN, and a new member of Toronto Blues Society and has applied to become a member of Canadian Authors Association as well, a lifetime of CHS.
Her favorite poetry writer is Leonard Cohen's and she enjoys reading Jane Austin's books, and she owns a collection of Sylvia Browne's books.
And thanks to UNISONGS president: Alan Roy Scott of www.unisong.com who will not let her shut down but, but keep on pushing, someone is out there waiting for her lyrics.
