2005 marked the thirteenth running of the Roddy Read Memorial Songwriting Contest at the Maldon Folk Festival, with a major expansion and profile raising exercise. A field of thirty entries was drawn from as far a field as Central New South Wales and South West Victoria.

Patrick Evans with Heidi Hibberd, the winner of the Maldon Folk Festival's "Roddy Read Songwriting contest" with her song "Lyndee I Have Lost Your Number"...