Not A Sprint: Ashley Cooke, Jordan Davis, Jackson Dean, Ernest, Hardy and Carly Pearce will vie for Artist Writer of the Year at the Association for Independent Music Publishers' 2025 AIMP Nashville Awards April 8 at Marathon Music Works. Songwriter of the year nominees are Rocky Block, Jessie Jo Dillon, Ashley Gorley, Hunter Phelps, Taylor Phillips and Jonathan Singleton. Rising Artist Writer nominees are George Birge, Laci Kaye Booth, Dylan Marlowe, Vincent Mason, Zach Top and Tucker Wetmore. See the full list of nominees in all eight categories here.