This year’s ten nominees in the Songwriter category are:

• Matraca Berg
• Paul Craft
• Kye Fleming
• Larry Henley
• the late John Jarrard
• Bob Morrison
• Mark D. Sanders
• Tom Shapiro
• John Scott Sherrill
• Sharon Vaughn

The five nominees in the Songwriter/Artist category are:

• the late Paul Davis
• Larry Gatlin
• John Hiatt
• the late Johnny Horton
• Tony Joe White

Of the nominees, two from the Songwriter category and one from the Songwriter/Artist category will be inducted during the annual Hall of Fame Dinner and Induction Ceremony to be held Sunday, Oct. 26, at the Renaissance Nashville Hotel.