Can you? yes. Should you? Well... the good news is that one of its style settings is "spooky," so, horror podcasters, rejoice!
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News, Roundups, and Audio Fiction Articles
Introducing PodPod’s first annual Faces To Watch list , "designed to showcase the individuals who are blazing a trail within the podcast space, redefining the possibilities of the medium and elevating it to new heights."
Save The Date! The IndyPod Summit will take place on 2 February 2023. Delivered by The Podcast Host, which focuses on providing the best information for podcasters looking to grow and develop their podcasting skills. The IndyPod Summit is structured to do the same in a live environment, focused on Independent Podcasters worldwide. Partners include She Podcasts, Afros and Audio, and CastNews Brazil.
Wednesday 8th February at Eastcheap Records, EC3M 1EB from 6pm onwards, Naomi Mellor of Skylark Collective says: "Just a quick note to say that next month we're organising a meetup for podcasters and podcast industry folks...If anyone has been to the International Women's Podcast Awards over the last couple of years, it'll be a similar vibe: there'll be a heavy emphasis on connections, inclusivity, and a warm welcome, and we're looking to encourage as many of you as possible to come, regardless of gender."
The Outlier Podcast Festival, Feb. 9-10, in your inbox, pay what you can. "This is an intimate opportunity for those in the podcasting community to collaborate with both indie talent and industry giants. So whether you're an outlier yourself or just love podcasts, this is definitely an event not to be missed!"
The UK International Radio Drama Festival: We’re thrilled to return to the stunning Eastbridge Hospital in Canterbury for our 2023 festival - a former pilgrim’s hostel operating as an almshouse for the last 400 years. Join us from the 27–31st of March for a week of listening and creating as we celebrate new and exciting audio dramas from around the world.
Casting Call: The Cycle is a fiction podcast series that follows a trio of paranormal investigators attempting to debunk a strongly held hypothesis known as “The Cycle.” The smart, young investigators have had it up to here with bogus investigators and they are on a mission to prove their theories are correct and that the supernatural is always with us. Deadline: 8 February.
Small, Random and Meaningful: Everyone who reads this should jump on this call for submissions for the Transom Specials. 15 min or less, if selected Transom will pay you $2K-$8K to showcase it. "stories, essays, sound portraits, intimate interviews, found sound, fiction pieces, sound art, multimedia works, whatever." Ownership remains with the maker.
Funding Opportunity for Disabled Podcasters! Elevate for Podcasters is the first program created specifically for disabled, narrative fiction and non-fiction podcasters. The program offers $10,000 grants that can be used for professional development, show marketing, equipment, accommodations, IP licensing and living expenses.
The annual international audio drama competition for Hörspielsommer Leipzig (a German open air festival celebrating Audio Drama) has submissions open for English Audio Drama one-offs no longer than 45mins. Submissions end 1st February 2023.
The New Jersey Web Festival accepts webseries, short films, pilots, trailers, music videos, narrative fiction podcasts, actual play fiction podcasts, actual play livestreams, and short scripts, so that all digital creators can experience the #JerseyMagic! (See our Rules section for more deets on submitting.)
New Zealand WebFest has podcast awards that are craft-based (i.e., best Sound Design).
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Creator Resources
Why We All Need Subtitles Now, or Vox Media's chat with Austin Olivia Kendrick about how dialogue editing and mixing works, and how it can go wrong
Sound Off The Ground is a sound design newsletter for new podcasters from Lori Mortimer.
In Indie AF's episode 209, Sarah interviews Kaitlin Statz and Travis Vengroff of Fool and Scholar, and they share the best chunks of information to know about writing, sound designing, crowdfunding, casting, and more.
THE MOONSTRUCK - We Can’t Save the World Without Your Help Our show will showcase a diverse & talented cast bringing each character to life. A focus group found the characters relatable & interesting, w/ a plot that was different, clear, intriguing, & enjoyable!
Feminist Fairytales: Season 2 In our second season, “Tales Untold,” we will explore lesser-known fairytales and folktales that deserve to be heard!
Observer Pictures is crowdfunding for Season 2 of Apollyon. Roughly 150 years in the future, the Apollyon virus has wiped out 75% of the world’s population. Dr. Theo Ramsey may have just discovered an effective vaccine, but the stakes to get the vaccine to the public are higher than she ever imagined.
Derelict Podcast Season 2: Continuing the saga that began with the critically acclaimed first season, DERELICT: Fathom. When the Maas-Dorian corporation sends a team of scientists and engineers to the bottom of Earth's ocean to investigate a mysterious alien artifact known as The Vault...a giant, ancient, mysterious door inset into the sea floor.
Dorktales Storytime, for kids and their geeky grownups, launches their fourth season on January 26th beginning with “The Golden Touch Screen,” a retelling of King Midas with a techie twist.
NPRmageddon National Post-Apocalyptic Radio – dark sci-fi comedy straight into your earholes. Join host Bryan Garcia-McMillan-Keithley and his deranged cadre of newspeople as they run roughshod over post-apocalyptic Lost Angeles.
Long Night in Egypt During Spring Break, a group of archaeology students travel to Egypt and sneak into the Pyramid of Unas after dark. Little do they know that they are setting themselves up for a ghostly night of terror.
The American Immortal: 1825. The Journey Begins in the American West…After an unscrupulous thief and an obstinate Native American teen kill each other, they take a wrong turn on their way to the Afterlife.
Lucidus Somnia Government experiments on unassuming persons have fanned the flames of conspiracy theories since the 19th century, but two teenagers have a first-hand account of an incident that forever changed their lives.
Leaving Corvat They call me Sleeper. I worked the same brain-dead job, at the same fast food place, all of my life. And I’ve always lived in the same town. No one that lives in Corvat, ever leaves. Until today. Today I leave.
Adventures In Calthumbria A medieval scifi series filled with crystal castles, seaweed forests, dragonwhales, lionsharks, and sea-porcupines.
Isfet Archives Emily Swanson was a normal barista in a local Chicago cafe when strange things started happening around her. Now, she doesn’t know who to trust or who is trying to take advantage of her.
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