Lindsay Harris Friel

The Fiction Podcast Weekly, and ADWIT: The Audio Drama Writer's Independent Toolkit.

🧑‍💻 The Creators 2025, new gifs for🦠 #SpotifyUnwrapped, interview with🧛🏻‍♂️ Karim Kronfli, 🔊Sonic Dash, 🚪open calls, residencies, and more

Plus: an interview with Helen Quigley about AD production, 7 Ways to Make Your Podcast Irresistibly Human, and Mason Amadeus' 50 Fake Radio Commercials For You to STEAL, and more

Dec 12, 2025

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11 min read

🏆BBC Audio Drama shortlist,🦠 Wrapped for Creators,📚legal issues with AI, mentorship, fellowship, and how to make🌟 action figures🌟 for your podcast

Plus: Jazmine T. Green's Sound School episode revisited, casting calls, fun with funding, Pen to Print's intro writing course, Podcasthon registration is open, and much more

Dec 5, 2025

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12 min read

🪁 Thank you for being here. Let's make some Fiction Podcast Magic.🪄✨

Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy some schadenfreude with Fox digging up Jesus' back catalog, plus Highgate Wood is the latest supernatural rock and roll crowdfund, Riverside's little oopsie-daisy, monetizing your podcast with chickens, Radio Race, Nebraska micro-grants, Am I Old Yet?, Netovicius The Vampire, and much more.

Nov 28, 2025

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13 min read

325: The State of Podcast Business, Audio is still #1, Pen to Print writing workshop, an editing tutorial, OnAirFest, Tribeca, The BBC's Open Call, The Demonic Detective, and more

Cumulus Media and Signal Hill Insights report, Murder on the Audio Express, picking out a hosting platform, crowdfunding platform comparison, and Shippen's prequel

Nov 21, 2025

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11 min read

Spotify divestment, Threads dabbles, Indiepod Survey results, Rewriting, funding in Wales, VAs wanted, Catskull, and more

Plus: a USC Annenberg study on inequality in podcasting, Free PM at SXSW, automatic chapter markers in AD, and Choose the Bear

Nov 14, 2025

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12 min read

Apple's new chapters and links, YouTube's AI disruption, Holmwood, Phantom Pulse and Partial Veil, and Scorpio season debuts

Plus, The Seedspace player is a good way to get kids hooked on fiction, an audio storytelling academy, a funding opportunity, casting calls, and a big change for this newsletter

Nov 7, 2025

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11 min read

AFF Winners Dial It Up, World Audio Drama Day, AD Hubfest, Writing Space Horror, Anticrastination, Witchpunk and more

Plus, the Zoom PodTrak P4 and some fancy acoustic panels for your Chrimble list, grant opportunities, more shows for your podcast queue, and what Netflix doesn't know about podcast audiences.

Oct 26, 2025

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13 min read

Lindsay Harris Friel

🧑‍💻 The Creators 2025, new gifs for🦠 #SpotifyUnwrapped, interview with🧛🏻‍♂️ Karim Kronfli, 🔊Sonic Dash, 🚪open calls, residencies, and more

🏆BBC Audio Drama shortlist,🦠 Wrapped for Creators,📚legal issues with AI, mentorship, fellowship, and how to make🌟 action figures🌟 for your podcast

🪁 Thank you for being here. Let's make some Fiction Podcast Magic.🪄✨

325: The State of Podcast Business, Audio is still #1, Pen to Print writing workshop, an editing tutorial, OnAirFest, Tribeca, The BBC's Open Call, The Demonic Detective, and more

Spotify divestment, Threads dabbles, Indiepod Survey results, Rewriting, funding in Wales, VAs wanted, Catskull, and more

Apple's new chapters and links, YouTube's AI disruption, Holmwood, Phantom Pulse and Partial Veil, and Scorpio season debuts

AFF Winners Dial It Up, World Audio Drama Day, AD Hubfest, Writing Space Horror, Anticrastination, Witchpunk and more

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Creators and audiences of audio drama and fiction podcasts will find resources and news to help them thrive and share great stories.