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✍️ Overcast's transcript beta, 🧮taxes and crowdfunding, 😴 your Dream Job awaits, 🐈‍⬛ Dark Road Diaries,  fellowships, open calls, prizes, and more

✍️ Overcast's transcript beta, 🧮taxes and crowdfunding, 😴 your Dream Job awaits, 🐈‍⬛ Dark Road Diaries, fellowships, open calls, prizes, and more

Plus, Apple's video push, NYC meetup, an editor gig, and the longest golf club in the world

Mar 20, 2026

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13 min read

Emeline ⛓️‍💥, 🫛Podbean pulls European DAI 💶,  🗽NYC meetup🤝, 💰grants, residencies🏡, and awards 🏆

Emeline ⛓️‍💥, 🫛Podbean pulls European DAI 💶, 🗽NYC meetup🤝, 💰grants, residencies🏡, and awards 🏆

Plus, the Infinite Dial reaches new heights, a proposal for Netflix's $2.8 billion, Stephanie Elie's podcast management tools, a chance to have your audio drama script directed by Dirk Maggs, and so much more.

Mar 13, 2026

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12 min read

Project Gnosis casting ☎️ , Laura's  launch, Wondery+🌅 prompts an Audible discount, mouth noise🫦  removal strategies, 💵 funding, awards, and more

Project Gnosis casting ☎️ , Laura's launch, Wondery+🌅 prompts an Audible discount, mouth noise🫦 removal strategies, 💵 funding, awards, and more

Plus, Siobhán McHugh's rallying speech for narrative audio, sound design winners, Headliner's social media scheduling tool, how you can win a tablet PC with Pen to Print, and a cavalcade of good stuff to help you survive March Madness

Mar 6, 2026

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11 min read

Edison says podcasts>📻, Can Your 🐱 Be a Podcast?, Audio Flux Could Take You to 🗽Tribeca,  and $4k💵  for MN artists

Edison says podcasts>📻, Can Your 🐱 Be a Podcast?, Audio Flux Could Take You to 🗽Tribeca, and $4k💵 for MN artists

Plus: Following Jimmy Valentine, casting Venture Rift Online, Anime For Your Ears, Drop Zone for your fears, and much more.

Mar 1, 2026

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12 min read

PodcastAddict's surprise, Triton shows fiction brings listeners to the fold, AIR discount, casting calls, and Counterbalance is back

PodcastAddict's surprise, Triton shows fiction brings listeners to the fold, AIR discount, casting calls, and Counterbalance is back

Plus, what can RSS do for you? IndieAF interviews Russ More, pitching indie podcasts to sponsors, OnAirFest, AFF, and a cornucopia of delights for audio drama and fiction podcast creators

Feb 22, 2026

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12 min read

⭐️ Elsie & Rob are Captivated! 🍏 Apple vs. trolls?🧌 Is Pete Davison's podcast a fiction?📺 Casting Calls 📼 and HearSay opportunities 🇮🇪

⭐️ Elsie & Rob are Captivated! 🍏 Apple vs. trolls?🧌 Is Pete Davison's podcast a fiction?📺 Casting Calls 📼 and HearSay opportunities 🇮🇪

Plus, DASH, Moonlight & Love Songs, moving from Libsyn to Captivate, free instruments, and making your script spark the audience's visual imagination, and much more

Feb 15, 2026

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12 min read

Mercury Rising, Unpaid Casting? Broken Arts seeks scripts, How i Died casting, Golden Lobes, and more

Mercury Rising, Unpaid Casting? Broken Arts seeks scripts, How i Died casting, Golden Lobes, and more

Plus, an interview with Alex Kemp of Wolf at the Door, MN actors & writers needed for Hidden Herald, VT Humanities grants, RSA Scotland residencies, and a call for papers concerning 'a critical theory of podcasting'

Feb 9, 2026

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11 min read

Audiochuck Invests in LGBT Youth, How to Win at Sound Design, Atypical Artists' Q&A, residencies, grants, and Choose The Bear

Audiochuck Invests in LGBT Youth, How to Win at Sound Design, Atypical Artists' Q&A, residencies, grants, and Choose The Bear

Plus: what artists "should" do in times of strife, a $50 promotion opportunity, Pen to Print, Tribeca, and how video is the on-ramp for audio podcasts

Feb 1, 2026

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11 min read

RSS poll results, artists' role in tough times,  Libsyn's 301 debacle, residencies, participation opportunities, and more

RSS poll results, artists' role in tough times, Libsyn's 301 debacle, residencies, participation opportunities, and more

Plus, fiction nominees for the Ambies, a weird podcast award that raises questions, sound techniques, casting calls, and more

Jan 25, 2026

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12 min read

RSS or Not? Podcasthon, Edison's latest reports, Transom x Blue Mountain, casting calls, Harvey in Hell, Petrified news and more

RSS or Not? Podcasthon, Edison's latest reports, Transom x Blue Mountain, casting calls, Harvey in Hell, Petrified news and more

Plus, recording at SXSW, share your show with a tap, subscription revenue models, AIR's New Voices Amplify program, and more

Jan 18, 2026

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9 min read

📰 Extra Issue: What Can Go In The Fiction Podcast Weekly?

📰 Extra Issue: What Can Go In The Fiction Podcast Weekly?

The editorial policy, explained: what's relevant, what isn't, and the official stance on generative AI.

Jan 12, 2026

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7 min read

Libsyn loses another leader🤦  , AI🤖 tool stripping ads for profit🤑 , Alice Wong  remembered, WGGB negotiates🤝  with the BBC for radio drama writers, 🤠 Sound Design Showdown, and more

Libsyn loses another leader🤦 , AI🤖 tool stripping ads for profit🤑 , Alice Wong remembered, WGGB negotiates🤝 with the BBC for radio drama writers, 🤠 Sound Design Showdown, and more

Plus: 🕰️ The clock is ticking for Anticrastination, behind-the-scenes with Thomas Wrightson, looming deadlines for Tribeca Podcasts and the UK Radio Drama Festival, and protecting your creative energy and sanity. 😶‍🌫️

Jan 11, 2026

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11 min read

🎉New Year, New Drama?🌲Evergreen Resources to Craft Your Podcast, Curation > Algorithms, Dirt, Thoramagog, and more

🎉New Year, New Drama?🌲Evergreen Resources to Craft Your Podcast, Curation > Algorithms, Dirt, Thoramagog, and more

Awards, grants, and fellowships (money and support!) with looming deadlines, Third Coast International news, Public Domain Day, gay cowboys fighting monsters, and everything you need to craft an immersive experience that will blow people's minds, except patience and diligence, but you've already got that, right? Right?

Jan 2, 2026

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12 min read

Lopez's gift🏅, IndieAF's 🛋️ cosy Hygge-bration🎄,🏡 residencies, 🏆awards, 💰 grants, and calls to participate 🤝

Lopez's gift🏅, IndieAF's 🛋️ cosy Hygge-bration🎄,🏡 residencies, 🏆awards, 💰 grants, and calls to participate 🤝

with food for thought from Eric Nuzum and Stamatis Astra, opportunities from Content is Queen, Dundee Radio, and Mudhouse, and PodCraft by Alitu wants to protect your creative brain. Plus, wintry additions to your podcast queue.

Dec 26, 2025

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13 min read

📖 Directories standing up to🤖 AI slop, Oxford Road pantses YouTube's hype, 📺💸  AudioUK's Success, casting calls, Audio Delicacies, and Comedy Gold

📖 Directories standing up to🤖 AI slop, Oxford Road pantses YouTube's hype, 📺💸 AudioUK's Success, casting calls, Audio Delicacies, and Comedy Gold

Yeah, that's right, I said "pantses," as in "has pulled the pants off of," find out why. Also, The Dragoning lights it up, The Program shows you sustainability strategies, VO jobs, Tips for Listening Events from Talia Augustidis, and much more

Dec 19, 2025

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12 min read

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

🧑‍💻 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

🏆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.🪄✨

🪁 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

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

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

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

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

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