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News, Roundups, and Announcements
Podcasts Lead AM/FM in Spoken-Word Listening, Marking a First by Edison Research. Apparently, podcasting is ahead of radio by 1%.
Audible Enlists Former Wondery Exec to Lead Original Content Slate, by Caitlin Huston for The Hollywood Reporter. Marshall Lewy was formerly chief content officer at Wondery and moved to Audible after the company was broken up in August.
Congratulations to the 2026 winners of The Ambies!
Congratulations to Sarah Golding, Fiona Thraille, Ross Burman, Shannon Perry and Wireless Theatre Company on the release of the musical audio book, Following Jimmy Valentine! It’s good to see podcasters branch out.
Do You Believe In Magic? Evo Terra has a freshly curated collection of completed audio fiction podcasts featuring magic users in settings familiar and less typical. And now that song is stuck in my head too, THANKS EVO.
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Creator Resources
What Is a Podcast in 2026? Can My Cat Be a Podcast? Keep this in your back pocket for the next time someone tries to tell you that a Substack newsletter, YouTube Channel, or TikTok video is a podcast. Click through to see my beautiful, sweet, killer mutant baby girl, Sassafras.
Podnews reports, “Threads is continuing to roll out its podcast integration. You may now have access to a place in your profile to add your podcast: it supports links to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube. The result looks like this.”
Do you subscribe to The Audio Drama Gazette? This quarterly newsletter published its February issue.
22 Useful Concepts for Podcasting, Marketing, and Audience Growth in 2026 by Arielle Nissenblatt (and Caveat City)
Anime For Your Ears Episode 23 of the Heard! Afros & Audio Interview Series features Aaron David Harris, an Ambie Award–winning audio drama creator and producer of the fiction podcast Tales of Fists & Fireballs. Talib Jasir and Aaron David Harris examine the evolution of audio drama and what it means to build immersive narrative worlds through sound.
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Opportunities
Casting Call for Venture Rift Online: The lead narrative designer wakes up trapped inside the MMO he helped create. As the lines between player and NPC blur, Maxwell must navigate a world that's learning to rewrite its own rules. In the real world, the person responsible for his confinement roams free to continue their experiment. Sci-fi blends with gaming culture in Venture Rift Online. Deadline is 15th March. Paid.
The Golden Lobes are still open for entries, but they close on Wednesday, March 4.
The Pen to Print Audio Play Competition in Partnership with Alternative Stories’ deadline is 12 Noon, Monday, 23 March 2026. Lots of other writing competitions at that link, too.
Audio Flux invites you to contribute to Circuit 07: Trash or Treasure. “We’re looking for climate stories that mean something to you.” Twelve submissions will be selected as finalists. From this slate, four will be chosen as Circuit Selects. Each Circuit Select will receive $750, an Artist Badge for the Tribeca Festival (June 3 -14, Brooklyn, NY), premiere as a winner as part of the Tribeca Audio program and be featured in the Audio Flux Podcast. Deadline: April 6.
Casting Call: Bonnie and Clyde Listing expires March 23rd. (Let’s hope Warner Brothers doesn’t issue a cease & desist.)
Minnesota podcasters: The Arrowhead Regional Arts Council Art Project Grant for Individuals awards up to $4000 for artists within Itasca County who create work in any arts discipline at any stage of their career. Deadline: 15th of March.
Launches and Milestones
Higher Grounds. In 1993, rock frontwoman Elle Harrison was found dead at the Nashville coffeehouse she owned with her three best friends. Authorities ruled it a suicide. Few believed that. Thirty years later, the remaining women break their silence for the first time.
Drop Zone. I know what I’m seeing in the mirrors. The maintenance crews, the "routine" roadside stops, the vehicles that seem to follow the same erratic logic as my own—they aren't accidents.
SCP: Eye of the Beholder. Dr. Vincent Minnow, the Head of Research at Site-29, and Crow, an Ex-Chaos Insurgent, work together to save Site-29. (Psst: their Kickstarter doesn’t have much time left.)
Reeves Canyon. Set in the Old West, U.S. Marshals Will and Riggs escort a corrupt sheriff into custody across dangerous territory. What begins as a routine transport quickly turns perilous when they realize they’re being tracked by Bradshaw, a notorious outlaw seeking redemption for his past.
Keep sharing good stories.
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