Mixer in Culver City, globetrotting with Fool & Scholar, The Truth may return, casting for Our Wars Have Ended and The Fall of Stormcrest, and Hearthbound: An Untelling of The Odyssey

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News, Roundups, and Announcements

• Fool and Scholar are Reporting from Japan, Germany, Spain, England, and Denmark, about their preparation for their 10-year anniversary as podcasters and globetrotting adventures.

• Podnews reports that Radio-Canada threatens Podcast Addict for using its podcast feeds. If you know how RSS works, this is hilarious.

• The Biggest Opportunity for Podcasters Right Now, According to Experts: Katie Paterson reveals what different experts believe podcasters should do.

• The Truth is fundraising to return to your headspace.

• The creators of Hannahpocalypse are fundraising for Scarlett: Reliquary of Souls, a new gothic audio thriller about gods, grief, and the ones who fight because no one else will.

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Creator Resources

• Take the Guesswork out of Artwork. Apple Podcasts for Creators has released a new guide to crafting podcast art.

• Live at Theatreship! The Amelia Project has posted a behind-the-scenes video of their performance weekend in London.

• CJ Archerd writes, “We're hosting an Early Career Podcasting Mixer in Culver City, CA at Village Well Books and Coffee on 6/12 at 6:30 pm. For people early in their podcast careers to meet and network. Whether you're in the indie audio drama space or an assistant at a podcast company, come say hi!” Space is limited, so please sign up at the link above as soon as possible.

• The Intimacy Illusion: Why Listeners Feel Like They Know You (And Why That Matters). Because somewhere in the English Channel, a woman is rowing a boat in circles searching for Piffling Vale and insisting she’s Mrs. Rudyard Funn.

• ICYMI: On AI: “So What?” Tom Crowley sings the praises of human-created art and explains how some people feel when they see AI-generated stuff.

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Opportunities

• Arts Council Ireland’s Children and Young People’s Arts Bursary Award is accepting applications. Deadline is 19 June.

• Casting Call: Our Wars Have Ended, from the creators of The Silt Verses and I Am In Eskew. Auditions close 14 June.

• Casting Call: The Fall of Stormcrest. Deadline: 8th of June, 23:56 EDT.

Milestones & Debuts

• Hearthbound: An Untelling of the Odyssey premiered on June 3rd, 2025. A 10-episode queer reimagining of the Odyssey, set across a post-apocalyptic Great Basin, Hearthbound is a love story, a road trip, and a ballad for ecological restoration.

• Do you like your audio fiction experience to conclude? Here are the most recent additions to The End, including some fan favorites.

• Leyline High Rewind dives into the huge back catalogue of weird spooky kids' show LEYLINE HIGH (1972-2002). You remember it, right? Of course you do! Everyone ran home from school to watch it - including you!

• DeGrave Brothers: The Coldwater Terror Grave-robbing brothers Doug and Phil DeGrave take on their most deranged job yet: cleaning up a sadistic S&M dungeon known as the Coldwater Inn. But something ancient and unspeakable lurks beneath the leather and latex—something hungry.

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