Issue 328 of The Fiction Podcast Weekly is brought to you by Placeholder. She’s holding a place for your podcast. Don’t make her wait in vain.
Relevant resources are thin on the ground this week, because nobody sent anything in. Here’s what I’ve been able to put together, because I want you to create and share great stories. You know why? Because if a few media corporations hoover up all the other media corporations, most of society will be erased, history will be revised, and nothing’s fun anymore, so COME ON ALREADY and share your resources and behind-the-scenes intel so we can all make better audio dramas and share them. I believe that you, yes, you can refine your craft, conjure up new ideas, and bring them to life. Please make more good podcasts to listen to so I can fight off intrusive thoughts.
News, Roundups, and Announcements
SpotifyUnwrapped is a site where you can download social media gifs that look like Spotify Wrapped gifs, and show Spotify’s unsavory income streams. Share them with the hashtag #SpotifyUnwrapped. Thank you, Evo Terra, for sharing the link!
Podnews reports that Libsyn has published its new pricing on its website. Its “bare essentials” plan has been removed.
Podcast Hall of Fame 2026 inductees announced. Congratulations to Arielle Nissenblatt, newsletter maven and friend of audio fiction podcasts, and James Cridland, godfather of podcast newsletters! Thank you both for your openness and generosity of information with podcasters everywhere.
The 20 Most Essential Podcasts of 2025 (and Two Episodes You Can't Miss) by Lauren Passell for LifeHacker includes The Harbingers and Two Thousand and Late. Congratulations!
Sounds Profitable released The Creators 2025, “A comprehensive look at not listeners, but the people behind the mic (and increasingly, the camera).” Some interesting findings: Women are less likely to start, but more likely to stick to podcasting, and “format diversity is the new normal.” The report indicates that examining why people stop or continue podcasting is the knowledge gap to address.
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Creator Resources
Audio Drama Production with Helen Quigley On The VO Social Podcast, Rob and Helen Bee interview Helen Quigley, “a freelance producer making audio dramas for B7 Media with impressive credits for BBC Radio 4.”
Finding Foley: Inclusivity in Sound by Eleanor L. Wildermuth for StoryMaps
7 Ways to Make Your Podcast Irresistibly Human in an AI Age, by me, Lindsay, with help from Matthew McLean. I want a pat on the back and a cookie for the restraint I showed by not unleashing my rage against the industry reward for Inceptionpoint AI, et al.
50+ Fake Radio Commercials For You To STEAL! Mason Amadeus has over 50 fake radio commercials that are great for “stream starting soon” filler, fake midrolls, TV noise in the background of a scene, just for fun, to fall asleep to if u weird, and so much more!
An Interview with KARIM KRONFLI from Behind The Stories podcast covers voice acting and networking in audio drama.
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Opportunities
DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program is a 12-month residency in Berlin offering outstanding international (non-German) artists from the fields of visual arts, film, literature, and music/sound the time and space to focus on their creative practice without production obligations. Deadline: 15th December, 11:59 CET.
Joshua Tree Highlands Artists Residency is a a 7-week programme for international artists who work in all media and are at all stages of their careers. The deadline is 15th December, 11:59 pm MT.
imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival Open Call is a callout for submissions to imagineNATIVE, an Indigenous film and media arts festival. The callout is open to Indigenous artists at all levels of experience. The festival will take place in person from 2nd - 7th June, 2026. Deadline: 19th December, the late submission deadline is 9th January.
READY, SET, GO. Sonic Dash is a 48-hour competition to create a 2-minute audio piece entirely from scratch. The contest starts on 9th January at noon ET and ends at the same time on 11th January.
Launches and Milestones
Liminal. When their brother is trapped in a terrifying dreamscape, Dominic and Caleb risk their minds and their lives to pull him back.
Gavin’s Graveyard Gold. Digging up the forgotten corpses of horror history. Join Gavin Tripplehorne (aka Ghoulish Gavin) as he exhumes lost films, cursed productions, and stories that were best left buried. (I can’t tell whether or not this is a film podcast disguised as narrative fiction.)
Did I say relevant resources were thin on the ground this week? I did, didn’t I?
Keep sharing good stories.
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