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Fiction Podcast Weekly 255 is LOADED with licensing news, festival & conference season tidbits, casting calls, script competitions, and more
Published about 1 year ago • 4 min read
Issue #255 of The Fiction Podcast Weekly is brought to you by The Biggest Threat To Podcasting in 2024, According to Experts.
And "the first 360-degree IP based on a podcast" with toy licensing is...🥁 Wondery Kids and Wow In The World! Of course it is. The talks with Mattel to make Jarnsaxa Barbie With Color Changing Shapeshifter Action and Jotunheim Revenge Armor aren't going as well as I'd hoped. But hey, fiction podcast action figures need to be a thing! Wondery Kids and Wow in the World Expand Consumer Products Program by License Global.
The first line-up announcements for The London Podcast Festival are ready for you, including such luminaries as The Beef & Dairy Network. They offer live and online streaming tickets, so you can milk it for all it's- yes. Yes, you saw where I was going.
The Podcast Show is happening now. If you attended and want to share your experience as an audio drama and fiction podcast artist, let me know.
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Audio UK has two new membership levels, to increase accessibility. "Academic level membership is for academic institutions to sign up to on behalf of their students giving them fantastic insight into the professional audio world and Creator level membership which is specially designed for freelancers."
The State of Creativity Study 2023, commissioned by the Cannes Lions Advisory panel, says that brands should collaborate with independent creators (around page 26) and "bring entertainment back." Tired: Making up an AI influencer (i.e., Lu from Magalu, page 28). Wired: Partnering with existing creators and communities (pages 29-31). Inspired: Sponsoring audio drama and fiction podcasts.
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The Austin Film Festival's Fiction Podcast competition is now The Realm Podcast Fellowship. "Scripts should be already adapted for audio; they are not currently evaluating screenplay or teleplay material." The late deadline is May 24, and the Extended Deadline is July 6.
Casting Call: Waiting For October is an upcoming queer supernatural audio drama series from the creators of Moonbase Theta, Out, and MonkeyTales. "The setting is the world of October - a place of monsters, a place of fiction, a place of others born from the need of our stories. It’s a world that’s wild and transformative, where gill folks live in the lakes and weres run through the city streets, while kaiju roar beyond the mountains and the Moon always fills the midnight sky." More kaiju? What is even happening right now?
Sensitivity reader wanted, seeking an Arab Muslim woman and a Black American person of any gender. Deadline: 20 June.
After creating audio projects for 17 years, Peter Beeston is bringing ‘Cornucopia Radio’ to an end & releasing one final piece called ‘The Gilded Imagination,’ "which is all about the telling stories."
Before The Tone: Mack has just gotten a job as a CCTV operator at the increasingly suspicious Atlas Consulting. The story takes the form of voicemails from Mack to her sister, Daria, who never seems to answer her calls.
San Endijo County To celebrate the last day of high school, a group of childhood friends journey to their old hangout spot: an abandoned amusement park. The only problem is they might not be alone…
Imprinted Alex works in the Department of Imprinting and Records where, using Second Stem technology, she is able to witness victims' last moments before death and help bring their killers to justice.
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