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Fiction Podcast Weekly 276: Grants and crowdfunding alternatives, Podtrac's tongue twister, Preventing podfade, free music and more
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Issue 276 of The Fiction Podcast Weekly is brought to you by Midwest Weird.
Strange stories from the weird Midwest. Season 1 of Midwest Weird ends on October 30.
Do you love listening to podcasts? How do you find new shows? Take the survey to win a $200 Amazon voucher. Are you a podcaster? You can also win prizes by helping us get the survey in front of more podcast audiences. Details at our 2024 Podcast Discovery Survey.
Crowdfunding: Harry's Home, a gently funny and emotional audio play touching upon the day-to-day reality of dementia, and Psychopompos, a new mythology series that re-envisions Greek myths to examine our modern times. Also, the campaign for Everyone's Happy closes soon, and they're so close to their goal.
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Opportunities
Casting Call: Forgive Me! Season 4 Rogue Dialogue seeks 13 new VA's to fill out their greater ensemble. Deadline is October 31.
Open Call: Radiophrenia is an artist run FM radio station broadcasting in Glasgow and online. "We seek soundscapes, spoken word pieces, radio experiments, found sound, innovative approaches to drama and documentary, and radical and challenging new programme ideas." Deadline: 20 October.
Do you live in Maine? Maine Arts & Humanities Grants provide up to $1000 of funding for organizations in Maine that present stories and cultural expressions of the state, its communities, and its people. Deadline: 22nd of October.
The Philadelphia Student Mediamaker Fund awards grants to Philadelphia area student media makers who want to produce a digital video or audio project. Deadline: 31st October.
Milestones & Debuts
Midwest Weird, a new audio literary magazine, finishes their first season October 30. Each episode features a Midwestern writer and a weird story. Want your story to appear in Season 2? Visit midwestweird.com for submission guideliens. (Yes.)
Return to the Crystal District with the Season 3 premiere of The Occult Adventures of Norman P. Blank. Join normal human lawyer, Norman P. Blank, daring detective David X. Machina, and fairy princess Lady Blackfreeze in this queer urban fantasy comedy set in 1930s San Francisco.
Bunker 8. Jack, a hardened Australian ex-soldier, is sent to the desolate Antarctic facility for a six-month assignment to oversee "assets" locked away in impenetrable cells, follow strict protocols, and, above all, never ask questions. But as Jack descends into the depths of Bunker 8, he realizes there's far more to this facility than anyone let on.
Metropolis. While ace reporter Nan Kanally and the rest of the world struggle through post-war poverty, Metropolis has assembled a neon utopia on an icy, distant island. But Metropolis holds its secrets tightly.
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