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News, Roundups, and Announcements

• ​Exoplanetary eulogizes Sam A. Mowry on their Patreon page.
• The End has been re-vamped; now, Evo's got 999 Finished Audio Fiction Shows In [His] Directory!
• Crowdfunding: The Holmwood Foundation, Achewillow and The Sulphuric Secrets
• ​Spotify’s Investing in Video Podcasts: What Does It Mean for You? Does this mean anything for fiction podcast creators? If I type "how to produce audio drama" into YouTube, I get dozens of shows with a static image. Have video platforms had a positive effect on your podcast? Write to me at Lindsay at the podcast host dot com and let me know.

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Creator Resources

• ​NYC audio drama meetup on Nov 10. Audio drama creators and aspiring creators are invited to a casual meetup on Nov 10 at 2–5 PM. Come to Threes Brewing Gowanus (333 Douglass St, Brooklyn) to meet fellow creators and talk shop. Nick Douglas is the organizer.
• ​Whatever Happened to the Blue Snowball?
• ​If you're in Texas for the Austin Film Festival, Fred Greenhalgh says, "I'll be talking the business and craft of audio fiction on behalf of Realm and am STOKED for it! Bring any and all questions about making movies for your mind. Sat at 10:45am," with fellow panelist Christy Gressman and moderator Sarah Rhea Werner. Also, Gabriel Urbina says he'll do a panel on Worldbuilding in Audio on Sunday.
• ​The Audio Drama Hub Podfest 2024 is happening on 2nd November 2024, 11:00-21:00, Doors open 10:25, at The Riverside Club, High Wycombe, UK. IIRC, Karim Kronfli says they aren't allowed to sell tickets at the door, so get your tickets now. The schedule has everything you need to know about making the magic happen.

Opportunities

• Casting Call: Forgive Me! Season 4 Rogue Dialogue seeks 13 new VA's to complete their greater ensemble. Deadline is October 31.
• ​Send your work to The Orchard Project Audio Lab. Deadline: 15 December.
• ​My Amazing Woman is casting for three roles. Deadlines not mentioned.
• ​Nominations for the Audio Verse Awards are live now through 30 October.
• ​Binaural Nodar — annual artist residency programmes in sound and media arts — seeks projects from rural-based artists that can address and express themes related to youth in rural contexts. Deadline: 31 October.
• ​New Call for Pitches for “The Hustle”. Feet in 2 Worlds is accepting pitches for narrative audio stories about how immigrants are navigating the changing economy and the changing nature of work. Payment for stories ranges from $250 to $1500. Deadline: 28 October.
• Casting call: Queens of the Sapphire Sea seeks someone to play a Korean male aged 18-20. Deadline not mentioned.

Milestones & Debuts

• ​Wakers follows the newly undead as they stumble through their second chance at life. From mandatory group therapy to barely functioning government programs, they will find that life wasn’t quite ready for them.
• ​Over? Over? When it feels like the world is ending, who knows how people will act?
• ​Batternton. In 1965, Mimi seeks refuge in the small, isolated town of Batternton. The town’s residents follow strict rules to survive the Lovecraftian horrors that crawl out of the Black Woods every night. Now, amidst the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement, outside forces threaten to disrupt the fragile peace that these rules maintain.

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