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[podcast-bookclub]

2025 Podcast Jam

The Podcast Jam is BACK for 2025! If you're unfamiliar, the PodJam is an event running from February to May in which teams of editors, writors, and actors collaborate to create the pilot episode of a new audio drama.

A handful of things have been updated following last year's jam, particularly with the timeframe: the creation period has been extended to a "Jam Month", so teams will now spend roughly a week in each phase of production - writing, voice acting, & editing. Here's the schedule:

Sign-ups: January 31st - March 23rd

Team Submission Form Deadline: March 30th

Team Announcements: April 5th

Final Project Withdraw Date: April 20th

Jam Month: April 7th - May 4th

Episode Submission: May 5th

Public Episode Release: May 24th

Jam Closing Ceremony: May 24th

SIGN UP HERE

SUBMIT A TEAM HERE

We're really excited to bring this event back, it was incredibly fun last year & we can't wait to check out the shows y'all create for the jam ✨. Further event details and guidelines are available in the Discord and on the website. To access the Jam category in the server, please open a Jam Support ticket or ping a moderator to be given the participant role after signing up for the event.

[littleacebee]

In the spirit of @podcast-bookclub Audio Fiction Convention happening this weekend I come here with a little game! Let’s call it Podcasts Alphabet. All you have to do is reblog this post and give a podcast that starts with the next letter of the alphabet, then some else gives podcast with next letter and so on (for example the last podcast is Love and Luck so I give Mockery Manor). Let’s see if we can get a whole alphabet!

I’ll start:

Arden

[the-sassy-composer]

If you're an audio drama fan and have some free time this weekend, come check the @podcast-bookclub's inaugural Audio Fiction Convention. This free and virtual convention was created to celebrate all things audio fiction. Plus, I'm going to be speaking on the music, horror, and sound design panels!

[podcastjam]

Podcast Jam Listening Party!

Join us in the Podcast Book Club Discord server on June 1st for the Jam Marathon! We'll be listening to all of the pilots, as well as chatting with the cast & crew of each show, answering questions submitted through this form.

After the event, the recordings of the live questions will be available for PBC Ko-fi supporters, so if you're interested in having access to that, be sure to join here!

Hope to see you there 🍊

[smallsies]

Audio Drama Sunday — June 16th

Happy AD Sunday! I had a pretty quiet week re: podcasts, time is a construct and definitely got away from me, whoops. Still, here's what I heard this week in @podcast-bookclub:

Wanderer's Journal @wanderersjournalpod; Over in the bookclub, we had a little marathon of the first four episodes with some of the cast and crew, ahead of the public release of episode 5 this week! I love this show dearly, and think Marigold should get to eat as many plants as she wants tbh.

Not Quite Dead @notquitedeadpod; Also in the bookclub, we started a new weekly listen-through of everyone's favorite vampire show on Thursdays.!! We listened to the first episode, and are checking out the second later this week.

WOE.BEGONE; I feel like I am always mentioning this show (maybe because I am always listening to it /lh) but we're finishing up the listens of our server shows this week, and the w.bg mods decided to run a marathon of all of s1! This will be ongoing for a good chunk of today (we're just finishing up episode 3 now :))

And in bookclub news, because I haven't talked about it enough already, we've got a lot of listening party opportunities this week! As I said, the w.bg listen is ongoing today, and also at 5pm EST, @wolfmountainworkshop is hosting an event for the first two episodes of the upcoming The City Unending. Then we've got e5 of WJ & e2 of NQD on Tuesday (1pm EST) + Thursday (2pm EST), respectively. Saturday at 8am EST, @townofadaliah will be hosting a listen for the first two episodes of their show as well ✨

[bearjam]

Okay caught up with the Magnus protocol. A few comments:

Cecilia I do not and will never trust you <3

Alice I love you and you had the most self perseveration out of any horror character I’ve ever seen

Cloin (I spelt it wrong once in the chat and now this is Colin’s name) please outlast season one Sasha

[gavinswindowpod]

Gavin's Window is now on Tumblr!

Inspired by the people behind the gamemaster screens and character sheets, Gavin's Window is a love letter to TTRPGs and the candid stories that arise from folks gathering around the table and just roleplaying their hearts out!

If you came from the pilot episode: Hiya! We're Gavin's Window, an audio drama about the stories beyond the dice and rulebooks, and we're officially on Tumblr now! We hope you're looking forward to some of the extra content we're cooking up as we count down to the Podcast Book Club listening party on June 1st! We might also have an announcement once the listening party is over!

If you aren't here from the Podjam, and are interested in listening to our pilot episode, feel free to check out the episode on Spotify or the 2024 Podcast Jam's Acast feed!

[filohazard]

My project for the Podcast Book Club's 'Podcast Jam' is out now!

Check out 'The Block', an action cartoon block from a parallel cartoon channel...

This was a one-Filo show, produced in 48 hours. I'm pretty happy with it!

[podcastsagainstapartheid]

We're honored to have Coffee Shop Chats by @podcast-bookclub on the list of Podcasts Against Apartheid.

If you would like to be added to the AFZ podcast list, let us know.

[hellofromthehallowoods]

mx.wellman you mentioned recently there was a group listening to hfthw over the break? Is it one of the fan discords?

It's actually the @podcast-bookclub! You can check them out over here I believe:

[podcast-bookclub]

2025 Audio Fiction Convention

AuFiCon is almost upon us! For those that don't know, AuFiCon is a virtual community event hosted by the Podcast Book Club. Panels will be run over Twitch, with our Discord server hosting most everything else. The con is scheduled on a 24-hour basis to accommodate as many timezones as possible (with the schedule above listed in GMT), and events will be recorded for those that can't catch the live panels.

If you'd like to pick up a free ticket, you can do so on our EventBookings page, with the option to upgrade to a donation ticket if you'd like.

Additionally, we'd like to announce that we will be hosting an equipment giveaway during the convention! We here at the PBC are deeply appreciative of the opportunities we've been given through starting this community, and wish to give back to members who otherwise may not have access to podcasting equipment. One winner will receive a RODE NT-USB+ microphone and PSA 1+ studio boom arm. To enter:

Reblog this announcement post here on Tumblr

Complete the giveaway form here.

Finally, we are organizing a trailer event to showcase new, upcoming, and well-loved audio dramas during the convention. If you are involved in the creation of a podcast and would like your show's trailer to be played on the Podcast Trailer Event Twitch stream on the 1st of February at 4:00 PM GMT, please submit the trailer form here. (Submissions will be accepted until 26 January, 2025 at 11:59 PM EST.)

[littleacebee]

It’s Audio Fiction Convention day 2 so I come with second game. This time we will check how well do you know podcasts’ casts and crews. Rules are simple. You have to think about one of the people involved in making podcast A and put in your reblog that person together with different podcast B they’ve been involved in. Next person takes the podcast B and thinks of different person involved in it and podcast C and so on. For example: The Tower > Amber Devereux Camlann > Ella Watts Re: Dracula

Once again I will give the first podcast:

Wooden Overcoats

[the-sassy-composer]

Going to be going live with the Music as a Story Element talk in approximately two hours!

If you're an audio drama fan and have some free time this weekend, come check the @podcast-bookclub's inaugural Audio Fiction Convention. This free and virtual convention was created to celebrate all things audio fiction. Plus, I'm going to be speaking on the music, horror, and sound design panels!

[podcastjam]

Jam episodes are going live now! We're hanging out in the Discord now for a little launch party, stop by and say hi!

[emiko-matsui]

if you wanna listen to naddpod you should know this about the hosts: brian murphy is a straightman to his inner most core and he's the funniest person alive, these things exist simultaneously and would not exist without the other. emily axford is clinically insane to a point where it's easier to not try to follow her logic when she says things. jake hurwitz is a certified cool guy but he's the biggest loser in a room of nerds playing dungeons and dragons. caldwell tanner can only be described as exactly what a 1930's cartoon describes as a rascal. three of them are a throuple and the fourth is their boss.

[smallsies]

Happy Audio Drama Sunday! ✨

I've never done one of these before, but there's no time like the present, right?

This week, I've been caught between relistening to The Silt Verses and also trying to catch up to the latest episodes of WOE.BEGONE at the same time, so those shows have been on rotation & keeping me company while I'm in the midst of packing to move again soon and/or chipping away at the seemingly endless slew of projects! For the coming week, I've already heard Episode 1 of Wanderer's Journal, but I'm definitely looking forward to a relisten after the show's public release in a couple of days.

In SPACE SPECKS @spacespeckspod news this week, we're finalizing the script for our pilot episode, editing a new show teaser, keeping up with our crew call, and our lovely artist is finishing up some character art for our casting announcements soon!

And in the Podcast Book Club @podcast-bookclub realm, we're celebrating our 1 year anniversary this upcoming weekend with a Marathon event. Alongside this, we've got a trio of new shows about to start in the server, so this is a great time to join in with us.

Tangentially, the end of Podcast Jam @podcastjam is finally on the horizon! We've just passed the halfway point of scriptwriting et al, with the weekend after next being Jam Weekend, where everyone might begin to regret the "edit and record everything within a few days" part of the event. Then it'll be a little over a month from now (May 25!) until those pilots will be publicly available for everyone's ears :)

Have a great week, friends!