As a reminder, the first ever Audio Fiction Convention (TAFCON) will be this Sunday in Boulder, Colorado. They’re sold out for in-person tickets, but you can join online and see the main stage presentations. Check out the schedule to see more about what’s up. Alas, we will not be there in person this year, but…
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We recently mentioned TAFCON, which has concluded a successful Kickstarter campaign and will be happening next June. However if you’re hankering to attend another audio fiction event, there’s on coming up on Saturday, November 1st: Hubfest 2025. Put on by the folks responsible for the repeatedly useful Audio Drama Hub group on Facebook, it’s a…
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As many of you have picked up on, we’re fanatical about audio theater and want to see everyone in the community succeed. So when we learned some great audio creators were putting together a new audio fiction convention set to debut next June, we knew we had to support it. To get things rolling, they’re…
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We’re pretty clearly partisans in the quest to bring back audio fiction in as big a way as possible to the ears of as many millions of people as possible, but this piece by Kristine Nelson for Dante last Fall is a nice reminder that people and events are noticing more.
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As many a podcaster knows, Chartable, an increasingly handy podcast analytics platform is, now in the hands of its owner Spotify, set to close next month. You can read some of the coverage from Podnews.net and Podchaser, but if you are also a podcaster, one of the best articles we’ve seen comes from Dan Misener…
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Prior to the resurgence of audio fiction via podcasts, the storytelling form had all but faded in the States with the final episodes aired of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar and Suspense in September 1962. Oh, there were certainly glorious exceptions because, and we’re biased here, it’s a great format, but the “Golden Age of Radio”…
Read MoreDepending on how closely you follow the news, you may know that both the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and Screen Actors Guild/American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) are on strike for better pay and working conditions. For Jabberwocky Audio Theater, you’ve heard members of SAG-AFTRA in just about all of our productions…
Read MoreBased on what data we have, a non-trivial number of you listen to one or more of our podfeeds via Stitcher. Just in case you had not heard, Stitcher will be shutting down at the end of this month, on August 29th, 2023. They have created a Farewell FAQ to answer your questions. If you…
Read MoreBased on the news we read this weekend, there was absolutely no reason we were not going to share the glorious discovery of the original recording session that gave the work The Wilhelm Scream. You can learn a great background of the Wilhelm Scream on Mental Floss from 2018, recently updated with this latest news….
Read MoreThis far removed from the era of vintage radio fiction, you don’t hear about voice actors being “the definitive actor” to play a character as much these days. But the sad news of the passing of Kevin Conroy, longtime voice of Batman across multiple animated series and video games reminds us that for so many,…
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