Not only are people in the United States creating and participating in more protests, the largest protests in American history are happening right now–in the US, and in the world, as witnessed on March 15 of this year when 1.4 million students across 123 countries walked …
A Brief Overview of -punk Genres in Fiction Podcasts
If you’ve been on the internet at all recently, you’ve probably witnessed the wave of discussion on the game Cyberpunk 2077 (if you haven’t been, tread carefully while Googling, it’s a minefield). Crucially, there’s been a lot of very hot …
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A Guide to Unleashing Your Podcast’s Press Release
You’re hip-deep in trying to get the second season of your podcast off the ground and focused on improving your audience reach. Your listenership for season one was either disappointing, not too shabby, or surprising, or maybe even as expected, …
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“ICONography” Smartly Dissects Myths and Realities of Historical Icons
A place is not just defined by its geographical borders and its people, but by their memories, histories, and stories—its icons. An icon, real or imagined, is not just a religious work of art, but any person, object, concept, or …
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“My Story to Tell”: Emily VanDerWerff on Nuance, Ambition, and Trans Storytelling — Wil Williams Reviews
https://embed.radiopublic.com/e?if=arden-6B5X5Q&ge=s1!ea4fd Emily VanDerWerff is one of the foremost reasons I do what I do. A longtime pop culture critic, Emily VanDerWerff was one of the founders of The AV Club‘s TV Club, and was many peoples’ introduction to how …
The Subversion and Reclamation of Tropes are Both Rebellions
The word “trope” has come to indicate a literary or rhetorical device or motif in creative works, usually ones that propel plot, character development, or fictional design. This can be something as (relatively) harmless as Love At First Sight, a …
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The Interlaced Fate of Music and Humanity in the “Marsfall” Second Season Finale
Marsfall, a science-fiction podcast following a group of colonizers after they have landed on Mars, grapples with the subsequent horrors they have to face, both from within and from outside. The season two finale, “Chapter 17 – Chip”, witnesses an epic …
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Tips & Tricks for Fiction Podcasters
This article was created in the interest of supporting fiction podcast creators and producers, inspired by the work of Michelle Nickolaisen at Self-Taught & Solo, a resources website for solo and self-taught fiction podcasters (with a ton of handy tools …
How can we better deliver and receive critique?
Ma’ayan Plaut, from RadioPublic, wrote what I consider to be one of the best go-to articles for handling criticism, not just as a podcaster, but as a listener. In it, she doesn’t just give a list of do’s and don’ts, but she also …
“Going Through Hell with the People You Love”: An Interview with CARAVAN’s Tau Zaman
The Whisperforge’s newest audio fiction, CARAVAN, is a Weird West adventure where Samir (Sushant Adlankha) falls into a huge, deep canyon while camping with his best friend and ends up embroiled with bounty hunters and the supernatural. Created by Tau …
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