Content Warning: I’m talking about mental illness and its depiction in horror (as someone with a mental illness); as such I make mentions of ableist language, various symptoms, and gamifying mental illness. I spent all weekend at a horror film …
Audio Fiction as a Diverse Gateway into Podcasting: A Companion Piece
On September 30th, I was honored to be offerd a slot to give a talk on International Podcast Day. I gave a talk on audio fiction as a diverse gateway into podcasting, where I talked about why audio fiction is …
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Live Show Review: Dark Adventure Radio Theatre’s “The Shadow over Innsmouth”
Note: I will be discussing Lovecraft’s racism in this article and linking you to a few must-reads. Winding down in Portland this weekend is the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival and CthulhuCon, which showcases dozens of horror features and short films …
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Six Podcast Episodes that Left Their Mark
You know the story. How does it go again? Someone’s having a hard time, the world seems empty, media becomes difficult to consume—until along come podcasts. It’s not that this is a boilerplate tale, but more that podcasting has come …
#ShowYourWork with Tess Cocchio: International Podcast Month
Appropriately, for our sunset edition of TinyLetter!Audio Dramatic, I’m providing the first entry of a new Casting Light series. It’s called #ShowYourWork, where I interview a creator about difficulties they’ve encountered in their creative process and how they overcame them, or …
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Genre Discussion: What can be counted as magical realism?
Magical realism is a post-colonial genre of fiction, originating in and heavily represented by Latin American authors from countries colonized and exploited by various European empires and governments.
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How can we engage with audio fiction in languages we don’t speak?
One of the subjects podcasters and podcast critics constantly circle back to is the status of podcasting as a very slow-growing medium, even though it’s only slightly more than a decade old as a medium. Tied into this problem of …
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Spotlight: The Ambitious Sound of Archive 81’s Whaling Adventure
Warning: The following review has some spoilers for previous episodes, and some spoilers for the current episode. Traveling through the strange horror and magic of Archive 81 has always been its own adventure, reinvented and readjusted every season like looking through one …
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Genre Discussion: Engaging with dystopian and light-hearted fictions
To start this off with an understatement, we’re living — all of us, worldwide — in some particularly turbulent times in all spheres of life: socially, politically, economically, and environmentally. In 2017, there were a lot of articles about the rise of dystopian fiction, mostly focused on …
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What kinds of support can niche communities build?
With the upcoming Podcast Movement convention, where we’ll see not only a fiction in podcasting panel but an article in the booklet written by yours truly, it’s a good time to reflect on the podcasting community and its various niches, …
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