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Hello friends!

Escape Artists has always relied on the generous support of our audience members to bring free, accessible speculative audio fiction to millions of people worldwide. To ensure our financial sustainability as we enter our third decade, and to continue paying all of the creatives and crew vital to our mission, we’re making some changes to our subscription structure. Many thanks to everyone who provided feedback on our initial ideas.

Starting October 1, 2025, we’ll be introducing brief paid advertisements at the beginning and end of episodes across all our podcasts. All episodes will remain available for free to everyone in line with our mission and our values, but will include ads.

To recognize and thank our subscribers, ad-free feeds of the podcasts will be available through Patreon. We’ll also be updating our Patreon tier structure (including pricing – our first ever increase), and giving new and existing supporters the chance to lock-in their ad-free access at the current $5 level before the changes take effect. 

If each of our current supporters upgraded to $5 a month, that collective increase would fund 140,000 words of original fiction, or half a year of episodes. It’ll never be cheaper to lock in ad-free access; this is a great opportunity to have a tremendous impact on EA’s long term-sustainability and give yourself the gift of ad-free access.

We’ll continue to provide updates and answer more questions between now and the change over on October 1st. Check out Patreon.com/EAPodcasts for the new support options and FAQs, or email the team at donations@escapeartists.net. 

And thank you. Thank you for your continual support and encouragement. We’ve brought you the best in audio short fiction, week after week, for over twenty years. EA has helped a generation of writers, narrators, hosts and editors bring their engaging, thought-provoking, and uplifting work to the world for free. Your financial support makes it all possible, and we can’t thank you enough.