One of the challenges of being a positively ancient podcasting company by modern standards is the pace at which technology and common practice advance. We’re currently retrofitting swaths of our back catalogs to bring them up to modern standards, including SSL certificates. Unfortunately, some podcatchers are interpreting this as the episodes being ‘new’ and pushing […]
The Escape Artists podcasts are pleased to announce they’ve relocated their submission platforms and are settling in at Moksha. Many thanks to Matthew Kressel for easing the transition. Or, as PseudoPod’s assistant editor Karen Bovenmyer puts it:
Happy Award Season, everyone! We’ve assembled all the EA eligibility links for your convenience and consideration. Escape Pod, PodCastle, PseudoPod and Cast of Wonders are eligible in Semiprozine categories, and their editors are eligible in Editor: Short Form categories. Please note our editorial teams prefer to be nominated together on ballots. Click any image below […]
Getting a jump on your Best Of lists for 2019? Here’s where you can find all of EA’s original fiction:
EA passionately supports the empowerment of artists. We believe in Kickstarter as a platform that helps achieve that goal for many independent creators. And we also disagree with and condemn Kickstarter’s anti-union behavior. In solidarity with Kickstarter United‘s request to not penalize campaigns because of the company’s stance, we’ll continue to both signal boost projects […]
Hello everyone! Here’s a consolidated list of where you can find the EA Crew in #Dublin2019. The complete program is currently available as a PDF. We’ll update this post with any additions of corrections as the event approaches.
Award-winning genre fiction podcasts PseudoPod and PodCastle have made the shortlist for the British Fantasy Society Best Audio award. The award, which debuted in 2018, went to the BBC audio adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Anansi Boys. PseudoPod was also a finalist that inaugural year. We’re incredibly happy to see the hard work of our editorial […]
The Escape Artists forums will be under construction throughout the summer. We’ll reopen with a new look and streamlined threads so that your comments and questions get seen by podcast staff as well as other fans. The forum will continue to be home to our flash fiction contests and all of the existing content will […]
In 2018, the Escape Artists podcasts came together to produce Artemis Rising 5. The event has been many things over the years. Beginning as a celebration of women’s speculative work in the vein of Lightspeed’s Destroy! series, the event gradually shifted focus to widen its scope. For us behind the scenes, Artemis Rising took on […]
Recently, on a Twitter call for a specific narrator, discussion broke out regarding the rate of pay we offer narrators. All four podcasts currently pay $30 for short stories, around 12-40 minutes of finished audio ($15 for flash fiction). A professional voice actor pointed out that current union and non-union rates for audiobooks from the […]