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Hugo Nominations!

The 2022 Hugo Award finalists have been announced and EA is honored to have picked up multiple nominations!

We are thrilled to announce that both Escape Pod and PodCastle are again finalists for the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine!

Congratulations to both teams:

  • Escape Pod editors S.B. Divya, Mur Lafferty, and Valerie Valdes, assistant editors Benjamin C. Kinney and Premee Mohamed, guest editor Brent C. Lambert, hosts Tina Connolly and Alasdair Stuart, audio producers Summer Brooks and Adam Pracht, and the entire Escape Pod team.
  • PodCastle editors Jen R. Albert, C.L. Clark, Shingai Njeri Kagunda, and Eleanor R. Wood, assistant editors Sofia Barker and Summer Fletcher, host Matt Dovey, audio producer Peter Behravesh, and the entire PodCastle team.

We’re also thrilled to see both Mur Lafferty and S.B. Divya return to the Best Editor Short Form category!

But there’s MORE!

The complete list of finalists is available at the Chicon 8 website – congratulations to them all!

The Hugo Awards will be presented at the 80th World Science Fiction Convention, Chicon 8, on Sunday, September 4th in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Attending members are eligible to vote in the Hugo Awards (learn more about membership options).

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Announcing WITCHING HOUR

Escape Artists are very proud to announce their audio drama debut, WITCHING HOUR. This hour-long special will release at midnight, Sunday October 31st for your Halloween audio entertainment, across all four EA podcasts.

Set during 2021’s unique Halloween ‘witching hour’, this alternate PseudoPod is at the centre of a multiverse-threatening ritual. PseudoPod Towers are manifesting across the globe, and its up to the audio drama horror community to unite and save the day.

WITCHING HOUR is an audio drama and audio fiction collaboration featuring contributions from CreepyPod, The Magnus Archives, Neighbourly, Nightlight,  The Secret of St. Kilda, The Storage Papers, and Unwell.

Written by Ash Beker, Summer Fletcher and Alasdair Stuart, WITCHING HOUR stars audio drama legends Imogen Harris and Alasdair Stuart and features performances by Peter Behravesh Scott Campbell, Kat Day, Graeme Dunlop, Wilson Fowlie, Shawn Garrett, Alex Hofelich, Mur Lafferty, Marty Perrett, MM Schill and Kaitlyn Zivanovich.

Directed and executive production by Marguerite Kenner with producer Ciaran Roberts, sound design and editing by Ryan Boyd and Peter Wood, and graphics by Matt Dovey.

WITCHING HOUR has headline content warnings for death & dying; horror themes; mental health & trauma; sound effects; socio-political themes; violence; swearing, blasphemy, and innuendo. Detailed content warnings will be available behind a spoiler tag when the episode launches. To learn more about how we use content warnings, visit https://tinyurl.com/BedtimeStoriesCW. Full text of the episode will be available at launch, along with a downloadable PDF transcript.

2021 British Fantasy Awards Best Audio Finalists PseudoPod and PodCastle

EA Receives British Fantasy Award Nominations Once Again!

Another year, another amazing group of BRITISH FANTASY AWARD NOMINATIONS!

  • Award-winning genre fiction podcasts PseudoPod and PodCastle return to the British Fantasy Society Best Audio award as 2021 finalists.
  • Additionally, John Wiswell’s 8-Bit Free Will (PodCastle 654), has been nominated for Best Short Fiction!
  • Continuing the good news train, our very own Escape Pod’s Premee Mohamed’s novel Beneath the Rising has received a nomination for Best Horror Novel!
  • And finally, join us in congratulating Alasdair Stuart and Marguerite Kenner’s weekly pop culture newsletter, The Full Lid, for its Best Nonfiction nomination!

The British Fantasy Society Awards will be presented at Fantasycon in (COVID willing) Birmingham, England in September.

Congratulations to all the finalists!

Multiple Hugo Nominations for EA!

The 2021 Hugo Award finalists have been announced and EA is honored to have picked up multiple nominations!

We are thrilled to announce that Escape Pod is again a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine! Congratulations to co-editors S. B. Divya and Mur Lafferty, assistant editor Benjamin C. Kinney, producers Summer Brooks and Adam Pracht, co-hosts Tina Connolly and Alasdair Stuart, and the entire Escape Pod team!

Joining them for their first Hugo Award nomination for Best Semiprozine, and on the heels of the British Fantasy Award win, are PodCastle! Massive congratulations to co-editors Jen Albert, C.L. Clark, assistant editor and host Setsu Uzume, producer Peter Behravesh and the entire PodCastle team!

But there’s MORE!

Finally, we’re incredibly happy to see Mur Lafferty and S.B. Divya gain their inaugural Best Editor Short Form nomination, recognizing not only their podcast editorial work but their creation of the Escape Pod 15th Anniversary anthology.

Find a complete list of finalists, and congratulations to them all!

The Hugo Awards will be presented at the 79th World Science Fiction Convention, DisCon III, in December. This event has promised a virtual programming stream for digital attendees as well as a special virtual attendance membership.

Where to Find EA at CoNZealand Fringe

In addition to Worldcon, this year there is a Fringe program of complementary genre fiction programming at European-friendly times outside Worldcon programming hours. All items are being livestreamed on YouTube, so are available either live or can be watched later. Transcripts will also be made available.

You can learn more about #CoNZFringe at its website.

  • Alasdair Stuart will be moderating Fanzines Online: Fan Publications in the Age of Social Media on Tuesday, 28th July at 8 pm BST
  • Marguerite Kenner will be a panellist on Genre Podcasts: Beyond the Basics on Thursday, 31st July at 8pm BST
  • Katherine Inskip will be a panellist on Making Space for the New: How YA Trends Predict Cultural Shifts in SFF on Saturday, 1st August at 8 pm BST

Congratulations to Alasdair Stuart, Best Fan Writer Hugo Finalist!

Hugo nominations have just been announced and we have an Escape Artist on the short lists, folks! Our very own co-owner, boss, keeper of the big red button and PseudoPod host, Alasdair Stuart is a finalist for the Best Fan Writer award!

Best Fan Writer is for work published in print or digitally for semiprozines, fanzines or generally available electronica media. Which is pretty much the part of Alasdair’s day job that isn’t Escape Artists so it’s great to see him make the list. Congratulations, boss!

The 78th World Science Fiction Convention will be held in Dublin, Ireland, from 15th to 19th August this year. The awards will be handed out there and Escape Artists will be present for the whole weekend so do come say hello. More details to follow.

PseudoPod shortlisted for a British Fantasy Society Award!

Following two rounds of nomination and voting from the members of the British Fantasy Society and FantasyCon, The British Fantasy Awards has reached its final jury stage.

PseudoPod has been shortlisted in the inaugural year of the Best Audio category!

Winners will be announced on 21 October 2018 at FantasyCon, the BFS annual convention.

Congratulations to Alex Hofelich, Shawn Garrett, Alasdair Stuart, Chelsea Davis, Marty Perrett and the entire PseudoPod team!