Today is the LAST DAY of our annual fundraising campaign! As a reminder, donations/subscriptions will be matched 1:1 up to a total matching fund of $7000, meaning you can DOUBLE the impact of your contribution! Links below! 🔗 www.paypal.com/US/fundraise... 🔗 escapeartists.net/support-ea/

In November, we (PodCastle) ran a month of Palestinian stories, and honestly I think it is the single best month of stories we've ever run, and you should listen to it on those grounds alone. But I also spent a lot of time on those outros, and meant to write more about them at the time, but: busy.

Consider also donating to our year-end donation campaign of donations!

Need a gift for a late holiday visit? Buy merch here! voidmerch.threadless.com/collections/... PseudoPod is part of the @escapeartists.net Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit

Addendum: if you appreciated and valued the Palestinian month, then right now EA (our non-profit publisher) is having its end-of-year fundraising drive, with a $7000 matching fund. The entire enterprise—all 5 casts—is built on donations, so please chip in to help us do more work like this

Happy Holidays! My gift to you this season is an adventurous, post-apocalyptic story about stories; how they keep our souls fed and connected. It's been brought to life by the amazing team at @escapepod.org, performed by the wonderful Rosie Sentman. Listen to the story or read it for free here:

If you want to keep supporting publications like @escapepod.org and the writers they publish (like me), I encourage you to support the @escapeartists.net matching fundraising campaign if you have the means:

We have just under 3 WEEKS LEFT until our annual fundraising campaign ends! Donations and subscriptions will be matched 1:1 up to a total matching fund of $7000, meaning you can DOUBLE the impact of your contribution! Links below! 🔗 www.paypal.com/US/fundraise... 🔗 escapeartists.net/support-ea/

We're about a week into the campaign now and the response has already been so uplifting. Thank you all for helping us chase this generous match opportunity and to bring you more free audio fiction every week!

2025 is just around the corner and with it Escape Artists’ 20th anniversary!! For two decades, we have built a community of speculative fiction authors, narrators, and audiences and been a leader in speculative fiction spaces.

It's time for our Year End Campaign! From now until the end of the year, donors will match your donation! Curious? Read more here: escapeartists.net/2024/11/27/2...

2025 is just around the corner and with it Escape Artists’ 20th anniversary! To continue our two-decades long journey in publishing stories, planning more ambitious projects, and compensating our brilliant crew, we’re running our second annual end-of-year fundraiser—with an exciting twist! (1/6)

Bluesky List (which can be pinned to your feed) of EA staff here: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Do you have any idea how much work it takes to feed a family of tentacles? The unwashed souls of hapless fools just don't grow on trees!!! So, if you've ever enjoyed the weirdness we've added to your life, please consider supporting @escapeartists.net on our Patreon! www.patreon.com/EAPodcasts

Any of my contacts running a small/indie press and willing to donate some books for book bags at Fantasycon? We'd love to put some work in the hands of attendees (400+ spec fic fans based in the UK!)...

The BBC has made its sound effects archive openly available online! The descriptions are pretty great, although I'd love to be able to browse/filter by program as well sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk 📚📜

Hello new followers! Good to see you! I'm usually writing The Full Lid, the weekly pop culture newsletter I publish with the amazing @margueritekenner.bsky.social. We're also on the @escapeartists.net board and here's where you've heard me. www.podchaser.com/creators/ala...

Inspired by @cjsubko.bsky.social's starter packs this morning, I put together a starter pack of specfic publications, zines and podcasts. It's 50 slots and I think I need to put together one more pack to get everyone I wanted to fit in there. Check it out and follow some zines! go.bsky.app/4FbEmZU

It’s me narrating this @castofwonders.org story, and what a fabulous story it is! Have a listen: www.castofwonders.org/2024/07/cast... Also, this means I have now narrated for all the @escapeartists.net podcasts. HOUSE!

Dear old @escapeartists.net friends together at last! @pseudopodalex.bsky.social

Happy to announce that my novelette, "Vault," first published in @clarkesworldmagazine.com is forthcoming in @escapepod.org --with new narration! Yay! @escapeartists.net

We are excited for Storyteller, a Tanith Lee tribute anthology edited by @thisjulieday.bsky.social, Carina Bissett, and @ethereallad.bsky.social Please consider supporting this so we can all get a great book and stretch to support more writers.

Absolutely warming my heart seeing how of many of the "writers, post something random from your backlist. don’t think. just do it" memes are @escapeartists.net stories. ❤️

We will not be following their lead. www.thebookseller.com/news/harperc...

Absolutely positively not. For shame, Harper Collins! www.thebookseller.com/news/harperc...

OPEN AUDITIONS for narrators! We're expanding our roster of voice actors with open auditions April 15-30. All the details at the submission portal here: escapeartists.moksha.io/publication/...

Omgosh, Reclaim the Stars also won!!! 😆 So proud to be part of this anthology!!!!

Once again, Congratulations to everyone on the Ignyte ballot, and thank you to the voters and the SFFH community at large for all of the heart and effort you put into the work you do. We see you. 🖤🔥 @theignyteawards.bsky.social

Here's what I've been doing all morning! Congratulations to the 2023 Ignyte Award finalists and winners. You continue to be the highlight of my year.

Congratulations to Black Women Are Scary!

The Ignyte finalists for BEST FICTION PODCAST are: Beneath Ceaseless Skies Black Women Are Scary Good Morning Antioch PodCastle Pseudopod

And congratulations to Ai Jiang!

Congratulations, Tobi Ogundiran!

Finalists first! The 2023 Ignyte Award Finalists for BEST NOVEL: ADULT -- BABEL – R. F. Kuang KAIKEYI – Vaishnavi Patel SIREN QUEEN – Nghi Vo THE BLOOD TRIALS – N. E. Davenport THE SPEAR CUTS THROUGH WATER – Simon Jimenez

A reminder of all our pods. Have you heard them all?

Horror fans! I narrated The Grave of Angels by Erica Ruppert for @pseudopod.org recently. You can listen to it here https://pseudopod.org/2023/09/29/pseudopod-885-the-grave-of-angels/. The pod is kept alive by donations, so if you enjoyed it then please put a few dollars their way.

Happiest of birthdays to @alasdairstuart.bsky.social! 🎈

SOA members! There are 4 places going on the Management Committee this year (including mine, as my term ends in January). So please, don’t forget to vote before October 25th. We need as many members to vote as possible in order to ensure maximum representation. Your voice matters. Use it!

On International Podcast Day, don't forget to check out all of the podcasts that make up the Escape Artists family... 🦑 @pseudopod.org (horror) 🚀 @escapepod.org (science fiction) 🐉 @podcastle.org (fantasy) 🎭 @castofwonders.org (speculative YA) 🐈 @catscast.org (cats)

Today’s episode mentions St. Jerome, the patron saint of librarians and translators... ... and speaking of translators, the very happiest of birthdays to our own Shawn Garrett!

#thefulllid - 29th September 2023 - Happy Friday! This week we're in York for @zomblogalypse, at see with Amanda Lee's wonderful ships and in Baldur's Gate for the remake you didn't know you needed. mailchi.mp/e31d12b10452...

For anyone interested, the Society of Authors management committee candidate statements are here. The AGM is 16th November. If you’re a member, please vote! www2.societyofauthors.org/download/man...

Voting for the 2023 Hugo awards closes on September 30, 2023, at 23:59 Hawaiian Standard Time (UTC -10). If you're eligible to vote and you haven't yet cast your ballot, please consider our science fiction and fantasy podcasts @escapepod.org and @podcastle.org in the Best Semiprozine category!

Voting for the 2023 Hugo awards closes on September 30, 2023, at 23:59 Hawaiian Standard Time (UTC -10). If you're eligible to vote and you haven't yet cast your ballot, please consider our science fiction and fantasy podcasts @escapepod.org and @podcastle.org in the Best Semiprozine category!

‘In papers filed Tuesday in federal court in New York, the authors alleged “flagrant and harmful infringements of plaintiffs’ registered copyrights” and called the ChatGPT program a “massive commercial enterprise” that is reliant upon “systematic theft on a mass scale.”’

Premee Mohamed: Submitted for the aproval for the Midnight Society, I call this the tale of the not too distant future Mohamed: in a world ravaged by climate change Mohamed: and covid Mohamed: and microplastics Mohamed: and ocean acidification

What new SF/F magazines have launched in the last two years? (With all the talk of publications closing, it might be nice to celebrate the newcomers.)

Were you one of our Amazon Kindle subscribers? (They won't tell us who you are.) Amazon discontinued their subscription program this month. If you want to continue your subscription, please read this: clarkesworldmagazine.com/amazon-subsc...

hey spec list people, if you sell a book (or resell or deliver a book, or get a new agent, or a movie deal, etc) drop a note to [email protected] for our People and Publishing column. We scour the internet for news but the best way to get in is to directly tell us about it #speclit