To open up the world of fiction podcasting we have brought together 7 of our Judges’ Fiction Podcast Scripts in a wholly unique collection, free for you to download and read. If you are a fiction podcast writer or are contemplating adapting your screenplay into a fiction podcast, there is no better way to prepare yourself than by reading the work of others, who have blazed the trail and proved their success. Our Judges’ Fiction Podcast Script collection. As such they are uniquely placed, as successful podcast creators, to evaluate and determine those scripts that are going to light the way in 2021. The Judge’s Panel for our Fiction Podcast Contest represents some of the brightest lights in this field of the entertainment industry. And it is the low-cost, downloadable, easy to binge-consume nature of fiction podcasts that have meant they have risen to become the strongest medium yet. Whilst they all share the fact that they are based around episodic story-telling, not all these formats are created equal. The terms fiction podcasts, audiobooks, and audio drama are sometimes used interchangeably.

Around this time saw the emergence of what has come to be widely recognized as the first of the breakthrough Fiction Podcast series: Limetown, written and created by Shore Scripts Judge Zack Akers. was an early supporter of podcasting, and by 2013 they boasted 1.3bn podcast subscribers. Such was the swift and sure ascent of a new entertainment medium.Īpple Inc. And in the very next year, the word Podcast was declared “word of the year” by The New Oxford American Dictionary. That same year Ben Hammersley is credited as the first to use the term ‘Podcast’ in the media. In the same year that Facebook was launched and the Nintendo DS, the best-selling handheld game console of all time was released in North America Adam Curry and David Winer started what is now a multi-platform, popular entertainment phenomenon. It’s funny to think that the podcast has only been with us since 2004.

Stories and Scripts by Zack Love