Awesome Ladies Podfic Anthology VI

[klb]

It's time again! Welcome to year SIX of the Awesome Ladies Podfic Anthology! As before, we'll be collecting short lady-centric podfics by different readers in different fandoms to release as an anthology (and as a collection of individual files) on the final day of halfamoon.

If you are not familiar with this project, you can see the previous five anthologies here, here, here, here, and here.

Important notes:

• The timeline is a little different this year. We're opening early, as you can see, and the deadline for podfics will also be earlier: Monday, February 1st. This means we're open for submissions about a week longer than usual, which will hopefully help with turnaround time for permission requests!


• Please make sure you read and follow the Submission Guidelines below the cut. It helps everything flow together much better, and it makes the mods' jobs so much easier!

To Podficcers: Interested in participating? We'd love to have you. Even though we're working with a relatively short time-frame, it should be a low-stress project, even for people who are new to podficcing, since we are only looking for short podficlets: based on stories of less than 1500 words (with many being as short as 1-2 minutes). If you'd like to record something for this anthology, please let us know in one of the following ways: comment here or at the corresponding post on amplificathon, contact bessyboo on twitter or podklb on tumblr, or email theatripod@gmail.com. Tell us your preferred method of contact, and we'll send you the link to the spreadsheet where we'll be keeping track of all the podfics.

Here are some good places for finding short fics about female characters:
-The Women Being Awesome, Female Characters, POV Female Character, and Female Relationships tags at the AO3, limited to word counts of 1500 or less.
-The Misses Clause Challenge from Yuletide
-Femslash Minis
-Awesome Ladies Ficathon (LJ)
-Real Women Fest
-Female Character Trope Fest
-The Bechdel Test Comment Ficathon
-The Bechdel Test Comment Ficathon II
-I am the Plot, Babe: A Villainess Ficathon
-Where No Woman: Un-erasing the women of Star Trek
-Femslash Kinkmeme
-The Femslash February Collection

Since this project has a quick turnaround time, you may want to refer to the list of authors who have given Blanket Permission to Podfic, so that you can get started recording stories right away!

To the Podcurious: A number of prolific podficcers have gotten their start by contributing to previous years of this anthology. If you have ever thought you might like to create podfic, this is a really great starting place. It's low pressure, you'll get a ton of listeners, you're contributing to a cool fanwork that celebrates our love for female characters, and it's not too intense of a spotlight, because your piece is in the company of many other voices.

To Everyone: Feel free to comment with links to other fests or specific works that you think would be a good fit for this anthology. Additionally, we are looking for beta listeners who can absolutely commit to at LEAST two hours of beta listening between February 5th and 7th. Please let us know if you'd be available and interested; we'd be very grateful!

To Authors: It would be totally awesome if some authors wanted to get involved, in pod_together style, to create short female-centric pieces for the anthology in collaboration with podficcers. If you’re an author who’s interested, please comment below. Podficcers who would like this sort of collaboration, please reply directly to the authors.

Below the cut is a little more information on what we're looking for with these podfics and how they should be submitted.



For the sake of consistency within the anthology, we'd like to ask that everyone follow these guidelines for eligible fics and the metadata you include in the podfic:

-Each reader can make up to 8 podfics to include in the anthology (though an unlimited number may be included in the spreadsheet/AO3 collection), and each story should be no more than 1500 words.
-All stories should focus on characters who identify as women within the story.
-All fandoms, including rpf fandoms, are eligible.
-All recordings should begin and end with two seconds of silence.
-Each reading should begin, "[Title], by [author], read by [reader]. Fandom: [Fandom]." We also suggest including appropriate warnings or content notes for common triggers such as sexual assault and underage sex.
-Each reading should end with "The End".
-To match last year’s anthology, the meta data should follow this format:

Name: [Fandom] Title
Artist: readername (reader)
Album Artist: authorname (author)
Year: 2016
Album: Awesome Ladies Podfic Anthology VI
Comments: Text at: http://link
Genre: Podfic
(Note that usernames should be all-lowercase, with fandom and title given title capitalization.)

-To help make sure the volume across the anthology is consistent, we are providing a benchmark volume file to use for volume-matching. Please make sure that your own podfics are approximately matched to this volume. If you aren't sure how to adjust volume, in Audacity it's Amplify under the Effects menu, and in Garageband it's track volume (the blue line here). If you have more questions, feel free to ask in the comments! The benchmark volume file is here (right-click save to download).
-All podfics should be submitted in mp3 format by February 1st, meaning that it must be February 1st somewhere in the world for your submission to count.

Comments

[hananobira]

Yay, so excite! Sign me up, please.

[akamine_chan]

o/

Volunteering as a writer.

With the timing, it's probably best if I stuck with what I know best as a fandom, which would be Bandom.

But might be open to prompts from MCU as well.

[the_dragongirl]

I would like to join in the fun!

[knight_tracer]

Signing up!

[xdiorix]

Sign me up! :D

[rscreighton]

Omg, yes, me please!

[somethingincorporeal]

I'm in!

[citrusjava]

Author submission:

Hi!
I've never done PodTogether, so not sure how that might work, but I am game to try, and would like to get to write some fic for this project. I've participated before as a podficcer.

I mostly write Supernatural and Supernatural RPF, but would be game to play with some other fandoms (though I don't know their communities), such as Steven Universe, My Little Pony, maybe even something like Bachelorette or Big Brother


If you have an idea for something, or a craving for something - you're welcome to contact me, and I might try to do that :)

[velocitym1]

I would like to participate :)
Best way to contact me is by email kalinda.little @ gmail . com
or on tumblr: fangirl-litra.

[boofadil]

I'm in!

[jinkyo]

I'm in!

[podfic_lover]

Haha, I was just bookmarking a "True Love" story to ask for permission to podfic it during the upcoming Awesome Ladies Anthology.

Therefore: Please sign me up as well!

You can contact me under podficlover at googlemail dot com

[jelazakazone]

Sign me up. DM here please. :D

[crookedspoon]

I'd like to participate!

One question for clarification: it says a maximum of 8 of our podfics will be added to the anthology, but but we can add an unlimited number of podfics to the spreadsheet/collection. How does that work? Does that mean you include the first 8 podfics in the anthology and leave the rest we add?

[opalsong]

I'm IN!!!

[averytree]

Ooh, I'd love to be part of this! To be clear, you can make just one story right? Just one or any number up to 8.

[forzandopod]

me me me!

[juniperphoenix]

Sign me up, please!

[rhea314]

Sign me up!! :D I am super looking forward to this, having just found some excellent word-count compliant stories!

[andeincascade]

Yes, me!

[kalakirya]

me!

[the_dragongirl]

Hi, I have a question about things included in podfic for the anthology. Are intro/extro music, soundscaping, and/or cover art allowed? There's a couple of us who usually include these things by default in all our podics, and we're wondering if we should leave them out for this.

I'm locked out of my account atm, but this is sunquistadora

[(Anonymous)]

I'm in! rosagigantea22 at gmail. This is sunquistadora btw.

[soc_puppet]

I'm down to play as an author. Fandoms I'm comfortable writing in are as follows:

Homestuck
MCU
Detective Conan/Magic Kaito
Avatar: The Last Airbender/possibly Legend of Korra
Carmilla the Series
Teen Wolf (through Season Three only)
Various short yuri works
Almost anything by CLAMP
Various fairy tales
Possibly others, talk to me

If you want to get a taste of what my writing is like, I'm on AO3 as socchan, or you can browse through my fanfic tag. (BTW, everything there is also eligible, if you see something you like.)