Cast of Wonders

The Young Adult Speculative Fiction Podcast

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Audio Upload

This is the portal for submitting your completed narration or guest host audio files. You can use the cover letter section of the form to include any updates to an existing bio. If you are a new narrator/host, we'd also like you to submit a full bio using the author/narrator bio submission portal, where you can also upload your optional bio image. Should you wish to update your details at any time, please get in touch with the editor directly. We are not currently accepting general auditions. Please do not upload unsolicited auditions or stories to this portal, they will not be reviewed.

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Author, narrator and host bio

This portal is for authors of accepted stories, narrators and guest hosts to provide their bio text and (optional) image for our website.

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Banned Books Week 2021

Oppression wants to cover our lives in a blanket of darkness, but each small act of resistance, each defiant moment of hope, brings light to our shared spaces. 26th September to 2nd October, 2021 is Banned Books Week, an annual international event celebrating the freedom to read and raising awareness of the immense social value of free and open access to information. Our 2021 theme is Books Unite Us. Censorship Divides Us. Cast of Wonders is continuing its tradition of holding a specific submission call for YA fiction to air that week. https://www.castofwonders.org/banned-books-week/bbw-subs-guidelines/

Currently Open to Submissions

Closes to Submissions on Sunday, June 27, 2021 11:00 PM (UTC)

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Banned Books Week 2020

Our theme for 2020 is Lifelines: books that help us get through periods of isolation. "Books" can be any one-way form of communication: a box of letters, a podcast, skywriting -- anything the recipient can't easily reply to. "Isolation" can be either physical or social: an astronaut alone in a spaceship; a person in a place where no one speaks their language; someone in prison. The stories don't necessarily need to have a happy ending, but they do need to end on a hopeful note. And of course they should follow all of the standard Cast of Wonders guidelines. We are not accepting simultaneous or multiple submissions for Banned Books Week 2020; please submit only one story to this call, and please don't submit stories here and to another venue at the same time. (It's okay to have one story submitted here and a different story submitted to a different Cast of Wonders call at the same time, though).