We have more good news to share today — our full-cast audio drama, “Take It or Weave It,” by Meredith Powell Carroll and Ted Wenskus, is going to be featured in the audio portion of the Atlanta Fringe Festival! This part of the festival showcases a selection of recorded/radio shows from across the country starting the week before…
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It’s been a while since we had an update, but we have some very exciting news to share today… There is a national festival held annually in Kansas City that attracts a who’s-who in the audio drama, podcast, and audio book worlds called HEAR Now: The Audio Fiction and Arts Festival. It’s like a film…
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Our latest story comes from the pen of Gary A. Mitchell, who originally wrote “Like Pharaoh Unto Joseph” for the anthology Rochester Rewritten, a collection of alternate histories, presents, and futures of our Flower City. As someone who likes to haunt flea markets, Gary chose the Rochester Public Market to be the subject of his…
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This month’s story takes us to deep into the Exclusion Zone around the contaminated Chernobyl nuclear power plant, decades after the world’s worst nuclear accident. Dogs, long abandoned by their owners during the mass evacuation, have survived and thrived … and are growing beyond the enforced boundaries. Mittemeyer and his team of veterinarians have been…
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Our audio short story this month is a modern-day fantasy by long-time Rochester-area writer, Nick DiChario. Nick has been publishing fantasy and science fiction stories since the early 1990s in such magazines as Galaxy’s Edge, Weird Tales, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. He has been nominated for both the Hugo and World Fantasy…
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In March 2015, the Rochester Speculative Literature Association was invited by local literary center Writers & Books to put on an evening of staged readings of stories from the anthology Rochester Rewritten to support that year’s speculative fiction selection in the popular program If All of Rochester Reads the Same Book. The event was a success — so much…
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Winter may be officially over in Western New York, but in our latest audio short story the fog lies bone-cold at the edge of spring, and the old man sits waiting with a blanket down at the end of Harkness Road… Written by the very talented Eric Scoles and beautifully read by local actor and…
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We’re pleased to announce that our first radio play, “Take It or Weave It,” by Meredith Powell Carroll and Ted Wenskus has won the Audio Verse Award for Best Writing of an Original, Long Form, Self-contained Production! The Audio Verse Awards are an annual awards show dedicated to celebrating the best in free audio drama around the world. Over 1,250…
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At long last, we have completed our first fully-produced, full-cast radio drama! And there was much rejoicing. “Take It or Weave It” is a half-hour comic fantasy written and directed by Meredith Powell Carroll and Ted Wenskus. War is afoot in the realm and sisters Hildegard and Prunella are merely trying to support their family as rag…
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It’s been a while since our last update, but we have been hard at work on a one-hour radio show for the First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival—specifically written for the festival by Meredith Powell Carroll and Ted Wenskus, and based on a series idea by Ted and Ray Anthony Claxton. Xeno 911 chronicles the misadventures…
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