Housekeeping – Escape Pod

A Bold New (Website) Frontier

Divya — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 03:53:43 +0000

As you’ve likely noticed, Escape Pod and all of our siblings in the Escape Artists family have a new look! We’re very excited about our lovely new website, but as with any frontier, we’re likely to encounter some unexpected problems. We appreciate your patience as settle into our new home! If you have any technical […]

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Editorial Changes At The Pod

Divya — Thu, 04 May 2017 05:00:20 +0000

It’s with mixed emotions that we announce our news: S.B. Divya and Mur Lafferty are the new co-editors of Escape Pod. Our beloved Norm Sherman has stepped down from the big chair due to a variety of personal reasons. Benjamin C. Kinney has taken the role of assistant editor. Norm has been a force of […]

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Announcing the new editor of Escape Pod!

Mur Lafferty — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:34:38 +0000

If you haven’t listened to last week’s episode, this may come as news, but I’m stepping down as editor of Escape Pod. I am very sad to do so, but all of my projects are spreading me too thin, and I don’t feel as if I can give any project my best effort. I don’t […]

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Submission Guidelines Changes

Mur Lafferty — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 19:41:02 +0000

Not so much changes as clarifications. Also, I added a too long, didn’t read version. Highlights are below: TL:DR Version We like good science fiction, preferably “fun” and humorous. We buy reprints and new fiction. We pay $.03 a word for reprints, and $.05 a word for original fiction. We are a nonexclusive audio and […]

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WorldCon Meetup

Mur Lafferty — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 14:53:30 +0000

Hey fans, narrators, and authors of Escape Pod! I don’t have a kaffeklatch this year at WorldCon, so I’m just setting up an Escape Pod meetup. I’m going to say we should meet up at 4pm on Saturday at the Big Bar in the Hyatt. If things change, check here or my twitter handle (@mightymur). […]

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It’s Hugo Month!

Mur Lafferty — Wed, 02 May 2012 16:14:04 +0000

For years now, we have done our best here at Escape Pod to bring you audio renditions of the Hugo-nominated short stories. Our original reason was to allow the Worldcon voters to have access to all the nominated stories, as some stories wouldn’t be easy to find (eg, it was in the January issue of […]

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Escape Pod and Soundproof Update

Mur Lafferty — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:50:55 +0000

Hey everyone! We’ve had some staff changes here at Escape Pod, and that’s thrown some things off schedule, and for that I take full responsibility and apologize. But we’re getting back on track, and here’s what you can expect in the next few days and weeks: Stories from George R. Galuschak, N.K. Jemisin, Ferrett Steinmetz, […]

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Change to Submission Guidelines

Mur Lafferty — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:08:12 +0000

I wanted to let people know that we’ve changed the submission guidelines slightly- we used to have a $300 cap on payments, but that is no more! We want short stories between 2,000 and 6,000 words. The sweet spot’s somewhere between 3,500 and 5,000 words. We pay $.05 a word for new fiction at this […]

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Closed to submissions

Mur Lafferty — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:48:17 +0000

We are completely aware of the backlog of submissions and are going to spend January tackling it. We are closed for submissions until February. Since we hadn’t made an official blog post about it till today, the stories that have arrived before noon, Jan 3, Eastern Standard Time, will still be considered.

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Closing for Submissions until August

Bill Peters — Mon, 30 May 2011 23:29:11 +0000

Hey folks, We’ll be closing to submissions next Monday (the 6th) until August as we clear some stories out of the inbox and cut down a bit on the inventory of stories we’ve already bought. –Bill

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Closed to Submissions for December

Bill Peters — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 03:01:57 +0000

Hey Folks, Quick programming note: Escape Pod will be closed to submissions for the month of December. This is partly to get though a slight backlog of stories in the system now and also because as we get closer to the end of the pro-rate experiment we’ve got some things to figure out. I never […]

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