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Cast of Wonders turns 15 – Submissions Call

Katherine Inskip — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 15:39:08 +0000

It’s our 15th birthday this summer, and to help us celebrate it we’re opening the stage doors to birthday-themed stories! We’ll be open from the 15-21st March. What we’re looking for: Someone’s birthday is a central feature of the story. This doesn’t necessarily have to be the protagonist’s birthday, nor does it need to be […]

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“It Grows Back” featured on the Locus Recommended Reading List!

Katherine Inskip — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 09:34:54 +0000

Our 2025 Halloween story, Grant Collier’s “It Grows Back”, is featured on the Locus Recommended Reading List for Best Short Story. Congratulations, Grant! It’s a fantastic achievement to get this recognition. You can read or listen to Grant’s story at either Episode 662 or its recent reissue as Episode 678 (our audio producer Jeremy Carter’s […]

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“As Brittle as Granite” nominated for an Aurealis Award!

Katherine Inskip — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 09:28:36 +0000

We’re thrilled to share that Matt Tighe’s “As Brittle as Granite” has been nominated for an Aurealis Award for Best YA Short Story. The Aurealis Awards are Australia’s premier speculative fiction awards, and we couldn’t be happier for Matt! You can read or listen to Matt’s story at Cast of Wonders Episode 646 – and […]

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2025 year end editorial

Katherine Inskip — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 14:07:48 +0000

2025 in review Submissions window info: in addition to general submissions windows, we also opened to submissions for seasonal stories, our annual Banned Books Week event, flash fiction, and a limited-demographic window for Young Authors. We will have published 43 stories over 41 episodes – a total of over 140,000 words. 27 stories were original, […]

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Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers Expert Meetup: Amy Brennan

Amy Brennan — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 16:15:50 +0000

Author : Amy Brennan Oh wow! has it been two weeks already!? Time is REALLY flying! (I wonder if Escape Pod left the universal time adjustment matrix running on high again after a temporal experiment? Hmmm. Will have to ask!) But back to the main reason I’m writing this. Two weeks ago, I attended the […]

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Nommo Award 2025 Short Story finalist: Bodies of Sand and Blood

Katherine Inskip — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 08:21:27 +0000

We’re thrilled to share that Plangdi Neple’s story Bodies of Sand and Blood is a finalist for the 2025 Nommo Award for Best Short Story! The Nommo Awards recognise works of speculative fiction by Africans, and are nominated and voted on by members of the African Speculative Fiction Society. Bodies of Sand and Blood was […]

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Announcing our call for submissions for Banned Books Week 2025!

Katherine Inskip — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 13:47:55 +0000

Every year in September, Cast of Wonders celebrates 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. Joy that Sustains It’s all too easy to doom-scroll these days. The world is facing a climate emergency amidst a […]

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Call for Submissions – seasonal stories

Katherine Inskip — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 20:10:53 +0000

Cast of Wonders will be open to submissions of seasonal stories from the 1st-14th March 2025. What’s a seasonal story? This is our submission window for special dates throughout the year. Christmas, Valentines, Pride, Halloween, International Workers’ Day, Speak-like-a-Pirate Day, or any other date which is particularly meaningful to you or other people. These can […]

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2024 and 2023 in visuals

Katherine Inskip — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:05:06 +0000

2024 at Cast of Wonders

Katherine Inskip — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 09:41:07 +0000

2024 in review Submissions window info: in addition to general submissions windows, we also opened to submissions for Halloween stories, our annual Banned Books Week event, and a limited-demographic window for Young Authors. We published 48 stories over 45 episodes – a total of almost 150,000 words. 28 stories were original, and 20 were reprints. […]

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