The updated rankings for the Audio Fiction World Cup as of October 8, 2025.
1 - Merona Grant & The Lost Tomb of Golgotha
2 -Leylines
3 - Planet Arcana
4 - My First Dungeon: The Wildsea
5 - Godkiller: Last Hope
6 - Curious Matter Anthology
7 - Fables of Eyrde: Lost Mine of the Colossus
8 - The Witches of Wederra Keep
9 - The Adventures of Bud & Herb
10 - DINK: The Musical
11 - The Storyteller Squad, The Fourth Age
12 - Dark Dice
13 - KIND: An LGBTQ+ Mythical Noir
14 - The Caller
The updated rankings for the Audio Fiction World Cup as of October 8, 2025.
15 - Wayward Autumnal
16 - Fawx & Stallion
17 - Unbalanced Encounters: Small Gods Scatter, The Spectral Silhouette Radio Show
18 - Twilight Meridian
19 - Table Read Podcast
20 - Levian, Godkiller: Balance
21 - Liberty: Tales from the Tower
22 - We’re Alive: Descendants, Tales Yet Told: 2048 AM Voices in the Wood
23 - Observable Radio
24 - The Book of War, Silvertongues
25 - The Treacle People: Still Sticky
The updated rankings for the Audio Fiction World Cup as of October 8, 2025.
26 - Howl
27 - Beneath the Surface, A Haunting, Beloved
28 - Gather by the Ghost Light (The Other Me), 5 GMs in a Trenchcoat
29 - The Corner of Pleasure & West River, Murderer’s Murder, Mage Hand High Five: The Badlands
30 - Moose on a Highway
31 - The All-American Ruins Podcast
32 - Unlicensed Magic
33 - The Cleanup Crew
34 - Windfall, Quest Friends!, Malevolent
The updated rankings for the Audio Fiction World Cup as of October 8, 2025.
35 - Unbalanced Encounters: Rally, The White Vault: Goshawk, Kobalt Pier, I Need a Miracle, Ghost InSpectors
Demons & Daughters
37 - True Crime Rectum, Partial Veil
38 - The City: Revolution, RPG for You and Me - Absolute Zero, Forsaken
39 - Stowaway, Old Cove, Alpha 8
40 - What Will Be Here?
🚨🚨🚨 October 2025 AFWC Update! 🚨🚨🚨
There's a *ton* of movement on the ranking with a lot of festivals still to go in 2025 with a ton of movement yet to come!
Many 2026 festivals are open! Submit your work to them today! https://digitalmediaworldcups/audio-fiction-world-cup
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We're deep in the 2025 WSWC, but 2 WSWC festivals are open for 2026! Cusco Web Fest has been open for months and the regular deadline is November 15. MAC Marin is running a discount special: 40% off for 1st 10 web series with code FIFTHEDITIONMACMARIN. FilmFreeway.com
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The initial Audio Fiction World Cup rankings. This image has the following rankings:
#1 Merona Grant & The Lost Tomb of Golgotha (USA)
#2 Leylines (USA)
#3 Curious Matter Anthology (USA)
#4 Godkiller: Balance (Canada)
#5 The Fourth Age (USA)
#6 The Spectral Silhouette Radio Show
#7 The Cleanup Crew
#8 5 GMs in a Trenchcoat (USA)
#9 Mage Hand High Five: The Badlands (USA)
#10 Windfall (USA)
Wayward Autumnal (Canada)
The Adventures of Bud & Herb (USA)
The initial Audio Fiction World Cup rankings. This image lists the following:
#11 My First Dungeon: The Wildsea (USA)
Divorce Ranch (USA)
#12 Unbalanced Encounters: Rally (USA)
Old Cove
#13 Twilight Meridien (United Kingdom)
#14 The Witches of Wederra Keep (Germany)
#15 Silvertongues (USA)
Observable Radio (USA)
Murderer's Murder (Australia)
Fables of Eyrde: Lost Mine of the Colossus (USA)
#16 We're Alive: Scout's Honor (USA)
Quest Friends! (USA)
Levian (USA)
The initial 2025 Audio Fiction World Cup Rankings. This image lists as follows:
#16 Kobalt Pier (USA)
#17 The Caller (USA)
Alpha 8 (USA)
#18 Clawmoor Heights (USA)
Agents of A.G.E.N.D. (Germany)
#19 The White Vault: Goshawk (Germany)
The Storyteller Squad (USA)
Dark Dice (Germany)
A Haunting, Beloved (USA)
#20 Moose on a Highway (USA)
Godkiller: Last Hope (USA)
DINK: The Musical (USA)
Beneath the Surface (USA)
The initial 2025 Audio Fiction World Cup rankings are here!
This time of year has a *lot* of festival announcements. We'll post an updated ranking mid Sept. Expect lots of ranking movement for the rest of the year!
#AudioFiction #ActualPlay #FictionPodcast #AudioDrama #AFWC
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The initial Audio Fiction World Cup rankings. This image has the following rankings:
#1 Merona Grant & The Lost Tomb of Golgotha (USA)
#2 Leylines (USA)
#3 Curious Matter Anthology (USA)
#4 Godkiller: Balance (Canada)
#5 The Fourth Age (USA)
#6 The Spectral Silhouette Radio Show
#7 The Cleanup Crew
#8 5 GMs in a Trenchcoat (USA)
#9 Mage Hand High Five: The Badlands (USA)
#10 Windfall (USA)
Wayward Autumnal (Canada)
The Adventures of Bud & Herb (USA)
The initial Audio Fiction World Cup rankings. This image lists the following:
#11 My First Dungeon: The Wildsea (USA)
Divorce Ranch (USA)
#12 Unbalanced Encounters: Rally (USA)
Old Cove
#13 Twilight Meridien (United Kingdom)
#14 The Witches of Wederra Keep (Germany)
#15 Silvertongues (USA)
Observable Radio (USA)
Murderer's Murder (Australia)
Fables of Eyrde: Lost Mine of the Colossus (USA)
#16 We're Alive: Scout's Honor (USA)
Quest Friends! (USA)
Levian (USA)
The initial 2025 Audio Fiction World Cup Rankings. This image lists as follows:
#16 Kobalt Pier (USA)
#17 The Caller (USA)
Alpha 8 (USA)
#18 Clawmoor Heights (USA)
Agents of A.G.E.N.D. (Germany)
#19 The White Vault: Goshawk (Germany)
The Storyteller Squad (USA)
Dark Dice (Germany)
A Haunting, Beloved (USA)
#20 Moose on a Highway (USA)
Godkiller: Last Hope (USA)
DINK: The Musical (USA)
Beneath the Surface (USA)
The initial 2025 Audio Fiction World Cup rankings are here!
This time of year has a *lot* of festival announcements. We'll post an updated ranking mid Sept. Expect lots of ranking movement for the rest of the year!
#AudioFiction #ActualPlay #FictionPodcast #AudioDrama #AFWC
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Create a watch list on FilmFreeway to stay on top of deadlines and watch this space!
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Announcing the line up for the 2025 Web Series World Cup!
digitalmediaworldcup...
Our line up is listed at the bottom of the page. Click a festival icon to go to the entry page on FilmFreeway or their own site.
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Fees will never be this low again!
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CARBALLO INTERPLAY
SERIES AND DIGITAL CONTENT FESTIVAL.
THIS IS NOT A SHORTFILM FESTIVAL. ONLY DIGITAL SERIES WILL BE CONSIDERED.
The festival aims to explore all diffe...
Today is the last day to submit your web series for consideration to Carballo Interplay, a WSWC participating festival! And best of all, it's free and on Film Freeway. EZPZ!
filmfreeway.com/CARB...
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Cusco WebFest
Cusco WebFest is the first international festival from the Andean Mountains that gives voice to national and international digital content creators.
We ...
Today is the *FINAL* deadline for the 2025 Cusco WebFest, the first festival on the circuit for the 2025 Audio Fiction and Web Series World Cups!
Submit your #AudioDrama or #WebSeries today!
Code HAPPYALPACAS gets you a steep discount on the fees!
filmfreeway.com/cusc...
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Cusco WebFest
Cusco WebFest is the first international festival from the Andean Mountains that gives voice to national and international digital content creators.
We ...
filmfreeway.com/Cusc...
Carballo Interplay (Spain) Final Deadline is February 23
filmfreeway.com/CARB...
More updates on the Web Series World Cup to come, including lists of participating festivals. deadlines, and WC improvements for 2025
Stay tuned!
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Final submission deadlines for festivals in the 2025 Web Series World Cup are are fast approaching!
Lawebfest (USA) Final Deadline is January 31. filmfreeway.com/LAWE...
die Seriale (Germany) Late Deadline is January 31.
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Podcast production in front, TV development in back. Some words & sounds for MARVEL, NBC, AMC, AMAZON.
I have a book: https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/Y/You-Suck-Sir
you can fight the sleep, but not the dream
clinic escort & abortion funder & a day job
Ino-Kali-Ya 🇵🇭
He/him
Actor, Coach, Voiceovers, Martial artist. Leo.
#MagicTheGathering
Soren - #thedragonprince
Spider-Ham - #Marvel
Yu Ji - #WoLong
Ikoma - #WorldTrigger
Raden - #Kenichi
Sans Smirk - #MyLittlePony
Brain - #MyAdventuresWithSuperman
Fiction. Poetry. Nonfiction.
Memoir: Something in the Woods Loves You - Timber Press Sept 2024
New Fantasy Novel: Strange Animals - Ballantine Books Feb 2026
Poetry: The Haunted Forest Trilogy
Podcast: The Cryptonaturalist
https://linktr.ee/jarodkanderson
He/him, award winning Podcast Producer, Sound Designer, & sometimes Musician for Dark Dice, The White Vault, Don't Mind, and VAST Horizon.
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this... Oregon! Creator, writer, and actor on podcast audio drama Exoplanetary. 26th Century style icon. Dog and Cat person. {he/him}
They/them ✡️🦻🏻🏳️🌈Voice actor, writer, director, various other job descriptions. @seenandnotheard.bsky.social season two releasing now!
carolinemincks.carrd.co
She/Her
Podcaster/Sound Designer
Lead Editor on (🚙 Dungeons and Daddies)
Creator of (🌨️ Station Blue) + (☎️ The Goblet Wire)
Podcast producer of The Ordinary Epic, The Wanderer, Land Whale Murders, & Greater Boston. Writer. Voice Actor. GDC Event Producer. Storytelling and events are my jam. Former MICE co-organizer.
Opinions are my own.
https://linktr.ee/alittlejstillz
Podcast journalist, editor, train nerd, unapologetically trans and queer. Will likely rant about a movie or Discworld at some point. Ride or die physical media defender. 35 (they/them).
Plant daddy, business owner, New Yorker, queer socialist Jew. Podcasting @Multitude.productions
xe/they 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️✡️♿️∞ || storyteller in sound. fancy podcasts @ famous places. short films @ festivals. games & dumb stuff with my friends.
they/them, Chicago, IL. Audio fiction director/sound designer, creator: Unwell, The Harbingers, World Gone Wrong, Our Fair City, audio for Audible, Vox, Rusty Quill, Britannica, etc, teaching at Northwestern, Fiddle/Mandolin for Olivia and the Lovers
Writer, teacher, lover of jazz, punk, and prog. Creator of the audio drama palimpsestpodcast.bsky.social. Horror for the ears and eyes.
Voice Actor | Writer | Jock Femme | Latina | She/Her
Creator of The Path Down and Hallway To Nowhere
Pfp by @/Solar_Sketch on twt
Showrunner for The NoSleep Podcast
Exec Producer for Tales from the Void
Horror Storyteller & Cycling Enthusiast
https://linktr.ee/cummingsdg
podcast journalist + media critic/editor+ marketing manager + voice actor/podcaster | prev. Simplecast | perpetually needs a nap
Cis Queer Bi Ex-Geek ADHDer. he/him.
Half of Passer Vulpes Productions.
Voice of Kane in and co-producer of Love and Luck.
Creator/producer of Supernatural Sexuality with Dr Seabrooke
Apparently a Math Nut now.
Naarm / Melbourne
(any) God’s most tired cowboy
🎲 TTRPG player
🎙️occasional voice actor
✍🏽 sometimes writer
on whadjuk noongar land
