Awesome Ladies Podfic Anthology

These are the rules and submission guidelines for the thirteenth annual Awesome Ladies Podfic Anthology. See this post for general information about the anthology.

Basic Rules

• Each reader can make up to 5 podfics to include in the anthology (though an unlimited number may be included in the spreadsheet/AO3 collection), and each story should be no more than 1500 words.


• All stories should focus on characters who identify as female within the story.


• All fandoms, including rpf fandoms, are eligible.


• All podfics should be submitted in mp3 format.


• The submission deadline is February 14th. As long as it is still the day of the deadline anywhere on Earth, you are allowed to submit podfics.


• Effects, soundscaping, and underscoring are fine, but please do not use intro or outro music in the version of the podfic you submit for the Anthology (just for the sake of time—it's usually hours long, so we'd like to keep each podficlet within it to the header info we requested, the words of the story, and "the end" in order to not expand the time further.) If you'd like to add in music to the version that you crosspost or that goes into the excel spreadsheet of individual podficlets, that's totally fine!


• All ratings are allowed

Submission Guidelines
For the sake of consistency within the anthology, we'd like to ask that everyone follow these guidelines:

Audio Guidelines (required):

1. All recordings should begin and end with two seconds of silence.


2. Each reading should begin, "[Title], written by [author], read by [reader]. Fandom: [Fandom]."


3. Verbal warnings or content notes are required for sexual assault, major character death, racism, slurs, depictions of hate crimes, and graphic violence. Warnings for other common triggers are recommended but not required. Warnings do not need to be detailed and can simply be given by saying "Warning for [trigger]" or a similar statement. Please see this document created by the mods of the Chromatic Characters Podfic Anthology for more information on how and when to use warnings.


4. Each reading should end with "The End".


5. To help make sure the volume across the anthology is consistent, we are providing a benchmark volume file to use for volume-matching. Please make sure that your own podfics are approximately matched to this volume. One way is to listen to the benchmark at a comfortable volume, then listen to your file, and if you don't find the transition jarring or feel a need to turn the volume up or down when the file switches, you're good! If you aren't sure how to adjust volume, in Audacity it's Amplify under the Effects menu, and in Garageband it's track volume (the blue line here). The benchmark file has been set to the Auphonic defaults, so another method is to use Auphonic to adjust your podfics to match. If you have more questions, feel free to ask in the comments! The benchmark volume file is here (right-click save to download).

Text Guidelines (Optional):

- We suggest that your metadata follow this format:

Name: Title
Artist: readername (reader) & authorname (author)
Year: 2023
Album: Awesome Ladies Podfic Anthology XIII
Comments: Text at: http://link
Genre: Podfic