2023 Podcasting Competition - Finalists

March 6, 2024

Finalists - 2023 Podcasting Competition

Roadmap Writers is thrilled to announce the Finalists from our 2023 Podcasting Competition.

This is yet another avenue for writers to get industry professionals to engage with their work!

This competition is open to any genre of Narrative Fiction and Narrative Nonfiction.

This year's judging panel includes Execs from Sugar23, OnlyWriters, GoKidGo, Affirmative Entertainment, and Good Story Guild.

And now we’re pleased to announce the...

GOING RENO	Elizabeth Quinn	In 1932, a recently widowed ranch owner welcomes women from all walks of life who come to Reno, Nevada for the divorces their home states won’t grant them and try to build new, independent lives for themselves.
MADE IN ENGLAND: THE CHEMISTRY LESSON	Suzy Miller	When an Island Gangster yearns for acceptance by the local elite, a renegade woman with a van challenges his authority - and his humanity. Sopranos meets Only Fools & Horses.
NICE JEWISH BOYS	Robert Axelrod	A group of gay Jewish millennials in Los Angeles attempt to navigate their way through life, in an age where they find allegiance with both their rabbis and RuPaul. As they stumble through their careers, relationships, and religion, they’ll be met with goys, gays, and a whole lot of oy veys.

AMERICAN SPOOKS: AGENT 800 - THE ORDERED INVITATION	Christie Glascoe	1920. James "Jack" Wormley Jones, the first African American special agent of the FBI, is personally assigned by a young J. Edgar Hoover to infiltrate and bring down the organizations of activist Marcus Garvey. As Jones finds himself deeply entwined in Garvey's vision for African Americans, he finds his allegiances torn and his identity split in half.
BASEBALL, CULTS, AND MURDER: THE LEGACY OF THE HOUSE OF DAVID	Geoff Marslett & Lauren Modery	A young female reporter helps solve a mysterious murder connected to two generations of one of coastal Michigan’s most infamous cults.

FIRE POCKETS	Michael Hahn	A friendly guy who's been stuck alone in a strange apocalypse for a year records his heroic attempts to make contact with other people and put the world back to how it used to be--but he's impressively bad at making friends and ridiculously accident-prone, on a grand scale.
INCONCEIVABLE	Amanda ReCupido	Inconceivable is a scripted narrative podcast about two best friends navigating different fertility challenges and the ups and downs that come with it.
OUT OF THE MIST	Leon Masters & David Calbert	A local journalist with a personal connection to the twenty-year-old GoatMan Killer Case, desperate to uncover the truth, reaches out to the recently-released child-murderer himself right as copycat crimes start happening again.

THE LEGACY OF CHARITY'S CHILDREN	Patricia Smith Griffin	THE LEGACY OF CHARITY'S CHILDREN is a short story podcast series that chronicles the life of early Ohio settler Charity Davis Ceasar Broady and generations of her descendants. All the short stories in this series illuminates the generational journey of this African American family through family archives, oral history, and historical records.
THE LOST TRACKS	Ryan Farrell	After unearthing thousands of lost albums and recordings, one audio archeologist takes it upon himself to uncover and showcase the stories behind forgotten songs on the world stage.
THE 25 SONGS OF CHRISTMAS	Eric Jones & Lea Jones	It's the songs that take you back. It's the music that celebrates the joys and hopes of the Holiday Season. Welcome to the 25 Songs of Christmas. This musical countdown where one holiday song is spotlighted everyday from December 1st until Christmas Day, It’s the Behind The Music of your favorite Christmas Carols .