2020-21 FICTION PODCAST WINNERS

We are proud to announce our inaugural Fiction Podcast Contest Winners! The Shore Team will now work with both sets of writers to prepare their projects for production. 

For full details of what happens next, check out our Podcast post-contest timeline.

We would like to send our heartfelt thanks to everyone for choosing to participate, and for making it such a high-quality contest. With the ever-increasing listenership and influence podcasts are having in the entertainment industry, we are positive that the many other talented writers who entered will go on to have successful careers in the industry. 

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DREAM SEQUENCE

Estranged sisters, a blogger, and a neuroscientist reunite when the neuroscientist invents a mysterious device that provides a glimpse into a nightmare dimension.

FOOTLIGHTS: THE TRUE STORY OF OLIVIA MABEL

When a Christian podcaster runs across evidence suggesting a small-town internet ghost story might be true, she falls down a well of secrecy, that challenges her faith and shatters her worldview.

OUR 15 PODCAST FINALISTS

(in alphabetical order)

	Andrew Martin Robinson	Dream Sequence	Estranged sisters, a blogger, and a neuroscientist reunite when the neuroscientist invents a mysterious device that provides a glimpse into a nightmare dimension.
	Bill Zide	Mind’s I	A happily married man and CPA living in the suburbs wakes up in a mental health facility after a nervous breakdown, and there a doctor forces him to confront the events that led him to believe his life was nothing but a lie and he was once a dangerous killer.
	Lizzy Pollott	Still, Here	A young woman finds herself called up to join a mysterious and controversial program, through which she will come to discover more about herself and those around her than ever before.
	Alannah Norton	Advark	A young woman searches for her missing sister, but there is something otherworldly and sinister going on to impede her progress.
	Kevin Allgood	The History of the Future	The conspiracy-theory obsessed hosts of Paranoid Radio receive a phone call from a man claiming to be from the future – and he needs their help.
	Leon Masters & David Calbert	Out of the Mist	In the coastal town of Crescent Point, a community journalist and radio host, who has a secret and personal reason for pursuing the truth behind the infamous twenty-year-old GoatMan Killer Case, reaches out to the recently released and possibly-deranged child-murderer himself.
	Kristen Tepper & Ashley Lackinger	Whistler’s Creek	Haunted by painful memories and increasing paranoia after a family fight turns deadly, two sisters, on the run, struggle to find their place in the world until they stumble upon a seemingly perfect farming family with secrets of their own.
	Lucy Gibb-Smith	Darkwood	When inhabitants of a remote town start disappearing, it’s up to a supernatural detective and his human partner to find out why before they end up dead.
	Paul Bianchi	Future Utopia	When Daisy tries to break up with Hans, an anomaly transports them to the year 3022 in a musical satiric sci-fi adventure.
	Ian McNeny & Martyn Eaden	Footlights: The True Story of Olivia Mabel	When a Christian podcaster runs across evidence suggesting a small-town internet ghost story might be true, she falls down a well of secrecy, that challenges her faith and shatters her worldview.
	Evan Greenspoon	Mindbender	Mindbender is a near-future thriller about a hopeful, driven woman named Abigail and the homicidal computer chip implanted in her brain.
	Grace McLeod & Jessica Fisch	Two Truths and a Lie	In order to discover the truth behind her famous classmate’s mysterious death in the elevator of a luxury Manhattan apartment building, an ambitious 17-year-old podcaster must solve a series of puzzles left behind for her — by the dead girl herself.
	Josh Ball & Matthew Driggers	Blood on the River	When a disgraced investigative reporter arrives in Marigold, Alabama, she quickly finds herself caught in the middle of a bloody feud that has gripped the town since before the Civil War.
	Danielle Evenson & Heather Huntington	Awards Season	Rivals Maeve Burgess and Gwen Suh compete in the most crucial race, humanity has ever run. Who will take home the Academy Award for Best Actress? Oh, did you think that the strongest performances get nominated and then the best (wo)man wins? Nope.