Behind The Pod

Welcome back to Behind the Pod, a platform for podfic meta discussions!

Behind the Pod is a podcast about the backstage processes of podfic, with audio essays, interviews, and other meta discussions. You can find all previous episodes on our AO3 page.

This will be our sixth year (!) and we've decided to run BtP as a fest this year, which is quite different to how we've done things previously. Take a look at the schedule and rules to see how things have changed.

Schedule

Sun 12th July 2026 - Submission deadline
Mon 13th July 2026 - Reveals

Rules

Submit a new audio recording of podfic meta of any length to the AO3 collection before the submission deadline. The topic should be related to podfic or podfic fandom. Post your work to the AO3 collection here.

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Welcome to Behind the Pod, a platform for podfic meta discussions!

Your mods are Annapods, Eafay and frecklebomb.

Behind the Pod is a podcast about the backstage processes of podfic, with audio essays, interviews, and other meta discussion by different podficcers each episode. You can find all previous episodes on our AO3 page.

Behind the Pod started because we wanted to highlight and archive the meta discussions about podfic that were already happening on twitter, discord, tumblr, at in-person meet-ups and in private chats. What better way to do that than through an audio challenge?

Rules

Schedule:

16 Jan: Sign-ups open
30 Jan: Sign-ups close
27 Feb: Discussion post 1
27 Mar - 2 Apr: Mandatory check-in (& discussion post 2)
24 Apr: Episode submission deadline
8 May: Weekly episode posting begins
5 June: Party Favour submission deadline
(Party Favours will be posted the week after all episodes have been published.)

( Signing up )

( Check-ins )

( Submissions & posting )

You can subscribe to us on the AO3 at behindthepod, and follow us on twitter at bethepod as Series 4 comes out.

Important links: contact post