From Page to Podcast: Producing Audio Fiction

This course offers a deep dive into the world of audio fiction. As podcasts grow in popularity, so do the number and quality of fictional series. In this course students will read contemporary short fiction and listen extensively to great audio fiction including historical audio drama and recent podcasts such as The Truth and Welcome to Night Vale. Finally, in a unique collaboration between this course and another called From Page to Podcast: Writing Audio Fiction, students will produce fictional audio works with stories created by Middlebury students in the other course. By the end of this course, students will have developed studio recording and sound editing basics, a small archive of original foley, as well as a completed work of audio fiction. We will premiere the final in a special “listening room” that we organize together.