Calling all emerging playwrights: this award is for YOU!
The Emerging Playwrights Fund is calling theatrical visionaries who are ready to push boundaries and captivate audiences through the intimate, limitless world of audio drama.
Whether your work explores internal worlds through sound, creates vivid landscapes through language, or experiments with narrative structure… if it pushes boundaries and demands to be heard, Audible wants to hear about it.
For this cycle, they are interested in original audio drama in:
Action & Adventure including Mystery, Thrillers, Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Core Fiction including Contemporary Fiction, Romance, and Literary Companion Pieces
Winners receive $25,00 to write and develop an original audio play.
Deadline: November 18, 2026
Note: Open to US and UK residents.
AI collapses audio production costs, so the grant funds writing, not studio time and Audible backing authored drama while AI generates passable audio is a bet that when everything sounds the same, a written voice is the differentiator.