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2020 Audio Verse Awards Finalists

514,064 verified votes were cast for our 1,294 nominees.The 340 finalists in the 34 categories came from these 128 productions!

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Created November 15, 2020

Updated November 12, 2023

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  1. (exp)lore

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    (exp)lore is a fiction anthology podcast. Each episode takes an imaginative dive into the past and future of your city, transporting you to fictional worlds that mirror our own through music and the power of the voice. The stories will immerse
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  2. A Horror Borealis

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    It’s 1996: cell phones are a fantasy, JNCO jeans are in style, and there are monsters in the American wilds. In the town of Revenant, Alaska—just north of the Arctic circle and just south of the nation’s most untamed national park—three women f
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  3. A Journey Beyond The Skies

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    A JOURNEY BEYOND THE SKIES is a science fiction podcast about a man who, after experiencing a personal tragedy, is quickly swept up in an unexpected adventure. Listen to Declan as he narrates his journal entries which document his thoughts and
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  4. A Voice From Darkness

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    Join parapsychologist and radio broadcaster Dr. Malcolm Ryder as he helps those who suffer the supernatural on his call-in radio show.
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  5. Achewillow

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    Achewillow is a storytelling podcast about Miriam DuFour, a French Canadian woman drawn into the bizarre world of Achewillow and her own family’s history in that town. Through her eyes we discover a strange landscape of subtle magics, bizarre p
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  6. Ain't Slayed Nobody

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    Ain’t Slayed Nobody is a Gold ENnie winning podcast, bringing immersive tabletop roleplaying games to your feed! We feature short campaigns and one-shots using Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu and other systems. We know you’ll find something you love
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  7. Arden

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    On December 25th, 2007, movie star and heiress Julie Capsom crashed her car into a tree in Northern California, walked into a nearby clearing, and vanished, leaving behind a male torso in her trunk. 10 years later, reporter Bea Casely and priva
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  8. Audible Visions Drama

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    New Horror, Fantasy, and Science Fiction Dramas. Plus trailers of up-coming shows.
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  9. Backwater Bastards

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    A team of artists telling THE GREATEST BEST FRIEND STORY that the galaxy has ever seen!While everybody else is out saving the world, we’re just trying to find the next best place to eat.Join us on our haphazard adventure.
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  10. Believer: A Paranormal Mystery

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    Lara Campbell used to believe in the paranormal. Now she pretends to believe init for money. But when her ex-partner goes missing near the Oregon BigfootHighway, she may have to re-evaluate everything she thought she knew. BELIEVERis a spook
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  11. Brimstone Valley Mall

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    The year is 1999. Lurking somewhere between Hot Topic and the food court, five misfit demons from Hell kill time inciting sin in a suburban shopping mall. When the lead singer of their band goes mysteriously missing, the demons only have two we
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  12. Burst

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    Starting your own business is tricky at the best of times, but when you’re the owner of a bubble tea shop on a space station - with a communist as your financial advisor and an alien as a head chef, not to mention the universe’s biggest ethical
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  13. Campaign: Skyjacks

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    Campaign is long-form actual play podcast. Our current series Campaign: Skyjacks takes place in an original setting inspired by folktales and classic adventure fiction. Join Liz Anderson, John Patrick Coan, Tyler Davis, Johnny O’Mara, and gamem
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  14. Cryptids

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    Go on a monster hunt of lunar dimensions in this sci-fi mystery. Cryptids tells the story of a conspiracy radio show host and an avid listener who go in search of an afterlife. Instead they find a truth beyond their wildest nightmares. In this
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  15. Cybernautica

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    A high action, serial audio drama adventure following the wild lives of those living in the cyberpunk-deco city of Neo-Atlantis, 2112.
    Audio DramaCyberpunkScience Fiction

  16. d20 Dames

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    d20 Dames is a storytelling podcast powered by Dungeons & Dragons. Every other week a group of four daring friends comes together to solve mysteries, befriend monsters, and explore a fantastic realm.
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  17. Dark Dice

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    Dark Dice is a horror actual play D&D podcast that uses immersive soundscapes to create an added layer of immersion. Each season, travelers embark on a journey into the dark corners of a world with dragons & monsters. They will never be the sam
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  18. Death by Dying

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    The Obituary Writer of Crestfall, Idaho finds himself deeply in over his head as he investigates a series of strange and mysterious deaths… when he is supposed to simply be writing obituaries. Along the way he encounters murderous farmers, man-
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  19. Delicious Word Sandwich

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    Picking each story’s ingredients carefully, from their yeasty origins to their hammy plots, Ol’ Matty Hannibal Butler boldly chews through zesty summaries, meaty analysis, then tells you once and for all, without pretension or apology, if that
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  20. Dice Will Roll

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    Welcome to Dice Will Roll, the gayest Pathfinder Podcast on the Planet, where we ask the hard questions, like... Is it cannibalism to eat a polymorphed chicken? Or is it morally okay to kiss a Goblin? What's the worst thing that could happen if
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  21. Dispatch from the Desert Planet

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    Broadcasting to listeners in 268 planets, 126 fixed location space stations, and 12 recently terraformed meteors the 89.x1 team works diligently to bring the best in non-news information while complying with Coalition mandates. Stay safe, stay
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  22. Dumbgeons and Dragons - A Dungeons and Dragons 5e Actual Play Podcast

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    Dumbgeons and Dragons follows 4 best friend's game of D&D 5e that's more than 10 years in the making! The group rolls high on charisma and low on luck as these Canadians fill your ears with laughter, high-stakes action and love. The characters
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  23. Dungeons & Dykes

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    A lesbian fantasy adventure! Join us as we play an all-lesbian game of Dungeons and Dragons!
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  24. Explorers Wanted

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    We are a weekly actual play podcast using the Numenera (http://numenera.com) Discovery and Destiny rules. Set one billion years in the future, we journey across the Ninth World. There have been eight worlds before this, where civilizations rose
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  25. Facing Fate

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    An improvised audio fiction series that keeps you on the edge of your seat. Each season explores a new genre with some of the darkest and funniest improvisers we can afford.
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  26. Fangirls

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    FanGirls: An Original Fangirling Adventure Audio Drama in 8 Parts.The female fandom experience is unique. We all have our own special ways of enjoying Star Wars. Follow the journeys of Ally, Rish, Kristy, Danielle, and Lexy: Fangirls.Maybe
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  27. Fast Times at D&D High

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    Fast Times at D&D High is a new Actual Play podcast set in a magical homebrew world from the mind of Dungeon Master Persephone! (@Persephiroth on Twitter)With players: Caro, Elise, Nuance, and Wren!
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  28. Fireside Folktales

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    Fireside Folktales is a collaborative show that takes myths and legends from around the world and breathes life back into them, transforming them into single-season audio fiction performances. Each story is created by a different writer. Do you
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  29. Flyest Fables

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    Flyest Fables brings you anthology style and critically acclaimed hopepunk fables for the 21st century. Created by Morgan Givens.
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  30. Folxlore

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    Folxlore tells the stories of queer people living literally and figuratively between two worlds.In one sense, we try to live normal lives while the world tells us we are not normal.In another sense, our normal lives are interrupted by a ver
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  31. Friends at the Table

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    Friends at the Table is an actual play podcast about critical worldbuilding, smart characterization, and fun interaction between good friends. Find us (and a listener guide) @Friends_Table on Twitter.
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  32. Glass Letters

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    Glass Letters is a limited series audio fiction story about loneliness, connection, and letters in bottles. Brought to you from an island in the middle of nowhere, and created by Anna Godfrey. Find us on Twitter at @glassletterspod
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  33. Greater Boston

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    Greater Boston is a bi-monthly full-cast audio drama that blends the real and the unreal, the historical and the fantastical. It all begins with the death of Leon Stamatis, a man for whom the least hint of uncertainty makes life unbearable. But
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  34. HappyGoLukky

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    Join a podcasting family as they build a world together in audio fiction and actual-play formats that infuse mystery with humor and fantasy in a conversational story that is sure to delight. Each season brings episodes of the main story along w
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  35. Harlem Queen

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    "Harlem Queen" is a Black historical fiction audio drama based on the life and times of Black, woman, "gangster" Madame Stephanie St. Clair during the Harlem Renaissance (the story takes place around 1926-28). Madame St. Clair had a powerful im
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  36. Hit the Bricks

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    100 years after L. Frank Baum's saga that began with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the Gale Family Farm sits abandoned in what's left of the great Kansas prairies. After her parents' messy divorce, Jessi Hugson and her mother move to Dorothy's ol
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  37. Inn Between

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    A fantasy-adventure between adventures, wherein five heroes encounter monsters, magic, fighting, and friendship in the conveniently located Goblin’s Head Inn.
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  38. Just Press Playhouse Presents

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    Just Press Playhouse has been creating Audio Fiction since 2016 beginning with Flushed With Love. Their stand alone series Just Press Playhouse Presents has produced other well received episodes such as “Lights On in Puerto Rico” (featured on M
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  39. Kalila Stormfire's Economical Magick Services

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    Glamour spell gone wrong? Astral projection got you untethered? Want to know why your angry dead rich father is haunting you? Consider Kalila Stormfire’s Economical Magick Services. After a controversial fallout with her coven, Kalila Stormfi
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  40. King Falls AM

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    King Falls AM centers on a lonely little mountain town's late-night AM talk radio show and its paranormal, peculiar happenings and inhabitants.New shows available the 1st and 15th of every month! Be sure to start from Sammy's first show (May
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  41. Less Is Morgue

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    Less is Morgue is an award-winning comedy fiction podcast about Riley, a paranoid ghoul, and Evelyn, a cheerful ghost who died at a Nickelback concert in 2004. Together, they host a basement talk show where paranormal chaos is par for the cours
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  42. Light Hearts

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    Running a business is hard. Running a business alone in an old, haunted building is even harder. Janine didn’t know what she was getting herself into when she opened Prism - but with the help of Ryan (an astronomy professor with a useful knack)
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  43. Light House

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    Tara Hollis was supposed to get a fresh new start at her ancestral home, Light House. But when Tara and her family moved into Light House on that warm, winter's day in 1963, they did not suspect the horror that awaited them; a horror that lurke
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  44. Mars' Best Brisket

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    A long time from now on a planet that's right next to ours, an Earthling couple decide to open up the very first vegan brisket restaurant on Mars. And when you're the first, you're also the best. Mars' Best Brisket is a limited run, audio sci-f
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  45. Marsfall

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    Jacki and her crew left Earth and its problems behind for a chance at giving humanity a fresh start on Mars. But mysterious aliens, malicious AI, and the expected difficulties of colonizing this inhospitable planet leave them all questioning if
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  46. MARVELS

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    Based on the graphic novel by Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross, Marvels takes place in the aftermath of the Fantastic Four’s battle with Galactus, high above New York City for the fate of the world. One intrepid photographer, an ambitious college stud
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  47. Microphones & Monsters: DnD Lovecraftian Horror

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    Microphones & Monsters is a Dungeons & Dragons actual play podcast that explores the depths of Lovecraftian horror in high fantasy settings.Campaign 1: Darkwell ChroniclesCampaign 2: Ghoul IslandThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network,
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  48. Mission Rejected

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    The story of the world's most secret agents...the backups. For the first time in his career, Special Agent Chet Phillips has discovered that he can choose NOT to accept a mission! That means there's no choice but to send in the "B Team": A nerv
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  49. Mockery Manor

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    Summer, 1989, somewhere in deepest darkest England. Mockery Manor is a theme park where people disappear, and it's up to a pair of chaotic teenage twins to catch a killer.British Podcast Awards 'Best Fiction' Nominee 2020. If you like Hot Fuzz
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  50. Moonbase Theta, Out