Writing and Publishing Resources for Students and Faculty: Audiobook Publishers and Prizes

• Audible Originals (An Audiobook Publisher from Amazon) 

  This is the page where writers can pitch an audiobook to Audible Originals. Instead of going to print first, the book is published as an audiobook only.

• New Village Press (Print and Audiobook Publisher) 

  This social-justice publisher does publish some audiobook memoirs, mostly for social justice activists.

• Storyworks Roundtable from Alida Winternheimer, 

  This author produces both an interview podcast and an audio literary journal for which the authors read their work for a recording and then are interviewed. Submission can be print or audio.

• The Talking Book (A Nonprofit Audiobook Studio) 

  This company records audiobooks and produces a podcast and a literary magazine. It’s not clear from the website whether the author is paid for the book or how much the author is paid. This is the company that recorded Myriam Gurba’s Mean. This nonprofit might be a good publishing opportunity for students who want to record an excerpt for the podcast or literary magazine.

• W.F. Howes Ltd. 

  This audiobook publisher launched an audiobook originals publishing imprint in November 2021 and takes unagented submissions from authors.

This is a yearly prize for audio-recorded literature in the categories of poetry, prose, humor, and documentary offered by the University of Missouri’s literary magazine, The Missouri Review. The website now also takes audio submissions year-round for their podcast, in the same categories.

Molly McCloy is a four-time Moth StorySLAM winner whose work was recently profiled in O Magazine. She holds an M.F.A. in Nonfiction from The New School, and she has facilitated storytelling workshops for Pima Community College, Quest Storytelling, the University of Arizona’s The Agnese Nelms Haury Program in Environmental and Social Justice, and Auto Entry and CPA Academy.

She has performed stories for Bawdy and RADAR in San Francisco, and at Dixon Place in New York City, The Scottsdale Center for the Arts, and The Arizona Biltmore. Her stories have been broadcast on KJZZ in Phoenix and KUAZ and KXCI in Tucson, and she’s performed comedy sets at Laff’s, The Bro Show, and the Tucson Improv Movement. Since 2009, she has been teaching college students to embrace courage and authenticity in their writing.

Website: https://mollymccloy.com/