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PodCastle is the world's first fantasy podcast. The podcast releases audio performances of fantasy short fiction, including all the sub-genres of fantasy, including magical realism, urban fantasy, slipstream (genre), high fantasy, as well as dark fantasy. PodCastle launched on 1 April 2008 with Nebula-award winner Rachel Swirsky as founding editor and Nebula-award winner Ann Leckie as assistant editor. The current editors are Anna Schwind and Dave Thompson with Leckie continuing to serve as assistant editor. PodCastle is part of Escape Artists, Inc. which also podcasts Escape Pod and Pseudopod.

Content
PodCastle has released hundreds of stories on a weekly basis with stories generally between 2,000 and 6,000 words. PodCastle has published such critically-acclaimed, award-winning authors as Peter S. Beagle, Nancy Kress, Jeff VanderMeer, N.K. Jemisin, Kelly Link and Ken Liu, among others. Although focused on short fiction, PodCastle has also run reviews.

PodCastle is distributed under the Creative Commons attribution non-commercial no-derivatives 3.0 license. The fiction itself remains copyrighted by its respective authors. PodCastle contracts with authors for non-exclusive audio rights, paying semi-professional rates.

Reception
"Short fiction audio podcast magazines like Escape Pod and its sister publications, Pseudopod and PodCastle, have caught the interest and imagination of fiction enthusiasts, and doing a wonderful job at reviving awareness in both new short fiction and classic works"

- Eugie Foster