Is The Only Question Podcast Right for Me?
You’re a writer, not a marketing expert. That’s why your audience hasn’t found you yet.
Are you feeling like you are invisible as a writer? If you’re frustrated and tired of the uphill battle for recognition for your writing, The Only Question Podcast offers you a new, substantial means of marketing and promoting your brand as a writer. Our independent writers’ podcast unifies a collective marketing effort to promote local and emerging talent. All you have to do is write well, be yourself and record your work for The Only Question Podcast. In marketing the podcast, our marketing experts use our collective marketing approach to give your brand as a writer exposure, association and visibility.
The Only Question Podcast is not a how-to course or a series of marketing steps you must perform yourself. It’s a long-term association with a substantial marketing effort for independent, emerging writers. Your work appears on our podcast and your writer profile appears on our web site. Your story and performance showcase the unique qualities that make you special as a writer. With each podcast download and web site visit, your digital footprint expands, directing your audience back to your brand and available work.
There are no ongoing fees and you retain the rights to your work. You write, you keep what you write and get the exposure you need to find your audience.
Write
Tell us a great 2250-word short story for one local character prompt. Show us your voice, your imagination and the skills that make you an emerging writer worthy of attention. Submit your story for consideration.
Edit
Writers selected for the podcast will work with one of our professional content editors who help the writer fully develop the story. After our editing process, the short story will be publishable and suitable for podcast performance.
Record
Writers record their 15-minute short story at a professional audio recording studio guided by an expert audio production engineer. The writer enhances the voice and unique creative properties of the story through performance.
What is The Only Question?
All the elements of literature somehow draw characters to one question: Who am I?
That is The Only Question.
In their own unique voices, the writers selected for our podcast address The Only Question about their local character prompts. Across twenty-four stories in eight episodes, character, plots, genres, styles and themes vary with each writer. Only one element unifies every story to the whole: the local influences shared by all the writers. The stories answer the question, “Who am I?” Each season, the local influences answers the question, “Who are we?”
Meet the character prompts for Dallas/Fort Worth’s Season 1.
Which one speaks to you?
Make the most of 2250 words and tell us a story. Tell us who he or she really is. Does the character learn more about himself or herself? Or is that a realization reserved just for the reader? Is the journey comical, dramatic or bittersweet?
Writers are welcome to explore any theme in their short story for The Only Question. Use this blank page to show us why you are an emerging writer worthy of notice.