swap_horiz Write Club Alternatives

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Heavyweight

The Heavyweight podcast explores deeply personal stories of regret, missed opportunities, and unresolved situations. Hos...

Podcast Comedy Nonfiction Personal Narrative

8.9 Great

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Welcome to Night Vale

Fiction podcast launched in 2012 by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor, framed as community radio from a surreal fictional d...

Podcast Fiction Horror Comedy

8.7 Great

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The Adventure Zone

The Adventure Zone is a popular podcast featuring the McElroy brothers – Justin, Travis, and Griffin – and their father,...

Podcast Fiction Family Comedy

8.7 Great

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Wolf 359

Science fiction audio drama running 2014–2017, set aboard a space station orbiting the red dwarf Wolf 359, noted for ser...

Podcast Sci Fi Fiction Comedy

8.6 Great

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StoryCorps

Founded in 2003, StoryCorps is an American non-profit organization that records, preserves, and shares oral history inte...

Organization Community Archive Nonprofit

8.5 Great

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Humans of New York

Created by Brandon Stanton in 2010, Humans of New York is a photoblog and book series featuring street portraits and bri...

Community Social Media Photography Digital

8.5 Great

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The Atavist Magazine

The Atavist Magazine is a digital publication founded in 2011 by Evan Ratliff, notable for pioneering long-form, immersi...

Long Form Platform Literary Digital

8.5 Great

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TED Talks

TED Talks is a global media organization that posts free online presentations of expert speakers discussing technology,...

Education Live Event Platform Nonfiction

8.5 Great

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The Moth Mainstage

Curated Moth live shows featuring invited storytellers performing longer, polished true personal stories in theaters, di...

Professional Live Event Touring Personal Narrative

8.4 Great

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LeVar Burton Reads

Podcast launched in 2017 by LeVar Burton, longtime host of Reading Rainbow, featuring guest performers and Burton himsel...

Podcast Fiction Literary Short Story

8.3 Great

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The Moth GrandSLAM

Championship storytelling competition where StorySLAM winners from local Moth events compete in a final round before a l...

Live Event Competition Championship Personal Narrative

8.2 Great

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New Yorker Fiction Podcast

The New Yorker Fiction Podcast is a literary audio show produced by the magazine where contemporary authors read and dis...

Podcast Fiction Literary Short Story

8.2 Great

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Longreads

Longreads is a digital publishing platform and curation service founded in 2009, notable for discovering and sharing exc...

Long Form Curation Platform Literary

8.2 Great

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Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend

Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend is a comedy podcast hosted by former late-night television host Conan O'Brien, featuring co...

Podcast Long Form Comedy Celebrity

8.2 Great

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Terrible, Thanks for Asking

U.S. podcast hosted by Nora McInerny, launched in 2016, inviting guests to discuss grief and life's hardest experiences...

Podcast Comedy Grief Nonfiction

8.0 Great

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The Moth StorySLAM

The Moth's open-mic competitive events held in cities worldwide where ten audience members compete with 5-minute true pe...

Live Event Competition Personal Narrative The Moth

7.9 Good

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The Monti

Based in North Carolina, The Monti is a non-profit organization that hosts live storytelling events where participants s...

Community North Carolina Live Event Nonfiction

7.2 Good

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Porchlight Storytelling Series

The Porchlight Storytelling Series is a live storytelling event held in San Francisco, featuring everyday people sharing...

Community Live Event Nonfiction Personal Narrative

7.0 Good

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Literary Death Match

Created by Todd Zuniga, Literary Death Match is a live reading series that combines literature with a game show format,...

International Live Event Comedy Competition

6.8 Fair

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Stoop Storytelling Series

Baltimore-based live storytelling series founded in 2007 by journalist Laura Wexler, featuring true personal stories tol...

Community Live Event Nonfiction Personal Narrative

6.4 Fair