Believable, a new podcast from Narratively, is currently open to pitches. They want “a personal story where narratives conflict, and different perspectives about the truth collide.”
They’re paying $1,500 for the episode, which would be 2o to 30 minutes long.
According to their call for pitches:
“Our stories focus on a single character navigating the grey area between personal experience and objective truth. In one of our stories, a woman has a spiritual experience when she survives a medical phenomenon, and has to square that experience with skeptics, including herself. In another, a survivor of a police shooting is charged with the attempted murder of the officer who shot him, and a jury has to decide who to believe in the face of mounting evidence of police misconduct. In another, a therapist takes a risky and ethically dubious approach to help a man shed a false narrative he has about himself. These stories focus on extraordinary experiences and expand to say something larger about the role of narrative in the lives of people. But on their own, they’re just interesting, complex stories.”
With the rise of podcasts in the past few years, there is now a new field of work available for writers. (For example, you can easily pitch a podcast series idea to NPR.)
