Let's win awards!

Exactly.

"In order for a production to be eligible for the Audio Verse Awards, it must meet the following requirements:

The production must have “aired” between October 1st 2014 and September 30th, 2015.
It must be a freely available production. (i.e. if it’s on Audible, or if you have to pay to listen to it, it’s not eligible)
We define audio drama as a dramatization, not prose, with multiple characters and using sound effects or/and music to present the piece."

I would assume you can just swap out the 2015 for a 2016 to get an idea of when the next deadline is. Since our first project was published in December, anything we've done or do from here out until September will qualify, provided it's not a straight prose.

The Parsec Awards seem like a something we could think about. We'd have up to April 30 to release the stories we submitted and we could submit our entries between April 1 and May 30.

Reading the rules I'm not sure if Catacombs would be eligible - it's not original work but it is out of copyright - but as there's nothing 'speculative' about it, it wouldn't count anyway. Transit wouldn't be allowed as it's still in copyright. Stuff we'd written would be fine e.g. Wagon by RosieM or Digital Commute by Daniel. I can't see a definition of small/large cast but obviously Wagon and Digital Commute would be small cast. They might therefore be eligible for 'Best Speculative Fiction Story: Small Cast (Short Form).  As these awards are judged, rather than voted on, we'd not split our chances if we submitted them both.

The House Guest isn't speculative fiction and I wouldn't submit the 2 Christmas plays as it was early days when we did them. If we could get a good SF full cast play out before April 30 then we could enter it for 'Best Speculative Fiction Audio Drama (Short Form)'

I'm not sure if short/long form refers to the length of an individual story, or that story being part of a series. Perhaps Robin would know. Anyway, I think submitting Wagon and/or Digital to the first category I mentioned and doing an SF play by the end of April to go for the second would be something to aim for.  Given their stipulation of original work, that probably shouldn't be Color Out of Space, although Lovecraft is out of copyright.

Thoughts?

I was thinking about the problems with Nick's audio etc rather than any want of artistic merit but I'm happy to submit one or both of them too if you're happy with them.

The performances were good, you're right, and I'd be perfectly happy to submit Echoes of Midnight for this or another award. To actually win one of these things the fidelity of the recording is going to have to be spot on as well as everything else though and although you did a great job in tidying Nick's voice up in Family Christmas I also remember the trouble there was getting it up to an acceptable technical standard. I was always thinking of having the award as a target for us to get another project out in time, as I feel a few deadlines would help reduce delays, but like I said I'm happy for us to throw Echoes into the ring for the Parsec award as well. Having a ghost play and an SF play would give us some range and if we don't get an SF play out in time then Echoes would have to be our sole entry in the play category as, like I said, Catacombs isn't speculative fiction.

Plus Prison of the Mind might work. We have some time for the Parsec awards, but the Podcast Awards close on April 30th.