OPEN CASTING CALL

Thank you for showing interest in narrating for Issue 3.3 of khōréō magazine, produced by khōréō’s audio team.

khōréō is a new quarterly magazine of speculative fiction by immigrant and diaspora authors. For more information, you can visit our website here. Check out our Twitter for casting calls and submission updates, and visit our podcast here to listen to produced narrations for stories featured in our previous issues.

RATES

Our short stories are paid at industry-standard rates for audiobook narration ($250 PFH*). Payment will depend on the final length of the piece and is calculated at the end of production.

All single-narrator stories, regardless of word count, pay a minimum of $30. Tiered minimum rates based on higher word counts are as follows:

Word Count

Minimum Payment

> 2,000 words

$55

> 3,000 words

$83

> 4,000 words

$111

AUDITION PROCESS

  • Include your name and pronouns at the beginning of the audition tape.
  • Record the lines corresponding to the role you're auditioning for (up to two takes per line).

SIDES

NARRATOR - MIDDLE AGED, FEMININE-VOICED. NATIVE INDONESIAN SPEAKERS PREFERRED.

STORY WORD COUNT: ~3,700

Please note that this particular story contains the following content warnings: Death of a son, A mother’s grief, Colonization, Slavery, Violence

Narration.

Rama Surya, that was what he was called. She had climbed up the mountain in search of his hut, bearing baked cassava and a batch of eggs as gifts—a hopeful offering. She couldn’t tell if he styled himself Rama or if that was the title people gave him, but for the chance that he had the black magic she needed, she’d convince him to help her.

Dialogue.

CONTEXT. This line is said by Ni Darti, a woman who lost her son. Should be said with anger.

“I realized, Rama, that a man like him causes ripples wherever he goes. I felt it—I felt him—even though I didn’t reach his carriage. Look, I have a wound to show for it.”