A workshop and showcase for new public radio.
Woods Hole, Cape Cod, MA
Joined April 2009
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New All Hear just dropped 🎧 $12K Radio Diaries-Seidel Fellowship (due 10/26), AU$1,000 Jesse Cox Audio Fellowship (closes 11/1), Wave Farm’s 2027 transmission art residencies + more opportunities for audio makers worldwide: allhear.substack.com/p/all-h…
What did you take away from Transom 25? Karen Given took home five lessons, from scrappy funding to why stories still matter, and shared them in her newsletter, Narrative Beat.
Read Karen's full story at narrativebeat.com/transom-25
Big thanks to @HindenburgNews, sponsor of this year's workshops! Students used Hindenburg to edit their 1st radio stories in our recent S Africa & Massachusetts workshops. 🎧
We're grateful to Hindenburg for supporting Transom + the next generation of audio storytellers. 💛
A bonfire listening party, a morning spent immersed in the sound of the ocean, and a lot of phenomenal talks and workshops. Executive director Sophie Crane's notes on Transom 25 are in the new Over the Transom.
Read it and subscribe for free: transom.substack.com/p/over-…
That's a wrap on Transom 25. 🧡
25 yrs, 1 unforgettable weekend in Woods Hole — talks, live shows, and a big tribute to founder Jay Allison. A few favorite moments 📻
Thank you to all who came. The next 25 yrs happen because this community shows up: transom.org/donate
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⏰ Transom 25 starts TOMORROW night in Woods Hole — and the last single-event tickets are going fast.
🔬 Making Waves — Thu 9/17, 7pm
✨ Nichole Hill — Fri 9/18, 4:30pm
🎙️ Ira Glass & Martine Powers — Fri 9/18, 7pm
📻 Al Letson — Sat 9/19, 10:15am
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Passes to Transom 25 sold out fast — but you're in luck. A few single-event tickets are still available:
🔬 Making Waves: Science Storytelling — Thu 7pm
🎙️ Ira Glass & Martine Powers — Fri 7pm
✨ Nichole Hill — Fri 4:30pm
📻 Al Letson — Sat 10:15am
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Live from Woods Hole: the calm before the storytelling.
A group of scientists start a 3-day Transom workshop today — building to Transom 25: Making Waves this Thurs, a night of true science stories told live on stage, hosted by Jay Allison.
Tickets: zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/tr…
Sound School is launching a new series, Old School Sound School, featuring classic and rare documentaries 20-plus years old. The series begins by marking the 25th anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center.
Listen: transom.org/2026/old-school-…
The full #Transom25 program is here. 🎙️
Every workshop, every title, every audio storyteller teaching in Woods Hole Sept 17–19 — plus Ira Glass & Martine Powers, Nichole Hill, Al Letson, and a 25th-birthday bash to close it out.
Full schedule ↓
Another month, another list of audio opportunities! The All Hear newsletter collects opportunities for radio journalists, podcast creators, sound artists, and all things audio across the world--and our August edition is out!
allhear.substack.com/p/all-h…
A breath may seem like the most insignificant detail in an audio story. But, actually, the opposite is true. For proof, all you have to do is listen to stories where the breaths are cut out. On today's Sound School, a primer on editing breaths.
transom.org/2026/revisiting-…
Latest edition of All Hear just dropped! It’s a monthly newsletter where highlighting exciting opportunities in audio. This July we have lots of art residencies for the sound artists! And large scale funding for audio folks in the EU & UK.
allhear.substack.com/p/all-h…
In her recent obituary, NPR's Elizabeth Arnold is remembered as an "unstoppable, one-of-a-kind reporter." That's evident in the stories that took her around the world with a mic. Today on Sound School, hear her piece about an excursion to the North Pole: transom.org/2026/elizabeth-a…
Tiny radio documentarians, celebrating slowness, and Chill Beefs on our newsletter, Over the Transom:
transom.substack.com/p/over-…
New speakers alert: joining us this fall for #transom25 are the fine folks behind @radioambulante!
Executive Producer @DanielGAlarcon writes about Latin America for the New Yorker, was a MacArthur Fellow in 2021, and was the host, lead reporter, and a writer for The Good Whale, a podcast by Serial Productions and The New York Times.
Editorial Director @camilasegura got her PhD in Spanish Lit for Columbia in 2007; after figuring out academia wasn't her think, she joined the Radio Ambulante in 2012. Since then her work has won the Third Coast/Driehaus Award, two Premio Simón Bolívar prizes, among others.
