Now over 200 editions strong, Cast of Wonders is a website offering a weekly young adult fiction podcast featuring tales of the fantastic. Editor and host Marguerite Kenner is Californian but based in the UK and is looking for fantasy and SF stories up to 6,000 words, but preferably 3,000-4,500, suitable for a YA audience.
Submissions should evoke a sense of wonder and have something unreal about them. The main audience is in the 12-17 age range, so material should be sophisticated, non-condescending, with wide appeal, but and without explicit sex, graphic violence or pervasive obscene language. Thought-provoking stories are welcome, but the main element should be thrilling entertainment and adventure.