Audio Storytelling Festival

The EBU Audio Storytelling Festival 2025 will take place in Vilnius on 25–28 May, hosted by LRT (Lithuanian National Radio and Television).

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 2025  

We are asking for suggestions of the best, most inspiring and impactful crafted audio programmes from across the world.

The 2025 call for submissions runs from 18 November 2024 to 31 January 2025.

Detailed criteria and requirements are available here.

Both public service radio and audio producers as well as independent and commercial producers and studios are eligible to submit their work.

EBU Audio Storytelling Festival in Vilnius, Lithuania

The Festival theme for 2025 is Community and Connections – both of which make us better storytellers.

Audio storytelling is rarely a solitary job. For one, building an honest and close connection between an author and their protagonist is an essential part of every good story. But connections in the professional audio community are just as important, not only to learn from each other and grow as authors, but also to get the most of our creative ideas. And finally, understanding the contexts we work in – the history, the politics, and socioeconomic developments – and making sense of the increasingly complex reality also means connecting the most important dots in the stories we tell.

How do we nurture these relationships and make them stronger? How do we welcome the newcomers to the audio storytelling world? As a community, we can benefit from sharing and discussing our work, and from providing and receiving constructive feedback.

The EBU ASF Vilnius 2025 hopes to create a space for all of this.

The four-day festival agenda will incorporate unique insights into the Lithuanian audio storytelling scene, alongside group listening sessions and facilitated discussions, the “How I made it” masterclasses by the award-winning authors, and many more talks around the best practice and craft of audio storytelling, as well as carefully curated cultural evening events.

Further information:

• Participant registration will open in January 2025, with further details published here and on the dedicated EBU Audio Storytelling Festival social media sites Facebook, X and Instagram (managed by the host LRT). 
   
• The number of participants is limited and registration will close as soon as the places are filled, after which a waiting list will be maintained.  

If you have any questions, please contact the ASF Vilnius 2025 team: asfvilnius2025@lrt.lt