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What is COLA?
COLA stands for the Coalition of Loosely Associated Podcasts, and was coined in The Liminal Lands discord server. Do you need to be a “member” of COLA to participate, or nominate only COLA shows? Absolutely not. COLA was made to be inclusive of all creators, and there’s no real way to join other than by being awesome and making podcasts. The awards carry that ethos forward. So get awarding already!
2024 winners
New Years Announcement Video
The Tower For "Those four notes which somehow become a character all by themselves who I would literally climb the tower for"
Yokai Detective Agency For "Bringing This Amazing Group Together”
The Boar Knight For "Bestest Bear King Ballad"
Audistorium For "Best Dynamic 3-Dimensional Audio and Best Solo Production”
Syntax For "Favourite Blorbos going through unimaginable traumas”
The Love Talker For "New favourite angry, brash female character”
Eeler's Choice For "Best maritime nature documentary about funky ocean noodles”
Travelling Light For "Cosiest travel show in outer space”
The Book Of Constellations For "Best world-saving roadtrip with space Jesus”
Madison On The Air For "Most consistent use of the color pink”
Mortis Maledictum For "Best Entangled Web Woven Series”
InSpectre For "Best Use of Cherwolves in a Musical Episode”
Desert Skies For "Best Musical Number And Eternal Brainworm That Is Corsonopoly”
The Green Horizon For "Best Immersive Soundscaping”
Wireland Ranch For "Best Nosedive Into Everything Wrong With Society”
The Cellar Letters For "Best Basement Statements”
The Pantaloon Society For "Eely Good Clowns”
Regina Prime For "Best Cousin of a Transformer”
WOE.BEGONE For "Best Meow Meows”
The Liminal Lands For "Most Like Artisan Marshmallows in a Glass Jar Wrapped in Twine”
The Heart Pyre For "Most Adorable YA Arson-based Conspiracy Podcast”
Ethics Town For "Most Unsettlingly Literal Use of the Trolley Problem”
Glasgow Ghost Stories For "Most Disturbing Pigeons”
Deviser For "The Clive Barker Award for Most Content Warnings in a Single Series”
Kane and Feels For "Most Frequent and Hilarious Faery Home Invasions”
Shadows at the Door For "Sharpest Increase in Cast to Crew Ratio”
The Ballad of Anne and Mary For "Best Song Sung Entirely on Horseback”
Ghost Wax For "World's Number One Immortal Necromantic Dad”
Department of Variance of Somewhere Ohio For "Most Adorable Romance Conducted Mostly by Shortwave Radio Communication”
Overbrook For "Most Varied Main Character Deaths of the Same Character”
Chaika For "Most Likely to be Recommended as Part of a Modern Language Syllabus”
Kingmaker Histories For "Best Use of Creepy Doll House as Plot Device”
Do You Copy For "Most creative use of surveillance footage and area specific horror”
Rogue Life For "The Most Viking Reset Ribbon: For Splitting The Most Sides in a Viking Space Alien-God Computer Program!”
Submitted for The Approval of The Midnight Pals For "Most Absurd Critique of Everything Award: Policing, Gender, Culture, Sexuality, Colonialism, Literature, Narrative Story Telling… is nothing safe from Deconstruction?!”
The Wizard Scroll For "The Most Out There Narrator Nod: For Providing the Most Outlandish and Yet Somehow Most Relatable Narrator in Audio Fiction.”
New Years everyone else
It’s All in the Cards Podcast For "Best Tarot Card Reading and Spicy Soul Eating"
Syntax For "For Greatest Number of COLAs Given By a Single Other Creator: Because Your Sci-Fi Conspiracy Portal Story Just Rocks"
The Madness of Chartrulean For "Best Side Nip"
Kein Mucks Krimipodcast For "Best ultimately useless but fun trivia about German radio plays from the late 50s to 80s (Bonus points for making my Thursdays better)"
Wireland Ranch For "Tastiest Most Crunchiest Fucked Up Sound Design"
The Love Talker For "Best Dating Advice Podcast"
Audistorium For "Best Lemony-tart sound engineering"
Tales for Howling at the Full Moon For "Best Absence of a Swinging Pendulum"
KILL FM For "A big poo...l"
ы is a letter For "Лучшие злодейские сказки"
Eelers Choice For "Bestest eel shanty"
I Love Lucifer: Podcast For "Best B List Horror Scream Queens To Fight Real Monsters Merit: For Two Actors’ Professional Competition for B List ‘Celeb’ Status And Their Requirements for Monster Hunting Cooperation Made Relatable! 😂"
Human B Gon For "Most Prosiac Apocalypse Prize: Humanity’s Fate is Grim But It’s Hard to Focus on That With All the Workplace Robot Drama and Our Utter Insignificance. For Making Us Laugh All the Way to The End (Times) - Brought to You By Renfor +"
KILL FM For "Craziest Coolest Conceptual Collaboration Compendium Crown: For Not Just Managing To Exist and Endure with All That Crazy Creative Energy… But For Being Entertaining AF Too!"
KILL FM For "What does that cloud look like to you?"
Eeler's Choice For "Best of use of Eels in Audiodrama (and Expert World Building!)"
The Lover Talker For "Scariest Incubus Accolade: For Making Us Both Fear and Desire, Repulse and Revel In Equal Measure."
The Madness of Chartrulean For "Tech Bro Messiah I Just Can’t Hate Award: For Creating A Messianic Tech Entrepreneur that The Audience Can Actually Root For!"
wild colas
Twigs and Hearts For "Most whimsical use of cryptids"
Cooking (With) The Smiths For "Best use of girlboss & Most creative take on cannibalism"
Regina Prime For "Best Robot Death Speech"
Wireland Ranch For "The Vibiest Vibe Victory: The Award For Giving The Most Atomsophere Per Decibel of Any Show Ever!"
Regina Prime For "The Many Main Characters Medal: For Having The Most Conceivable Quantity of the MC in Awesome Short Episodes! Long Live the Many Reginas!"Omega Star 7 For "Spest Space Spopera and Spramedy in Sprategory!"
Project Gnosis For "World Building Wonderment Wreath: For the Most Intricate and Meticulous Worldbuilding in Audio Fiction!"
Twilight Meridian For "Best Use of the 易经 To Fob Off A Difficult Customer Distinction: Because When They Won’t Listen to Reason… You Can Always Throw Yarrow Sticks and Tell Them About The Hexagrams!"
Warlock For "Most Shonen, Gakuen, Dungeons and Dragons Comedy in Category: I Think The Title Says It All!"
2023 winners
GALA AWARDS
Better Men Elsewhere For: Best Performance by a Chicken (or Best Supporting Chicken)
Desert Skies For: Outstanding Vocal Performance by a Lead Actor for the Portrayal of the Character Shirley
Echoes (In) Between For: Most Chaotic Twin Symbolism
Hallway To Nowhere For: Most Discouraging Words of Encouragement
Haunted: The Audio Drama For: Best Depiction of the Offspring Between Remy Buxaplenty and Zapp Brannigan
Hello From The Hallowoods For: "Most Narratively Important Death & Most Heartfelt Queer Representation"
How it Ends For: The Nine of Wands Award for Protagonist Resilience in the Face of Unrelenting Mysterious Fuckery
HUMAN-B-GON For: Most Emotionally Communicative Incoherent Gibberish
Madison on the Air For: Most Creative Adaptation
Mx Bad Luck For: "Best Lesbian Moms & Show Title Most Likely to Avoid Shitty Conservatives"
No Return For: For An Intriguing Story, Sharming Characters, and Engaging Sound Design
October's Children For: "Best Threat Made by a Fictional Child & Puzzler's Prize for Being Excellent Listening while I Do Jigsaw Puzzles"
Project Gnosis For: Best Use of Music in Action Sequences
Rogue Life For: Best Noir parody Character Name of “Jem Fatale”
Selene For: Accidental murder-by-piano in a fit of jealous rage
Sinclair Wants to Help! A Supernatural Self-Help Podcast For: "Most Satisfying Harpsichord Use Of All Time & Most Viscerally Horrifying Zipper SFX I’ve Ever Heard (Affectionate)"
STATION 151 For: BestWorst use of a sausage casing in a horror audio drama
Syntax For: The Cryptic Linguist Award: For unraveling the mysteries of ancient texts and connecting them to otherworldly adventures
Tales From the Fringes of Reality For: Most Creative 2nd Person Character
The Festivus Incident For: Best Own by a Small Cockney Boy on Christmas Day
The Heart Pyre For: Best Use of Music to Inspire the Writing of a Spaghetti Western
The Liminal Lands For: Most Inspiring Production
The Madness of Chartrulean For: Best Uber Troubled Titillating Savior Avast Nebulous Depths Where Intergalactic Conflict Harkens (And Sounds Stupendous!)
The Moon Crown For: The Most Relaxing Horror Narration
The Nebulous Saga For: Best Use of a West Country Accent in a Space Opera
The Night Post For: The Most Deliciously Spooky and Compelling Mail Fraud
The Pantaloon Society For: The Grimaldi Golden Pantomime Award for Macabre Buffoonery and Exceptional Wordplay - aka The Golden 'Here We Are Again' Award!
The Storage Papers For: Best Use of a Relocated Sports Franchise (as heard in the episode "The Old Timer")
The Supernatural Protection Company For: Highest Quality Assurance Score and Average Handling Time for a Fictional Call Center
Thin Places Radio For: Winner in the Category of "Shows best played during a Girl Scout campout ghost storytime"
Untrue Stories For: Best Show to Demonstrate that George Orwell was a Humorless Git
Where the Leaves Fall Purple For: Most Incompetent Police Investigation Leaving Mystery to be Solved by College Misfits
HONOREES (write-ins)
1865 for Best Audio Drama set between 1864 and 1866
A Scottish Podcast for Best Fuck
Absolutely No Adventures for Most Carb-Heavy Audio Drama
Alasdair Stuart for Being TOO GODDAMN TALL AND WORSE, SUPER NICE
Among the Stacks for Most Ambitious New Show about an Infinite Library
Better Men, Elsewhere for Wettest sounding food fight
Black Box for Best Cuddle Banana
Blazed All Our Lives for Most Petty Fights Between Characters That Somehow Result in Deaths
Blazed All Our Lives for Best Use of Dramatic Gasping
Blazed All Our Lives for Most Badass Bitches in Town
Book of Constellations for Best Opening Cough
Book of Constellations for Most Huggable Empathetic Space Jesus
Book of Constellations for Most Moving Alien Ghost Robot
Campfire Radio Theater for Best Proof that Good Things Come to Those Who Wait
Canary P.I. for Best Noir Detective named after a Bird
Care & Feeding of Werewolves for Most Unrealistically Helpful and Understanding Healthcare Provider
Chloe Hendry Ethics Town for Being the MOST ENTHUSIASTIC CREATOR AND BEST PERSON WE'VE EVER KNOWN
Cryptid Counselor for Most Likeable Monsters that Will Kill You Without Malice
Cyclone for Awesome 80s References
D.O.U.G. Project for Most Drunk Kyle in a Holiday Special
Desert Skies for most tears shed during an episode by a listener
Desert Skies for Best Kid Friendly Yet Very Frightening Halloween Episode
Desert Skies for Most Diverse Cast of One
Desert Skies for Most Likely to Make Me Say 'What a Gas!'"
Desert Skies for Most Plot Relevant Burritos
Desert Skies for Best Microwaveable Burrito Recipe
Desert Skies for best nonexistening-product placement
Desert Skies for best one-man full cast audio drama
Desert Skies for Most Biggest Tears Shed over a Burrito
Desert Skies for most nostalgic website
Desert Skies for emotionally touching micorwave burritos
Desperado for Coolest Show Art
EAPodcasts for Most Parental Energy Contained by one Show Running Couple
Earth Eclipsed for Best Sound Design
Echoes (In) Between for best messing up of the space time continuum
Echoes (In) Between for Best Use of Parentheses in a Non-Parenthetical Production
Echoes (In) Between for Most Likely to Have New Listeners Checking Whether They Mistakenly Clicked on a Non-Fiction Podcast
Echoes (In) Between for Still making me anxious that another me might be judging me from the shadows and I'm being nothing but a constant disappointment to them, oh god, I'm sorry Rory I'm sorry I'm so sorry.
Echoes (In) Between for best in science&education
Echoes (In) Between for most realistically written characters
Echoes (In) Between for Twistiest Twists
Echoes (In) Between for Most Genres Per Episode
Echoes (In) Between for Best Duo Lead Roles
Ella Watts for Doctor Who Redacted
Ethics Town for being the Most January Coded Show
Finding Pattersby for Longest Hype Build in History
Friday Knight Fights for Best Pun in a Series Title
Hannah Radcliff of Packhowl Media for Most Dedicated Creator
Haunted House Flippers for Best Use of Comedy To Lull You Into a False Sense of Security
Heinous Investigations for Best disfuncional but oddly functional group of investigators
Heinous Investigations for Most Improved
Heinous Investigations for Most Ridiculous Antagonists
Hell Gate City for Friendliest Unsettling Comedic Kinship
Hello From The Hallowoods for Best Narrator who needs therapy
Hero from Monstrous Agonies for sending me an image of the inside of their mouth everyday at 7pm
How It Ends for Best Mystery I Want to Know the Answer to
How It Ends for Best Podcast That Has to Deliver on Its Name
Human-B-Gon for Best non-fiction documentary
Human-B-Gon for Best Impression of What Reality TV Would Be Like if it Were Actually Funny and Enjoyable to Watch
Human-B-Gon for best use of technology to rid the planet of scavenging humans
Human-B-Gon for 00100010 01001101 01101111 01110011 01110100 00100000 01101000 01110101 01101101 01100001 01101110 01100101 00100000 01101000 01110101 01101101 01100001 01101110 00100000 01110010 01100101 01101101 01101111 01110110 01100001 01101100 00100010
Human-B-Gon for Best Show for Folks with Short Attention Spans
Into the Depths for best head squishing scene
Into the Depths for best show to make people afraid of swimming pools
Into the hollow for best end of season song
Johann for most knowledgeable AD shrimp
Kane and Feels for the "I Suspect This Audiodrama May Have An LD50" Award
KILL FM for Best Content Warning
KILL FM for Frightfully Uneasy Card Killer Stories
KILL FM for Best Collaborative Effort
KILL FM for trippiest audio drama in existence
The Liminal Lands for Fantastic Use of Covert Kangaroos
The Liminal Lands for introducing us to what a liminal space is
The Liminal Lands for Most Chaotic Show Discord
Madison On The Air for Best Alcoholic
Malevolent for Best Argument With Self
Malevolent for Most Gay Tension Between Two Characters That is Almost Certainly Not Intended
Malevolent for Thirstiest Fans
Malevolent for Continuously causing me the best kind of pain
Méabh De Brun for being the only Voice Actor that hates Sounds
Mick Ireland for being a Quiet and Wonderful Creator, who continues to be Under recognised despite being one of the most delightful people in existence
Midnight Burger for the Greasiest TARDIS.
Midst for Best World Building and Expansion
Monstrous Agonies for Creator Most in the Bath
Monstrous Agonies for Miss Manners Award for Providing Extremely Useful Life Advice Cunningly Disguised With Werewolves
Moonbase Theta Out for most amazing, perfect and flawless Artificial Consciousness
Morbid Forest for Best Mascot (Ranger Harper and Larry)
Murphy for Character Who Most Frequently Relives Their Suppressed Trauma
My Amazing Woman for Best use of a deck joke
Neighbourly for Most Sickening Use of a Brick
No Return for the "Sean Bean's Regiment of Magnificent Bastards" Award
Nowhere, On Air for Best Uneasy Talking Tonight
October's Children for Best Display of Actor Pronouns
October's Children for Most Likely to Kill Your Favorite Character to Keep You On Your Toes
October's Children for taking it raw... Not like that, the recordings, get your mind out the gutter.
October's Children for The Show That Needs to Publish New Episodes, Dang It
October's Children for best creature SFX
October's Children for Biggest Variety of Accents in a Small New England Town
Omega Star 7 for Nuttiest and Creamiest Humour
The Pantaloon Society for Driest Absurdist Wit
Parkdale Haunt for Actually Finishing A Show
Poe Theatre on the Air for Great Establishment of the Edgar Allan Poe Audio Cinematic Universe
Project Audion for Best Radio Nostalgia Productions
Project Gnosis for best action scene involving a werehorse
Project Gnosis for Most Beautiful Karaoke Lullaby
Purusha A Sonic Adventure for Most Impactful Finale Song
Residents of Proserpina Park for Best Use of Lesser Known Mythological Creatures in an Audio Drama
Rhys Lawton from Ethics Town for being The Softest Boy in Existence
Rogue Life for most protagonist deaths in 1 season
Ron Guan of Badlands Cola for most sexy villain voice
Shadows at the Door for Quintessentially Queer British Horror
Silly Old Bear for Best Non-Human Cast
Sinclair Wants to Help for Most Elvises Used in a Single Episode
Small Victories for most hilarious intro segments
Someone Dies In This Elevator for Best Death to Episode Ratio
Spaceships for Best Audio Drama About Talking Spacecrafts
Spaceships for Best Scene Depicting A Smart Car Having An Existential Crisis
Station 151 for Most uses of the word "Fuck" in an episode
Station 151 for best AI nightmare fuel
Station 151 for Consistently and Entertainingly Using The Phrase 'WILKINS!'"
Subsister: A Real Podcast for the most intriguing concept for a show in 2022
Super Suits for Best duck sound effects
The Supernatural Protection Company for Best Application of Surreal Life
The Supernatural Protection Company for Most Hilariously Lifelike take on a Call Center
Syntax for longest death monologue ever
Syntax for Most Lovingly Dunkable Protagonist
Syntax for Simply Salacious Symphonic Sounds Suddenly Sad Static...Scary
Syntax for Most Realistic Refrigerator Door Sound Effect
Tales for Howling at the Full Moon for Best Swinging Pendulum
Tales of beatus fatum for best use of fairytales
Tell No Tales for Best ‘Is my Crush Actually Evil’ Storyline
Tell No Tales for best depiction of a ghostly plant parent
The Aberrant Report for Main Character Who Makes the Most Clearly Stupid Decisions
THE BALLAD OF ANNE & MARY for Highest PPM in a Fiction Podcast (Pirates Per Minute)
The Call of the Void for Most Likely to Make Me Shop on Etsy
The Cellar Letters for Animal Character I am Most Worried About the Safety Of
The Cellar Letters for Best Storage Papers
The Cellar Letters for most knocks on the door ignored ever
The Earth Collective for Most Mind Blowing World
The Forgotten News Podcast for Most outlandish stories about Ohio that don't always include Cleveland
The Goblet Wire for Most Confusing and Entrancing 5 Minute Episodes
The Hyacinth Disaster for Most Literal Cosmic Horror
The Kingmaker Histories for Favorite Short King: Eisen Iyer
The Liminal Lands for Best Survival Recipe
The Liminal Lands for Best Use of a Big-Box Store
The Liminal Lands for Most Relentlessly Consistent Release Schedule
The Liminal Lands for best rant about audio CD capacity
The Liminal Lands for Best Use of Boy Scout Training in Audio Form
The Liminal Lands for most consitent King refences
The Luchador for Most Epic Narrator in a Lucha Libre Audio Drama
The Madness Of Chartrulean for Best Pronunciation of the Word 'Indefatigable'
The Madness Of Chartrulean for Best Undulating Tone Throughout
The Madness Of Chartrulean for Best Soundtrack
The Madness Of Chartrulean for Most Relatable Grumpy Space Jesus
The Madness Of Chartrulean for the most human alien superman
The Madness Of Chartrulean for epic sound design
The Monster Hunters for Best Performance in a Comedy
The Moon Crown for Most tracks used in a single episode (that poor cpu)
The Moon Crown for Best Courtroom drama in a discord server
The Moon Crown for Best Main Character That You Can't Tell If They're a Good or Bad Person
The Moon Crown for Best Use of Heartbeats and Clock Ticks
The Moon Crown for best creepy radio broadcast
The Moon Crown for Most Gorgeous DAW Porn
The Nebulous Saga for Best BBC Radio 4 Production
The Night Post for Most Timely Delivery
The Ostium Network for Most Adoorable
The Pantaloon Society for Best Introduction to Content Warnings
The Pasithea Powder for Best Depiction of Friends to Crushes to Enemies to Friends to Lovers
The Phone Booth for Best World War Z Audio Drama, That Isn’t Actually a World War Z Audio Drama
The Secret of St Kilda for Not Being a Cult Podcast (Praise Dubrach)
The Secret of St Kilda for Definitley No A Cult Podcast
The Secret of St Kilda for Most hearts punched by a season finale
The Silt Verses for Best use of crabs
The Silt Verses for Most Creative Use of Crab
The Silt Verses for Most Likely to Be Typo'd Without Anyone Catching It
The Soft-Boiled Detective for Funniest Repeated Destruction of the Fourth Wall
The Stench of Adventure for 42
The Storage Papers for most awards given to other shows
The Storage Papers for Best Undead Toe Tapping
The Storage Papers for Most Disturbing Mouth-Made Sound Effects
The Storage Papers for most rewards plucked out of storage without a paper trail
The Storage Papers for For most inappropriate acronyms hidden in COLA awards
The Strata for Best Cyber For A Punk
The Supernatural Protection Company for best freaking customer service
The Supernatural Protection Company for best cubicle farm phone voice
The Supernatural Protection Company for Most creative use of a customer service position
The Supernatural Protection Company for Best Use of Ironic.....Pauses
The Supernatural Protection Company for Most Patient Customer Service Rep ever. EVER.
The Tower for Best Podcast to Listen to on the Stair Climber
The Tower for Moving Me in a Way I Didn't Know I Could Be Moved
The Town Whispers for Most Careless Whisper
The Unseen World for Most Colorful Afterlife
The Vesta Clinic for Most Lovable Little Beeps
Timestorm for Best Witnessing, Finding, and Remembering
Tiny Terrors for Most Monster
Twilight Histories for Best Use of Twilight in the Title of an Alternate History Podcast
Untrue Stories for Most Historically Accurate Depiction of H P Lovecraft
The Vesta Clinic for Most Sassy Beeps
Waymon Alexander for fostering AD community growth and positivity
We Fix Space Junk for Cutest Ad-Break Robot
What Will Be Here? for Most likely to make you cry in public
What's the frequency? for best in-universe adverts
Where The Leaves Fall Purple for Best Use of a Broken Payphone
Where The Leaves Fall Purple for Most Accurate Portrayal of That Guy You Knew in College Who Was Way Too Into His Hobby
Where The Leaves Fall Purple for most red string on murder board
Where The Leaves Fall Purple for the Most Captivating Title
Where The Stars Fell for Most Creative Cursing
Who is Cam Candor? for Best Use of a Snare Drum Sound
Wireland Ranch for Hardest podcast to just give a coherent accolade to
Wireland Ranch for Best Lol
Wireland Ranch for Best Understood Through Tiny Socks
Wireland Ranch for Best Use of Anger
Wireland Ranch for Best Way to Introduce Grandma to Audio Dramas
Wireland Ranch for Most Wonderfully Distracting and Confusing Sound Design
Wireland Ranch for being the most affordable acid trip
Wireland Ranch for Most Beautiful Soul Hidden behind Psychedelia
Wireland Ranch for the wild array of psychedelic experiences
WOE.BEGONE for Best Canadian Southern Accent
WOE.BEGONE for Most Woes Ironically Not Gone
Wolf 359 for Best Use of Zach Valenti...That's The Whole Award
Wrong Station for Most Canadian Horror Anthology
Transmissions from Colony One for Most Bombastic New Season after 7 Year Hiatus
Once Upon a Wasteland for Best Show to receive a one star review on Apple Podcasts for "Lesbians"