Welcome to New Arrivals
(source: starwarsfanworks.com, 11-12-03)

It's a few months after the fact, but it looks like an announcement about the opening of Star Wars Fanworks and the growing state of the Fan Audio field, sent by Rise of Nobility's Keith Abbott, has finally found itself over at TFN Fan Films. Many of the creators whose work you'll find on this site populate the slower TFN Fan Audio board, while also posting regularly on Fanworks' official message board over at GalacticSenate.com. However, there are probably plenty of people who will find their way here after the TFN article, who might not ever have met any of the creative teams on the various boards, so let's have a quick re-introduction.

"Hi, welcome to Star Wars Fanworks, the home of Star Wars fan audio on the internet."

Here at Fanworks, it is our goal to help nurture the growing fan audio genre by providing a central hub, if you will, for fan audio productions, in much the same way that FanFilms.com and SWFanFilms.com have done for fan film productions. (However, despite what one might have expected after reading the TFN article, no, we are not associated in any way with TFN or FanFilms.com.)

Fanworks was officially launched (after a summer-long development period) on September 1, 2003. We are a partner site in the StarWarz.com site network, alongside T'Bone's Star Wars Universe, The Unofficial Clone Wars Website, The Star Wars Timeline Gold, and all of the rest of the StarWarz family sites.

Fanworks was founded by Nathan P. Butler (The Star Wars Timeline Gold, ChronoRadio, Second Strike, Anthology) and Lou "T'Bone" Tambone (T'Bone's Star Wars Universe, Silent But Deadly), with the help of web designer Sonja Nelson. That original team has been supplemented by new addition Rich Sigfrit (Requiem of the Outcast, Addiction) and a team of frequent contributors (Michael Sheridan, Ian Bowie, Jeff Roney, et al).

At present, the site acts as a hub for fan audio with sections devoted to serious audio dramas, audio parodies, fan-made radio shows, fan audio genre news, editorials, tutorials, and an IMDB-style "People" section with information on the participants in the Star Wars fan audio genre. We try to feature any fan audio news that comes our way and to help guide people to fan audio projects, whether we host them or not, so that we might help perpetuate the genre itself.

So, browse around, listen to a radio show or two, maybe some audio drama or parody goodness, and pop Fanworks into your favorites for your up-to-date source for Star Wars fan audio.