Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer

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Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer.

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[edit] About this award

The Hugo Awards, the most prestigious awards in science fiction and fantasy, are given every year for the best fiction of the previous year, and for related areas in fandom, art and dramatic presentation. The winners are voted on by science fiction fans, and the awards are handed out at the annual World Science Fiction Convention ("Worldcon"). The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories.

This Hugo Award is given to writers whose work appears in non- or low-paying publications. Work by more highly paid individuals is generally covered in the Hugo Award categories for Best Related Book, and various short- and long-form fiction categories.

According to Article 3.3.12 of the World Science Fiction Society Constitution, a fan writer is "Any person whose writing has appeared in semiprozines or fanzines or in generally available electronic media during the previous calendar year."

What constitutes a Semiprozine is defined by the rather complicated Article 3.3.10, as "Any generally available non-professional publication devoted to science fiction or fantasy which by the close of the previous calendar year has published four (4) or more issues, at least one (1) of which appeared in the previous calendar year, and which in the previous calendar year met at least two (2) of the following criteria: (1) had an average press run of at least one thousand (1000) copies per issue, (2) paid its contributors and/or staff in other than copies of the publication, (3) provided at least half the income of any one person, (4) had at least fifteen percent (15%) of its total space occupied by advertising, (5) announced itself to be a semiprozine.

In contrast, a fanzine, according to Article 3.3.11 is "Any generally available non-professional publication devoted to science fiction, fantasy, or related subjects which by the close of the previous calendar year has published four (4) or more issues, at least one (1) of which appeared in the previous calendar year, and which does not qualify as a semiprozine."

While a Hugo award for best fanzine had existed in various forms through the years since 1955, it was not until 1967 that Hugo Awards were created specifically for fan writing and fan art.

Dave Langford has won this award many times: 1985, 1987, and every year since 1989. Thus, this Hugo is jocularly referred to as the "Hugo Award for Best David Langford".

[edit] Winners and other nominees

  • 1981: Susan Wood Glicksohn

[edit] The "Retro Hugos"

(awarded 50 or 75 years after years in which World Conventions didn't give awards)

Hugo Award
Fiction

Novel - Novella - Novelette - Short Story
Dramatic Presentation

Long Form - Short Form (united until 2002)
Non-Fiction

Non-Fiction Book / Related Book
Fanac

Fanzine - Fan Artist - Fan Writer
Pro's ac

Semiprozine - Professional Artist - Professional Editor

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