Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer

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Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer.

1 About this award
2 Winners and other nominees
3 The "Retro Hugos"
4 External links

[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

2007:
- Christopher Garcia
- John Hertz
- David Langford
- John Scalzi
- Steven H Silver

2006: David Langford
- Claire Brialey
- John Hertz
- Cheryl Morgan
- Steven H Silver

2005: David Langford
- Claire Brialey
- Bob Devney
- Cheryl Morgan
- Steven H Silver

2004: David Langford
- Jeff Berkwits
- Bob Devney
- John L. Flynn
- Cheryl Morgan

2003: David Langford
- Bob Devney
- John L. Flynn
- Mike Glyer
- Steven H Silver

2002: David Langford
- Jeff Berkwits
- Bob Devney
- John L. Flynn
- Mike Glyer
- Steven H Silver

2001: David Langford
- Bob Devney
- Mike Glyer
- Evelyn C. Leeper
- Steven H Silver

2000: David Langford
- Bob Devney
- Mike Glyer
- Evelyn C. Leeper
- Steven H Silver

1999: David Langford
- Bob Devney
- Mike Glyer
- Evelyn C. Leeper
- Maureen Kincaid Speller

1998: David Langford
- Bob Devney
- Mike Glyer
- Andrew Hooper
- Evelyn C. Leeper
- Joseph T. Major

1997: David Langford
- Sharon N. Farber
- Mike Glyer
- Andrew Hooper
- Evelyn C. Leeper

1996: David Langford
- Sharon N. Farber
- Andrew Hooper
- Evelyn C. Leeper
- Joseph T. Major

1995: David Langford
- Sharon N. Farber
- Mike Glyer
- Andrew Hooper
- Evelyn C. Leeper

1994: David Langford
- Sharon N. Farber
- Mike Glyer
- Andrew Hooper
- Evelyn C. Leeper

1993: David Langford
- Mike Glyer
- Andrew Hooper
- Evelyn C. Leeper
- Harry Warner, Jr.

1992: David Langford
- Avedon Carol
- Mike Glyer
- Andrew Hooper
- Evelyn C. Leeper
- Harry Warner, Jr.

1991: David Langford
- Avedon Carol
- Mike Glyer
- Arthur D. Hlavaty
- Evelyn C. Leeper
- Teresa Nielsen Hayden

1990: David Langford
- Mike Glyer
- Arthur D. Hlavaty
- Evelyn C. Leeper
- Leslie Turek

1989: David Langford
- Avedon Carol
- Mike Glyer
- Arthur D. Hlavaty
- Guy H. Lillian III
- Chuq Von Rospach

1988: Mike Glyer
- Arthur D. Hlavaty
- Dave Langford
- Guy H. Lillian III
- Leslie Turek

1987: David Langford
- Mike Glyer
- Arthur D. Hlavaty
- Patrick Nielsen Hayden
- Simon Ounsley
- D. West
  - Owen Whiteoak (withdrawn)

1986: Mike Glyer
- Don D'ammassa
- Richard E. Geis
- Arthur D. Hlavaty
- Dave Langford
- Patrick Nielsen Hayden

1985: Dave Langford
- Leigh Edmonds
- Richard E. Geis
- Mike Glyer
- Arthur D. Hlavaty

1984: Mike Glyer
- Richard E. Geis
- Arthur D. Hlavaty
- Dave Langford
- Teresa Nielsen Hayden

1983: Richard E. Geis
- Mike Glyer
- Arthur D. Hlavaty
- Dave Langford

1982: Richard E. Geis
- Mike Glyer
- Arthur D. Hlavaty
- Dave Langford

1981: Susan Wood Glicksohn
- Richard E. Geis
- Mike Glyer
- Arthur D. Hlavaty
- Dave Langford

1980: Bob Shaw
- Richard E. Geis
- Mike Glyer
- Arthur D. Hlavaty
- Dave Langford

1979: Bob Shaw
- Richard E. Geis
- Dave Langford
- Leroy Kettle
- D. West

1978: Richard E. Geis
- Charles N. Brown
- Don D'ammassa
- Don C. Thompson
- Susan Wood Glicksohn

1977: Richard E. Geis (tie)
1977: Susan Wood Glicksohn (tie)
- Don D'ammassa
- Michael Glicksohn
- Don C. Thompson

1976: Richard E. Geis
- Charles N. Brown
- Don D'ammassa
- Don C. Thompson
- Susan Wood Glicksohn

1975: Richard E. Geis
- John Bangsund
- Sandra Miesel
- Don C. Thompson
- Susan Wood Glicksohn

1974: Susan Wood Glicksohn
- Laura Basta
- Richard E. Geis
- Jacqueline Lichtenberg
- Sandra Miesel

1973: Terry Carr
- Charles N. Brown
- Richard E. Geis
- Sandra Miesel
- Rosemary Ullyot
- Susan Wood Glicksohn

1972: Harry Warner, Jr.
- Terry Carr
- Tom Digby
- Rosemary Ullyot
- Bob Vardeman
- Susan Wood Glicksohn

1971: Richard E. Geis
- Terry Carr
- Tom Digby
- Elizabeth Fishman
- Ted Pauls

1970: Wilson Tucker
- Piers Anthony
- Charles N. Brown
- Richard Delap
- Richard E. Geis

1969: Harry Warner, Jr.
- Richard Delap
- Banks Mebane
- Walter A. Willis
  - Ted White (withdrawn)

1968: Ted White
- Ruth Berman
- Harry Warner, Jr.
  - Harlan Ellison (withdrawn)
  - Alexei Panshin (withdrawn)

1967: Alexei Panshin
- Norm Clarke
- Bill Donaho
- Harry Warner, Jr.
- Paul J. Willis

[edit] The "Retro Hugos"

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

1954: Bob Tucker (awarded in 2004)
- Redd Boggs
- Lee Hoffman
- James White
- Walter A. Willis

1951: Bob Silverberg (awarded in 2001)

1946: Forrest J. Ackerman (awarded in 1996)
- Charles E. Burbee
- Francis Towner Laney
- Bob Tucker
- Art Widner

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