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Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer

 
Wikipedia: Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer

The Hugo Awards, the most prestigious awards in science fiction fandom, are given every year for science fiction or fantasy, and related areas in fandom, art and dramatic presentation, of the previous year, by members of the annual World Science Fiction Convention ("Worldcon").

According to Article 3.3.13 of the WSFS 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."[1]

What constitutes a semiprozine is defined by the rather complicated Article 3.3.11, 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.[1]

In contrast, a fanzine, according to Article 3.3.12 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."[1]

While a Hugo Award for Best Fanzine had existed in various forms since 1955, it was not until 1967 that Hugo Awards were created specifically for fan writing and fan art.

Dave Langford has won the Best Fan Writer Hugo more than anyone else, 21 times as of 2009. He has been nominated every year since 1979 and won in 1985, 1987, and from 1989 through 2007.

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Winners and other nominees

  • 1971: Richard E. Geis
    • Terry Carr
    • Tom Digby
    • Elizabeth Fishman
    • Ted Pauls
  • 1972: Harry Warner, Jr.
    • Terry Carr
    • Tom Digby
    • Rosemary Ullyot
    • Bob Vardeman
    • Susan Wood Glicksohn
  • 1973: Terry Carr
    • Charles N. Brown
    • Richard E. Geis
    • Sandra Miesel
    • Rosemary Ullyot
    • Susan Wood Glicksohn
  • 1976: 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
  • 1978: Richard E. Geis
  • 1979: Bob Shaw
  • 1980: Bob Shaw
    • Richard E. Geis
    • Mike Glyer
    • Arthur D. Hlavaty
    • Dave Langford
  • 1982: Richard E. Geis
    • Mike Glyer
    • Arthur D. Hlavaty
    • Dave Langford
  • 1983: Richard E. Geis
    • Mike Glyer
    • Arthur D. Hlavaty
    • Dave Langford
  • 1984: Mike Glyer
    • Richard E. Geis
    • Arthur D. Hlavaty
    • Dave Langford
    • Teresa Nielsen Hayden
  • 1985: Dave Langford
    • Leigh Edmonds
    • Richard E. Geis
    • Mike Glyer
    • Arthur D. Hlavaty
  • 1987: Dave Langford
  • 1988: Mike Glyer
    • Arthur D. Hlavaty
    • Dave Langford
    • Guy H. Lillian III
    • Leslie Turek
  • 1989: Dave Langford
  • 1990: Dave Langford
    • Mike Glyer
    • Arthur D. Hlavaty
    • Evelyn C. Leeper
    • Leslie Turek
  • 1992: Dave Langford
    • Avedon Carol
    • Mike Glyer
    • Andrew Hooper
    • Evelyn C. Leeper
    • Harry Warner, Jr.
  • 1994: Dave Langford
    • Sharon N. Farber
    • Mike Glyer
    • Andrew Hooper
    • Evelyn C. Leeper
  • 1995: David Langford
    • Sharon N. Farber
    • Mike Glyer
    • Andrew Hooper
    • Evelyn C. Leeper
  • 1996: Dave Langford
    • Sharon N. Farber
    • Andrew Hooper
    • Evelyn C. Leeper
    • Joseph T. Major
  • 1997: Dave Langford
    • Sharon N. Farber
    • Mike Glyer
    • Andrew Hooper
    • Evelyn C. Leeper
  • 1998: Dave Langford
    • Bob Devney
    • Mike Glyer
    • Andrew Hooper
    • Evelyn C. Leeper
    • Joseph T. Major
  • 1999: Dave Langford
    • Bob Devney
    • Mike Glyer
    • Evelyn C. Leeper
    • Maureen Kincaid Speller
  • 2000: Dave Langford
    • Bob Devney
    • Mike Glyer
    • Evelyn C. Leeper
    • Steven H Silver
  • 2002: Dave Langford
    • Jeff Berkwits
    • Bob Devney
    • John L. Flynn
    • Mike Glyer
    • Steven H Silver
  • 2003: Dave Langford
    • Bob Devney
    • John L. Flynn
    • Mike Glyer
    • Steven H Silver
  • 2004: David Langford
  • 2005: Dave Langford
    • Claire Brialey
    • Bob Devney
    • Cheryl Morgan
    • Steven H Silver
  • 2006: Dave Langford
    • Claire Brialey
    • John Hertz
    • Cheryl Morgan
    • Steven H Silver
  • 2007: Dave Langford
    • Christopher Garcia
    • John Hertz
    • John Scalzi
    • Steven H Silver
  • 2008: John Scalzi
    • Christopher Garcia
    • Dave Langford
    • Cheryl Morgan
    • Steven H Silver

"Retro Hugos"

(awarded 50 years after some of years in which Worldcon didn't give Hugos)

1946: Forrest J. Ackerman (awarded in 1996)

  • Charles E. Burbee
  • Francis Towner Laney
  • Bob Tucker
  • Art Widner

1951: Bob Silverberg (awarded in 2001)

  • Lee Hoffman
  • Bob Tucker
  • James White
  • Walt Willis

1954: Bob Tucker (awarded in 2004)

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