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 electron... more

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." 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)... less