Hugo Award for Best Fanzine 

The Hugo Award for Best Fanzine is given annually to fanzines. These are amateur magazines for science fiction/fantasy-related subject, which do not pay their contributors. Fanzines are generally produced out of the love of the genre, its authors, books and films. Historically, fanzines were produced by inexpensive copying processes such as mimeography, and obtained from the editor by contributing articles, artwork or letters or comment, trading for other fanzines, or the like. More recently fanzines have been published electronically, but they have always served as forums for commentary within the genre community.

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Definition of eligibility

For the purposes of the Hugo Award, a fanzine, according to Article 3.3.11 of the constitution of the World Science Fiction Society, 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."

The terminology associated with this award has mutated over the years. It was for "Best Fan Magazine" in 1956–57 and for "Best Amateur Magazine" in 1959, 1963–64, 1966, 1972–75, 1977–78. This is the oldest long-running Hugo award for fan activity; in 1967 Hugo Awards were added specifically for fan writing and fan art.

Winners and other nominees


The "Retro Hugos"

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

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Hugo Awards
Fiction

Novel (1946–present) · Novella (1946–present) · Novelette (1946–present) · Short Story (1946–present)
Dramatic presentation

Dramatic Presentation (1946–2002) · Dramatic Presentation, Long Form (2003–present) · Dramatic Presentation, Short Form (2003–present)
Non-fiction

Non-Fiction Book (1980–1998) · Related Book (1999–present)
Professional activities

Professional Magazine (1953–1972) · Professional Editor (1973–2006) · Professional Artist (1946–present) · Semiprozine (1984–present) · Editor Long Form (2007–present) · Editor Short Form (2007–present)
Fan activities

Fanzine (1946–present) · Fan Artist (1946–present) · Fan Writer (1946–present)