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(Did you mean the Science Fiction Poetry Association?)


The Southern Fandom Press Alliance is a bi-monthly apa limited (though not entirely) to fans living in the Old South. It was founded in September 1961 by Bob Jennings. Its Official Organ is The Southerner.

Membership is governed by two rules: The "Damn Yankee" rule (no more than 20% of the membership could be non-Southern) and the Once a Southerner, Always a Southerner rule (a Southerner living in the North still counts as a Southerner). (These rules have been greatly relaxed due to decreasing membership and the apa is now open to anyone.) Shadow-SFPA was an apa for SFPA waitlisters when SFPA had a lengthy waitlist.

An index to the first 270 mailings of SFPA is hosted at Fanac.org.

Mailings appear every other month - January, March, May, July, September, November. September 2011 (Mailing 283) was the 50th anniversary (the apa was originally quarterly). The September 1976 15th anniversary mailing had 843 pages, the September 1981 20th anniversary mailing had 913 pages, and the September 1986 25th anniversary mailing had 1,037 pages! But the April 1981 mailing -- the 100th -- which was collated at Satyricon had 1,750 pages and ranks as the largest apa mailing of all time in terms of total page count. As of 2022, it was still active.

Shadow SFPA[edit]

Shadow SFPA was an apa for people on the SFPA waitlist that was founded by Beth Schwarzin in 1977. The OEship passed from member to member as they are admitted to SFPA. It existed between May 1977 and September 1984, and had a total of 45 distributions. Shadow-SFPA distributions were both sent out to its members and included as a contribution to SFPA mailings. Shadow-SFPA OEs throughout its run were Beth Schwarzin (now Liz Copeland), Linda Karrh (now Linda Pickersgill), Nicki Lynch, Charlie Williams, and Mike Rogers (now Michelle Rogers).

Members and Apazines[edit]

OEs:[edit]

Dates Mailings Editor
September 1961 -- June 1962 1-4 Bob Jennings
December 1962 -- September 1963 5-8 Dave Hulan
September 1963 -- June 1964 9-12 Bill Plott
September 1964 -- March 1965 13-15 Joe Staton
June 1965 -- May 1966 16-20 Dave Hulan
August 1966 -- May 1968 21-28 Lon Atkins
August 1968 29 Lon Atkins and Ed Cox
November 1968 -- February 1969 30-31 Lon Atkins
May 1969 32 Bruce Pelz
August 1969 -- May 1970 33-36 Lon Atkins
August 1970 37 Lon Atkins and Don Markstein
November 1970 -- November 1973 38-56 Don Markstein
January 1974 -- May 1974 57-59 George Inzer
July 1974 60 Binker Hughes
November 1974 62 Steve Hughes and Binker Hughes
January 1975 -- November 1975 63-68 Guy Lillian
January 1976 -- July 1977 68-76 Stven Carlberg
September 1977 -- November 1977 77-78 Gary Brown
January 1978 -- November 1979 79-92 Alan Hutchinson
January 1980 -- November 1982 93-110 Guy Lillian
January 1983 -- November 1984 111-122 Dennis Dolbear
January 1985 -- November 1988 123-146 Stven Carlberg
January 1989 -- November 1990 147-158 George Inzer
January 1991 -- November 1991 159-164 Guy Lillian
January 1992 -- November 1993 165-176 JoAnn Montalbano
January 1994 -- November 1996 177-196 Gary Brown
January 1997 -- November 1998 195-206 Liz Copeland
January 1999 -- November 2000 207-218 Toni Weisskopf
January 2001 -- November 2003 219-236 Jeff Copeland
January 2004 -- November 2006 237-254 Sheila Strickland
January 2007 -- November 2009 255-272 David Schlosser
January 2010 -- November 2011 273-284 Guy Lillian
January 2012 -- November 2012 285-290 Bob Jennings
January 2013 -- November 2014 291-302 Gary Robe
January 2015 -- November 2018 303-326 Joe Moudry
January 2019 -- November 2022 327-348 David Schlosser
January 2023 -- Jeff Copeland


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