GUFF

GUFF (the Get Up-and-over Fan Fund, or the Going Under Fan Fund, depending on the direction of travel) was dreamed up by Chris Priest in 1977 to complete the triangle of major transoceanic fan funds and to bring an Australian fan to Britain for the 1979 Worldcon. Without the tiresome business of actually having a free trip anywhere, Dave Langford (UK) and Leigh Edmonds (AU) were the first administrators, and John Foyster was the first winner, and it seemed rather a nice idea to continue. The name DUFF being already taken, Chris imagined GUFF as standing for the Get Up-and-over Fan Fund, which didn't sound so brilliant when time came to do a southward trip, but as Don Marquis (who never stood for the fund either) so aptly put it, you can't have everything. [This description mostly provided by Dave Langford with the admonition that it needs to be marked "Copyright (c) Astral Leauge 1979 do not impinge copyright or the Leauge will take MEASURES.")]

GUFF continues to send fans between Australasia (mainly Australia, rarely New Zealand) and the U.K. or Europe (if there is a Worldcon there). So far it is the only one of the three major fan funds to maintain regular alternation of the travel direction without any changes; it has also had the longest intervals between trips. GUFF is patterned after TAFF and DUFF, with winners expected to publish a trip report and becoming co-administrators of the fund until the next winner from their respective continent returns from a trip.

In 2017, the voting deadline was extended from 1 April to 17 April; this accompanied a change to the ballot mentioned in the table below.

In 2018, the target convention was not the Australian Natcon, a Swancon held at Easter, clashing with the New Zealand Natcon (Conclave 3) not held on the Queen's Birthday weekend (June) as usual but at Easter. The target Australian convention was Continuum XIV on the Queen's Birthday.

Year & Dir.	Winner	Other Candidates	Notes	Reports & Bid Zines
1979 North	John Foyster	John Alderson, Eric Lindsay (later asked fans not to vote for him)	See The Northern Guffblower	Stranger in Stranger Lands, published 1996.
1980	No race
1981 South	Joseph Nicholas	Malcolm Edwards	See The Northern Guffblower	Immense 500,000-word record claimed drafted but lost in a house move. A condensed account "The Dreamtime" in Ansible 19, July 1981; another chapter in Ornithopter 10, Oct 1982
1982 1983	No race
1984 North	Justin Ackroyd	Shayne McCormack, Jean Weber, Roger Weddall	32-week trip
1985 South	Eve Harvey	John Jarrold		A Brighton Belle Meets Skippy, 1999
1986	No race
1987 North	Irwin Hirsh	Valma Brown, Jean Weber		10 chapters in various fanzines out of order 1988–99; available at the Australian Fan Funds Page
1988	No race
1989 South	Roelof Goudriaan (NL)	Linda Pickersgill
1990 North	Roman Orszanski	Larry Dunning, Mark Loney & Michelle Muijsert
1991	No race
1992 South	Eva Hauser(ová), Czech(oslovak)ia	Bridget Wilkinson	Bids Wild Shaarkah #7 + Please Turn Over. Trip "Australský deník", Interkom 1992 (Czech pt 1, 2); English abbreviated Wild Shaarkah 1992, reprint "My Australian Diary", Guffaw #4, 2000
1993 1994	"Due to a lack of candidates" to Helicon, decided to postpone until Intersection
1995 North	Ian Gunn & Karen Pender-Gunn	LynC, Kim Huett		Oh to be in England, In the summertime, With my love (1999) by Karen after Ian's death
1996 1997 1998	No race
1999 South	Paul Kincaid	Steve Davies, Julian Headlong		"The Coriolis Effect", 4 chapters in Guffaw 1999–2003
2000	No race
2001 North	Eric Lindsay & Jean Weber	Damien Warman & Juliette Woods (joint)		Jean and Eric 'Avalook at the UK
2002 2003	No race
2004 South	Pat McMurray	Doug Bell
2005 North	Damien Warman & Juliette Woods	Sue Ann Barber, Alison Barton, David Cake
2006	No race
2007 South	Ang Rosin	Johan Anglemark (SE), Steve Davies, Anna Davour		The 2007 GUFF Losers' Fanzine (Anglemark and Davour, after the race)
2008	No race
2009 North	Sue Ann Barber & Trevor Clark	Norah Ding (aged "almost two", with her mother), Alisa Krasnostein
2010 South	James Shields	Douglas Spencer		bid: Ego and Scruples (Spencer) report: A Rough Guide to GUFF (2015)
2011	No race
2012 North	Kylie Ding	Grant Watson	Ding wrote a brief "how-to" The Winners Guide to Winning a Fan Fund, 2015
2013 South	Mihaela Marija Perković (HR)	Julie McMurray		a few blog posts
2014 North	Gillian Polack	Alison Barton, Samara Morgan, Shay Telfer		Gillian's Book of Lists
2015	No race
2016 South	Jukka Halme (FI)	(none)	Perković went on serving as the European administrator until 2018, with Halme busy chairing Worldcon 75
2017 North	Donna Maree Hanson	Sam Hawke, Belle McQuattie, Alexandra Pierce (originally Pierce ran jointly with Alisa Krasnostein; the ballot was revised)		Series of blog posts; complete trip report also sold for GUFF for a time
2018 South	Marcin Klak (PL)	Steve & Alice Lawson (joint)		The Giant Leap to Never Never
2019 North	Simon Litten	Lynelle Howell, Nicole Murphy
2020 South	Alison Scott	Cora Buhlert (DE), Hisham El-Far + Lee Fletcher, Hanna Hakkarainen (FI), Elizabeth Jones + Claire Rousseau, Dave Lally	Due to Covid-19, participated remotely in CoNZealand and a virtual trip. Traveled Sept–Oct 2023.
2024 North	Kat Clay	Ian Nichols

• GUFF at Australian Fan Funds website
• GUFF news and materials at the TAFF website

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