Mark Plummer

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Mark Plummer, who lives in Croydon, UK, is co-editor with his partner Claire Brialey of the award-winning fanzine Banana Wings, formed by joining their fanzines Waxen Wings and Banana Skins. He found fandom in 1985 and is a member of ANZAPA.

Banana Wings been nominated for the Best Fanzine Hugo in 2005-2007, 2009-2013. It has won the Nova Award for Best Fanzine five times. It has also won the FAAn Award for Best Fanzine twice, in 2007 and 2010. It has been published from the 1990s and throughout the 2000s.

Claire and Mark also produced Easter Wine, a 2003 anthology for the convention Seacon03 Can't Get Off the Island, a 2005 collection of writing by Greg Pickersgill editor of Rastus Johnson's Cakewalk, which won the Nova Award for Best Fanzine in 1994.

He has worked on numerous conventions, including Eastercons and Worldcons. Is a former committee member of the British Science Fiction Association. He was a judge for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 1992-1995 and a columnist for Strange Horizons 2011-2013.

Fanzines and Apazines:

• Banana Skins
• Banana Wings (with Claire Brialey)
• Bumper Snufkin (with Claire Brialey)
• BW (with Claire Brialey)
• Easter Wine [2003] (with Claire Brialey)
• Can't Get Off the Island [2005] (with Claire Brialey)
• A GUFF Spotter's Handbook [1999] (with Claire Brialey)
• MDP [2010]
• Outlaw Mutation Boogie
• Parakeet (with Claire Brialey)
• Quoz (with Claire Brialey)
• Reflections in the Shards (with Claire Brialey)
• Slow Train to Immortality (with Claire Brialey)
• Super Hooper, Maureen's Duper
• Tobes Stole My Brain [2002] (with Claire Brialey)

Awards, Honors and GoHships:

• 1996 -- Doc Weir Award
• 2001 -- Paragon
• 2002 -- Past president of the FWA
• 2012 -- Nova Award for Best Fan Writer.
• 2019 -- FAAn Award for Best Fan Writer, Best Series or Column, and for Number 1 Fan Face
• 2021 -- FAAn Award: Harry Warner, Jr., Memorial Award for Best Letterhack
• many, many awards for Banana Wings, both Nova Awards and FAAn Awards

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