Best Semiprozine Hugo

The Best Semiprozine Hugo category was established by the WSFS Business Meeting in 1984 after the growth of large fanzines which were often produced to professional publishing standards and available essentially only by subscription (e.g., Locus, SFC) began to dominate the Best Fanzine category.

As befits a fuzzy distinction, the criteria which separated fanzines from semiprozines are complex:

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 (or the equivalent in other media), 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) paid its contributors and/or staff in other than copies of the publication,
(3) provided at least half the income of any one person,
(4) had at least fifteen percent (15%) of its total space occupied by advertising,
(5) announced itself to be a semiprozine.

They are basically designed to draw a line between the traditional fanzine (which, even if it has a subscription price, never brings in enough money to have a significant impact on its production values) and its bigger brethren. Note that there is no distinction between fanzine and semiprozine based on content.

Year	Winner
1946	Retro Hugo: Insufficient nominations -- category dropped
1951	Retro Hugo: Insufficient nominations -- category dropped
1954	Retro Hugo: Insufficient nominations -- category dropped
Split off from the Best Fanzine category.
1984	Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown
1985	Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown
1986	Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown
1987	Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown
1988	Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown
1989	Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown
1990	Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown
1991	Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown
1992	Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown
1993	Science Fiction Chronicle ed. by Andrew I. Porter
1994	Science Fiction Chronicle ed. by Andrew I. Porter
1995	Interzone ed. by David Pringle
1996	Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown
1997	Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown
1998	Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown
1999	Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown
2000	Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown
2001	Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown
2002	Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown
2003	Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown, Jennifer A. Hall and Kirsten Gong-Wong
2004	Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown, Jennifer A. Hall and Kirsten Gong-Wong
2005	Ansible ed. by Dave Langford
2006	Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown, Kirsten Gong-Wong and Liza Groen Trombi
2007	Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown, Kirsten Gong-Wong and Liza Groen Trombi
2008	Locus ed. by Charles N. Brown, Kirsten Gong-Wong and Liza Groen Trombi
2009	Weird Tales ed. by Ann VanderMeer and Stephen H. Segal
2010	Clarkesworld edited by Neil Clarke, Sean Wallace, & Cheryl Morgan
2011	Clarkesworld, edited by Neil Clarke, Cheryl Morgan, Sean Wallace; podcast directed by Kate Baker
2012	Locus, edited by Liza Groen Trombi, Kirsten Gong-Wong, et al.
2013	Clarkesworld, edited by Neil Clarke, Jason Heller, Sean Wallace, and Kate Baker
2014	Lightspeed, edited by John Joseph Adams, Rich Horton, and Stefan Rudnicki
2015	Lightspeed, edited by John Joseph Adams, Stefan Rudnicki, Rich Horton, Wendy N. Wagner, and Christie Yant
2016	Uncanny Magazine edited by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, Michi Trota, and Erika Ensign & Steven Schapansky
2017	Uncanny Magazine, edited by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, Michi Trota, Julia Rios, and podcast produced by Erika Ensign & Steven Schapansky
2018	Uncanny Magazine, edited by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, Michi Trota, Julia Rios, and podcast produced by Erika Ensign & Steven Schapansky
2019	Uncanny Magazine

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