FAAn Awards
The FAAn Activity Achievement Awards are given annually for fanzine activity in the previous year. Voting is open to anyone with an interest. The awards are presented at Corflu, but membership in the convention isn’t required to participate.
History[edit]
After discussions at the 1974 Midwestcon and at Discon II in Washington about the sad state of the Hugo’s fannish categories, in late October, 1974, Moshe Feder sent out a mimeographed letter to influential fanzine fans proposing the creation of the Fanzine Activity Achievement Awards (FAAn Awards) as an alternative. Where the Hugos were popularly-voted awards, the FAAns would be a peer award imitating the Oscars. Nominating would be by guilds — fanwriters nominate fanwriters, fanartists nominate fanartists, etc. — followed by a final ballot voted on by all eligible to nominate in any category. Only currently active fanzine fans would be eligible to nominate and vote. (This was abandoned.)
Moshe's proposal was well received and a committee was formed to refine the concept and run the inaugural award process. Committee members took turns publishing The Zine Fan, the discussion-zine in which the awards' business was conducted. The members of the founding committee were Bill Bowers, Donn Brazier, Linda Bushyager, Don D'Ammassa, Tom Digby, Moshe Feder, Mike Glicksohn, Mike Glyer, Eric Lindsay, Sam Long, Ray Nelson, Darroll Pardoe, Peter Roberts, Jim Shull, Jeff Smith, and Harry Warner, Jr..
The first awards were presented by Bob Tucker at Midwestcon in 1975. The trophy, designed and made by fanartist Randy Bathurst, depicted a propeller-beanie-wearing bheercan perched atop a duplicator, each one slightly different, and mounted atop a walnut base with a photoengraved nameplate.
The FAAns were awarded till 1980, then went into a long hiatus. When they were revived in 1995, they were awarded at Corflu and have been awarded there ever since.
The awards were originally peripatetic, but for some time now have been awarded at Corflu. They are unrelated to the earlier Fan Achievement Awards.
| Year Awarded | Where | Best Fanzine, Single Issue | Best Fan Writer | Best Fan Editor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | Midwestcon 26 | Outworlds #21/22, Bill Bowers | Don C. Thompson | Bill Bowers |
| 1976 | Outworlds #23, Bill Bowers | Don D'Ammassa | Bill Bowers | |
| 1977 | (tie): Maya #11, Rob Jackson and Spanish Inquisition 7/8, Jerry Kaufman & Suzanne Tompkins | Bob Shaw | Rob Jackson | |
| 1978 | Maya #14, Rob Jackson | Bob Shaw | Rob Jackson | |
| 1979 | Mythologies #14, Don D'Ammassa | Bob Shaw | Jeanne Gomoll & Janice Bogstad | |
| 1980 | Scientifriction #11, Mike Glyer | Dave Langford | Jeanne Gomoll & Janice Bogstad |
| Year Awarded | Where | Best Fan Artist - Humorous | Best Fan Artist - Serious | Best LoC Writer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | Midwestcon 26 | Bill Rotsler | Jim Shull | Harry Warner, Jr. |
| 1976 | Grant Canfield | Jim Shull | Mike Glicksohn | |
| 1977 | Harry Bell | Jim Shull | Mike Glicksohn | |
| 1978 | Alexis Gilliland | Jim Shull | Mike Glicksohn | |
| 1979 | Alexis Gilliland | Joan Hanke-Woods | Harry Warner, Jr. | |
| 1980 | Alexis Gilliland | Joan Hanke-Woods | Harry Warner, Jr. |
No awards given 1980–94. All subsequent presentations at Corflu.
| Year Awarded | Best Fanzine | Best Fan Writer | Best Fan Artist | Best New Fanzine Fan | Number 1 Fan Face* | Best Letterhack |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | BLAT!, Dan Steffan & Ted White | Andrew Hooper | Dan Steffan | |||
| 1995 | Apparatchik, Victor Gonzalez, Andrew Hooper, & Carl Juarez, editors | Andrew Hooper | D. West | |||
| 1996: (the gap here is the result of changing from the eligibility year to the award year; the 1994 and 1995 awards were actually awarded in 1995 and 1996) | ||||||
| 1997 | Apparatchik, Victor Gonzalez, Andrew Hooper, & Carl Juarez | Andrew Hooper | Ian Gunn | |||
| 1998 | Idea, Geri Sullivan | Christina Lake | D. West | Lesley Reece | Geri Sullivan | Harry Warner, Jr. |
| 1999 | Outworlds, Bill Bowers | Ted White | Ian Gunn | Karen Johnson | Not awarded | Harry Warner, Jr. |
| 2000 | Trap Door, Robert Lichtman | Christina Lake | D. West | Yvonne Rowse | Robert Lichtman | Lloyd Penney |
| 2001 | Idea, Geri Sullivan | Victor Gonzalez | Steve Stiles | Sheila Lightsey | Robert Lichtman | Robert Lichtman |
| 2002 | Wabe, Jae Leslie Adams, Tracy Benton, & Bill Bodden | Alison Freebairn | Dave Hicks | Max | Not awarded | Lloyd Penney |
| 2003 | Chunga, Randy Byers, Andrew Hooper & Carl Juarez | Randy Byers | Steve Stiles | John Teehan | Randy Byers | Joseph Nicholas |
| * This is an unofficial FAAn Award, calculated and bestowed only when a fan is able to amass more total voting points across all categories than any single fan or fanzine receives in any single category. To be eligible for the list, a fan must receive votes in at least two categories. | ||||||
| In 2003 the attendees voted to rename the Best Letterhack Award to the Harry Warner, Jr. Memorial Award. | ||||||
| Year Awarded | Best Fanzine | Best Fan Writer | Best Fan Artist | Best New Fanzine Fan | Number 1 Fan Face | Best Humorist | Special Award |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Trap Door, Robert Lichtman | Gordon Eklund | Steve Stiles | Pete Young | Andrew Hooper | Andrew Hooper | Bill Burns for the website eFanzines.com |
| Year Awarded | Best Fanzine | Best Fan Writer | Best Fan Artist | Best Fanzine Design | Harry Warner, Jr., Memorial Award for Best Fan Correspondent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Chunga, Randy Byers, Andrew Hooper & Carl Juarez | Claire Brialey | Steve Stiles | Carl Juarez for Chunga | Lloyd Penney |
| Year Awarded | Best Fanzine | Best Fan Writer | Best Fan Artist | Best New Fanzine Fan | Harry Warner, Jr., Memorial Award for Best Fan Correspondent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Chunga, Randy Byers, Andrew Hooper & Carl Juarez | Claire Brialey | Steve Stiles | Chris Garcia | Robert Lichtman |
| 2007 | Banana Wings, Claire Brialey & Mark Plummer | Claire Brialey | Dan Steffan | Teresa Cochran | Lloyd Penney |
| Year | Best Fanzine | Best Fan Writer | Best Fan Artist | Best New Fanzine Fan | Number 1 Fan Face | Best Fan Website | Harry Warner, Jr., Memorial Award for Best Fan Correspondent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Prolapse, Peter Weston | Arnie Katz | Dan Steffan | John Coxon | Arnie Katz | Bill Burns's eFanzines.com | Robert Lichtman |
| 2009 | e*I, Earl Kemp | Bruce Gillespie | Dan Steffan | tie: Jean Martin & Kat Templeton | not awarded | Bill Burns's eFanzines.com | Lloyd Penney |
| 2010 | Banana Wings, Claire Brialey & Mark Plummer, editors | Claire Brialey | Steve Stiles | Jacqueline Monahan | Robert Lichtman | Bill Burns's eFanzines.com | Robert Lichtman |
| 2011 | Trap Door, Robert Lichtman | Roy Kettle | Steve Stiles | not awarded | not awarded | Bill Burns's eFanzines.com | Robert Lichtman |
| Year | Best Single Issue | Best Fanzine Cover | Best Special Publication | Special No Award Award |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Alternative Pants by Randy Byers | not awarded | ||
| 2013 | Trap Door #29, edited by Robert Lichtman | Banana Wings #50 by Dan Steffan | ||
| 2014 | Trap Door #30, edited by Robert Lichtman | Inca #9 by Harry Bell | ||
| 2015 | Trap Door #31, edited by Robert Lichtman | Banana Wings #56 by D. West | ||
| 2016 | Raucous Caucus #4 by D. West with Harry Bell | The MOTA Reader, edited by Dan Steffan | ||
| 2017 | Beam #10 by Harry Bell | Then by Rob Hansen | Marty Cantor, editor of No Award | |
| 2018 | Rubber Crab #8 by Graham West | Same Planet, Different World: Jacq Monahan's TAFF Report, by Jacq Monahan | ||
| 2019 | These categories were split. See 2019 FAAn Awards | |||
| 2020 | ||||
| 2021 | Sara Felix (Beam 15) | Outworlds 71 (Bill Bowers, Pat Virzi Jeanne Bowman, Alan Rosenthal and Rich Coad | ||
| Year | FAAn Award for Lifetime Achievement |
|---|---|
| 2010 | Ted White |
| 2011 | Art Widner |
| 2012 | Earl Kemp and Shelby Vick |
| 2013 | Elinor Busby |
| 2014 | Ray Nelson |
| 2015 | Peter Weston |
| 2016 | John Bangsund |
| 2017 | (not given) |
| 2018 | Bruce Gillespie |
| 2019 | Paul Skelton |
| 2020 | Robert Lichtman |
| 2021 | Dave Langford |
See also Faaaaan.
| Award | 1975— |
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