British Fantasy Amateur Press Association
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The British Fantasy Amateur Press Association or BFAPA was a proposed UK APA of the 1940s. However, there is no evidence that it ever came into being.
The idea was formulated at the BFS Pendle Expedition and inspired by FAPA. A proposal was floated in Futurian War Digest #29 (July 1943), sponsored by Ron Lane, Roy Johnson and Don Houston:
... tentative plans are for a quarterly mailing, members having to produce a minimum of eight quarto pages a year. There will be no limit to membership though a fairly high standard (by what measurement? - JMR) will probably be necessary regard to material. All interested should get in touch with Don Houston ... and if enough replies are received a complete system will be evolved. For those without duplicators, duplicating can be done, and at a pinch, even stencilling. Walk up, walk up...
The assumption is that fans did not walk up, or at least not in significant numbers, and the idea was never mentioned again. British fandom was seemingly not ready for an APA and it would be another eleven years before the launch of the first, the Offtrails Magazine Publishers Association (OMPA).
