N'APA

(For other Napae, see NAPA (Disambiguation).)

N’APA is the bi-monthly Neffer Amateur Press Alliance, the club second oldest publication. The apa was formed in 1959 for members of the National Fantasy Fan Federation (a.k.a. NFFF or N3F) to help introduce those who were wannabe fanzine publishers to the ways of fanzine fandom.

Several prominent fans joined the N3F for the first time just to participate, which was the source of some amusement until the then-knowledgeable NFFF President warned off members of the N3F's Welcommittee who through naiveté were "welcoming" to fandom people who'd been active in the greater microcosm longer than they had.

For a time, the Official Organ was titled N'APA Yap, but sometime around 1970 it was renamed Alliance Amateur.

The OE is called the Collator, a title still in use although the apa is now produced as a .pdf. As of 2023, that official was Jefferson Swycaffer.

N'APA publishes six mailings a year. It is distributed to all N3F members.

Website.

From Fancyclopedia 2 Supplement, ca. 1960

Pronounced, usually, nee-APA. The N3F's APA, open only to members. It is probably the most successful project of the club, and certainly the one responsible for the greatest amount of realized fanactivity. Its operation is not remarkably different from that of other APAs , except for the requirement that all members be N3F people.

Contributors and Apazines

• Don Anderson
• Tom Armistead -- Pied Type
• Lon Atkins -- Gyre, Clarges, Hoop
• Lenny Bailes -- Excalibur
• Ed Baker -- Dushe
• George Beahm -- Pathless Trails
• Judi Beatty-Sephton -- Buffering Solutions
• Lurel Beckley -- Hippocampus
• Richie Benyo -- Rissler's Ram
• Mark Blackman -- The Quire Infeasible
• John Boston -- Infernal Avenues
• Bee Bowman -- Hoom
• Ned Brooks -- Down with Reality, Reality Is Not Enough, The New Newport News News
• F. M. Busby -- No Place
• G. M. Carr -- Gemzine, As I See It, Gemel
• Vernon Clark -- The Drums of Skarl
• Ed Connor -- The Pointed Stake
• Walter Coslet -- Faunch
• Frank Denton -- Hoom, The Mirkwood Slow Coach
• Belle Dietz -- Peals
• Gordon Eklund -- Devil Ritter
• Ahrvid Engholm --Intermission
• Don Franson -- Neffervescent, Verbal Volleyball
• Bob "Argee" Gersman -- Fooka
• Tom Gilbert -- Carcasilla
• Clay Hamlin -- The Raving Maine-iac
• Owen Hannifen -- Neofan
• Jack Harness -- Six Pages in Search of a Title, Djebel, Obscene Matter
• Phil Harrell -- Sauron, Amazine
• Art Hayes -- Guano
• Ron Hicks -- Alchera
• Alma Hill -- Snorkel, ZZZ
• Mike Horvat -- Bibliomania Melancolia
• David Hulan -- Fenris
• Fred Jakobcic -- An Original Thought
• Eric Jamborsky -- Bar Stool
• Bob Jennings -- A Public Service
• Seth A. Johnson -- The Vaux Hall Fanatic
• Ted Johnstone -- Hippicaloric
• Arnie Katz -- Excalibur, Meow
• Irv Koch -- IMK, Apollooo
• Phil Kohn -- Eilat for Early Risers
• John Kusske -- Mickey
• La Rochelle -- FANport
• Janie Lamb -- Howdy, Un-Named
• Jerry Lapidus -- Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine, 2001 Light Years from Home
• Fred Lerner -- The Sociable Grosbeak
• Al Lewis -- Why Not
• Robert Lichtman
• Richard Llewellyn -- The Alternate Typewriter
• Frank Lee Linne -- Gorm Has Broken Free and Is Eating the Moon
• Samuel Lubell -- Samizdat... Ish
• Hank Luttrell -- Kercheif
• Richard Mann -- Nothing
• Tim Marion -- Branstock
• Will Mayo
• Larry McCombs -- Megaloscope
• Ed Meskys -- Polhode, Peskys, Niekas
• Norm Metcalf
• Mark Nelson -- Brandy Hall
• Ray Nelson -- Beauty and the Beast
• Larry Nielson -- The Doorknob Opened a Blue Eye and Looked at Him, MRRANK Rules the Waves
• Will Norris -- Strangers to the Stars
• Michael O'Brien -- Antipodes Observer
• D. K. Patrick -- Eris, HPIC
• Fred Patten -- Foofaraw, Why Give Up the Ship?
• Bruce Pelz -- Savoyard, Rache
• George Phillies --Ye Murthered Master Mage
• Andy Porter -- Degler
• Frank Prieto -- Fandom Is Just a Hobby
• Ian A. Ralph -- A Public Service
• Bruce Robbins -- Paradox
• Bob Roehm -- Cyan
• Felice Rolfe -- Niekas
• Heath Row -- Snow Poster Township
• Daniel Say -- Guard the North
• Kenneth Scher -- Parallax
• David Speakman -- FanDominion, Devoid Specimen
• Garth Spencer -- Brownian Motion
• Henry Stine -- Anthem
• Aljo Svoboda -- Rubber Duckie
• Jon D. Swartz -- The E-Ultraverse
• Jefferson P. Swycaffer -- Archive Midwinter
• Sally Syrjala -- Midnight Musings
• Roy Tackett -- Alcherner
• John Thiel --Synergy
• Creath Thorne -- Spina
• Kevin Trainor, Jr. -- Esmeralda County Line
• John Trimble -- Beauty and the Beast
• Phil Walker -- Ambul
• Jeff Wanshel -- Gribble
• Mike Ward -- Fanac Less Than Infinity
• Wally Weber -- Phantom, Rot
• Robert E. Weinberg -- Morgan Smith
• George Wells -- Plateau
• Frank Wilimczyk -- Gardyloo
• Larry Williams -- Quirk, Cinder
• Art Wilson -- Coprofile
• Stan Woolston -- Science Fiction Parade
• James Wright -- TetraGremmaton, Arkham Phud

OEs:

• 1959–62 — ????
• 1963 — Robert Lichtman
• December 1963–December 1964 — Fred Patten
• 1965–68 — ????
• 1969 — Art Hayes
• 1970 — ????
• 1971 — Frank Denton
• 1972 — David K. Patrick
• 1973–74 — ????
• 1975 — Frank Balazs
• 1976–78 — ????
• 1979–81 — Frank Denton
• 1982–2016 — ????
• 2016–18 — George Phillies
• 2018–present — Jefferson Swycaffer

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