GUFF (the Get Up-and-over Fan Fund, or the Going Under Fan Fund, depending on the direction of travel) was dreamed up by Chris Priest in 1977 to complete the triangle of fan funds and to bring an Australian fan to Britain for the 1979 Worldcon. Without the tiresome business of actually having a free trip anywhere, Dave Langford (UK) and Leigh Edmonds (in Australia) were the first administrators, and John Foyster was the first winner, and it seemed rather a nice idea to continue. The name DUFF being already taken, Chris imagined GUFF as standing for the Get Up-and-over Fan Fund, which didn't sound so brilliant when time came to do a southward trip, but as Don Marquis (who never stood for the fund either) so aptly put it, you can't have everything [This description mostly provided by Dave Langford with the admonition that it needs to be marked "Copyright (c) Astral Leauge 1979 do not impinge copyright or the Leauge will take MEASURES.")]
The fund continues to send fans between Australasia (mainly Australia and New Zealand) and the U.K. or Europe. Although trips alternate the the direction of travel, the intervals between trips vary.
GUFF is patterned after TAFF and DUFF, with fund winners being co-administrators of the fund until the next winner from their respective continent returns from a trip. GUFF winners, like winners of other fan funds, are expected to publish a trip report.
In 2017, the voting deadline was extended from 1 April to 17 April; this change accompanied a change to the ballot mentioned in the table below.
In 2018, the target Australian convention was not the Australian Natcon for that year, a Swancon held at Easter, and the New Zealand Natcon was not being held on the Queen's Birthday weekend (June). Instead, the New Zealand Natcon was being held at Easter and the target Australian convention was a Continuum convention held on the Queen's Birthday weekend.
| Year & Dir. |
Winner |
Other Candidates |
Notes |
Reports & Bid Zines
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| 1979 North |
John Foyster |
John Alderson,
Eric Lindsay (who later asked fans not to vote for him). |
See The Northern Guffblower |
Stranger in Stranger Lands, published 1996.
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| 1980 |
No race
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| 1981 South |
Joseph Nicholas |
Malcolm Edwards |
See The Northern Guffblower |
An immense 500,000-word record was reportedly drafted but lost during a house move. A condensed account appeared as "The Dreamtime" in Ansible 19, July 1981, and another chapter elsewhere.
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1982
1983 |
No race
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| 1984 North |
Justin Ackroyd |
Shayne McCormack, Jean Weber, Roger Weddall |
32-week trip |
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| 1985 South |
Eve Harvey |
John Jarrold |
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A Brighton Belle Meets Skippy, published 1999.
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| 1986 |
No race
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| 1987 North |
Irwin Hirsh |
Valma Brown, Jean Weber |
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Report in progress with many chapters published in fanzines 1988–99, readable on the Australian Fan Funds Page
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| 1988 |
No race
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| 1989 South |
Roelof Goudriaan |
Linda Pickersgill |
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| 1990 North |
Roman Orszanski |
Larry Dunning, Mark Loney & Michelle Muijsert |
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| 1991 |
No race
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| 1992 South |
Eva Hauser(ová) |
Bridget Wilkinson |
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bids: Wild Shaarkah 7 + Please Turn Over
trip: Australský deník in Interkom 1992: part 1, part 2 – Czech only but intelligible in machine translation & with pics
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1993
1994 |
No race
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| 1995 North |
Ian Gunn & Karen Pender-Gunn |
LynC, Kim Huett |
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Oh to be in England, In the summertime, With my love, published by Karen in 1999 after Ian's death.
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1996
1997
1998 |
No race
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| 1999 South |
Paul Kincaid |
Steve Davies, Julian Headlong |
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Guffaw
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| 2000 |
No race
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| 2001 North |
Eric Lindsay & Jean Weber |
Damien Warman & Juliette Woods (joint) |
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Jean and Eric 'Avalook at the UK
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2002
2003 |
No race
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| 2004 South |
Pat McMurray |
Doug Bell |
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| 2005 North |
Damien Warman & Juliette Woods |
Sue Ann Barber, Alison Barton, David Cake |
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| 2006 |
No race
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| 2007 South |
Ang Rosin |
Johan Anglemark, Steve Davies, Anna Davour |
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The 2007 GUFF Losers' Fanzine
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| 2008 |
No race
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| 2009 North |
Sue Ann Barber & Trevor Clark |
Norah Ding (aged "almost two", with her mother), Alisa Krasnostein |
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| 2010 South |
James Shields |
Douglas Spencer |
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Ego and Scruples Trip report: A Rough Guide to GUFF
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| 2011 |
No race
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| 2012 North |
Kylie Ding |
Grant Watson |
Ding wrote a "how-to" guide for fan fund candidates: The Winners Guide to Winning a Fan Fund |
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| 2013 South |
Mihaela Marija Perković |
Julie McMurray |
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| 2014 North |
Gillian Polack |
Alison Barton, Samara Morgan, Shay Telfer |
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Gillian's Book of Lists
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| 2015 |
No race
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| 2016 South |
Jukka Halme |
(none) |
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| 2017 North |
Donna Maree Hanson |
Sam Hawke, Belle McQuattie, Alexandra Pierce |
originally Pierce was running jointly with Alisa Krasnostein; the ballot was revised. |
Trip report
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| 2018 South |
Marcin Klak |
Steve & Alice Lawson (joint) |
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The Giant Leap to Never Never
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| 2019 North |
Simon Litten |
Lynelle Howell, Nicole Murphy |
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| 2020 South |
Alison Scott |
Cora Buhlert, Hisham El-Far and Lee Fletcher, Hanna Hakkarainen, Elizabeth Jones and Claire Rousseau, Dave Lally |
Due to Covid-19, the delegate will participate remotely in CoNZealand. Once it is possible and safe to travel again the GUFF trip will be organised. Until then a Virtual trip is being run.
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