SFPA

(Did you mean the Science Fiction Poetry Association?)

The Southern Fandom Press Alliance is a bi-monthly apa limited (though not entirely) to fans living in the Old South. It was founded in September 1961 by Bob Jennings. Its Official Organ is The Southerner.

Membership is governed by two rules: The "Damn Yankee" rule (no more than 20% of the membership could be non-Southern) and the Once a Southerner, Always a Southerner rule (a Southerner living in the North still counts as a Southerner). (These rules have been greatly relaxed due to decreasing membership and the apa is now open to anyone.) Shadow-SFPA was an apa for SFPA waitlisters when SFPA had a lengthy waitlist.

An index to the first 270 mailings of SFPA is hosted at Fanac.org.

Mailings appear every other month - January, March, May, July, September, November. September 2011 (Mailing 283) was the 50th anniversary (the apa was originally quarterly). The September 1976 15th anniversary mailing had 843 pages, the September 1981 20th anniversary mailing had 913 pages, and the September 1986 25th anniversary mailing had 1,037 pages! But the April 1981 mailing -- the 100th -- which was collated at Satyricon had 1,750 pages and ranks as the largest apa mailing of all time in terms of total page count. As of 2022, it was still active.

• Guy Lillian Southern Fandom Press Alliance Collection, 1961-2018, at Texas A & M University.
• SFPA Index, 2009.

Shadow SFPA

Shadow SFPA was an apa for people on the SFPA waitlist that was founded by Beth Schwarzin in 1977. The OEship passed from member to member as they are admitted to SFPA. It existed between May 1977 and September 1984, and had a total of 45 distributions. Shadow-SFPA distributions were both sent out to its members and included as a contribution to SFPA mailings. Shadow-SFPA OEs throughout its run were Beth Schwarzin (now Liz Copeland), Linda Karrh (now Linda Pickersgill), Nicki Lynch, Charlie Williams, and Mike Rogers (now Michelle Rogers).

Members and Apazines

• Eve Ackerman -- Guilty Pleasures
• Harry Andruschak --
• Dawn Atkins -- Catnip
• Kathy Atkins -- Potato Peelings
• Lon Atkins -- Clarges, The Thought of the Outside, Melikaphkhaz
• Cliff Biggers -- Talisman
• Lester Boutillier
• Ned Brooks -- Adzine for Addicts, The New Port News, Skiffy, It Comes in the Mail
• Gary Brown -- Con Confessions, Oblio
• Warren Buff -- Consurgito!
• Tom Campbell -- Planned Obsolescence
• Stven Carlberg -- Intuition, Chickadee Tidbits, Some Highlights from the SFPA History of Stven Carlberg
• Teri Carlberg -- Sky Child
• P. L. Caruthers-Montgomery -- The Flame of S. F. P. A.
• Randy B. Cleary -- Avatar Press
• Jim Cobb -- A Dirty Mind Doesn't Mind a Bit
• Jeff Copeland -- A vast number of one-shot titles. See the Jeff Copeland article for a list.
• Liz Copeland -- Home with the Armadillo
• Ed Cox -- Acrux
• Chris Couch & Lesleigh Couch -- Quark
• Hank Davis -- If This Looks Like a Short Zine
• Janet Davis -- Janet in SFPA-Land
• Richard Dengrove -- Twygdrasil and Treehouse Gazette
• Tom Feller -- Frequent Flyer
• Eric Ferguson --
• Meade Frierson -- Mysterious Spring Valley Triangle, Raving Timmie Ggazzette
• Meade & Penny Frierson -- A Passing Fancy, We Grock You, S.F.P.A.
• Penny Frierson -- Bech
• Janice Gelb -- Winter Wanderings, The Bronze Armadillo Alarm Clock, Trivial Pursuits, Yawning in York, February Flights, The Ellison Webderland Experience, Philly Follies
• Bill Gibson --
• Deb Hammer Johnson -- Starjazzer
• Laura Haywood-Cory -- Get Off My Lawn
• Arthur D. Hlavaty -- Confessions of a Consistent Liar, Nice Distinctions
• Binker Hughes -- The Yellow Peril, Trash
• Steve Hughes -- The Yellow Peril, Imagination, Trash, Bring Back the Sun, Random Thoughts, Comments
• David Hulan -- The High Aesthetic Line, Campaign Trail, Loki
• Rachel Hulan -- Snow White and the Twenty-Eight Kids
• Alan Hutchinson -- Jimmy Carter, Warlord of Mars, Carl Barks Calendar, The Reinhardt Roast
• George Inzer -- Sitzfleisch #2, You Are Cordially Invited to the Next SFPA War
• Lee Jacobs -- The Thought of the Outside
• Bob Jennings -- Vertical View, Fadaway
• Arnie Katz -- DamnYankee
• Irv Koch -- Dear Janie, Time Limit, Offline Reader
• Janet Larson -- Passages, Days of Future Passed, A Blast from the Past
• Guy Lillian -- GHLIII, Egoboo Story, Lon: A Tribute, Oscar & Me, The Reinhardt Roast, Spiritus Mundi, The Fantastic Route, Spartacus
• Rich Lynch -- Variations on a Theme, This is Not a Minaczine'
• Don Markstein -- The Ancient and Mysterious Trombone Solo Monthly Review, March and Two Step, Memoirs of an Armchair Astronaut, The Sphere
• Kent McDaniel -- Outre
• Tom McGovern --
• Norm Metcalf -- Tyndallite
• Larry Montgomery -- Warlock, Conglomeration
• Joe Moudry -- Fingertip Reality
• Bruce Pelz -- Everything
• Billy H. Pettit -- Amphipoxi
• Curt Phillips --
• Bill Plott -- Sporadic
• Andy Porter --
• Gene Reed -- Dwerd's Dwelling
• Hank Reinhardt --Odin
• Tommy Riddle -- The Ancient and Mysterious Trombone Solo Monthly Review, March and Two Step
• Gary Robe -- Tennessee Trash
• David Schlosser -- Peter, Pan & Merry
• Joe Staton -- Invader, Florimel
• Milt Stevens -- Crypt of Ennui
• Sheila J. Strickland -- Revenant
• Gary Tesser
• Mitch Thornhill
• Ted Tom -- Arahant
• George H. Wells -- Among the Yankers, The Journal of Human Suffering and Pez, Smurfic Instinct
• Toni Weisskopf -- Yngve is a Wimp
• Noreen Wetherington -- Muse-ings
• Doug Wirth -- Captain SFPA vs. the Fetid Whoreds of ROTSA

OEs:

Dates	Mailings	Editor
September 1961 -- June 1962	1-4	Bob Jennings
December 1962 -- September 1963	5-8	Dave Hulan
September 1963 -- June 1964	9-12	Bill Plott
September 1964 -- March 1965	13-15	Joe Staton
June 1965 -- May 1966	16-20	Dave Hulan
August 1966 -- May 1968	21-28	Lon Atkins
August 1968	29	Lon Atkins and Ed Cox
November 1968 -- February 1969	30-31	Lon Atkins
May 1969	32	Bruce Pelz
August 1969 -- May 1970	33-36	Lon Atkins
August 1970	37	Lon Atkins and Don Markstein
November 1970 -- November 1973	38-56	Don Markstein
January 1974 -- May 1974	57-59	George Inzer
July 1974	60	Binker Hughes
November 1974	62	Steve Hughes and Binker Hughes
January 1975 -- November 1975	63-68	Guy Lillian
January 1976 -- July 1977	68-76	Stven Carlberg
September 1977 -- November 1977	77-78	Gary Brown
January 1978 -- November 1979	79-92	Alan Hutchinson
January 1980 -- November 1982	93-110	Guy Lillian
January 1983 -- November 1984	111-122	Dennis Dolbear
January 1985 -- November 1988	123-146	Stven Carlberg
January 1989 -- November 1990	147-158	George Inzer
January 1991 -- November 1991	159-164	Guy Lillian
January 1992 -- November 1993	165-176	JoAnn Montalbano
January 1994 -- November 1996	177-196	Gary Brown
January 1997 -- November 1998	195-206	Liz Copeland
January 1999 -- November 2000	207-218	Toni Weisskopf
January 2001 -- November 2003	219-236	Jeff Copeland
January 2004 -- November 2006	237-254	Sheila Strickland
January 2007 -- November 2009	255-272	David Schlosser
January 2010 -- November 2011	273-284	Guy Lillian
January 2012 -- November 2012	285-290	Bob Jennings
January 2013 -- November 2014	291-302	Gary Robe
January 2015 -- November 2018	303-326	Joe Moudry
January 2019 -- November 2022	327-348	David Schlosser
January 2023 --		Jeff Copeland

• The Southerner online at fanac.org.

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