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(Did you mean the Science Fiction Poetry Association?)

The Southern Fandom Press Alliance, 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 was 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). Shadow-SFPA is an apa for SFPA waitlisters.

An HTML index to the entire fanzine title content of SFPA is hosted at Fanac and updated as mailings appear every other month - January, March, May, July, September, November. September 2011 (Mailing 283) will be the 50th anniversary (the apa was originally quarterly). The September 1976 mailing had 880 pages! But the April 1981 mailing -- the 100th -- which was collated at Satyricon had 1748 pages even without Harry Andruschak's 300+ page contribution. As of 2020 it was still active.

Contributors and Apazines:[edit]

OEs:[edit]

(Dates and issue numbers are what we know now.)

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 Stvn 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
July 2000 216 Toni Weisskopf
-- November 2003 220-236 Jeff Copeland
November 2005 248 Sheila Strickland


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