FAAn Awards

The FAAn Activity Achievement Awards are given annually for fanzine activity in the previous year. Voting is open to anyone with an interest. The awards are presented at Corflu, but membership in the convention isn’t required to participate. They are unrelated to the earlier Fan Achievement Awards. See also Faaaaan.

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History

After discussions at the 1974 Midwestcon 25 and at Discon II in Washington about the sad state of the Hugo’s fannish categories, in late October 1974 Moshe Feder sent out a mimeographed letter to influential fanzine fans proposing the creation of the Fanzine Activity Achievement Awards (FAAn Awards) as an alternative. Where the Hugos were popularly-voted, the FAAns would be a peer award imitating the Oscars. Nominating would be by guilds – fanwriters nominate fanwriters, fanartists nominate fanartists, etc. – followed by a final ballot voted on by all eligible to nominate in any category. Only currently active fanzine fans would be eligible to nominate and vote. (This was abandoned.)

Moshe's proposal was well received and a committee was formed to refine the concept and run the inaugural award process. Committee members took turns publishing The Zine Fan, the discussion-zine in which the awards' business was conducted. The members of the founding committee were Bill Bowers, Donn Brazier, Linda Bushyager, Don D'Ammassa, Tom Digby, Moshe Feder, Mike Glicksohn, Mike Glyer, Eric Lindsay, Sam Long, Ray Nelson, Darroll Pardoe, Peter Roberts, Jim Shull, Jeff Smith, and Harry Warner, Jr..

The first awards were presented by Bob Tucker at Midwestcon 26 in 1975. The trophy, designed and made by fanartist Randy Bathurst, depicted a propeller-beanie-wearing bheercan perched atop a duplicator, each one slightly different, and mounted atop a walnut base with a photoengraved nameplate.

The FAAns were awarded till 1980 at varying conventions, then went into a long hiatus. When they were revived in 1995, they were awarded at Corflu and have been awarded there ever since.

Second series (post-1994)

No awards given 1980–94. All subsequent presentations at Corflu.

Year Award­ed	Best Fanzine	Best Fan Writer	Best Fan Artist
1994	BLAT!, Dan Steffan & Ted White	Andrew Hooper	Dan Steffan
1995	Apparatchik, Victor Gonzalez, Andrew Hooper, & Carl Juarez	Andrew Hooper	D. West
1996: (the gap here is the result of changing from the eligibility year to the award year; the 1994 and 1995 awards were actually awarded in 1995 and 1996)
1997	Apparatchik, Victor Gonzalez, Andrew Hooper, & Carl Juarez	Andrew Hooper	Ian Gunn	Best New Fanzine Fan	Number 1 Fan Face*	Best Letterhack
1998	Idea, Geri Sullivan	Christina Lake	D. West	Lesley Reece	Geri Sullivan	Harry Warner, Jr.
1999	Outworlds, Bill Bowers	Ted White	Ian Gunn	Karen Johnson	not given	Harry Warner, Jr.
2000	Trap Door, Robert Lichtman	Christina Lake	D. West	Yvonne Rowse	Robert Lichtman	Lloyd Penney
2001	Idea, Geri Sullivan	Victor Gonzalez	Steve Stiles	Sheila Lightsey	Robert Lichtman	Robert Lichtman
2002	Wabe, Jae Leslie Adams, Tracy Benton, & Bill Bodden	Alison Freebairn	Dave Hicks	Max	Not awarded	Lloyd Penney
2003	Chunga, Randy Byers, Andrew Hooper & Carl Juarez	Randy Byers	Steve Stiles	John Teehan	Randy Byers	Joseph Nicholas
* This is an unofficial FAAn Award, calculated and bestowed only when a fan is able to amass more total voting points across all categories than any single fan or fanzine receives in any single category. To be eligible for the list, a fan must receive votes in at least two categories.
In 2003 the attendees voted to rename the Best Letterhack Award to the Harry Warner, Jr. Memorial Award.

Year	Best Fanzine	Best Fan Writer	Best Fan Artist	Best New Fanzine Fan	Number 1 Fan Face	Best Humorist	Special Award
2004	Trap Door, Robert Lichtman	Gordon Eklund	Steve Stiles	Pete Young	Andrew Hooper	Andrew Hooper	Bill Burns for the website eFanzines.com

Year	Best Fanzine	Best Fan Writer	Best Fan Artist	Best Fanzine Design	Harry Warner, Jr., Memorial Award for Best Fan Correspondent
2005	Chunga, Randy Byers, Andrew Hooper & Carl Juarez	Claire Brialey	Steve Stiles	Carl Juarez for Chunga	Lloyd Penney

Year	Best Fanzine	Best Fan Writer	Best Fan Artist	Best New Fanzine Fan	Harry Warner, Jr., Memorial Award for Best Fan Correspondent
2006	Chunga, Randy Byers, Andrew Hooper & Carl Juarez	Claire Brialey	Steve Stiles	Chris Garcia	Robert Lichtman
2007	Banana Wings, Claire Brialey & Mark Plummer	Claire Brialey	Dan Steffan	Teresa Cochran	Lloyd Penney

Year	Best Fanzine	Best Fan Writer	Best Fan Artist	Best New Fanzine Fan	Number 1 Fan Face	Best Fan Website	Harry Warner, Jr., Memorial Award for Best Fan Correspondent
2008	Prolapse, Peter Weston	Arnie Katz	Dan Steffan	John Coxon	Arnie Katz	Bill Burns's eFanzines.com	Robert Lichtman
2009	e*I, Earl Kemp	Bruce Gillespie	Dan Steffan	tie: Jean Martin & Kat Templeton	not awarded	Bill Burns's eFanzines.com	Lloyd Penney
2010	Banana Wings, Claire Brialey & Mark Plummer	Claire Brialey	Steve Stiles	Jacqueline Monahan	Robert Lichtman	Bill Burns's eFanzines.com	Robert Lichtman
2011	Trap Door, Robert Lichtman	Roy Kettle	Steve Stiles	not awarded	not awarded	Bill Burns's eFanzines.com	Robert Lichtman

Year	Best Genzine	Best Perzine	Best Fan Writer	Best Fan Artist	Number 1 Fan Face	Best Fan Website*	Harry Warner, Jr., Memorial Award for Best Letterhack
2012	Banana Wings, Claire Brialey & Mark Plummer, editors	A Meara for Observers by Mike Meara	Mark Plummer	Steve Stiles	Mark Plummer	eFanzines.com, managed by Bill Burns	Robert Lichtman
2013	Banana Wings, Claire Brialey & Mark Plummer, editors	A Meara for Observers by Mike Meara	Andy Hooper	Dan Steffan	Dan Steffan	eFanzines.com, managed by Bill Burns	Robert Lichtman
2014	Banana Wings, ed Mark Plummer & Claire Brialey	Flag, ed Andy Hooper	Andy Hooper	Steve Stiles	not awarded	eFanzines.com, managed by Bill Burns	Robert Lichtman
2015	Banana Wings	Vibrator, ed. Graham Charnock	Mark Plummer	Steve Stiles	Steve Stiles	eFanzines.com, managed by Bill Burns	Paul Skelton
2016	tie: Chunga, ed Randy Byers, Andy Hooper and Carl Juarez; and Raucous Caucus, ed Pat Charnock	Vibrator, edited by Graham Charnock	Roy Kettle	Steve Stiles	Dan Steffan	eFanzines.com, managed by Bill Burns	Paul Skelton
2017	Banana Wings	The White Notebooks, ed. Pete Young	Andy Hooper	Steve Stiles	not awarded	eFanzines.com, managed by Bill Burns	Paul Skelton
2018	Beam, edited by Nic Farey & Ulrika O'Brien	Vibrator, by Graham Charnock	Randy Byers	Steve Stiles	Jacq Monahan	eFanzines.com, hosted by Bill Burns (changed to Best Online Activity in 2018)	tie: Robert Lichtman and Milt Stevens
2019	Banana Wings, eds. Claire Brialey and Mark Plummer	(Tie) Flag ed. Andrew Hooper and Vibrator ed. Graham Charnock	Mark Plummer	(category split)	Mark Plummer	(category split)	Paul Skelton
2020	Best Fanzine: Banana Wings Best Genzine: (tie) Banana Wings & Chunga Best Whatchamacallit: (tie) Ansible & Lofgeornost	This Here... ed. Nic Farey	Mark Plummer	Ulrika O'Brien	not awarded	Best Online Activity: Fanac.org	Steve Jeffery
2021	Portable Storage, ed William Breiding	This Here... by Nic Farey	Claire Brialey	Ulrika O'Brien	Claire Brialey	fanac.org	Mark Plummer
2022	Portable Storage	This Here...	Nic Farey	Ulrika O'Brien	Nic Farey	Category removed from awards	Jerry Kaufman
2023	Portable Storage	This Here...	Justin E. A. Busch & Nic Farey	Ulrika O'Brien	not awarded	not awarded	Jerry Kaufman
2024	Science Fiction Commentary, ed Bruce Gillespie	This Here...	Mark Plummer	Ulrika O'Brien	not awarded	not awarded	Jerry Kaufman
2025	Banana Wings	This Here...	Nic Farey	Teddy Harvia	not awarded	not awarded	Leigh Edmonds

Year	Best Single Issue	Best Fanzine Cover
2012	Alternative Pants by Randy Byers	not awarded
2013	Trap Door #29 ed Robert Lichtman	Banana Wings #50 by Dan Steffan
2014	Trap Door #30 ed Robert Lichtman	Inca #9 by Harry Bell
2015	Trap Door #31 ed Robert Lichtman	Banana Wings #56 by D. West	Best Special Publication
2016		Raucous Caucus #4 by D. West with Harry Bell	The MOTA Reader, ed Dan Steffan
2017	Special No Award Award: Marty Cantor, editor of No Award	Beam #10 by Harry Bell	Then by Rob Hansen
2018		Rubber Crab #8 by Graham West	Same Planet, Different World: Jacq Monahan's TAFF Report
2019	These categories were split. See 2019 FAAn Awards
2020		Thy Life's a Miracle by Ulrika O'Brien	Thy Life's a Miracle, ed. Luke McGuff
2021		Sara Felix (Beam 15)	Outworlds 71 (Bill Bowers, Pat Virzi,Jeanne Bowman, Alan Rosenthal and Rich Coad)
2022	not awarded	Littlebrook #11 by Ulrika O'Brien	Daangerous Visions (Sandra Bond, Rob Jackson and Pat Virzi)
2023	not awarded	Beam 16 by Alan White	1957: The First UK Worldcon by Rob Hansen
2024	not awarded	Idea 13 by Sue Mason	Beyond Fandom by Rob Hansen
2025	not awarded	SF Commentary 118 by Elaine Cochrane	SF Fandom - Its Part in Our Downfall by Claire Brialey and Mark Plummer

Year	FAAn Award for Lifetime Achievement
2010	Ted White
2011	Art Widner
2012	Earl Kemp and Shelby Vick
2013	Elinor Busby
2014	Ray Nelson
2015	Peter Weston
2016	John Bangsund
2017	(not given)
2018	Bruce Gillespie
2019	Paul Skelton
2020	Robert Lichtman
2021	Dave Langford
2022	Geri Sullivan
2023	Rob Hansen
2024	Joe Siclari and Edie Stern
2025	Mark Olson

Administrative History

Year	Date	Given at	Administrator	Voting details
1975	July 3-6, 1975	OakLaCon (Westercon 28)		1975 FAAn Awards
1976	July 2-5, 1976	Westercon 29	UK: Ian Williams	1976 FAAn Awards
1977	July 22-24, 1977	AutoClave 2	Moshe Feder and Bruce Pelz, UK Rob Jackson	1977 FAAn Awards
1978	July 21-23, 1978	AutoClave 3	Bruce Pelz, UK: Ian Maule	1978 FAAn Awards Results FAAn Awards 1978
1979			Mike Glicksohn and Leigh Edmonds UK: Ian Maule	1979 FAAn Awards Results FAAn Awards 1979
1980			Mike Glicksohn UK: Rob Jackson	1980 FAAn Awards
1981–1993 not given
1994	April 9, 1995	Corflu 12		1994 FAAn Awards
1995	March 17, 1996	Corflu 13	Janice Murray	1995 FAAn Awards
1996 gap is the result of changing from the Nebula-style eligibility year to the award year; the 1994 and 1995 awards were given in 1995 and 1996
1997	March 13-17, 1997	Corflu 14	Janice Murray	1997 FAAn Awards
1998	March 13-16, 1998	Corflu 15	Andy Hooper	1998 FAAn Awards
1999	May 2, 1999	Corflu 16	Andy Hooper	1999 FAAn Awards
2000	March 5, 2000	Corflu 17	Andy Hooper	2000 FAAn Awards
2001	April 1, 2001	Corflu 18	Andy Hooper	2001 FAAn Awards
2002	February 14–17, 2002	Corflu 19	Victor Gonzalez	2002 FAAn Awards Results
2003	April 27, 2003	Corflu 20	Andy Hooper	2003 FAAn Awards
2004	March 21, 2004	Corflu 21	Joyce Worley Katz	2004 FAAn Awards
2005	February 27, 2005	Corflu 22	Andy Hooper	2005 FAAn Awards
2006	May 7, 2006	Corflu 23	Murray Moore	2006 FAAn Awards Results
2007	February 11, 2007	Corflu 24	Murray Moore	2007 FAAn Awards Results
2008	April 27, 2008	Corflu 25	Murray Moore	2008 FAAn Awards Results
2009	March 15, 2009	Corflu 26	Hal O'Brien	2009 FAAn Awards
2010	March 21, 2010	Corflu 27	Mike Meara	2010 FAAn Awards Results
2011	February 13, 2011	Corflu 28	Spike	2011 FAAn Awards Results
2012	April 22, 2012	Corflu 29	Andy Hooper	2012 FAAn Awards Results
2013	May 5, 2013	Corflu 30	Andy Hooper	2013 FAAn Awards Results
2014	May 4, 2014	Corflu 31	Andy Hooper	2014 FAAn Awards Results
2015	March 30, 2015	Corflu 32	Mike Meara	2015 FAAn Awards Results
2016	May 15, 2016	Corflu 33	Claire Brialey	2016 FAAn Awards Results
2017	April 30, 2017	Corflu 34	Murray Moore	2017 FAAn Awards
2018	May 6, 2018	Corflu 35	Nic Farey	2018 FAAn Awards Results
2019	May 5, 2019	Corflu 36	Curt Phillips and Michael Dobson	2019 FAAn Awards
2020	March 15, 2020	Corflu 37	John Purcell	2020 FAAn Awards
2021	March 28, 2021	virtual	Nic Farey	2021 FAAn Awards
2022	March 20, 2022	virtual	Nic Farey	2022 FAAn Awards
2023	April 2, 2023	Corflu 40	Nic Farey	2023 FAAn Awards
2024	March 3, 2024	Corflu 41	Nic Farey	2024 FAAn Awards
2025	April 13, 2025	Corflu 42	Nic Farey	2025 FAAn Awards

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