Literary award · since 1955
Hugo Award for Best Fanzine
Annual award for science fiction or fantasy. Established 1955.
About Hugo Award for Best Fanzine
The Hugo Award for Best Fanzine is given each year for non professionally edited magazines, or "fanzines", related to science fiction or fantasy which has published four or more issues with at least one issue appearing in the previous calendar year. Awards were also once given out for professional magazines in the professional magazine category, and since 1984 have been awarded for semi-professional magazines in the semiprozine category; several magazines that were finalist in or won the fanzine category have gone on to be finalists in or win the semiprozine category since it was established. The Hugo Awards have been described as "a fine showcase for speculative fiction" and "the best known literary award for science fiction writing". The award was first presented in 1955, and has been given annually since except for in 1958.
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Recent winners
| Year | Winner | Winning work |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together | — |
| 2025 | Black Nerd Problems | — |
| 2024 | Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together | — |
| 2023 | Zero Gravity Newspaper | — |
| 2022 | Small Gods | — |
| 2021 | Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together | — |
| 2020 | The Book Smugglers | — |
| 2019 | Lady Business | — |
| 2018 | File 770 | — |
| 2017 | Lady Business | — |
| 2016 | File 770 | — |
| 2015 | Journey Planet | — |
| 2014 | A Dribble of Ink | — |
| 2013 | SF Signal | — |
| 2012 | SF Signal | — |
From Wikidata; the list may be incomplete for some years.
Eligibility and entering
Check the official rules of the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine for the current eligibility window, accepted formats, residency or language requirements and any entry fee. For most established prizes the publisher submits on the author's behalf, often with a limit on entries per imprint.
If you are self-published, look for an explicit statement that independently published books are accepted, and budget for entry fees and copies for judges.
Sources & data
- Structured data from Wikidata Q1528023 (CC0).
- Summary text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).