About
At the 2008 Worldcon, a motion was put forward to eliminate the Best Semiprozine Hugo Award. This website was initially created to rally the troops and demonstrate why this would be a bad idea. When the final vote occurred at the 2009 Worldcon, the tides turned and the award was saved. In the aftermath, a much-needed committee was formed to re-evaluate the criteria for the Best Semiprozine Hugo and related Hugos.
The committee has now submitted a report containing a proposal for defining prozines (professional magazines), semiprozines, and fanzines. If you will be present at the 2011 Worldcon in Reno, please attend the Business Meeting and make your opinion on this proposal known.
Thank you,
Neil Clarke
Publisher/Editor
Clarkesworld Magazine
neil(at)clarkesworldmagazine.com
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- The 2012 Hugo Award Nominees for Best Semiprozine
- Semiprozine Results at Worldcon
- Once Again Calling on your Support for Semiprozines
- Another Proposal that Impacts Semiprozines
- A long silence… and now a proposal
- 2010 Best Semiprozine Hugo Nominees
- Space and Time Issue 110, Spring 2010
- Interzone 227 (March-April)
- Crossed Genres Issue 16: STEAMPUNK
- Clarkesworld Magazine #42, March 2010
- Hugo Awards: Best Fanzine and Best Semiprozine | axolotlburg news: [...] committee presented its findings and recommendations at the Business Meeting at Renovation. With some slight changes in wording, the Business Me
- Frank: This sounds more like an argument over whether or not eliminating certain non-professional magazines from the semiprozine category is justified if it
- Sam M-B: Re: "I also have a problem with saying that all it takes to be a professional is a checkbook. No talent necessary" . I didn't mean to imply that it
About
Semiprozine.org was originally founded as SaveSemiprozine.org when the Best Semiprozine Hugo Award was in danger of being eliminated. After successfully saving the category, it was decided that this site should continue to serve as a central point of communication from and about semiprozines. We will also be reporting on the efforts of the committee that has been charged with redefining the criteria for the Best Semiprozine Hugo.