What is a Semiprozine?
The Constitution of the World Science Fiction Society currently defines a Semiprozine as follows:
3.3.10: Best Semiprozine. Any generally available non-professional publication devoted to science fiction or fantasy which by the close of the previous calendar year has published four (4) or more issues, at least one (1) of which appeared in the previous calendar year, and which in the previous calendar year met at least two (2) of the following criteria:
- had an average press run of at least one thousand (1000) copies per issue,
- paid its contributors and/or staff in other than copies of the publication,
- provided at least half the income of any one person,
- had at least fifteen percent (15%) of its total space occupied by advertising,
- announced itself to be a semiprozine.
At the 2009 business meeting, a committee was formed to re-evaluate this definition and give it an overhaul appropriate to this day and age.
Categories
- 2009 Hugo Nominees (10)
- 2010 Hugo Nominees (1)
- Administrative (4)
- anthologies from semiprozines (6)
- discussion elsewhere (7)
- editorials (6)
- Hugo Rules (8)
- Market News (50)
- Publications (24)
- Recognition (19)
- Awards (8)
- Poll Results (1)
- Recommended Reading (4)
- Year's Best (6)
- Start Your Own (3)
- Uncategorized (2)
- What you can do (3)
Search
- 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
- Ansible 272, 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.