Hugo Award for Best Fancast

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The Hugo Award for Best Fancast is one of the Hugo Awards, and is awarded to the best non-professional audio or video periodical devoted to science fiction, fantasy, or related subjects. The Hugo Awards have been described as "a fine showcase for speculative fiction" and "the best known literary award for science fiction writing".

Hugo Award for Best Fancast
Awarded forThe best non-professional science fiction or fantasy video or audio series published in the prior calendar year
Presented byWorld Science Fiction Society
First awarded2012
Most recent winnerHugo, Girl! (Haley Zapal, Amy Salley, Lori Anderson, and Kevin Anderson)
Websitethehugoawards.org
Peter and Emma Newman accepting the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Fancast

To be eligible for the award, a fancast must have released four or more episodes by the end of the previous calendar year, at least one of which appeared in that year, and it must not qualify for the dramatic presentation category. It must also not provide or be published by an entity that provides a quarter or more of the income of any one person working on the fancast. The name of the award is a portmanteau of fan and podcast. The Hugo Award for Best Fancast was first proposed as a category after the 2011 awards, and then appeared as a temporary category at the 2012 awards. Temporary awards are not required to be repeated in following years. The 2013 awards, however, did repeat the category, and afterwards it was ratified as a permanent category.

During the 13 years the award has been active, 31 fancasts by 86 people have been nominated, and 8 of those fancasts have won. SF Squeecast, created by a team of five people, won the first two awards in 2012 and 2013, and Our Opinions Are Correct, by Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders, won three times. They are the only fancasts to win multiple times. The Coode Street Podcast, by Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe, won in 2021, and has received the most nominations at ten.

Selection

Hugo Award nominees and winners are chosen by supporting or attending members of the annual World Science Fiction Convention, or Worldcon, and the awards presentation constitutes its central event. Supporting members are those who do not attend the convention itself, and pay a smaller membership fee as a result. The selection process is defined in the World Science Fiction Society Constitution as instant-runoff voting with six nominees, except in the case of a tie. The fancasts on the ballot are the six most-nominated by members that year, with no limit on the number of fancasts that can be nominated. Initial nominations are made by members in January through March, while voting on the ballot of six nominations is performed roughly in April through July, subject to change depending on when that year's Worldcon is held. Prior to 2017, the final ballot was five works; it was changed that year to six, with each initial nominator limited to five nominations. Worldcons are generally held near the start of September, and are held in a different city around the world each year. Members are permitted to vote "no award", if they feel that none of the nominees is deserving of the award that year, and in the case that "no award" takes the majority the Hugo is not given in that category. This happened in the Best Fancast category in 2016.

Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the story was first published. Entries with a yellow background have won the award; those with a gray background are the other nominated works.

  *   Winners   +   No award

Winners and nominees
Year Fancast Editor(s) Ref.
2012 SF Squeecast* Lynne M. Thomas, Seanan McGuire, Paul Cornell, Elizabeth Bear, and Catherynne M. Valente
The Coode Street Podcast Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe
Galactic Suburbia Podcast Alisa Krasnostein, Alex Pierce, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Andrew Finch
SF Signal Podcast John DeNardo, JP Frantz, and Patrick Hester
StarShipSofa Tony C. Smith
2013 SF Squeecast* Elizabeth Bear, Paul Cornell, Seanan McGuire, Lynne M. Thomas, Catherynne M. Valente, and David McHone-Chase
The Coode Street Podcast Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe
Galactic Suburbia Podcast Alisa Krasnostein, Alex Pierce, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Andrew Finch
SF Signal Podcast John DeNardo, JP Frantz, and Patrick Hester
StarShipSofa Tony C. Smith
2014 SF Signal Podcast* Patrick Hester
The Coode Street Podcast Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe
Galactic Suburbia Podcast Alisa Krasnostein, Alex Pierce, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Andrew Finch
The Skiffy and Fanty Show Shaun Duke, Jen Zink, Julia Rios, Paul Weimer, David Annandale, Mike Underwood, and Stina Leicht
Tea and Jeopardy Emma Newman
Verity! Deborah Stanish, Erika Ensign, Katrina Griffiths, L. M. Myles, Lynne M. Thomas, and Tansy Rayner Roberts
The Writer and the Critic Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond
2015 Galactic Suburbia Podcast* Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce, Tansy Rayner Roberts, and Andrew Finch
Adventures in SF Publishing Brent Bower, Kristi Charish, Timothy C. Ward, and Moses Siregar III
Dungeon Crawlers Radio Daniel Swenson, Travis Alexander, Scott Tomlin, Dale Newton, and Damien Swenson
The Sci Phi Show Jason Rennie
Tea and Jeopardy Emma Newman and Peter Newman
2016 (no award)+
8-4 Play Mark MacDonald, John Ricciardi, Hiroko Minamoto, and Justin Epperson
Cane and Rinse Cane, Rinse
HelloGreedo HelloGreedo
The Rageaholic RazörFist
Tales to Terrify Stephen Kilpatrick, Scott Silk, and Philip Oldham
2017 Tea and Jeopardy* Emma Newman and Peter Newman
The Coode Street Podcast Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe
Ditch Diggers Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace
Fangirl Happy Hour Ana Grilo and Renay Williams
Galactic Suburbia Podcast Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce, Tansy Rayner Roberts, and Andrew Finch
The Rageaholic RazörFist
2018 Ditch Diggers* Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace
The Coode Street Podcast Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe
Fangirl Happy Hour Ana Grilo and Renay Williams
Galactic Suburbia Podcast Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce, Tansy Rayner Roberts, and Andrew Finch
Sword and Laser Veronica Belmont and Tom Merritt
Verity! Deborah Stanish, Erika Ensign, Katrina Griffiths, L. M. Myles, Lynne M. Thomas, and Tansy Rayner Roberts
2019 Our Opinions Are Correct* Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders
Be the Serpent Alexandra Rowland, Freya Marske, and Jennifer Mace
The Coode Street Podcast Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe
Fangirl Happy Hour Ana Grilo and Renay Williams
Galactic Suburbia Podcast Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce, Tansy Rayner Roberts, and Andrew Finch
The Skiffy and Fanty Show Jen Zink, Shaun Duke
2020 Our Opinions Are Correct* Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders
Be the Serpent Alexandra Rowland, Freya Marske, and Jennifer Mace
Claire Rousseau's YouTube channel Claire Rousseau
The Coode Street Podcast Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe
Galactic Suburbia Podcast Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce, Tansy Rayner Roberts, and Andrew Finch
The Skiffy and Fanty Show Jen Zink, Shaun Duke
2021 The Coode Street Podcast* Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe
Be the Serpent Alexandra Rowland, Freya Marske, and Jennifer Mace
Claire Rousseau's YouTube channel Claire Rousseau
Kalanadi Rachel
The Skiffy and Fanty Show Jen Zink, Shaun Duke, Alex Acks, Paul Weimer, and David Annandale
Worldbuilding for Masochists Rowenna Miller, Marshall Ryan Maresca, and Cass Morris
2022 Our Opinions Are Correct* Annalee Newitz, Charlie Jane Anders, and Veronica Simonetti
Be the Serpent Alexandra Rowland, Freya Marske, and Jennifer Mace
The Coode Street Podcast Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe
Hugo, Girl! Haley Zapal, Amy Salley, Lori Anderson, and Kevin Anderson
Octothorpe John Coxon, Alison Scott, and Liz Batty
Worldbuilding for Masochists Cass Morris, Marshall Ryan Maresca, and Rowenna Miller
2023 Hugo, Girl! Haley Zapal, Amy Salley, Lori Anderson, and Kevin Anderson
The Coode Street Podcast Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe
Hugos There Seth Heasley
Kalanadi Rachel
Octothorpe John Coxon, Alison Scott, and Liz Batty
Worldbuilding for Masochists Cass Morris, Rowenna Miller, and Marshall Ryan Maresca
2024 The Coode Street Podcast Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe
Hugos There Seth Heasley
Octothorpe John Coxon, Alison Scott, and Liz Batty
Publishing Rodeo Sunyi Dean and Scott Drakeford
Science Fiction Fans Buma Buma, Liu Lu, Liu Chang
Worldbuilding for Masochists Marshall Ryan Maresca, Cass Morris, and Natania Barron

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