Spencer's Fandom Guide

Version: January 2020

Garth Spencer (ed.)

 

Welcome to Spencer’s Fandom Guide, compiled by Garth Spencer at [email protected]. This guide is available for contributions and updates in the form of articles, letters, and topical illustrations.

Contents:

• Amateur Publishing Associations (APAs)
• Awards (both juried awards and fan-voted awards)
• Blogs
  
• Clubs and other organizations
• Comics Fandom
• The Art of Conrunning (forthcoming)
  
• Conventions upcoming
• Cosplay/Costuming Fandom
• Editorial articles on SF, Fantasy, Horror, and the styles and movements within them; fandoms past and present (sercon, fannish, comics media, cosplay steampunk, etc.); Canadian science fiction; small group dynamics, and why we must take up arms against the Evil Sinister Belgian Empire’s Plot for World Domination
• Fan Funds
• Fandoms, past and present
• Fanhistory, especially Canadian fanhistory (forthcoming)
• Fanzines (both hardcopy and email/electronic)
• Fanzine Archives
• Inventors, Makers and Mad Science
• Media-inspired fandoms
  
• Podcasts
• Steampunk
  
• Writers’ Groups - e.g. Burnaby Writers' Society, SF Canada, SFWA
  
• On Copyright
• On Storytelling
• On Submission Format
• On Writers’ Markets
• Vlogs
  
• Websites about Fandom
• Youtube channels
  
• Glossary

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