Hugo Award
The Hugo Awards are a set of literary awards given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The awards are named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine "Amazing Stories", and were officially named the Science Fiction Achievement Awards until 1992. Organized and overseen by the World Science Fiction Society, the awards are given each year at the annual World Science Fiction Convention as the central focus of the event. They were first given in 1953, at the 11th World Science Fiction Convention, and have been awarded every year since 1955. Over the years that the award has been given, the categories presented have changed; currently Hugo Awards are given in more than a dozen categories, and include both written and dramatic works of various types.
Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine
During the 35 nomination years, 36 magazines run by 105 editors have been nominated. Of these, only 8 magazines run by 23 editors have won. "Locus" won 22 times and was nominated every year until a rules change in 2012 made it ineligible for the category. "Uncanny Magazine" has won 3 times in a row, 2016–2018, while "Science Fiction Chronicle", "Clarkesworld Magazine", and "Lightspeed" are the only other magazines to win more than once, with 2 awards out of 18 nominations, 3 out of 4, and 2 out of 5, respectively, while "Ansible" has won 1 out of 7 nominations, "Interzone" has won 1 out of 28, and "Weird Tales" has won 1 out of its 3 nominations. As editor of "Locus" Charles N. Brown won 21 of 27 nominations, though he shared 5 of those awards with Kirsten Gong-Wong, 3 with Liza Groen Trombi and 2 with Jennifer A. Hall. "Uncanny"s awards were earned by a team of 5 people, Lynne M. Thomas, Michael Damian Thomas, Michi Trota, Erika Ensign, and Steven Schapansky. The sole editor for "Chronicle"s awards was Andrew I. Porter, while David Pringle earned "Interzone"s, and Ann VanderMeer and Stephen H. Segal were the editors for "Weird Tales"s victory. "Lightspeed"s wins were under John Joseph Adams, Rich Horton, and Stefan Rudnicki, with Wendy N. Wagner and Christie Yant added for the second win, while David Langford was the editor when "Ansible" was awarded. "Clarkesworld Magazine"s winning years were under Neil Clarke, Sean Wallace, and Kate Baker, with 2 of the three also under Cheryl Morgan and the other under Jason Heller. "The New York Review of Science Fiction" has received the most number of nominations without ever winning at 22, under the helm of David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer, Kevin J. Maroney, and 8 other editors. The next highest number of nominations without winning is 7 for "Speculations" under Kent Brewster, Denise Lee, and Susan Fry.