Hugo Award for Best Fancast
Year Fancast Editor ( s )
2012 SF Squeecast * Lynne M. Thomas , Seanan McGuire , Paul Cornell , Elizabeth Bear , and Catherynne M. Valente
2012 The Coode Street Podcast Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe
2012 Galactic Suburbia Podcast Alisa Krasnostein , Alex Pierce , Tansy Rayner Roberts , Andrew Finch
2012 SF Signal Podcast John DeNardo , JP Frantz , and Patrick Hester
2012 StarShipSofa Tony C. Smith
2013 SF Squeecast * Elizabeth Bear , Paul Cornell , Seanan McGuire , Lynne M. Thomas , Catherynne M. Valente , and David McHone-Chase
2013 The Coode Street Podcast Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe
2013 Galactic Suburbia Podcast Alisa Krasnostein , Alex Pierce , Tansy Rayner Roberts , Andrew Finch
2013 SF Signal Podcast John DeNardo , JP Frantz , and Patrick Hester
2013 StarShipSofa Tony C. Smith
2014 SF Signal Podcast * Patrick Hester
2014 The Coode Street Podcast Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe
2014 Galactic Suburbia Podcast Alisa Krasnostein , Alex Pierce , Tansy Rayner Roberts , Andrew Finch
2014 The Skiffy and Fanty Show Shaun Duke , Jen Zink , Julia Rios , Paul Weimer , David Annandale , Mike Underwood , and Stina Leicht
2014 Tea and Jeopardy Emma Newman
2014 Verity ! Deborah Stanish , Erika Ensign , Katrina Griffiths , L. M. Myles , Lynne M. Thomas , and Tansy Rayner Roberts
2014 The Writer and the Critic Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond
2015 Galactic Suburbia Podcast * Alisa Krasnostein , Alexandra Pierce , Tansy Rayner Roberts , and Andrew Finch
2015 Adventures in SF Publishing Brent Bower , Kristi Charish , Timothy C. Ward , and Moses Siregar III
2015 Dungeon Crawlers Radio Daniel Swenson , Travis Alexander , Scott Tomlin , Dale Newton , and Damien Swenson
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 blue background have won the award ; those with a white background are the other nominated works . * Winners + No award
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. The 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, and will appear in all future years. During the 8 years the award has been active, 23 fancasts by 65 people have been nominated, and 6 of those fancasts have won. SF Squeecast, created by a team of five people, won the award in both 2012 and 2013, and declined to be nominated for 2014. SF Signal Podcast, run by Patrick Hester, won the 2014 award, and Galactic Suburbia Podcast, run by Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce, Tansy Rayner Roberts, and Andrew Finch, won the 2015 award. No award was given in 2016, and Tea and Jeopardy, by Emma Newman and Peter Newman, won in 2017 on its third nomination.