Awards & Winners

Susan Wood

Date of Birth 22-August-1948
Place of Birth Ottawa
(Ontario, Ottawa Valley, Canada)
Nationality Canada
Profession Writer, Professor, Author
Susan Joan Wood August 22, 1948-November 12, 1980 was a Canadian literary critic, professor, author and science fiction fan and editor, born in Ottawa, Ontario. Wood discovered science fiction fandom while she was studying at Carleton University in the 1960s. Wood met fellow fan Mike Glicksohn of Toronto at Boskone IV in 1969. Wood and Glicksohn married in 1970 (she subsequently sometimes published as Susan Wood Glicksohn), and they published the fanzine Energumen together until 1973. Energumen won the 1973 Hugo for Best Fanzine. Wood and Glicksohn were co-guests of honor at the 1975 World Science Fiction Convention. Wood published a great deal of trenchant criticism of the field, both in fanzines and in more formal venues. She received three Hugo Awards for Best Fan Writer, in 1974, 1977, and 1981. In 1976 she was instrumental in organizing the first feminist panel at a science fiction convention, at MidAmericon (that year's WorldCon). The reaction to this helped lead to the founding of A Women's APA and of WisCon. Wood earned a B.A. (1969) and an M.A. (1970) from Carleton University and a Ph.D. (1975) from the University of Toronto. She joined the English Department at the University of British Columbia in 1975 and taught Canadian literature, science fiction and children's literature. She was the Vancouver editor of the Pacific Northwest Review of Books (Jan.-Oct. 1978) and also edited the special science fiction/fantasy issue of Room of One's Own. She wrote numerous articles and book reviews that were published in books and academic journals, while continuing to write for fanzines.

Awards by Susan Wood

Check all the awards nominated and won by Susan Wood.

1981


Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer
Prix Aurora Award
(for lifetime contributions)

Nominations 1981 »

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Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer

1980


Nominations 1980 »

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Locus Award for Best Non-Fiction The Language of the Night
Hugo Award for Best Related Work The Language of the Night

1978


Nominations 1978 »

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Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer

1977


Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer

Nominations 1977 »

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Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer

1976


Nominations 1976 »

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Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer

1975


Nominations 1975 »

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Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer

1974


Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer

Nominations 1974 »

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Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer

1973


Hugo Award for Best Fanzine
Honored for : Energumen

Nominations 1973 »

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Hugo Award for Best Fanzine Energumen
Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer

1972


Nominations 1972 »

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Hugo Award for Best Fanzine Energumen
Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer

1971


Nominations 1971 »

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Hugo Award for Best Fanzine Energumen