GUFF

The Get Up-and-over Fan Fund or Going Under Fan Fund (its title depends on your point of view) was modelled on DUFF and TAFF. Formed by Leigh Edmonds and Dave Langford, on an idea by Chris Priest. Edmonds (1979), Langford (1979), and Rob Jackson (1981), have acted as administrator without ever winning the Fund, while Joseph Nicholas (1995-99) and Mihaela-Marija Perkovic (2017-18) have acted as administrator in addition to the time called upon as a winner. Read Chris Priest’s 1979 and Dave Langford’s 1999 views on the founding of GUFF.

Current Administrators are:
   Alison Scott             Simon Litten
   UK                       NEW ZEALAND
   guffeurope@gmail.com     guff2020@ozfanfunds.com

LATEST NEWS

GUFF Call for Nominations – 2024 GUFF Call for Nominations Oceania to Europe

GUFF is the Get Up and Over (or Going Under) Fan Fund which transports SF fans from Oceania (Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia) to Europe (and vice versa).

Nominations in the race to send an fan Northbound to Worldcon in Glasgow, Scotland (8-12 August, 2024)
glasgow2024.org are open to anyone who was active in fandom prior to January 2022. The winner could also travel to other parts of the UK and elsewhere in Europe to visit fans, as time permits.

The winner will be expected to take over the administration of the fund for the next northbound and southbound races, and will ideally publish a report of their trip.

If you wish to stand, please contact us at the email addresses below. You will need three nominators from the southern hemisphere and two from Europe (who will each need to confirm their nominations), a platform of no more than 100 words to appear on the ballot, and a bond of AU$25/NZ$25 to guarantee attendance at the 2024 Worldcon in Glasgow if you win.

If you wish to stand and are unsure about how to go about getting any of these things, what the fund pays for or the duties of a GUFF delegate and administrator, then feel free to contact us in confidence.

Nominations are open from now until 23 March 2024. Candidates will be announced soon after, and voting will then run until 23:59 on 23 April 2024 (British Time – GMT + 1) with the winner announced online as soon as possible after voting has closed. Nominations should be sent via email to NZ administrator Simon Litten at guff2020@ozfanfunds.com and UK administrator Alison Scott at guffeurope@gmail.com. The bond should be sent by PayPal to littenz@gmail.com.

Please disseminate widely.
Simon Litten and Alison Scott

Some past winners

Former GUFF winners gathered at Aussiecon 4, 2010

GUFF winners, past and present, taken at Aussiecon 4, September 2010. From left to right: Damien Warman (2005 joint), Juliette Woods (2005 joint), Trevor Clark (2009 joint), Sue Ann Barber (2009 joint), Krin Pender-Gunn (1995 joint), Angela Rosin (2007), James Shields (2010), Eve Harvey (1985), Roman Orszanski (1990), Jean Hollis Weber (2001 joint, kneeling), Eric Lindsay (2001 joint), Leigh Edmonds (founding administrator, face partly hidden), Justin Ackroyd (1984) and Irwin Hirsh (1987). Photo taken by John Harvey using Irwin’s camera. More photos here.

DETAILS OF PAST GUFF RACES

Note: By following the links in this section you’ll be able to finds details of each race (the candidates’ platforms & nominators), voting details, reprints of the chapters listed, or details on how to purchase completed trip reports.

1979 Winner: John Foyster
Attended: Seacon 79, Brighton, Worldcon
Trip report: Stranger in Stranger Lands (1996)
Other Contenders: John Alderson, Eric Lindsay.
1981 Winner: Joseph Nicholas
Attended: Advention ’81, Adelaide, Aussie Natcon
Trip Report chapter:
(a) Ornithopter 10, Oct 82, edited by Leigh Edmonds
Note: A trip summary was published in Ansible 19.
Other Contender: Malcolm Edwards.
1984 Winner: Justin Ackroyd
Attended: Seacon 84, Brighton, British Eastercon and Eurocon
Trip Report chapters:
(a) Thyme 36, 1984, edited by Roger Weddall
(b) Rataplan 31, Aug 85, edited by Leigh Edmonds
(c) Larrikin 3, Aug 86, edited by Irwin Hirsh & Perry Middlemiss
Other Contenders: Shayne McCormack, Jean Weber, Roger Weddall.
1985 Winner: Eve Harvey
Attended: Aussiecon Two, Melbourne, Worldcon
Trip report: A Brighton Belle Meets Skippy (1999)
Other Contender: John Jarrold.
1987 Winner: Irwin Hirsh
Attended: Conspiracy ’87, Brighton, Worldcon
Trip Report chapters:
(a) published in Sikander 15, Mar 89, edited by Irwin Hirsh (reprinted, in French, as ‘La Moitié du plaisir’ in
Yellow Submarine 61, Jun 89, edited by Andre-Francois Ruaud.)
(b) published in Empties 12, Nov 93, edited by Martin Tudor
(c) published in Banana Wings 9, Mar 98, edited by Claire Brialey & Mark Plummer
(d) published in WeberWoman’s Wrevenge 52, June 98, edited by Jean Weber
(e) published in Thyme 119, Jan 98, edited by Alan Stewart
(f) published in GUFFaw 3, Nov 99, edited by Paul Kincaid
(g) published in Attitude 9, Oct 96, edited by Michael Abbott, John Dallman & Pam Wells
(h) published in The Metaphysical Review 26/27, July 1998, edited by Bruce Gillespie
(i) published in Larrikin 19, Dec 88, edited by Irwin Hirsh & Perry Middlemiss
(j) published in Larrikin 16, Jun 88, edited by Irwin Hirsh & Perry Middlemiss
Note: A trip summary was published in Guffawe 4.
Other Contenders: Valma Brown, Jean Weber.
1989 Winner: Roelof Goudriaan
Attended: Swancon 14, Perth, Aussie Natcon
Other Contender: Linda Pickersgill.
1990 Winner: Roman Orszanski
Attended: Confiction, The Hague, Worldcon
Trip Report chapters:
(a) doxa! 24 Aug 90, edited by Roman Orszanski
(b) doxa! 7 Nov 90, edited by Roman Orszanski
(c) doxa! 28 Mar 91, edited by Roman Orszanski
Other Contenders: Larry Dunning, and Mark Loney & Michelle Muijsert.
1992 Winner: Eva Hauser
Attended: Syncon ’92, Sydney, Aussie Natcon
Trip Report: Australsky Denik/My Australian Diary (1992)
Other Contender: Bridget Wilkinson.
1995 Winner: Ian Gunn & Karen Pender-Gunn
Attended: Intersection, Glasgow, Worldcon
Trip Report: Oh, to be in England, In the Summertime, With my love (1999)
Other Contender: LynC, Kim Huett.
1999 Winner: Paul Kincaid
Attended: Aussiecon Three, Melbourne, Worldcon
Trip Report chapters:
(a) published in GUFFaw 3, Nov 99, edited by Paul Kincaid
(b) published in GUFFaw 4, May 00, edited by Paul Kincaid
(c) published in GUFFaw 6, Nov 01, edited by Paul Kincaid
(d) published in GUFFaw 7, Sep 03, edited by Paul Kincaid
Other Contenders: Steve Davies, Julian Headlong.
2001 Winner: Eric Lindsay & Jean Weber
Attended: Attended: Paragon, British Eastercon
Trip report: Jean and Eric ‘Avalook at the UK (2002)
Other Contender: Damien Warman & Juliette Woods.
2003 Winner: Pat McMurray
Attended: Continuum II
Trip Report chapter:
(a) Plokta 32, Nov 04, edited by Steve Davies, Alison Scott and Mike Scott
In addition, Pat’s LiveJournal has entries written on and about his trip. Look for the entries dated late May and early-mid June 2004.
Pat’s photos from the trip are here.
Other Contender: Doug Bell.
2005 Winner: Damien Warman & Juliette Woods
Attended: Intersection, Glasgow, Worldcon
Trip Report chapters:
(a) published in Banana Wings 30, May 2007, edited by Claire Brialey and Mark Plummer
(b) published in Banana Wings 39, Aug 2009, edited by Claire Brialey and Mark Plummer
Damien and Juliette have posted to a GUFF trip LiveJournal.
Other Contenders: Sue Ann Barber, Alison Barton, David Cake.
2007 Winner: Ang Rosin
Attended: Convergence 2, Melbourne, Aussie Natcon
Trip Report chapter:
(a) published in Banana Wings 31, Aug 2007, edited by Claire Brialey and Mark Plummer
Ang posted to a GUFF trip LiveJournal.
Other Contenders: Johan Anglemark, Anna Davour, Steve Davies.
2009 Winner: Sue Ann Barber & Trevor Clark
Attended: Eastercon LX, British Eastercon
Sue Ann and Trevor posted to a GUFF trip LiveJournal.
Other Contenders: Norah Ding, Alisa Krasnostein.
2010 Winner: James Shields
Attended: Aussiecon 4, Melbourne, Worldcon
Trip report: A Rough Guide to GUFF (2015)
James posted to a GUFF trip Blog.
Other Contender: Douglas Spencer.
2012 Winner: Kylie Ding
Attended: Olympus, British Eastercon
Other Contender: Grant Watson.
2013 Winner: Mihaela-Marija Perkovic
Attended: Conflux 9, Canberra, Aussie Natcon
Mihaela-Marija posted trip entries to her website. Look for the posts that have been tagged ‘GUFF’.
Other Contender: Julie McMurray
2014 Winner: Gillian Polack
Attended: Loncon 3, London, Worldcon
Trip report: Gillian’s Book of Lists (2015)
Other Contenders: Alison Barton, Samara Morgan, Shay Telfer
2016 Winner: Jukka Halme
Attended: Contact, Brisbane, Aussie Natcon
Other Contenders: elected unopposed
2017 Winner: Donna Maree Hanson
Attended: Worldcon 75, Helsinki, Worldcon
Trip report: GUFF Trip Report 2017, published in 2018.
Other Contenders: Sam Hawke, Belle McQuattie, and Alexandra Pierce
2018 Winner: Marcin KÅ‚ak
Attended: Continuum XIV, Melbourne
Trip report: “The Giant Leap to Never Never“, published in 2019. In addition Marcin posted trip entries to his website/blog Fandom Rover. Look for the posts that have been tagged ‘GUFF’.
Other Contender: Steve and Alice Lawson
2019 Winner: Simon Litten
Attended: Dublin 2019 – An Irish Worldcon
Other Contenders: Lynelle Howell, and Nicole Murphy
2020 Winner: Alison Scott
Attended: CoNZealand, Wellington – virtually. In 2023 attended Conflux 17, Canberra, Aussie Natcon.
Other Contenders: Cora Buhlert, Hisham El-Far & Lee Fletcher, Hanna Hakkarainen, Elizabeth Jones & Claire Rousseau, and Dave Lally

AN (INCOMPLETE) BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GUFF BALLOTS & ADMINISTRATOR REPORTS

We trust that this list is self-explanatory.

In time we hope to have copies of these loaded onto the web.

BALLOTS
1979, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1999,
2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 
2017, 2018.

  GUFF FUNDIES (Leigh Edmonds)
1      AUG	78	M	A4	1
2	--	--	M	A4	1
3	--	--	M	A4	1
4	--	--	M	A4	1
5	--	--	M	A4	2
6	--	79	M	A4	2
  THE NORTHERN GUFFBLOWER (Dave Langford)
1      AUG	78	M	Q	2
2      NOV	78	M	Q	2
3      SPR	79	M	Q	1
4      MAY	79	M	Q	?
5      AUG	79	M	Q	?
6      JUN	80	M	Q	?
  GUFFAWE (John Foyster)
1      APR	80	M	A4	1
2      JUL	80	M	A4	1	in Chunder! V4, N4
3      DEC	80	M	A4	1
  GUFF NEWS (John Foyster)
--     AUG	81	M	Q	1	rider with Thyme 3
  GUFF1984 (John Foyster)
--     JAN	84	M	A4	2
  THE NORTHERN GUFFBLOWER (Rob Jackson)
7      JUL	80	M	Q	?
8      FEB	81	M	Q	2	in Ansible 16
  THE NORTHERN GUFFBLOWER (Joseph Nicholas)
9      AUG	81	M	Q	1	in Ansible 20
10     JUN	82	M	Q	2	in Ansible 26
11     JAN	84	M	Q	2	in Ansible 37
12     MAY	85	M	Q	2	in Ansible 43
  AUSTRALIAN GUFF NEWSLETTER (Justin Ackroyd)
--      FEB     86      M       A4      2       in Thyme 51
  GUFFSTUFF (Eve Harvey)
1	MAR 	86	M	A4	2
2	JUN	86	M	A4	2
3	AUG	86	M	A4	4
4	FEB	87	M	A4	4
5	FEB	88	M	Q	2
6	MAY	88	M	A4	4
  GUFFAWE (Irwin Hirsh)
4       FEB	88      M	A4	4
5	APR	88	M	A4	2	in Thyme 68
6	AUG	88	M	A4	4
7	---	89	M	A4	4
8	DEC	89	M	A4	6
9	AUG	90	M	A4	4
  THE GUFFIATE (Roelof Goudriaan)
--	JUL	91	O	A4	4
--	DEC	91	O	A4	2
  GUFF STUFF (Roman Orszanski)
--      MAY     91      O       A4      2
  GUFFaw (Paul Kincaid)
refer next section for publication details


RELATED PUBLICATIONS

The items listed here are those published with a specific purpose of promoting GUFF.

  GUFFaw (Paul Kincaid)
1	--- 	98   M  A4     1   This issue published with Steve
				   Davies and Julian Headlong
2	AUG	99   M  A4     22
3	NOV	99   M  A4     27  From this issue on, also acts as
			  	   an Administrator Report
4	MAY	00   M  A4     24
5       NOV     00   M  A4     18
6       NOV     01   M  A4     16
7       SEP     03  PDF A4     18

GUFF 2020 Ballot: Europe to Australasia

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GUFF 2020 Call for Nominations: Europe to Australasia

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