The Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer has been given out since 1967. A fan writer is any person whose writing has appeared in semiprozines or fanzines or in generally available electronic media during the previous calendar year. David Langford has won the Best Fan Writer Hugo more than anyone else, 21 times as of 2007. He has been nominated every year since 1979 and won in 1985, 1987, and from 1989 through 2007.