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APAplexy/APAWhatever: CM Grant Duff 456 Gladstone Ave. Ottawa, ON K1R 5N8 tel (613) 232-5523 general-interest hexaweekly; copy count 32; 28 members; minac 2 pp/2 issues; dues $9/year + postage/photocopy account; open roster, 30 max; no waitlist; spec copies avaiable for postage; back issues available. Often contains a short story, a review or critique, some poems. Includes CHOCOLAPA, a cooking apa. - as listed in NMD. - The Ottawa SF Society lists this as a current apa in their masthead. APAQ: OE Benoit Girard 1016 Guillaume-Boisset Cap-Rouge, Quebec G1Y 1Y9 tel (415) 652-1042 French-language quarterly; copy count 02; 17 members; minac 12 pp/4 issues; dues US$10 or C$10/yr to North American addresses, US$20/yr or C$20/yr to overseas addresses; open roster; no limit; no waitlist; spec copies unavailable; back issues unavailable. Intended mainly for Quebec fandom, but more international. Anything can be discussed, and is. - as listed in NMD. * APArition: Distribution Manager George A.S. Park 677 Smyth Rd. Ottawa, ON K1G 1N7 tel (613) 526-2147 - The Ottawa SF Society lists this as a current gaming apa in their masthead, founded 1987, first appearing Jan. 1988. DREAMS Inc.: CM Mike Smith R.R. #5 Read Rd. Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON L0S 1J0 tel (905) 934-3988 A general-purpose Japanimation/manga quarterly; copy count 10; minac 2 pp/issue or 4 pp/2 issues; dues C$5 to open postage account; open roster, 20 max; no waitlist; spec copies unavailable; back issues unavailable. - as listed in NMD. FURTHEST NORTH CREW: Ed: Paul Groulx 6794 Fisher Rd. Ontario, NY 14519-9710 NMD lists this as the first Canadian-based and produced furry apa, although the current address is in New York state. Quarterly; copy count 40; 35 members; minac 3 pp/2 issues; maxac 30 pp/issue; dues $20/Canadian, US$25/yr; full roster, 38 max, 5 waitlisters; spec copies available to members only; back issues unavailable. Internet site: ftp://furry.com - as listed in NMD. GREEN MULTILOGUE: (not SF) Coordinator: Michael Tegtmeyer 390 Jones Ave. Toronto, ON M4J 3G3 A clearinghouse for Green-scene news. bimonthly; copy count 1; 100 members; maxac 1 p/issue, up to 3 additional pp/issue @ $10 ea; dues $24/yr, includes back issues from current calendar year, no dues for regular overseas contributors; open roster, no limit; no waitlist; spec copies $4; back issues available only to members. - as listed in NMD. KLORDNY: Pres: Tim Geary 333 E. WAshington St. #2 Sandusky, OH 44870-2819 * CM Brad Horning 33 Isabella St. #2607 Toronto, ON M4Y 2P7 tel (416) 323-3646 Comics apa, esp. The Legion of Super-Heroes; bimonthly; copy count 40; 25 members; minac 2 pp/2 issues; dues = positive postage account; full roster, 25 max; 26 waitlisters; spec copies $5; back issues $5. - as listed in NMD. - GS comment: I thought this died! (Of course I had a *very* old address for the founder ...) MIRRORSHADES & RADIATOR HEAVEN: c/o J.D. LaFrance 28 Bellevue Terrace St. Catharines, ON L2S 1P5 - about cyberpunk in particular, SF in general - RH few details available; spec copies $2, back issues $3 - as listed in NMD |
MIXED COMPANY: Q: Is Janet Wilson still OE? Wilson's current address (from Taral Wayne:) 681A Mt. Pleasant Ave. Toronto, ON M4S 2N2 - an older address was listed in NMD. Mixed Company was a spinoff of AWA, A Women's APA, which shortly became a women-only forum on feminist issues; Mixed Company is co-ed. SORD & SWORCERY: OEs: Marg Baskin & Heather Bruton 28 Woolwick St. S. Kitchener, ON N2K 1R9 tel (519) 745-3499 Form writers/artists, F or DF; not into fan politics, feuding, or Elfquest fanfiction. Members must be adults. Quarterly; copy count 25; 24 members; minac 6 original creative pp/2 issues; dues $5/yr + postiive postage account; full roster; 8 waitlisters; spec copies $20 for copying + postage; back issues available to members for copy costs. - as listed in NMD TAPA / TORONTO APA, THE: OE Howard Scrimgeour 302 College Ave. W. #20 Guelph, ON N1G 4T6 General apa; monthly; copy count 20; 20 members; minac 2 pp/2 issues; dues $4/year, waitlist dues $1/yr; open roster; no waitlist; spec copies free; back issues 25 cents. International membership. - as listed in NMD JUST RESTING: BCAPA: This apa has been "in suspension" for some years. The Gordys moved from that address quite some time ago. I'll have to ask what the current status is. Gordy, Tam & Shelly, 11 - 8820 Westminster Hwy, Richmond, BC, tel 278-0901? (BCSFA/BCAPA/V-Con vets) 7-95 GALACTUS: & HALF REMEMBERED DREAMS: Pukka T. (Vancouver, B.C.?) DEAD: APA Turnover: I gather this was one of the zines founded by the McCullough brothers in the late 70s/early 80s. I think many of them folded when one of them moved to California. BONDAPA: this McCullough apa died, probably sometime in the late 80s. CANADAPA: this nation-wide apa, founded by Vaughn Fraser while he was in Ontario, died in 1984. CASPERAPA: CASPERAPA was founded in 1986 to exchange news and views between Canadian fans interested in the Canadian SF and Fantasy Awards (then called the "Caspers"). CASPERAPA folded, apparently after 1987. THE FINAL FRONTIER: this McCullough apa died, probably sometime in the late 80s. GRIFFONAGE: this Toronto apa died about 1984. MARAPA: (Maritimes apa) /The New Moon Directory/, attempts to be a worldwide listing of current apas. Samples should be available at US$4.95 c/o Eric L. Watts, 346 Carpenter Dr. #51, Atlanta, GA 30328-5030. E-mail: e.watts@genie.com. |