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The Archive of Our Own and its Hugo win, explained | Vox

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In a world with too much noise and too little context, Vox helps you make sense of the news. We don’t flood you with panic-inducing headlines or race to be first. We focus on being useful to you — breaking down the news in ways that inform, not overwhelm. We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. Will you support our work and become a Vox Member today? 4.7 million fanfics are now Hugo winners, thanks to AO3 and the transformative culture that built it. by Aja Romano The Archive of Our Own, universally affectionately shorthanded as AO3, is one of the internet’s most well-known fanfiction archives. It just won the Hugo Award for Best Related Work — a significant honor in the sci-fi/fantasy literature world. The Hugos are annual science fiction and fantasy awards which are handed out every year at Worldcon. They are sourced and voted on by Worldcon attendees, and, along with the Nebulas, they’re considered the speculative literary community’s most prestigious awards. The awards

Explainers The Archive of Our Own just won a Hugo. That’s huge for fanfiction. 4.7 million fanfics are now Hugo winners, thanks to AO3 and the transformative culture that built it. by Aja Romano Updated Aug 19, 2019, 2:35 PM UTC The OTW Aja Romano wrote about pop culture, media, and ethics. Before joining Vox in 2016, they were a staff reporter at the Daily Dot. A 2019 fellow of the National Critics Institute, they’re considered an authority on fandom, the internet, and the culture wars. The Archive of Our Own , universally affectionately shorthanded as AO3, is one of the internet's most well-

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