Sue Bursztynski

Fan
Name:	Sue Bursztynski
Alias(es):
Type:	fan writer, essayist, zine editor, occasional fan artist
Fandoms:	Star Trek: TOS, Star Trek: TNG, Blake's 7, others
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URL:	The Great Raven on Blogspot The Stories of Sue Bursztynski at 1001 Trek Tales
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Sue Bursztynski at Galactic Tours convention in 1986 - photo by Helene Shaw in Helena Binns collection

Sue Bursztynski was a prolific Australian fan writer. She is the author of around 150 stories, primarily in Star Trek: TOS fandom. She also indulges in the occasional 'New Year's Eve tradition' of attending a showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, complete with shadowcasting and audience participation.

She is now a professional author and reviewer. She is best known for Wolfborn, a medieval werewolf novel published in 2010.

Fandom History and Meta

Sue's fanfiction was published in fanzines from the late 1970s to the 1990s. Two of her stories were republished at 1001 Trek Tales.

Sue no longer writes fanfiction. In 2010, she wrote:

I haven't written fan fiction in years. It's not just that people started handing me money to write, but that suddenly, after about 150 stories - literally! - I had run out of things to say. I think I stopped in the middle of a Robin of Sherwood story where someone from our time goes back into the past from the modern Nottingham Goose Fair and discovers that Robin and his men are speaking early Middle English and can't understand a word he says (and vice versa!). I'd just been to the Nottingham Goose Fair myself.

However, throughout the 2000s and 2020s has addressed fannish topics on Blogspot. These posts include:

• Filk Music -- Remember When...?, ^{Archived version} (June 24, 2006)
• Vale Centero!, ^{Archived version} (September 8, 2007)
• Media fandom and Conventions, ^{Archived version} (September 30, 2009)
• Sweet Mary Sue: Female “types” In Fan Fiction, ^{Archived version} (October 2, 2009)
• "Harry: A History" By Melissa Anelli. London: Penguin, 2008, ^{Archived version} (January 9, 2010)
• Old style Trek fiction, ^{Archived version} (March 24, 2010)
• Browsing My Old Trek Fanzines, ^{Archived version} (August 16, 2014)
• On Returning To Reading Fan Fiction, ^{Archived version} (May 30, 2022)

Awards

• Australian Science Fiction Media Awards (ASFMAs): Won for "Best Australian Media Fanwriter" in 1984, 1985, and 1986
• Major Oak Awards: Silver Award for 1995 Vignette for "Fancy Fairground Tricks" from Legend 7
• Major Oak Awards: Gold Award for "1994/1995 Debuting zine" for Under the Greenwood Tree (editor)

Notable Fanworks

• Ka-Ree-Ah, written with Jan McDonnell, from Alnitah #12 (1980)
• Sorry About That, Chief (1986)

Zines

Interior art by Sue Bursztynski from Spock #38 (1984)

As an zine editor:

• Tales from New Wales (1986)
• Under the Greenwood Tree (1989-?)

Other zines to which Sue has contributed include:

• Spock (c.1979-1990)
• Nome (1980)
• Alnitah #12 (1980-1982)
• R & R (1981)
• Guardian (1982)
• Beyond Antares (1982-1994)
• Multiverse (1982-1999)
• The Chronicles (1982-1999)
• Cephlon One (1984)
• Medtrek 84 (1984)
• Interface (1984-1987)
• Just This Once (1986)
• Enchiridion (c.1986)
• Down and Unsafe (1986-1992)
• The Other Side (1986-1987)
• Chronicles Annual (1986-1988)
• The Ultimate Mary Sue (1987)
• The Seven Live On (1988-1992)
• Legend (1990-1995)
• Sword and Covington Crossroads and Merry Men (1994)
• Cross Streams (1994)
• Saxon Chronicles (1995-1998)
• IDIC (1996)
• Centero (date unknown)