Steve Green (journalist)

Steve Green (born 1960, Solihull, England) is a former newspaper reporter (1978–84) turned freelance journalist, who has also written short fiction and poetry.

Subsequent to his career as a newspaper reporter (initially on The Walsall Observer, later on The Solihull News), Green has contributed to such magazines as The Dark Side (for which he wrote 51 instalments of the review column "Fanzine Focus"), Interzone (interviewing the comics writer and editor Stan Lee[1] and the author/screenwriter Peter Atkins[2]), Fantasia and SFX, as well as being an occasional contributor to the 1990s BBC Radio 5 series The Way Out.

He wrote an online column on real ale and the British pub industry for The Sunday Mercury in the late 2000s[3] and returned to The Dark Side as a movie reviewer in 2015.

With Martin Tudor, he was also the co-editor/publisher of the science fiction journal Critical Wave,[4] from its launch in October 1987 to its financial heat-death in mid-1996;[5] a new, online edition was announced in September 2008,[6][7] with the same editorial team; the first issue of this new series was released in November 2008, but a second failed to appear.

[29] Other roles include: Fantasy Amateur Press Association vice-president, 2005–07, and president-elect in 2009 (as the post was dissolved in the same ballot, Green never took office, but was briefly listed in official publications as "president emeritus"); administrator of the Nova Awards for British fanzines, presented annually at Novacon,[30] 2002–09 (he reassumed the role in late 2010); former administrator of the Delta Film Award, presented annually at Manchester's Festival of Fantastic Films until 2014.