BEST NOVEL
Cuckoo Song - Frances Hardinge; Amulet Books, May
Lagoon - Nnedi Okorafor; Saga Press, July
The Mystic Marriage - Heather Rose Jones; Bella Books, April
Shadow Scale - Rachel Hartman; Random House, March
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street - Natasha Pulley; Bloomsbury Publishing, July
BEST NOVELLA
“The Bone Swans of Amandale” - C.S.E. Cooney; Bone Swans [Mythic Delirium Books, July]
“Gypsy” - Carter Scholz; The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November/December
“On the Night of the Robo-Bulls and Zombie Dancers” - Nick Wolven; Asimov’s, February
“Quarter Days” - Iona Sharma; GigaNotoSaurus, December
Witches of Lychford - Paul Cornell [Tor.com, August]
BEST NOVELETTE
“The Body Pirate” - Van Aaron Hughes; The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July/August
“Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan” - Ian McDonald; Old Venus [Bantam Books, March 2015]
“Little Men with Knives” - L. S. Johnson; Crossed Genres Magazine, July
“Our Lady of the Open Road” - Sarah Pinsker; Asimov’s, June
“Saltwater Railroad” - Andrea Hairston; Lightspeed, July
BEST SHORT STORY
“The Cellar Dweller” - Maria Dahvana Headley; Nightmare, June
“The Game of Smash and Recovery” - Kelly Link; Strange Horizons, October 17
“Little Fox” - Amy Griswold; Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, June
“Rat Catcher's Yellows” - Charlie Jane Anders; Press Start to Play [Penguin Random House, August]
“Who Will Greet You at Home” - Leslie Nneka Arimah; The New Yorker, October 26
BEST RELATED WORK
The Anatomy of Curiosity - Maggie Stiefvater, Tessa Gratton, and Brenna Yovanoff; Carolrhoda Lab, October
Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds - Joseph P. Laycock; University of California Press, February
A History of Epic Fantasy - Adam Whitehead; The Wertzone, August 23-December 24
Letters to Tiptree - Alexandra Pierce and Alisa Krasnostein; Twelfth Planet Press, August
Lois McMaster Bujold - Edward James; University of Illinois Press, July
BEST GRAPHIC STORY
“The Groom” - Emily Carroll; author’s website, July 10
The Oven - Sophie Goldstein; AdHouse Books, June
The Sculptor - Scott McCloud; First Second Books, February
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage - Sydney Padua; Pantheon Books, April
BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION (LONG FORM)
BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION (SHORT FORM)
BEST PROFESSIONAL EDITOR (SHORT FORM)
Carl Engle-Laird (Tor.com, short stories and novellas)
C.C. Finlay (Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction)
David Longhorn (Supernatural Tales magazine)
Chinelo Onwualu (Omenana magazine)
Wendy N. Wagner (Lightspeed & Nightmare magazines, especially Queers Destroy Horror! issue)
BEST PROFESSIONAL EDITOR (LONG FORM)
BEST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST
Jian Guo (example: cover of The Mists of Avalon: Mistress of Magic)
Chris McGrath (example: cover of Disciple of the Wind)
Goñi Montes (example: illustration for “Kingmaker”)
Victo Ngai (example: cover of Barsk: The Elephants’ Graveyard)
Morgana Wallace (example: “Necromancer”)
BEST SEMIPROZINE
GigaNotoSaurus
Lackington’s
Omenana
Strange Horizons
Uncanny
BEST FANZINE
Black Gate
Fantasy-Faction
File 770
Lady Business
BEST FANCAST
BEST FAN WRITER
Heather Rose Jones (blog)
James Davis Nicoll (reviews)
Abigail Nussbaum (blog)
Robin Reid (comments on File 770)
Rhiannon Thomas (blog)
BEST FAN ARTIST
Lauren Dawson a.k.a. Iguanamouth (example)
Deborah Hauber a.k.a. Boa (example)
Likhain (example)
Jason Porath (example)
Autun Purser (example)
JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD
Charlotte Ashley (examples: “La Héron”, “Eleusinian Mysteries”)
Chikodili Emelumadu (examples: “Story, Story”, “Soup”)
L. S. Johnson (examples: “Little Men with Knives”, “The Tale of King Edgar”)
Iona Sharma (examples: “Quarter Days”, “Nine Thousand Hours”)
JY Yang (examples: “A House of Anxious Spiders”, “Song of the Krakenmaid”)