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”)