Dates: November 1 – 4, 2018
Site: Baltimore Renaissance Harborplace Hotel
City: Baltimore, Maryland
Theme: Ports in a Storm, Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of Frankenstein
Guests of Honor: Scott Edelman, Kaaron Warren, Tom Kidd, Michael J. Walsh
Special Guest: Aliette de Bodard
Toastmaster: Linda D. Addison
Chair: Bill Lawhorn & Ann Marie Rudolph
Winners & Nominees
| First Name | Last Name | Year | Category | Title | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charles | de Lint | 2018 | Life Achievement | Winner | |
| Betsy | Wollheim | 2018 | Life Achievement | Winner | |
| S. A. | Chakraborty | 2018 | Novel | The City of Brass | Nominee |
| John | Crowley | 2018 | Novel | Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr | Nominee |
| Theodora | Goss | 2018 | Novel | The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter | Nominee |
| Daryl | Gregory | 2018 | Novel | Spoonbenders | Nominee |
| Victor | LaValle | 2018 | Novel | The Changeling | Winner |
| Fonda | Lee | 2018 | Novel | Jade City | Winner |
| Simon Avery | LaValle | 2018 | Long Fiction | The Teardrop Method | Nominee |
| Peter S. | Beagle | 2018 | Long Fiction | In Calabria | Nominee |
| Stephen Graham | Jones | 2018 | Long Fiction | Mapping the Interior | Nominee |
| Ellen | Klages | 2018 | Long Fiction | Passing Strange | Winner |
| JY | Yang | 2018 | Long Fiction | The Black Tides of Heaven | Nominee |
| Fonda | Lee | 2018 | Short Fiction | "Old Souls" | Nominee |
| Rebecca | Roanhorse | 2018 | Short Fiction | "Welcome to Your Authentic Indian ExperienceTM" | Nominee |
| Natalia | Theodoridou | 2018 | Short Fiction | "The Birding: A Fairy Tale" | Winner |
| Fran | Wilde | 2018 | Short Fiction | "Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand" | Nominee |
| Caroline | Yoachim | 2018 | Short Fiction | "Carnival Nine" | Nominee |
| Peter S. | Beagle | 2018 | Anthology | The New Voices of Fantasy | Winner |
| Jacob | Weisman | 2018 | Anthology | The New Voices of Fantasy | Winner |
| Ellen | Datlow | 2018 | Anthology | Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales | Nominee |
| Gardner | Dozois | 2018 | Anthology | The Book of Swords | Nominee |
| Mahvesh | Murad | 2018 | Anthology | The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories | Nominee |
| Jared | Shurin | 2018 | Anthology | The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories | Nominee |
| William | Schafer | 2018 | Anthology | The Best of Subterranean | Nominee |
| Ellen | Klages | 2018 | Collection | Wicked Wonders | Nominee |
| Carmen Maria | Machado | 2018 | Collection | Her Body and Other Parties | Nominee |
| Tim | Powers | 2018 | Collection | Down and Out in Purgatory: The Collected Stories of Tim Powers | Nominee |
| Sofia | Samatar | 2018 | Collection | Tender | Nominee |
| Jane | Yolen | 2018 | Collection | The Emerald Circus | Winner |
| Gregory | Manchess | 2018 | Artist | Winner | |
| Victo | Ngai | 2018 | Artist | Nominee | |
| Omar | Rayyan | 2018 | Artist | Nominee | |
| Rima | Staines | 2018 | Artist | Nominee | |
| Fiona | Staples | 2018 | Artist | Nominee | |
| Harry | Brockway | 2018 | Special - Pro | for Writing Madness | Winner |
| Patrick | McMath | 2018 | Special - Pro | for Writing Madness | Winner |
| Danel | Olson | 2018 | Special - Pro | for Writing Madness | Winner |
| C. C. | Finlay | 2018 | Special - Pro | for F&SF editing | Nominee |
| Irene | Gallo | 2018 | Special - Pro | for art direction, Tor | Nominee |
| Gregory | Ketter | 2018 | Special - Pro | for Dreamhaven Books | Nominee |
| Leslie | Klinger | 2018 | Special - Pro | for The New Annotated Frankenstein | Nominee |
| Scott H. | Andrews | 2018 | Special - Non-Pro | for Beneath Ceaseless Skies: Literary Adventure | Nominee |
| Justina | Ireland | 2018 | Special - Non-Pro | for FIYAH: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction | Winner |
| Troy L. | Wiggins | 2018 | Special - Non-Pro | for FIYAH: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction | Winner |
| Khaalidah | Muhammad-Ali | 2018 | Special - Non-Pro | for PodCastle | Nominee |
| Jen R. | Albert | 2018 | Special - Non-Pro | for PodCastle | Nominee |
| Ray B. | Russell | 2018 | Special - Non-Pro | for Tartarus Press | Nominee |
| Rosalie | Parker | 2018 | Special - Non-Pro | for Tartarus Press | Nominee |
| Lynne M. | Thomas | 2018 | Special - Non-Pro | for Uncanny Magazine | Nominee |
| Michael Damian | Thomas | 2018 | Special - Non-Pro | for Uncanny Magazine | Nominee |