Site: Inner Harbor Marriott
City: Baltimore, Maryland
Theme: Celebrating the Craft of Short Fiction in Fantasy and Horror
Writer Guests of Honor: Terry Bisson, Lucius Shepard, Howard Waldrop
Artist Guest of Honor: Rick Berry
Publisher Guest of Honor: Lloyd Arthur Eshbach
Toastmaster: Edward Bryant
Chair: Michael J. Walsh
Winners & Nominees
| First Name | Last Name | Year | Category | Title | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ursula K. | Le Guin | 1995 | Life Achievement | Winner | |
| James | Morrow | 1995 | Novel | "Towing Jehovah" | Winner |
| Michael | Bishop | 1995 | Novel | "Brittle Innings" | Nominee |
| Jonathan | Carroll | 1995 | Novel | "From The Teeth of Angels" | Nominee |
| John | Crowley | 1995 | Novel | "Love, Sleep" | Nominee |
| Elizabeth | Hand | 1995 | Novel | "Waking the Moon" | Nominee |
| Brooke | Stevens | 1995 | Novel | "The Circus of the Earth and the Air" | Nominee |
| Elizabeth | Hand | 1995 | Novella | "Last Summer at Mars Hill" | Winner |
| Brian W. | Aldiss | 1995 | Novella | "The God Who Slept With Women" | Nominee |
| Robert | Devereaux | 1995 | Novella | "A Slow Red Whisper of Sand" | Nominee |
| Kim | Newman | 1995 | Novella | "Out of the Night, When the Full Moon Is Bright..." | Nominee |
| Lucius | Shepard | 1995 | Novella | "The Last Time" | Nominee |
| Peter | Straub | 1995 | Novella | "Fee" | Nominee |
| Stephen | King | 1995 | Short Fiction | "The Man in the Black Suit" | Winner |
| Steven | Millhauser | 1995 | Short Fiction | "The Sisterhood of Night" | Nominee |
| Nicholas | Royle | 1995 | Short Fiction | "The Homecoming" | Nominee |
| Michael | Marshall Smith | 1995 | Short Fiction | "To Receive Is Better" | Nominee |
| Michael | Swanwick | 1995 | Short Fiction | "The Changeling's Tale" | Nominee |
| Ellen | Datlow | 1995 | Anthology | "Little Deaths" | Winner |
| Poppy Z. | Brite | 1995 | Anthology | "Love in Vein" | Nominee |
| Martin H. | Greenberg | 1995 | Anthology | "Love in Vein" | Nominee |
| Ellen | Datlow | 1995 | Anthology | "Black Thorn, White Rose" | Nominee |
| Terri | Windling | 1995 | Anthology | "Black Thorn, White Rose" | Nominee |
| Stephen | Jones | 1995 | Anthology | "Shadows Over Innsmouth" | Nominee |
| Bradley | Denton | 1995 | Collection | "The Calvin Coolidge Home, Dead Comedians and A Conflagration Artist" | Winner |
| Robert | Bloch | 1995 | Collection | "The Early Fears" | Nominee |
| Lisa | Goldstein | 1995 | Collection | "Travellers In Magic" | Nominee |
| Joel | Lane | 1995 | Collection | "The Earth Wire & Other Stories" | Nominee |
| Joyce Carol | Oates | 1995 | Collection | "Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque" | Nominee |
| Jacek | Yerka | 1995 | Artist | Winner | |
| Bob | Eggleton | 1995 | Artist | Nominee | |
| Brian | Froud | 1995 | Artist | Nominee | |
| Rick | Lieder (withdrawn) | 1995 | Artist | Nominee | |
| Dave | McKean | 1995 | Artist | Nominee | |
| Gahan | Wilson | 1995 | Artist | Nominee | |
| Ellen Datlow | editing | 1995 | Artist | Nominee | |
| John | Clute | 1995 | Special - Pro | reviewing | Winner |
| Fedogan & Bremer | 1995 | Special - Pro | book publishing | Nominee | |
| Mark V. | Ziesing | 1995 | Special - Pro | Ziesing Books | Nominee |
| Paul | Williams | 1995 | Special - Pro | editing | Nominee |
| Bryan | Cholfin | 1995 | Special - Non-Pro | Broken Mirrors Press and "Crank!" | Winner |
| Michael | Andre-Druissi | 1995 | Special - Non-Pro | "Lexicon Urthus" | Nominee |
| John | Betancourt | 1995 | Special - Non-Pro | Wildside Press | Nominee |
| Kim | Betancourt | 1995 | Special - Non-Pro | Wildside Press | Nominee |
| Richard | Chizmar | 1995 | Special - Non-Pro | CD Publications | Nominee |
| David | Sutton | 1995 | Special - Non-Pro | "Voices From Shadow" | Nominee |