Dates: October 27-30, 2016
Site: Hyatt Regency
City: Columbus, OH
Theme: “Flights of Fantasy”
Guests of Honor: Mercedes Lackey, Larry Dixon, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., Randal Spangler
Chair: TBA
Winners & Nominees
| First Name | Last Name | Year | Category | Title | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| David G. | Hartwell | 2016 | Life Achievement | Winner | |
| Andrzej | Sapkowski | 2016 | Life Achievement | Winner | |
| Kazuo | Ishiguro | 2016 | Novel | The Buried Giant | Nominee |
| N. K. | Jemisin | 2016 | Novel | The Fifth Season | Nominee |
| Naomi | Novik | 2016 | Novel | Uprooted | Winner |
| K. J. | Parker | 2016 | Novel | Savages | Nominee |
| Anna | Smaill | 2016 | Novel | The Chimes | Winner |
| Paul | Tremblay | 2016 | Novel | A Head Full of Ghosts | Nominee |
| Kelly | Barnhill | 2016 | Long Fiction | The Unlicensed Magician | Winner |
| Usman T. | Malik | 2016 | Long Fiction | "The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn" | Nominee |
| Kim | Newman | 2016 | Long Fiction | "Guignol" | Nominee |
| Kelly | Robson | 2016 | Long Fiction | "Waters of Versailles" | Nominee |
| Bud | Webster | 2016 | Long Fiction | "Farewell Blues" | Nominee |
| Selena | Chambers | 2016 | Short Fiction | "The Neurastheniac" | Nominee |
| Amal | El-Mohtar | 2016 | Short Fiction | "Pockets" | Nominee |
| Sam J. | Miller | 2016 | Short Fiction | "The Heat of Us: Notes Toward an Oral History" | Nominee |
| Tamsyn | Muir | 2016 | Short Fiction | "The Deepwater Bride" | Nominee |
| Alyssa | Wong | 2016 | Short Fiction | "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers" | Winner |
| Ellen | Datlow | 2016 | Anthology | The Doll Collection | Nominee |
| S. T. | Joshi | 2016 | Anthology | Black Wings IV: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror | Nominee |
| Silvia | Moreno-Garcia | 2016 | Anthology | She Walks in Shadows | Winner |
| Paula R. | Stiles | 2016 | Anthology | She Walks in Shadows | Nominee |
| Joseph S., Sr. | Pulver | 2016 | Anthology | Cassilda's Song: Tales Inspired by Robert W. Chambers' King in Yellow Mythos | Nominee |
| Simon | Strantzas | 2016 | Anthology | Aickman's Heirs | Nominee |
| C. S. E. | Cooney | 2016 | Collection | Bone Swans | Winner |
| Leena | Krohn | 2016 | Collection | Leena Krohn: Collected Fiction | Nominee |
| V. H. | Leslie | 2016 | Collection | Skein and Bone | Nominee |
| Kelly | Link | 2016 | Collection | Get in Trouble | Nominee |
| James | Morrow | 2016 | Collection | Reality by Other Means: The Best Short Fiction of James Morrow | Nominee |
| Mary | Rickert | 2016 | Collection | You Have Never Been Here | Nominee |
| Richard | Anderson | 2016 | Artist | Nominee | |
| Galen | Dara | 2016 | Artist | Winner | |
| Julie | Dillon | 2016 | Artist | Nominee | |
| Kathleen | Jennings | 2016 | Artist | Nominee | |
| Thomas S. | Kuebler | 2016 | Artist | Nominee | |
| Neil | Gaiman | 2016 | Special - Pro | The Sandman: Overture | Nominee |
| Dave | Stewart | 2016 | Special - Pro | The Sandman: Overture | Nominee |
| J. H., III | Williams | 2016 | Special - Pro | The Sandman: Overture | Nominee |
| Stephen | Jones | 2016 | Special - Pro | The Art of Horror | Winner |
| Robert | Jordan | 2016 | Special - Pro | The Wheel of Time Companion: The People, Places and History of the Bestselling Series | Nominee |
| Harriet | McDougal | 2016 | Special - Pro | The Wheel of Time Companion: The People, Places and History of the Bestselling Series | Nominee |
| Alan | Romanczuk | 2016 | Special - Pro | The Wheel of Time Companion: The People, Places and History of the Bestselling Series | Nominee |
| Maria | Simons | 2016 | Special - Pro | The Wheel of Time Companion: The People, Places and History of the Bestselling Series | Nominee |
| Joe | Monti | 2016 | Special - Pro | for contributions to the genre | Nominee |
| Heather J. | Wood | 2016 | Special - Pro | Gods, Memes and Monsters: A 21st Century Bestiary | Nominee |
| Scott H. | Andrews | 2016 | Special - Non-Pro | Beneath Ceaseless Skies: Literary Adventure Fantasy | Nominee |
| Jedediah | Berry | 2016 | Special - Non-Pro | The Family Arcana: A Story in Cards | Nominee |
| Eben | Kling | 2016 | Special - Non-Pro | The Family Arcana: A Story in Cards | Nominee |
| John | O'Neill | 2016 | Special - Non-Pro | Black Gate: Adventures in Fantasy Literature | Winner |
| Alexandra | Pierce | 2016 | Special - Non-Pro | Letters to Tiptree | Nominee |
| Alisa | Krasnostein | 2016 | Special - Non-Pro | Letters to Tiptree | Nominee |
| Lynne M. | Thomas | 2016 | Special - Non-Pro | Uncanny Magazine | Nominee |
| Michael Damian | Thomas | 2016 | Special - Non-Pro | Uncanny Magazine | Nominee |
| Helen | Young | 2016 | Special - Non-Pro | Tales After Tolkien Society | Nominee |