Dates: October 29-November 1, 2009
Site: The Fairmont Hotel
City: San Jose, California
Theme: Celebrating Edgar Allan Poe™’s 200th Birthday
Guests of Honor: Garth Nix, Michael Swanwick, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
Artist Guest of Honor: Lisa Snellings
Toastmaster: Jay Lake
Special Guests: Zoran Zivkovic, Donald Sidney-Fryer, Richard A. Lupoff
Chair: David Gallagher
Winners & Nominees
| First Name | Last Name | Year | Category | Title | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ellen | Asher | 2009 | Life Achievement | Winner | |
| Jane | Yolen | 2009 | Life Achievement | Winner | |
| Jeffrey | Ford | 2009 | Novel | "The Shadow Year " | Winner |
| Margo | Lanagan | 2009 | Novel | "Tender Morsels " | Winner |
| Kage | Baker | 2009 | Novel | "The House of the Stag " | Nominee |
| Neil | Gaiman | 2009 | Novel | "The Graveyard Book " | Nominee |
| Daryl | Gregory | 2009 | Novel | "Pandemonium " | Nominee |
| Richard | Bowes | 2009 | Novella | "If Angels Fight " | Winner |
| Peter S. | Beagle | 2009 | Novella | "Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel " | Nominee |
| Albert | Cowdrey | 2009 | Novella | "The Overseer " | Nominee |
| Neil | Gaiman | 2009 | Novella | "Odd and the Frost Giants " | Nominee |
| Nisi | Shawl | 2009 | Novella | "Good Boy " | Nominee |
| Kij | Johnson | 2009 | Short Fiction | "26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss " | Winner |
| Kage | Baker | 2009 | Short Fiction | "Caverns of Mystery " | Nominee |
| John | Kessel | 2009 | Short Fiction | "Pride and Prometheu s " | Nominee |
| Sarah | Pinborough | 2009 | Short Fiction | "Our Man in the Sudan " | Nominee |
| Catherynne M. | Valente | 2009 | Short Fiction | "A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica " | Nominee |
| Ekaterina | Sedia | 2009 | Anthology | "Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy " | Winner |
| John Joseph | Adams | 2009 | Anthology | "The Living Dead | Nominee |
| Ellen | Datlow | 2009 | Anthology | "The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy " | Nominee |
| Ellen | Datlow | 2009 | Anthology | "The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: Twenty-First Annual Collection " | Nominee |
| Kelly | Link | 2009 | Anthology | "The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: Twenty-First Annual Collection " | Nominee |
| Gavin J. | Grant | 2009 | Anthology | "The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: Twenty-First Annual Collection " | Nominee |
| Ann | VanderMeer | 2009 | Anthology | "Steampunk " | Nominee |
| Jeff | VanderMeer | 2009 | Anthology | "Steampunk " | Nominee |
| Jeffrey | Ford | 2009 | Collection | "The Drowned Life " | Winner |
| Peter S. | Beagle | 2009 | Collection | "Strange Roads " | Nominee |
| Kelly | Link | 2009 | Collection | "Pretty Monsters " | Nominee |
| Nisi " | Shawl | 2009 | Collection | "Filter House | Nominee |
| Shaun | Tan | 2009 | Collection | "Tales from Outer Suburbia " | Nominee |
| Shaun | Tan | 2009 | Artist | Winner | |
| Kinuko Y. | Craft | 2009 | Artist | Nominee | |
| Janet | Chui | 2009 | Artist | Nominee | |
| Stephan | Martinière | 2009 | Artist | Nominee | |
| John | Picacio | 2009 | Artist | Nominee | |
| Kelly | Link | 2009 | Special - Pro | Small Beer Press and Big Mouth House | Winner |
| Gavin J. | Grant | 2009 | Special - Pro | Small Beer Press and Big Mouth House | Winner |
| Farah | Mendlesohn | 2009 | Special - Pro | Rhetorics of Fantasy | Nominee |
| Stephen H. | Segal | 2009 | Special - Pro | Weird Tales | Nominee |
| Ann | VanderMeer | 2009 | Special - Pro | Weird Tales | Nominee |
| Jerad | Walters | 2009 | Special - Pro | A Lovecraft Retrospective: Artists Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft | Nominee |
| Jacob | Weisman | 2009 | Special - Pro | Tachyon Publications | Nominee |
| Michael J. | Walsh | 2009 | Special - Non-Pro | Howard Waldrop collections from Old Earth Books | Winner |
| Edith L. | Crowe | 2009 | Special - Non-Pro | her work with The Mythopoeic Society | Nominee |
| John | Klima | 2009 | Special - Non-Pro | Electric Velocipede | Nominee |
| Elise | Matthesen | 2009 | Special - Non-Pro | setting out to inspire and for serving as inspiration for works of poetry, fantasy, and SF over the last decade through her jewelry-making and her artist's challenges. | Nominee |
| Sean | Wallace | 2009 | Special - Non-Pro | Clarkesworld | Nominee |
| Neil | Clarke | 2009 | Special - Non-Pro | Clarkesworld | Nominee |
| Nick | Mamatas | 2009 | Special - Non-Pro | Clarkesworld | Nominee |