Listed here are the nominations for all categories but that for Lifetime Achievement. The nominees for that award are not released in advance.

The five judges are:
Gregory Frost
Don Hutchison
Michael Kandel
Rebecca Ore
Al Sarrantonio

Novella
A.S. Byatt, "Cold" (Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice; Random House, Chatto & Windus)
Ursula K. Le Guin, "Dragonfly" (Legends, Edited by Robert Silverberg; Tor, Voyager)
George R.R. Martin, "The Hedge Knight" (Legends, Edited by Robert Silverberg; Tor, Voyager)
Ian R. McLeod, "The Summer Isles" (Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, November)
Peter Straub, "Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff" (Murder for Revenge, Edited by Otto Penzler, Delacorte)

Short Fiction
Neil Gaiman, "Shoggoth's Old Peculiar" (Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions by Neil Gaiman, Avon Books)
John Kessel, "Every Angel is Terrifying" (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October/November)
Ellen Kushner, "The Death of the Duke" (Starlight 2, Edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Tor)
Kelly Link, "The Specialist's Hat" (Event Horizon, November 15)
Kelly Link, "Travels with the Snow Queen" (Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Volume 1, Number 1 1997/1998; Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection, Edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling)

Anthology
The Best of Crank!, Edited by Brian Cholfin (Tor)
Dark Terrors 4, Edited by Stephen Jones & David Sutton (Gollancz)
Dreaming Down-Under, Edited by Jack Dann and Janeen Webb (HarperCollins Australia/Voyager)
Legends, Edited by Robert Silverberg (Tor, Voyager)
Starlight 2, Edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden (Tor)

Collection
Jack Cady, The Night We Buried Road Dog (Dreamhaven Books)
Karen Joy Fowler, Black Glass (Henry Holt)
Elizabeth Hand, Last Summer at Mars Hill (HarperPrism)
Graham Masterton, Manitou Man: The Worlds of Graham Masterton (British Fantasy Society)
Gahan Wilson, The Cleft and Other Odd Tales (Tor)

Artist
Jim Burns
Tom Canty
Alan Clark
Bob Eggleton
Charles Vess

Special Award Professional
Les Daniels, For Superman: The Complete History
Jo Fletcher, For editing
David Pringle, For Interzone
Robert Silverberg & Grania Davis, For editing The Avram Davidson Treasury
Jim Turner, For Golden Gryphon Press

Special Award Non-Professional
Richard Chizmar, For Cemetery Dance Publications
David Marshall, For Pumpkin Books
Stephen Pasechnick, For Edgewood Press
Jacob Weisman, For Tachyon Publications