Dates: October 27-30, 2011
Sito: Town & Country Resort and Conference Center
City: San Diego, CA
Theme: Sailing the Seas of Imagination
Guests of Honour: Jo Fletcher, Neil Gaiman, Parke Godwin, Shawna McCarthy, Ruth Sanderson
Toastmaster: Connie Willis
Chair: Val Ontell
Winners & Nominees
| First Name | Last Name | Year | Category | Title | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peter S. | Beagle | 2011 | Life Achievement | Winner | |
| Angélica | Gorodischer | 2011 | Life Achievement | Winner | |
| Nnedi | Okorafor | 2011 | Novel | "Who Fears Death" | Winner |
| Karen | Lord | 2011 | Novel | "Redemption In Indigo" | Nominee |
| N.K. | Jemisin | 2011 | Novel | "The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms" | Nominee |
| Graham | Joyce | 2011 | Novel | "The Silent Land" | Nominee |
| Guy Gavriel | Kay | 2011 | Novel | "Under Heaven" | Nominee |
| Lauren | Beukes | 2011 | Novel | "Zoo City" | Nominee |
| Elizabeth | Hand | 2011 | Novella | "The Maiden Flight of McCauley's Bellerophon" | Winner |
| Elizabeth | Bear | 2011 | Novella | "Bone and Jewel Creatures" | Nominee |
| Michael | Byers | 2011 | Novella | "The Broken Man" | Nominee |
| Rachel | Swirsky | 2011 | Novella | "The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers beneath the Queen's Window" | Nominee |
| GRR | Martin | 2011 | Novella | "The Mystery Knight" | Nominee |
| Tim | Lebbon | 2011 | Novella | "The Thief of Broken Toys" | Nominee |
| Joyce Carol | Oates | 2011 | Short Fiction | "Fossil-Figures" | Winner |
| Christopher | Fowler | 2011 | Short Fiction | "Beautiful Men" | Nominee |
| Karen Joy | Fowler | 2011 | Short Fiction | "Booth's Ghost" | Nominee |
| Kij | Johnson | 2011 | Short Fiction | "Ponies" | Nominee |
| Mercurio D. | Rivera | 2011 | Short Fiction | "Tu Sufrimiento Shall Protect Us" | Nominee |
| Kate | Bernheimer | 2011 | Anthology | "My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me" | Winner |
| S.T. | Joshi | 2011 | Anthology | "Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror" | Nominee |
| Ellen | Datlow | 2011 | Anthology | "Haunted Legends" | Nominee |
| Nick | Mamatas | 2011 | Anthology | "Haunted Legends" | Nominee |
| Neil | Gaiman | 2011 | Anthology | "Stories: All-New Tales" | Nominee |
| Al | Sarrantonio | 2011 | Anthology | "Stories: All-New Tales" | Nominee |
| Jonathan | Strahan | 2011 | Anthology | "Swords & Dark Magic" | Nominee |
| Lou | Anders | 2011 | Anthology | "Swords & Dark Magic" | Nominee |
| John Joseph | Adams | 2011 | Anthology | "The Way of the Wizard" | Nominee |
| Karen Joy | Fowler | 2011 | Collection | "What I Didn't See and Other Stories" | Winner |
| M. | Rickert | 2011 | Collection | "Holiday" | Nominee |
| Angela | Slatter | 2011 | Collection | "Sourdough and Other Stories" | Nominee |
| Caitlín R. | Kiernan | 2011 | Collection | "The Ammonite Violin & Others" | Nominee |
| Jeff | VanderMeer | 2011 | Collection | "The Third Bear" | Nominee |
| Kinuko Y. | Craft | 2011 | Artist | Winner | |
| Vincent | Chong | 2011 | Artist | Nominee | |
| Richard A. | Kirk | 2011 | Artist | Nominee | |
| John | Picacio | 2011 | Artist | Nominee | |
| Shaun | Tan | 2011 | Artist | Nominee | |
| Marc | Gascoigne | 2011 | Special - Pro | Angry Robot | Winner |
| Stéphane | Marsan | 2011 | Special - Pro | Bragelonne | Nominee |
| Alain | Névant | 2011 | Special - Pro | Bragelonne | Nominee |
| Brett Alexander | Savory | 2011 | Special - Pro | ChiZine | Nominee |
| Sandra | Kasturi | 2011 | Special - Pro | ChiZine | Nominee |
| John Joseph | Adams | 2011 | Special - Pro | Editing | Nominee |
| Lou | Anders | 2011 | Special - Pro | Editing | Nominee |
| Alisa | Krasnostein | 2011 | Special - Non-Pro | Twelfth Planet Press | Winner |
| Stephen | Jones | 2011 | Special - Non-Pro | "Brighton Shock!: The Souvenir Book Of The World Horror Convention 2010" | Nominee |
| Michael Marshall | Smith | 2011 | Special - Non-Pro | "Brighton Shock!: The Souvenir Book Of The World Horror Convention 2010" | Nominee |
| Amanda | Foubister | 2011 | Special - Non-Pro | "Brighton Shock!: The Souvenir Book Of The World Horror Convention 2010" | Nominee |
| Charles | Tan | 2011 | Special - Non-Pro | "Bibliophile Stalker" | Nominee |
| Matthew | Kressel | 2011 | Special - Non-Pro | Sybil's Garage and Senses Five Press | Nominee |
| Lavie | Tidhar | 2011 | Special - Non-Pro | The World SF blog | Nominee |