Announcing the 2024 ELO Awards

(from coordinators Jason Nelson and Alinta Krauth)

We are very excited to say the ELO Awards have just been announced at this year’s conference. We will be posting the judges comments, links and other details on the conference and ELO websites soon. But we wanted to announce the winner’s names now! So here we go:

The Marjorie C. Luesebrink Career Achievement Award:

Winner:
Dene Grigar
Videos honouring Dene: https://www.youtube.com/playlist…
Luesebrink Judges: Stephanie Strickland, Maria Engberg, Lai-Tze Fan

The Robert Coover Award for a work of Electronic Literature:

Winner:
Halim Madi – Borderline
Runner Up:
Margot Machado – Seeing
Honourable Mentions:
Lee Tusman – Exocolony
The Marino family – Unboxing: Mrs. Wobbles and the Tangerine House
Fernando Montes Vera – VideoDreams
Robert Coover Award Judges: Lyle Skains, Florence Walker, Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang

The Maverick Award:

Winner: Allison Parrish.
The Maverick Award Judges: Talan Memmott, Deena Larsen, Chris Funkhouser, Erik Zepka

The N Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature:

Winner:
Hannes Bajohr – Artificial and Post-Artificial Texts: On Machine Learning and the Reading Expectations Towards Literary and Non-Literary Writing
Runner-up:
Malthe Stavning Erslev – Machine Mimesis: Electronic Literature at the Intersection of Human and Computer Imitation
Honorable mentions:
Alessandro Ludovico – Tactical Publishing: Using Senses, Software, and Archives in the Twenty-First Century
Simone Murray – The Short Story in the Age of the Internet