Nominations Open for 2026 ELO Awards!

The Electronic Literature Organization has opened its nomination form for the 2026 ELO Awards, with a nomination deadline of March 9, 2026, at midnight CET (Central European Time). The winners of the ELO 2026 awards will be announced at the 2026 ELO (Un)Supervised Conference, hosted virtually by the University of Central Florida in July.

The form receives individual nominations for four separate prizes that the ELO awards annually:

1. The Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature given for the best work of electronic literature of any length or genre.
2. The N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature given for the best work of criticism, of any length, on the topic of electronic literature.
3. The Marjorie C. Luesebrink Career Achievement Award which honors a visionary artist and/or scholar who has brought excellence to the field of electronic literature and has inspired others to help create and build the field.
4. The Maverick Award honors an independent spirit: a writer, artist, researcher, programmer, designer, performer, or hybrid creator who does not adhere to a conventional path but creates their own.**

More formal extended descriptions of these awards are available at the ELO Awards Page.

Last year’s winners of the ELO Awards were:

1. Coover Award: Espejo de Carne, by Benjamin Escalonilla Godayol
2. Hayles Award: The Culture of Neural Networks: Synthetic Literature and Art in (not only) the Czech and Slovak Context, by Karel Piorecký and Zuzana Husárová
3. Luesebrink Award: Bertrand Gervais, Professor of Literary Studies at University of Québec in Montréal.
4. Maverick Award: Jason Nelson, Professor of Digital Culture at University of Bergen

For more information, please reach out to pdedgar [at] eliterature [dot] org.

** The Maverick Award does not receive self-nominations.