Past ELO Award Winners

2023

Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature
“Anonymous Animal ” by Everest Pipkin
N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature
“Neverending Stories: The Popular Emergence of Digital Fiction” by Lyle Skains
Marjorie C. Luesebrink Career Achievement Award
Stephanie Strickland
Maverick Award

Deena Larsen

 

2022

Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature

“ReRites” by David Jhave Johnston

N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature

“Critical Making, Critical Design,” Issue 01 of The Digital Review, edited by Lai-Tze Fan

Marjorie C. Luesebrink Career Achievement Award

Alan Sondheim

 

2021

Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature

Leise Hook, The Vine and the Fish

N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature

Jessica Pressman, Bookishness

Marjorie C. Luesebrink Career Achievement Award

Kate Pullinger

Maverick Award

Talan Memmott

2020

Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature

Karen Ann Donnachie and Andy Simionato, The Library of Nonhuman Books

N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature

Mark Marino, Critical Code Studies

Marjorie C. Luesebrink Career Achievement Award

Judy Malloy

2019

Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature

IP Yuk-Yiu, False Words 流/言

N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature

Scott Rettberg, Electronic Literature

Marjorie C. Luesebrink Career Achievement Award

Mez Breeze

2018

Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature

Will Luers, Hazel Smith, and Roger Dean, Novelling

N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature

Joseph Tabbi, Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature

Marjorie C. Luesebrink Career Achievement Award

N. Katherine Hayles

2017

Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature

Alan Bigelow, How To Rob a Bank

N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature

David Jhave Johnston, Aesthetic Animism: Digital Poetry’s Ontological Implications

Marjorie C. Luesebrink Career Achievement Award

John Cayley

2016

Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature

Scott Rettberg and Roderick Coover, Hearts and Minds: The Interrogations Project

N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature

Jeremy Douglass, Jessica Pressman, & Mark C. Marino, Reading Project: A Collaborative Analysis of William Poundstone’s Project for Tachistoscope

Marjorie C. Luesebrink Career Achievement Award

Marjorie C. Luesebrink

2015

Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature

Samantha Gorman and Danny Cannizzaro, Pry

N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature

Sandy Baldwin, The Internet Unconscious: On the Subject of Electronic Literature

2014

Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature

Jason Edward Lewis, Vital to the General Public Welfare

N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature

Johannes Heldén and Håkan Jonson, Evolution