ELO 2026: Deadline Extended! – Electronic Literature Organization

The Call for Proposals for the ELO 2026 (Un)Supervised Conference has been extended to February 28, 2026!

The next Electronic Literature Organization conference, ELO 2026, will be held online. This year’s event will continue ELO’s tradition of bringing together scholars, artists, and practitioners of electronic literature from around the world.

For preliminary details and updates, visit the conference site: https://anastasiasalter.net/ELO2026/.

We greatly look forward to reviewing your submissions according to the Call, reproduced below:

The theme of ELOnline 2026 is (Un)Supervised. One interpretation of this might regard a kind of LLM development, but we also consider perennial questions in the field around who is watching, who is reading, and who is learning about Electronic Literature, especially E-Lit cultures outside this institution. We particularly encourage submissions that center on computational research questions and generativity and the university as spaces where community and computational creativity are contested by many actors and parties. We invite attention to both un-institutioning (such as the decoupling of the federal government from research initiatives at public and international institutions) and the adaptive, critical, reflexive processes of institution-building, maintenance, and reinforcement (initiatives, pedagogies, technologies, labs, partnerships, research organizations, platforms, large-language-models, publications, etc.).

[ We’re receiving submissions of Panels, Individual Talks, Workshops, Performances, the Online Exhibition, and the Experimental track! ]

As part of this theme, we invite submissions in celebration of the E-Literary arts across all formats exploring the trajectories of the web, academia, and social platforms as sites of electronic literature making, community care, and movement. Topics of particular interest include:

E-Lit Access, Anthologies, + Archivism

Emerging + Migrating E-Lit Networks, Community, + Platforms

Critical Making, Digital Humanities, + E-Lit Criticism

Generative / Agentic AI + Computational Creativity

Institutional Imaginaries After Federal Withdrawal

Theories, Aesthetics, + Praxes of Resistance

Anti-Racist, Feminist, + Queer Edu-Labor

Twine + Hypertext [Non]Fictions & Poetics

Mixed + Extended Reality + Imaginaries