Past ELO Award Winners

2026

Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature
Flesh & Blood by Chris Joseph
N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature
Binding Media: Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from across the Americas by Elika Ortega
Marjorie C. Luesebrink Career Achievement Award
Joseph Tabbi
Maverick Award
Jim Andrews
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2025

Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature
Espejo de Carne by benjamin escalonilla godayol
N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature
The Culture of Neural Networks: Synthetic Literature and Art in (not only) the Czech and Slovak Context by Karel Piorecký and Zuzana Husárová
Marjorie C. Luesebrink Career Achievement Award
Bertrand Gervais
Maverick Award
Jason Nelson
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2024

Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature
Borderline by Halim Madi 
N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature
Artificial and Post-Artificial Texts: On Machine Learning and the Reading Expectations Towards Literary and Non-Literary Writing  by Hannes Bajohr
Marjorie C. Luesebrink Career Achievement Award
Dene Grigar
Maverick Award

Allison Parrish

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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