2018
The Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature
1st Place
Will Luers, Roger Dean, and Hazel Smith, Novelling
2nd Place
Maria Mencia, The Winnipeg: The Poem that Crossed the Atlantic
Shortlisted Works
- J.R. Carpenter, This is a Picture of Wind
- Judy Malloy, Arriving Simultaneously on Multiple Far-Flung Systems
- IP Yuk-Yiu, BOOK OF A HUNDRED GHOSTS 百鬼书
The N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature
1st Place
Joe Tabbi, Ed. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature
2nd Place
Otso Huopaniemi, “Algorithmic Adaptations | Algoritmiset adaptaatiot”
Shortlisted Works
- Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux, Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames (University of Minnesota Press)
- Stuart Moulthrop and Dene Grigar, Traversals: The Use of Preservation for Early Digital Writing (MIT Press)
The Marjorie C. Luesebrink Career Achievement Award
N. Katherine Hayles
2017
The Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature
1st Place
Alan Bigelow, How To Rob a Bank
Honorable Mention
Mez Breeze and Andy Campbell, All the Delicate Duplicates
Shortlisted Works
Serge Bouchardon’s “DO IT;” JR Carpenter’s “The Gathering Cloud”
The N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature
1st Place
David Jhave Johnston, Aesthetic Animism
Honorable Mention
Maria Mencia, #WomenTechLit
Shortlisted Works
Judy Malloy’s Social Media Archeology and Poetics; Serge Bouchardon’s Towards an Tension-Based Definition of Digital Literature; Anastasia Salter’s Alice in Dataland
The Marjorie C. Luesebrink Career Achievement Award
John Cayley
2016
The Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature
1st Place
Roderick Coover, Arthur Nishimoto, Scott Rettberg, and Daria Tsoupikova, Hearts & Minds: The Interrogation Project
Honorable Mention
Kate Pullinger & Andy Campbell, Inanimate Alice Episode 6: The Last Gas Station:
The N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature
1st Place
Jessica Pressman, Mark C. Marino, Jeremy Douglass, Reading Project: A Collaborative Analysis of William Poundstone’s Project for Tachistoscope {Bottomless Pit}
Honorable Mention
Dave Ciccoricco, Refiguring Minds in Narrative Media
2015
The Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature
1st Place
Samantha Gorman and Danny Cannizzaro, Pry
Honorable Mention
Daniel Howe and John Cayley, The Readers Project / How It Is in Common Tongues
The N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature
1st Place
Sandy Baldwin, The Internet Unconscious: On the Subject of Electronic Literature
Honorable Mention
Lori Emerson, Reading Writing Interfaces
2014
The Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature
1st Place
Jason Edward Lewis, The PoEMM Cycle
Honorable Mention
Aaron Reed, “18 Cadence”
The N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature
1st Place
Johannes Heldén & Håkan Jonson, Evolution
Honorable Mention
Calum Rodger, “Reading the Drones: Working Towards a Critical Tradition of Interactive Poetry Generation”