This is a list of
electronic literature authors and works (that originate from
digital environments), and its critics.
Electronic literature is a
literary genre consisting of works of
literature that originate within
digital environments. It can also be defined as those works using a digital element as an integral part of the work (essential to convey the meaning of the piece). This list is specific and exclusive to
literature and works originally published electronically, and does not include works published in book format only, web blogs, newspapers, directories, etc. However, this list may include works that have been published both electronically and in print.
Publishers, journals, and collections
The Digital Review is an annual publication of literary criticism of electronic literature/born digital works.[1]
Drunken Boat is an electronic journal of arts and hypertext. The journal won a Webby Award at the South by Southwest Festival.[2]
The Electronic Literature Knowledge Base (ELMCIP) is a research resource for electronic literature, with 3,851 entries as of September 2, 2022.[5]
GEODES is an anthology for geolocated (locative) works.[6]
New Media Prize has an archive of submitted works.[7]
The New River Anthology, A Journal of Digital Art and Literature has been publishing electronic literature continually since 1996,[8] collected in
The NEXT Museum.[9]
The NEXT Museum, Library, and Preservation Space at
Washington State University at Vancouver is a project dedicated to preserving and sharing electronic literature. Traversals was an earlier compendium of authors reading obsolete electronic works [10]
Revue BleuOrange was a French-Canadian journal run by NT2 that published electronic literature works and criticism from 2008 to 2021.[11]
trAce, Online Writing Centre's journal, frAme, issued 34 works of electronic literature in 6 issues of its journal, frAme. which is now restored at the Washington State University's NeXt Museum.[12]
Turbulence was a new media journal from 1996 to 2006.[13]
Indian Electronic Literature Anthology Volume I, curated and edited by Nirmala Menon, Shanmugapriya T, Justy Joseph, and Deborah Sutton, showcases a collection of 17 distinctive electronic literary works. It was published in 2024.[14]
Electronic literature involves works that incorporate extra elements, such as visual or aural components, as an integral part of the work. Proto-electronic literature writers include:
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.
Concrete poetry is also an early precursor for electronic literature.
Caterina Davinio, Tecno-Poesia e realtà virtuali (Techno-Poetry and Virtual Realities), Preface by
Eugenio Miccini, Collection Archivio della Poesia del '900, Sometti, Mantova, 2002.[22]
Peter Gendolla,
Jörgen Schäfer (eds.). 2007. The Aesthetics of Net Literature. Writing, Reading and Playing in Programmable Media. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2007.[25]
Game, game, game and again game (2008), Nothing you have done deserves such praise (2013), I made this. you play this. we are enemies (2009), and Scrape Scraperteeth (2011) are important examples of the intersection of games and poetry by[40]Jason Nelson.
There are various awards for electronic literature including:
Electronic Literature Awards from the
Electronic Literature Organization, awarded annually for the best literary work and the best work of scholarship[41]
New Media Writing Prize, an annual international competition from the UK with prizes for innovative digital fiction[42]
Woollahra Digital Literary Award, an annual award in support of Australian digital literature and publishing[43]
Electronic Literature and Digital Writing Eng 5535 Summer 2022[46] included Uncle Roger (
Judy Malloy), Underground Kingdom (
Edward Packard), Living Will (
Mark Marino), Birds Singing Other Birds’ Songs (
María Mencía), My Boyfriend Came Back From the War (
Olia Lialina)
^Hayles, N. Katherine (2008). Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary (1 page 6, 7 ed.). Indiana: University of Notre Dame.
ISBN978-0-268-03084-1.
^Moulthrop, Stuart; Grigar, Dene (2017). Traversals: the use of preservation for early electronic writing. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
ISBN978-0-262-03597-2.
^"La Revue". revuebleuorange.org (in French). Retrieved 2023-10-01.
^trAce, frAme.
"FrAme Journal". ELO Next. Electronic Literature Organization. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
^Douglas, J. Yellowlees (2000). The end of books or books without end ? reading interactive narratives. Ann Arbor (Mich.): University of Michigan press.
ISBN978-0-472-11114-5.
^Landow, George P. (2006). Hypertext 3.0: critical theory and new media in an era of globalization. Parallax (3rd ed.). Baltimore (Md.): Johns Hopkins university press.
ISBN978-0-8018-8256-2.
^Bell, Alice (2010). The possible worlds of hypertext fiction (Thesis). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
ISBN9780230542556.
^Eskelinen, Markku (2012). Cybertext poetics: the critical landscape of new media literary theory. International texts in critical media aesthetics. London: Continuum.
ISBN978-1-4411-2438-8.
^Koenitz, Hartmut; Ferri, Gabriele; Haahr, Mads; Sezen, Digdem; Sezen, Tonguc Ibrahim, eds. (2015). Interactive digital narrative: history, theory, and practice. Routledge studies in European communication research and education. London New York: Routledge.
ISBN978-1-138-78239-6.
^Tabbi, Joseph (2018). The Bloomsbury handbook of electronic literature. London, UK: Bloomsbury academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury publishing Plc.
ISBN978-1-4742-3025-4.
^Ensslin, Astrid; Bell, Alice (2021). Digital fiction and the unnatural: transmedial narrative theory, method, and analysis. Theory and interpretation of narrative. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press.
ISBN978-0-8142-1456-5.
^Ensslin, Astrid (2022). Pre-web digital publishing and the lore of electronic literature. Cambridge elements publishing and book culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
ISBN978-1-108-82888-8.
^Hayles, N. Katherine (2008). Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary (1 page 23 ed.). Indiana: University of Notre Dame.
ISBN978-0-268-03084-1.
^Hayles, N. Katherine (2008). Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary (1 page 23 ed.). Indiana: University of Notre Dame.
ISBN978-0-268-03084-1.