Caitlin Fisher became president in July 2022. Conferences The ELO holds annual conferences that include both scholarly presentations and exhibitions and performances of electronic literature. The ELO website contains an archive of past conference websites. Publications Four volumes of the Electronic Literature Collection have been published, in 2006, 2011, 2016 and 2022. The Electronic Literature Directory is a database of works of electronic literature. Two reports on the preservation of electronic literature were published in 2004 and 2005 by the ELO as part of the Preservation, Archiving, and Dissemination (PAD) project. A book series called Electronic Literature with Bloomsbury. Pathfinders, a documentation of the experience of early digital literature. Awards The 2001 Electronic Literature Awards In 2001 the ELO announced the Electronic Literature Awards, with a $10,000 prize (funded by ZDNet) for the best work of fiction and the best work of poetry. 163 works were submitted, and each was reviewed by at least three people on the board, after which the highest scoring works were passed on to judges Larry McCaffery and Heather McHugh. Rettberg notes that the diversity of works submitted and shortlisted was "an eye-opener (..) in terms of what I might consider 'fiction' and 'poetry' to be in the e-lit context'. In 2001, These Waves of Girls by Caitlin Fisher won the fiction prize and windsound by John Cayley won the poetry prize. The excitement of the era can be felt in an interview by the cable television channel TechTV with Fisher after the awards gala in New York. ELO Awards (2014-) After a pause due to a lack of funding, the ELO Awards were rekindled in 2014, and since then an annual award has been given to the best literary work and the best work of scholarship on electronic literature. Each award comes with a $1000 stipend. Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature This award honors the year’s best work of electronic literature, of any form or genre. N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature This award honors the best work of criticism of electronic literature of any length. Marjorie C. Luesebrink Career Achievement Award This award honors a visionary artist and/or scholar who has brought excellence to the field of electronic literature and has inspired others to help create and build the field. References External links Electronic Literature Directory Electronic literature Literary societies