Award-Winning AI Literature
This a listing of literary awards granted to works the place AI was used (or was suspected) as a part of the writing course of
AI WAS ALLOWED FROM THE START
🇯🇵 Short story Are You There? by Kamome Ashizawa — ninth Nikkei Hoshi Shinichi Literary Award, Excellence Award, 2022
Ashizawa made 101 tales in three weeks with AI. The story that gained was principally written by Ashizawa with a bit of AI; the opposite hundred experiments have been principally machine-generated. This was the primary AI-assisted story to win a Hoshi prize.
🇯🇵 Short story The Last Painter by Toh Katagiri — twelfth Nikkei Hoshi Shinichi Literary Award, Excellence Award, 2025
The organizers categorized it as AI-assisted, however by no means mentioned precisely how. A fellow finalist says Katagiri instructed the group that each sentence was written personally.
🇯🇵 Short story Genome Tower by Shamizui — thirteenth Nikkei Hoshi Shinichi Literary Award, Grand Prix, 2026
The disclosed AI use was apparently restricted to inventing the title of a fictional illness. The organizers nonetheless counted it among the many 12 months’s AI-assisted winners.
🇯🇵 Short story Parallel Self-Mediation Co., Ltd. by En Shijima — thirteenth Nikkei Hoshi Shinichi Literary Award, Excellence Award, 2026
Shijima described working with AI as feeling extra like “selecting” than “writing.” This appears like a way more generative collaboration than Genome Tower. The prize stood.
🇯🇵 Short story Erinnerung by Rino Takinouchi — thirteenth Nikkei Hoshi Shinichi Literary Award, Excellence Award, 2026
ChatGPT produced preliminary materials. Takinouchi corrected confused pronouns, dated phrases, and damaged logic, then modified the title and ending and added the CRISPR-Cas9 materials. Of the 2026 Hoshi winners, this has the clearest public account of AI-generated prose being extensively rewritten.
The 13th Hoshi award obtained 2,107 entries. Organizers counted 491 as partly AI-created and mentioned three of the 4 general-division winners had used AI someplace within the course of.
🇺🇸 Artist books The Library of Nonhuman Books by Karen Ann Donnachie and Andy Simionato — Robert Coover Award, First Place, 2020
An AI studying machine makes use of laptop imaginative and prescient, OCR, and language processing to seek out brief poetic combos in bodily books, erase the encompassing phrases, pair them with photos, and publish new volumes. One of these volumes, Perception, additionally gained Australia’s Cornish Family Prize.
🇸🇰 Poetry assortment Výsledky vzniku by Liza Gennart — Zlatá vlna, 2021
Zuzana Husárová and Ľubomír Panák skilled GPT-2 on 2,108 Slovak works, then curated and calmly edited its poems. The assortment gained Slovakia’s annual prize for the very best authentic Slovak poetry guide.
🇺🇸 Poetry collection ReRites by David Jhave Johnston — Electronic Literature Organization Robert Coover Award, 2022
Twelve books of poetry constructed from neural-network output chosen and edited by Johnston. The venture brazenly calls itself “Human + A.I. poetry,” which is strictly the sort of factor an electronic-literature award exists to acknowledge.
🇺🇸 Chapbook A Black Story May Contain Sensitive Content by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram — DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press Chapbook Contest, Winner, 2023
Bertram used GPT-3 and Warpland, a mannequin skilled on Gwendolyn Brooks. Three sections comprise machine responses to her prompts. The press knew how the guide was made and revealed it brazenly.
🇺🇸 Short story Stargazers by Ruei-Jie Chang — UCSB Mind & Machine Intelligence Writing Contest, First Prize, 2024
Chang used ChatGPT for the seed of the story and Claude to arrange and translate a Mandarin-English draft, then revised it. The contest explicitly welcomed human-only, machine-only, and hybrid entries, and required everybody to doc the method.
🇷🇺 Short story 30–70 by Yana Vagner — Valentin Kataev Literary Prize, Winner, 2025
Vagner wrote the story with Alice, Yandex’s AI assistant. It begins by exhibiting her immediate and the AI’s response, then makes use of the system for recurring local weather studies. The collaboration was seen when the story gained.
🇬🇧 Generative poem WORDS BEYOND WORDS by Sasha Stiles — Lumen Prize Literature & Poetry Award, 2025
A fine-tuned language mannequin makes use of Stiles’s prompts, supply texts, and code to make a brand new poem at any time when the work is refreshed. The system itself, fairly than a single fastened output, obtained the award.
🇬🇧 Interactive fiction Flesh & Blood by Chris Joseph — Electronic Literature Organization Robert Coover Award, 2026
An interactive story the place readers resolve puzzles in a disturbing globe of our bodies and equipment. Joseph brazenly lists it amongst his AI-assisted works.
ORGANIZERS OR PUBLISHERS SAID AI WAS USED
🇫🇷 Novel C’était ça ou mourir by Thélyson Orélien — Prix du Roman Fnac, 2026
The novel gained Fnac’s prize, then was faraway from the Goncourt longlist after AI allegations. On October 21, Boréal dropped Orélien after an exterior evaluate reportedly discovered AI markers in working-document metadata. The writer mentioned it nonetheless didn’t understand how a lot AI had been used. Orélien had denied that any sentence was machine-generated.
🇸🇬 Poems Migrant Writers of Singapore poetry competition — Migrant Literature Festival, 2024
Eight winners have been introduced, then the complete listing was recalled after organizers mentioned three profitable entries have been AI-generated. Their evaluate relied partly on Scribbr and QuillBot.
🇺🇸 Poems Poetry.com November and December contests — Two Monthly First Prizes, 2024
Poetry.com mentioned each authentic winners have been created “with help” from AI, modified the outcomes, and redistributed the prizes. The eliminated poems and writers are not reliably identifiable. The names on the present consequence pages are the replacements, not the accused entrants.
CONFIRMED AI USE
🇯🇵 Novel Sympathy Tower Tokyo by Rie Kudan — one hundred and seventieth Akutagawa Prize, 2024
Kudan first guessed that about 5% of the novel concerned ChatGPT, then gave a a lot smaller determine: about one web page out of 143. She consulted its output for the replies written by the AI contained in the novel. The prize stood.
🇨🇳 Short story The Land of Machine Memories by Shen Yang, writing as “QuartZen” — fifth Youth Popular Science and Science Fiction Competition, Second Prize, 2023
AI generated the title, prose, illustrations, and pen title over 66 rounds of prompting. The organizer invited Shen and hid the experiment from the judges. This is commonly referred to as a nationwide literary prize, nevertheless it was a broad Jiangsu affiliation contest: 18 tales shared second prize and 90 of roughly 200 entries obtained awards.
🇯🇵 Web novel Modest Skill “Tidying Up” Is the Strongest! — 18th AlphaPolis Fantasy Novel Awards, Grand Prize and Reader’s Choice, 2025
The creator mentioned a big majority of the net novel was made with generative AI. AlphaPolis later canceled the print version and manga adaptation and altered its guidelines. Reporting confirms these cancellations, however not that the 2 award labels have been formally revoked.
🇺🇸 Memoir How to Win One Million Dollars and $#!T Glitter! by Luke Stoffel — IBPA Book Award, Benjamin Franklin Silver Medal for Neurodivergent Communities, 2026
Stoffel says he used ChatGPT for grammar and structural scaffolding and disclosed it within the guide and award submission. IBPA’s guidelines did not prohibit AI-assisted work, and the guide obtained Silver. IBPA has not publicly commented on his AI use.
SUSPECTED OR DISPUTED
🇿🇼 Short story The Blue Fighter by Simbarashe Steyn Kundizeza — Caine Prize for African Writing, Winner, 2026
Pangram flagged virtually the complete story as AI-generated, based on The Atlantic. Kundizeza denied using AI and mentioned the story drew on his household’s experiences. The prize opened a evaluate. No last discovering or revocation had been introduced as of October 21.
🇬🇧 Short story The Serpent in the Grove by Jamir Nazir — Commonwealth Short Story Prize, Overall Winner, 2026
Pangram referred to as it 100% AI-generated. Nazir denied it and described six or seven drafts made with Android speech-to-text due to a power situation. The Commonwealth Foundation reviewed drafts, timestamps, notes, and testimony, accepted his account, and saved the award. The allegation is disputed, not confirmed.
🇬🇧 Short story The Bastion’s Shadow by John Edward DeMicoli — Commonwealth Short Story Prize, Canada and Europe Winner, 2026
Pangram additionally returned 100% right here. DeMicoli produced handwritten drafts, notes, and years of analysis and denied utilizing AI. The Foundation accepted the proof and the prize stood.
🇬🇧 Short story Mehendi Nights by Sharon Aruparayil — Commonwealth Short Story Prize, Asia Winner, 2026
Aruparayil denied utilizing AI at any stage and saved a paper path. She additionally discovered that including three Marathi phrases and eradicating one phrase made a flagged part register as 100% human. The Foundation saved the award.
🇬🇧 Short story Descend by Chanel Sutherland — Commonwealth Short Story Prize, Overall Winner, 2025
Pangram scanned the story a 12 months later and labeled it 88% AI-generated. Sutherland denied utilizing AI and mentioned its repetition and rhythm come from Vincentian oral storytelling. Her writer and agent backed her. No public provenance evaluate of the 2025 story has been launched.
🇬🇧 Short story Back and Forth by Kavyta Kay — Harper’s Bazaar UK Short Story Competition, Winner, 2026
A screenshot of a 100% Pangram consequence unfold on-line. No creator response, organizer investigation, admission, or revocation has surfaced.
🇬🇧 Poem + unknown Peter Doolan and an unnamed winner — Plaza Prizes, 2025
The Plaza disqualified each after detector flags whereas admitting it couldn’t understand how a lot AI had been used, “if any.” Both denied it. Doolan mentioned his poem had already been revealed in 2018. This appears much less like an AI scandal than a detector-driven procedural failure.
NOMINATIONS AND SHORTLISTS WITHDRAWN
🇺🇸 Comics anthology Stardust the Super Wizard Anthology — Eisner Award for Best Anthology, Nominee, 2026
One web page was an AI-generated comedian credited to the invented “Alex Irons.” The editor and different contributors reportedly didn’t know. After Comic-Con mentioned the judges wouldn’t have nominated it had they recognized, the editor withdrew the anthology from the poll.
🇧🇷 Illustrated version Frankenstein, Clube de Literatura Clássica edition — Prêmio Jabuti Illustration Category, Finalist, 2023
The guide brazenly credited designer Vicente Pessôa and Midjourney and was marketed as totally AI-illustrated. Two judges mentioned they didn’t notice Midjourney was AI. The version was disqualified underneath guidelines that had by no means anticipated generative artwork.
🇬🇧 Illustrated guide Unnamed illustrated title — Ink Book Prize, Shortlisted, 2026
The prize eliminated one title after complaints about AI in its illustrations. A unique shortlistee withdrew in protest. Comparing the outdated and new lists suggests potential titles, however neither the organizers nor the reporting named the accused guide, so I gained’t both.
NEAR-MISSES AND ELIGIBILITY CASES
🇳🇿 Novellas + tales Angel Train and Obligate Carnivore by Elizabeth Smither and Stephanie Johnson — Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, 2026
Both books have been initially barred as a result of their writer used AI-generated covers, then reinstated after the awards belief determined the rule had arrived too late. Neither reached the longlist.
🇯🇵 Short story Cage of Algorithms by Keiji Aono — twelfth Nikkei Hoshi Shinichi Literary Award, Finalist, 2025
Aono says roughly 80% was AI-generated and 20% human-revised. It reached the ultimate ten out of 1,250 entries however didn’t win.
🇯🇵 Short story The Day a Computer Writes a Novel — third Nikkei Hoshi Shinichi Literary Award, First Round, 2016
Humans provided the plot, characters, and language elements; software program assembled the prose. It handed the primary screening however didn’t win. The guidelines explicitly allowed nonhuman entrants, making this a pre-LLM precursor fairly than a deception.
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