Hello all, I am posting this on behalf of Élika Ortega. It looks like an interesting call. Best regards, Menno van Zaanen http://collection.eliterature.org/5 Electronic Literature Collection Volume 5 Accepting submissions: October 13, 2025 - January 6, 2026 The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) seeks submissions for Volume 5 of the Electronic Literature Collection. ELC collections appear approximately five years apart, a period that reveals how technocultural changes emerge, consolidate, and perish. In the last five years, however, we have observed a deeper enmeshing of culture, technology, capital, and political influence. While we, the ELC Editorial Collective, remain welcoming to a plurality of e-lit approaches, this landscape prompts us to specifically seek works that privilege critical, intentional, and reflexive engagements with the media and the technocultural landscapes that produce them; privilege the pedagogies facilitated by e-lit; respond to or reflect upon contemporary, pressing digital culture issues such as privacy, surveillance, data, environmental effects, digital rights, (dis)information, and access; and, ultimately, works that tie e-lit to other realms and concerns of cultural production. We consider eligible literary works as any work that is fundamentally shaped by its digital nature, whether they exist purely on screens, in hybrid formats, in print, or in physical spaces. Similarly, we want to highlight diversity of form and authorship. This includes, but is not limited to: Twine works, bots, locative projects, narratives that take place via email or social media, book apps, sound/visual/AR poetry, zines, games, computer-generated literature, fanfiction works, and others. Examples of the range of writing previously collected in Volumes 1, 2, 3 and 4 are available at http://collection.eliterature.org. Following past volumes, we are committed to preservation and documentation, with a focus on innovative work that challenges literary norms. The ELC5 Editorial Collective seeks diversity of form, language, identity, and culture. Therefore, entries in any language are welcome.The editors particularly welcome work from: Artists who have not yet been published in an Electronic Literature Collection. Artists working in communities where e-lit is nascent, and/or e-lit representing cultures of the Middle East and North Africa, Indigenous First Peoples, and nations and islands in Asia. Students and artists who produced work in class or on their own. Other groups, collectives, or labs invested in all forms of digital writing and electronic literature. Since the last ELC volume, much attention has been given to Generative AI and the blockchain. We welcome works that use such technologies in order to defamiliarize hegemonic AI models and crypto platforms through critical and creative engagement. Works using such technologies should prioritize transparency, deliberation, and accountability in terms of specific datasets, models, and environmental impacts whenever possible and relevant. Authorial statements should be explicit in acknowledging their use and the work’s aesthetic rationales. -- Prof Menno van Zaanen [email protected] Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________