How Collaborating With Artificial Intelligence Could Help Writers of the Future ‹ Literary Hub

Computational literature or electronic literature-that is, literature that makes integral use of or is generated by digital technology-is hardly new. Alison Knowles used the programming language FORTRAN to write poems in 1967 and a novel allegedly written by a computer was printed as early as 1983. Universities have had digital language arts departments since at least the 90s. One could even consider the mathematics-inflected experiments of Oulipo as a precursor to computational literature, and they're experiments that computers have made more straightforward. Today, indie publishers offer remote residencies in automated writing and organizations like the Electronic Literature Organization and the Red de Literatura Electrónica Latinoamericana hold events across the world. NaNoGenMo-National Novel Generation Month-just concluded its sixth year this April.