This a catalog of written awards granted to plant anywhere AI was used (or was suspected) as part of the penning process
AI WAS ALLOWED FROM THE START
🇯🇵 Short story Are You There? by Kamome Ashizawa — 9th Nikkei Hoshi Shinichi Literary Award, Excellence Award, 2022
Ashizawa made 101 stories in three weeks alongside AI. The narrative that won was mostly written by Ashizawa alongside a small AI; the another hundred experiments were mostly machine-generated. This was the archetypal AI-assisted narrative to win a Hoshi prize.
🇯🇵 Short story The Last Painter by Toh Katagiri — 12th Nikkei Hoshi Shinichi Literary Award, Excellence Award, 2025
The organizers classified it as AI-assisted, but never stated exactly how. A chap finalist says Katagiri told the collection that all declaration was written personally.
🇯🇵 Short story Genome Tower by Shamizui — 13th Nikkei Hoshi Shinichi Literary Award, Grand Prix, 2026
The disclosed AI use was apparently constricted to inventing the name of a fictional disease. The organizers motionless counted it among the year’s AI-assisted winners.
🇯🇵 Short story Parallel Self-Mediation Co., Ltd. by En Shijima — 13th Nikkei Hoshi Shinichi Literary Award, Excellence Award, 2026
Shijima described operating alongside AI as emotion additional akin “choosing” than “writing.” This appears akin a much additional generative collaboration than Genome Tower. The award stood.
🇯🇵 Short story Erinnerung by Rino Takinouchi — 13th Nikkei Hoshi Shinichi Literary Award, Excellence Award, 2026
ChatGPT produced first material. Takinouchi corrected confused pronouns, dated phrases, and damaged logic, afterward changed the heading and ending and added the CRISPR-Cas9 material. Of the 2026 Hoshi winners, this has the clearest community document of AI-generated prose being extensively rewritten.
The 13th Hoshi award received 2,107 entries. Organizers counted 491 as partially AI-created and stated three of the four general-division winners had used AI location in the process.
🇺🇸 Artist books The Library of Nonhuman Books by Karen Ann Donnachie and Andy Simionato — Robert Coover Award, First Place, 2020
An AI study device uses device vision, OCR, and tongue handling to discover abbreviated poetic combinations in bodily books, erase the surrounding words, brace them alongside images, and publish new volumes. One of those volumes, Perception, additionally won Australia’s Cornish Family Prize.
🇸🇰 Poetry collection Výsledky vzniku by Liza Gennart — Zlatá vlna, 2021
Zuzana Husárová and Ľubomír Panák trained GPT-2 on 2,108 Slovak works, afterward curated and lightly edited its poems. The gathering won Slovakia’s annual award for the finest first Slovak poesy book.
🇺🇸 Poetry series ReRites by David Jhave Johnston — Electronic Literature Organization Robert Coover Award, 2022
Twelve books of poesy built from neural-network output selected and edited by Johnston. The project openly calls itself “Human + A.I. poetry,” which is exactly the benevolent of item an electronic-literature award exists to recognize.
🇺🇸 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 example trained on Gwendolyn Brooks. Three sections merge device responses to her prompts. The media knew how the publish was made and published it openly.
🇺🇸 Short story Stargazers by Ruei-Jie Chang — UCSB Mind & Machine Intelligence Writing Contest, First Prize, 2024
Chang used ChatGPT for the kernel of the narrative and Claude to arrange and translate a Mandarin-English draft, afterward revised it. The competition explicitly welcomed human-only, machine-only, and hybrid entries, and required everyone to document the process.
🇷🇺 Short story 30–70 by Yana Vagner — Valentin Kataev Literary Prize, Winner, 2025
Vagner wrote the narrative alongside Alice, Yandex’s AI assistant. It starts by showing her immediate and the AI’s response, afterward uses the scheme for recurring climate reports. The collaboration was apparent whenever the narrative won.
🇬🇧 Generative poem WORDS BEYOND WORDS by Sasha Stiles — Lumen Prize Literature & Poetry Award, 2025
A fine-tuned tongue example uses Stiles’s prompts, origin texts, and code to create a new poem whenever the activity is refreshed. The scheme itself, fairly than a sole fixed output, received the award.
🇬🇧 Interactive fiction Flesh & Blood by Chris Joseph — Electronic Literature Organization Robert Coover Award, 2026
An interactive narrative anywhere readers resolve puzzles in a disturbing earth of bodies and machinery. Joseph openly lists it among 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 won Fnac’s prize, afterward was removed from the Goncourt longlist following AI allegations. On October 21, Boréal dropped Orélien following an external assessment reportedly established AI markers in working-document metadata. The publishing company stated it motionless did not cognize how much AI had been used. Orélien had denied that any declaration was machine-generated.
🇸🇬 Poems Migrant Writers of Singapore poesy competition — Migrant Literature Festival, 2024
Eight winners were announced, afterward the complete catalog was recalled following organizers stated three winning entries were AI-generated. Their assessment relied partially on Scribbr and QuillBot.
🇺🇸 Poems Poetry.com November and December contests — Two Monthly First Prizes, 2024
Poetry.com stated the two first winners were created “with assistance” from AI, changed the results, and redistributed the prizes. The removed poems and writers are no longer reliably identifiable. The names on the current outcome pages are the replacements, not the accused entrants.
CONFIRMED AI USE
🇯🇵 Novel Sympathy Tower Tokyo by Rie Kudan — 170th Akutagawa Prize, 2024
Kudan archetypal guessed that concerning 5% of the novel engaged ChatGPT, afterward gave a much smaller figure: concerning one leaf out of 143. She consulted its output for the replies written by the AI inner the novel. The award stood.
🇨🇳 Short story The Land of Machine Memories by Shen Yang, penning as “QuartZen” — 5th Youth Popular Science and Science Fiction Competition, Second Prize, 2023
AI generated the title, prose, illustrations, and pen name complete 66 rounds of prompting. The coordinator welcomed Shen and hid the test from the judges. This is frequently called a national written prize, but it was a broad Jiangsu affiliation contest: 18 stories shared second award and 90 of approximately 200 entries received awards.
🇯🇵 Web novel Modest Skill “Tidying Up” Is the Strongest! — 18th AlphaPolis Fantasy Novel Awards, Grand Prize and Reader’s Choice, 2025
The author stated a ample bulk of the web novel was made alongside generative AI. AlphaPolis afterward canceled the imprint type and manga adaptation and changed its rules. Reporting confirms those cancellations, but not that the two award labels were 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 in the publish and award submission. IBPA’s guidelines did not prohibit AI-assisted work, and the publish received Silver. IBPA has not publically 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 nearly the complete narrative as AI-generated, according to The Atlantic. Kundizeza denied using AI and stated the narrative drew on his family’s experiences. The award opened a review. No final finding or revocation had been announced as of October 21.
🇬🇧 Short story The Serpent in the Grove by Jamir Nazir — Commonwealth Short Story Prize, Overall Winner, 2026
Pangram called it 100% AI-generated. Nazir denied it and described six or seven drafts made alongside Android speech-to-text since of a chronic condition. The Commonwealth Foundation reviewed drafts, timestamps, notes, and testimony, accepted his account, and kept the award. The allegation is disputed, not proven.
🇬🇧 Short story The Bastion’s Shadow by John Edward DeMicoli — Commonwealth Short Story Prize, Canada and Europe Winner, 2026
Pangram additionally returned 100% here. DeMicoli produced handwritten drafts, notes, and years of investigation and denied using AI. The Foundation accepted the evidence and the award stood.
🇬🇧 Short story Mehendi Nights by Sharon Aruparayil — Commonwealth Short Story Prize, Asia Winner, 2026
Aruparayil denied using AI at any phase and kept a document trail. She additionally established that adding three Marathi words and removing one term made a flagged division enroll as 100% human. The Foundation kept the award.
🇬🇧 Short story Descend by Chanel Sutherland — Commonwealth Short Story Prize, Overall Winner, 2025
Pangram scanned the narrative a twelvemonth afterward and tagged it 88% AI-generated. Sutherland denied using AI and stated its repeat and beat arrive from Vincentian oral storytelling. Her publishing company and delegate backed her. No community provenance assessment of the 2025 narrative has been released.
🇬🇧 Short story Back and Forth by Kavyta Kay — Harper’s Bazaar UK Short Story Competition, Winner, 2026
A screenshot of a 100% Pangram outcome dispersed online. No author response, coordinator investigation, admission, or revocation has surfaced.
🇬🇧 Poem + unknown Peter Doolan and an unnamed winner — Plaza Prizes, 2025
The Plaza disqualified the two following detector flags during admitting it could not cognize how much AI had been used, “if any.” Both denied it. Doolan stated his poem had already been published in 2018. This looks small akin an AI controversy 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 leaf was an AI-generated humorous credited to the invented “Alex Irons.” The publishing company and another contributors reportedly did not know. After Comic-Con stated the judges would not have nominated it had they known, the publishing company withdrew the anthology from the ballot.
🇧🇷 Illustrated edition Frankenstein, Clube de Literatura Clássica edition — Prêmio Jabuti Illustration Category, Finalist, 2023
The publish openly credited decorator Vicente Pessôa and Midjourney and was marketed as completely AI-illustrated. Two judges stated they did not acknowledge Midjourney was AI. The type was disqualified under rules that had never anticipated generative art.
🇬🇧 Illustrated book Unnamed illustrated title — Ink Book Prize, Shortlisted, 2026
The award removed one heading following complaints concerning AI in its illustrations. A distinct shortlistee withdrew in protest. Comparing the old and new lists suggests imaginable titles, but neither the organizers nor the reporting named the accused book, so I won’t either.
NEAR-MISSES AND ELIGIBILITY CASES
🇳🇿 Novellas + stories Angel Train and Obligate Carnivore by Elizabeth Smither and Stephanie Johnson — Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, 2026
Both books were initially barred since their publishing company used AI-generated covers, afterward reinstated following the awards rely decided the regulation had arrived too late. Neither reached the longlist.
🇯🇵 Short story Cage of Algorithms by Keiji Aono — 12th Nikkei Hoshi Shinichi Literary Award, Finalist, 2025
Aono says approximately 80% was AI-generated and 20% human-revised. It reached the final ten out of 1,250 entries but did not win.
🇯🇵 Short story The Day a Computer Writes a Novel — 3rd Nikkei Hoshi Shinichi Literary Award, First Round, 2016
Humans supplied the plot, characters, and tongue components; application assembled the prose. It passed the archetypal screening but did not win. The rules explicitly allowed nonhuman entrants, making this a pre-LLM precursor fairly than a deception.
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