An AI-assisted story won Japan's Hoshi Shinichi prize — and the author says she wrote every sentence

Award-Winning AI Literature

A running tally of 33 literary awards since 2016 where AI was used or suspected in the writing. It spans Japan's Hoshi Shinichi prize, which has welcomed AI-assisted entries since its early years, to the 2026 Caine Prize and Commonwealth Short Story Prize, where detector flags triggered disputes that organizers ultimately dismissed. The list separates confirmed use from allegations and shows how often detector verdicts, rather than proven authorship, drove the outcomes.