Awarding The Worst: The 2011 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest Winners
The winners for the 2011 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest – which asks people to submit terrible first sentences to fake novels – have been announced. The contest, which began in 1982 at San Jose University, derives its name from novelist Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (pictured), who penned the iconic first sentence, “It was a dark and stormy night,” for his 1830 book Paul Clifford.
Now that you’ve got some background, get ready for some seriously atrocious sentences. The overall winner was written by Sue Fondrie, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin.
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