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Bad writing award

The official deadline for the Bulwer-Lytton Bad Writing Award is April 15, which is past ; but the actual deadline may be as late as June 30 each year, according to the organisers: so enter today.

The English department at San Jose State University sponsors the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, a whimsical literary competition that challenges entrants to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels.

Each entry must consist of a single sentence but you may submit as many entries as you wish.

Sentences may be of any length but it is strongly recommended that entries not go beyond 50 or 60 words; entries must be previously unpublished.

Surface mail entries should be submitted on index cards, the sentence on one side and the entrant's name, address, and phone number on the other.

Email entries should be in the body of the message, not in an attachment. One email may contain multiple entries.

Entries will be judged by categories, from general to detective, western, science fiction, romance, and so on. There will be overall winners as well as category winners.

In keeping with the gravitas, high seriousness, and general bignitude of the contest, the grand prize winner will receive . . . a pittance, said the organisers.

Post: Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, Department of English, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA 95192-0090.

For detail, see the website

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