Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest

Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
Dept. of English & Comparative Literature
San Jose State University
One Washington SquareSan Jose, CA 95192

"An international literary parody contest, the competition honors the memory (if not the reputation) of Victorian novelist Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873). The goal of the contest is childishly simple: entrants are challenged to submit bad opening sentences to imaginary novels."

My personal favorite, and it has nothing to do with the four fine years I spent in College Station, Texas(!):

Winner: Detective

Patricia wrote out the phrase 'It was a dark and stormy night' exactly seventy-two times, which was the same number of times she stabbed her now quickly-rotting husband, and the same number of pages she ripped out of 'He's Just Not That Into You' by Greg Behrendt to scatter around the room -- not because she was obsessive compulsive, or had any sentimental attachment to the number seventy-two, but because she'd always wanted to give those quacks at CSI a hard time.

Kari A. Stiller
College Station, TX

Check out the rest of the 2005 Results! It's a fun read!