Submissions are currently being accepted for the Bulwe-Lytton Fiction Contest, a literary contest that challenges authors to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels.
The rules to the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest are childishly simple:
* Each entry must consist of a single sentence but you may submit as many entries as you wish.
* Sentences may be of any length (though you go beyond 50 or 60 words at your peril), and entries must be "original" (as it were) and previously unpublished.
* Entries should be submitted on index cards, the sentence on one side and the entrant's name, address, and phone number on the other.
* 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.
* The official deadline is April 15 (a date that Americans associate with painful submissions and making up bad stories). The actual deadline may be as late as June 30.
* Wild Card Rule: Resist the temptation to work with puns like "It was a stark and dormy night."
* Finally, in keeping with the gravitas, high seriousness, and general bignitude of the contest, the grand prize winner will receive . . . a pittance.
Send your entries to:
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
Department of English
San Jose State University
San Jose, CA 95192-0090
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