Since 1982 the Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest has challenged participants to write an atrocious opening sentence to the worst novel never written. The whimsical literary competition honors Sir Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, whose 1830 novel Paul Clifford begins with “It was a dark and stormy night ( Read more... )

You have 15 days left to work on your sentence for the Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest!

Remember that the sentence can be any genre and doesn't need to tell a story, but it can only have one period with who knows how much else in between.

Have fun!

Since 1982 the Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest has challenged participants to write an atrocious opening sentence to the worst novel never written. The whimsical literary competition honors Sir Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, whose 1830 novel Paul Clifford begins with “It was a dark and stormy night ( Read more... )