Professor Ends Bulwer-Lytton Bad Writing Contest After 43 Years

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By EditorDavidMar 9, 2025, 2:34 pm181 ptsTrendingTop
Slashdot covered the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest in 2008 and 2010 — though it's been running since 1983. Entrants competed to write the worst-possible first sentence for a novel, in a contest started by English professor Scott E. Rice at San Jose State University (which sponsored the contest). Over the…

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