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Since 1982 the Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest has challenged participants to write an atrocious opening sentence to the worst novel never written. Our whimsical literary competition honors Sir Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, whose 1830 novel Paul Clifford begins with “It was a dark and stormy night.”
Find all the winning entries for the Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest.
The contest was started in 1982 by Professor Scott E. Rice of the English Department at San Jose State University and is named for English novelist and playwright Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, author of the much-quoted first line "It was a dark and stormy night".
Dark & Stormy Winner It was a dark and stormy night, and since this was Miami in July and everyone had left their convertible tops down, the rain fell in Cadillacs.
Dec 12, 2018 · The English Department at San Jose State University organizes the contest in honor of Bulwer-Lytton. This minor Victorian novelist is credited with starting his novel Paul Clifford with the immortal words “it was a dark and stormy night,” which the cartoon beagle Snoopy made famous.
The annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest was formed in 1982. The contest, sponsored by the English Department at San Jose State University, recognizes the worst examples of "dark and stormy night" writing. It challenges entrants to compose "the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels."
Apr 22, 2001 · The contest (hereafter referred to as the BLFC) was the brainchild (or Rosemary's baby) of Professor Scott Rice, whose graduate school excavations unearthed the source of the line "It was a dark and stormy night."
Dark and Stormy Night (Bulwer-Lytton Contest) Series. 5 primary works • 5 total works. Selected entries from the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, San Jose State University. It Was a Dark and Stormy Night. by Scott Rice.
See the complete Dark and Stormy Night (Bulwer-Lytton Contest) series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles.
Jul 1, 2007 · Bulwer-Lytton is most famous for his notorious opening line, "It was a dark and stormy night." The "winners" of the contest have been collected in a series of books titled It Was a Dark and...
