A whimsical literary competition hosted by the San Jose State University, USA, honours the worst first lines in fiction
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by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Since 1982 the Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest has challenged participants to write “an atrocious opening sentence to a hypothetical bad novel”. Every year there are thousands of entries (5,000 this year) and the 2022 list of winners is now out . The contest is named … "A whimsical literary competition hosted by the San Jose State University, USA, honours the worst first lines in fiction"
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