Bulwer-Lytton 2022

Bulwer-Lytton 2022

Somehow I missed the announcement of the winners of this year’s Bulwer-Lytton contest. Let me rectify that now.

If you’re unfamiliar with the contest, this from their website:

“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.”

The c...