It might not get you good grades, but it’ll get you cold hard cash. In San Jose State University's 26th annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, in which writers submit a terrible first sentence for an imaginary novel, Garrison Spik won the grand prize of $250.00.
His winning entry? "Theirs was a New York love, a checkered taxi ride burning rubber, and like the city, their passion was open 24/7, steam rising from their bodies like slick streets exhaling warm, moist, white breath through manhole covers stamped 'Forged by DeLaney Bros., Piscataway, N.J.' "
The contest is named after Victorian novelist Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton, whose 1830 novel Paul Clifford begins with the infamous "It was a dark and stormy night."
You’ve got a little less than a year left to work on your entry.
The contest is named after Victorian novelist Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton, whose 1830 novel Paul Clifford begins with the infamous "It was a dark and stormy night."
You’ve got a little less than a year left to work on your entry.
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