The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest

Today, Panzer went to the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest site. There he found the list of this year's Winners and Dishonorable Mentions.

It's so bad it made me laugh.

This is the annual contest for the worst opening line of a novel. It's named for Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, the man who wrote the opening line, "It was a dark and stormy night."

The main page has this year's Grand Prize Winner John Farmer's first line. If you click the blue button below that, you'll be taken to the Grand Prize Winner and the Winners and the Dishonorable Mentions in each of the categories.

Panzer says, "Even bad writing deserves to be rewarded."

To read the post tootle over to Bulwer-Lytton Winner