The winners for the 2011 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest – which asks people to submit terrible first sentences to fake novels - have been announced. The contest, which began in 1982 at San Jose University, derives its name from novelist Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (pictured), who penned the iconic first sentence, “It was a dark and stormy night,” for his 1830 book Paul Clifford. (via GalleyCat)Here's the complete list of the 2011 winners.
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