And the 2007 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest winners are....

[greatauntoftriplets]

Writing contest brings out the worst
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Associated Press
July 31, 2007
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E-mail Print Single page view Reprints text size: SAN FRANCISCO - Jim Gleeson of Madison, Wis., proved himself the best of the worst, winning an annual contest Monday that salutes bad writing.

Gleeson, 47, beat out thousands of other prose manglers in San Jose State University's 2007 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. The contest takes its name from Victorian novelist Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton, whose 1830 novel "Paul Clifford" famously begins, "It was a dark and stormy night." Gleeson's entry, followed by other noteworthy submissions:

"Gerald began -- but was interrupted by a piercing whistle which cost him 10 percent of his hearing permanently, as it did everyone else in a 10-mile radius of the eruption, not that it mattered much because for them 'permanently' meant the next 10 minutes or so until buried by searing lava or suffocated by choking ash -- to pee."



-- Jim Gleeson

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-worst_31jul31,1,7831258.story

[DS1]

1. hilarious

I have to get something ready for next year

[Blue_Tires]

2. thanks for posting this

i had an old book of collected B-L entries and winners, but it is long gone...thanks for jogging the memory

[reyd reid reed]

3. Thanks for posting this...

I'd forgotten about it for this year...I need to get something ready for next year. I never send anything in, but who knows...maybe someday I, too, can write something so horribly, terribly, awfully, hilariously bad that it's good.

:)

[petronius]

4. Brilliant! The winner really is head-and-shouldres above the runner-ups,

but I like that last one as well...