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    The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest (BLFC) was a tongue-in-cheek contest, held annually and sponsored by the English Department of San José State University in San Jose, California until 2025. Entrants were invited "to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels" – that is, one which was deliberately bad.
    According to the official rules, the prize for winning the contest was "a pittance". The 2008 winner received $250, while the 2014 winners' page said the grand prize winner received "about $150". In 2023, the prize was "a cheap certificate and bragging rights".
    The contest was started in 1982 by Professor Scott E. Rice of the English Department at San Jose State University and was named for English novelist and playwright Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, author of the much-quoted first line "It was a dark and stormy night". This opening, from the 1830 novel Paul Clifford, reads in full:

    It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
    The first year of the competition attracted just three entries, but it went public the next year, received media attention, and attracted 10,000 entries. The contest eventually expanded into several subcategories, such as detective fiction, romance novels, Western novels, and purple prose. Sentences that were notable but not quite bad enough to merit the Grand Prize or a category prize were awarded Dishonorable Mentions.


    Winning entrants


    The winning entries are available at the contest website.


    Collections


    Six books collecting the best BLFC entries have been published:

    It Was a Dark and Stormy Night (1984), ISBN 0-14-007556-9
    Son of "It Was a Dark and Stormy Night" (1986), ISBN 0-14-008839-3
    Bride of Dark and Stormy (1988), ISBN 0-14-010304-X
    It Was a Dark & Stormy Night: The Final Conflict (1992), ISBN 0-14-015791-3
    Dark and Stormy Rides Again (1996), ISBN 0-14-025490-0
    It Was a Dark and Stormy Night (2007), ISBN 978-1-905548-60-6
    An audio cassette of the winning entries in the BLFC was also released:

    It Was a Dark and Stormy Night (1997), audio cassette, ISBN 1-57270-045-9.


    See also


    Lyttle Lytton Contest, a derivative favoring extremely short first sentences
    The Dweller of the Threshold, a contemporaneous parody of Bulwer-Lytton by Bret Harte
    Purple prose
    Bad Sex in Fiction Award run by Literary Review magazine
    Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year
    International Imitation Hemingway Competition


    Notes




    References




    External links


    Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest web site
    "From Worst to First: Literary Award Marks the Pits of Prose" Chronicle of Higher Education News blog (2007)

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