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It was a dark and stormy night Everybody knows about the Booker Prize for excellence in writing. But how many people know about the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. Promoted by the English Department of the San Jose State University of the US since 1982, this contest is for the worst opening sentence of a piece of fiction.

Writers are invited to write the worst possible sentences and the truly dumb ones are rewarded. Visit its site at bulwer-lytton.com to get the best of the worst.

The contest is the brainchild of the University8217;s Prof Scott Rice who named it after an obscure Victorian writer.