The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest (BLFC) is a tongue-in-cheek contest, held annually and sponsored by the English Department of San José State University...
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sardonic Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, held annually since 1982, claims to seek the "opening sentence of the worst of all possible novels". Bulwer was born...
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and artist Bulwer (disambiguation) Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest This page lists people with the surname Bulwer-Lytton. If an internal link intending to...
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Edward Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, GCB, GCSI, GCIE, PC (8 November 1831 – 24 November 1891), was an English statesman, Conservative...
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Rosina Bulwer-Lytton, Baroness Lytton, (née Doyle Wheeler; 4 November 1802 – 12 March 1882) was an Anglo-Irish writer who published fourteen novels, a...
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It was a dark and stormy night (category Edward Bulwer-Lytton)
Scott Rice, the founder of the International Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. Rice accused Bulwer-Lytton of writing "27 novels whose perfervid turgidity...
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Purple prose (category Fiction)
Flaccus, 65–8 BC) who wrote in his Ars Poetica (lines 14–21): Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, to find "the opening sentence to the worst of all possible...
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Adam Cadre (redirect from Lyttle Lytton Contest)
diminutive derivative of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, and was first awarded in the year 2001. Both are tongue-in-cheek contests that take place annually...
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and won – a debate with Scott Rice, founder of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, a bad-writing contest sponsored annually by San Jose State University,...
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Paul Clifford (category Novels by Edward Bulwer-Lytton)
"It was a dark and stormy night...", which helped inspire the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. Paul Clifford tells the story of a chivalrous highwayman in...
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21st century, he may be better known as the namesake for the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest (BLFC), sponsored annually by the English Department at San...
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In 1982, the English department began sponsoring the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. In 1985, the CADRE Laboratory for New Media was established...
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presented to the "worst artist of the year" Lyttle Lytton Contest, based on the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, but with restrictions Naomi Awards, dedicated...
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Cities. Boston: Dana Estes. ISBN 0671006118. "The Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest". Bad Writing Contest. Retrieved 2023-01-11. Museum of Learning. "Encyclicals:...
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high-tech and dot-coms.[citation needed] In 2000, Dahl won the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, the San José State University–sponsored competition that awards...
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Guardian of the Threshold (category Edward Bulwer-Lytton)
Threshold") as a literary invention of the English mystic and novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton is found in his romance Zanoni (1842). After the founding of the Theosophical...
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Darwin Awards Golden Raspberry Awards – awards for bad movies Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest – an award for bad writing Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest...
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Almighty dollar (category Edward Bulwer-Lytton)
Chapter III, "Boston", of his American Notes, published in 1842. Edward Bulwer-Lytton is often credited with coining the related phrase "pursuit of the almighty...
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Elizabeth Barbara Bulwer-Lytton (née Warburton-Lytton; 1 May 1770 – 19 December 1843) was a member of the Lytton family of Knebworth House in Hertfordshire...
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repeatedly scored ‘Dishonorable Mention’ in the annual international Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, where the challenge is to compose the worst possible opening...
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Student life The Spartan Daily KSJS Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest Reed Magazine John Steinbeck Award for Fiction Sigma Delta Alpha Sigma Theta Psi People...
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Student life The Spartan Daily KSJS Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest Reed Magazine John Steinbeck Award for Fiction Sigma Delta Alpha Sigma Theta Psi People...
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convention in Reno, Nevada Black Leopards F.C., South Africa Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the...
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Student life The Spartan Daily KSJS Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest Reed Magazine John Steinbeck Award for Fiction Sigma Delta Alpha Sigma Theta Psi People...
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year fielding an American football team, the Spartans lost in their sole contest against the local YMCA team of San Jose. The game technically occurred...
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Numbers, the 1996 winner. Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, for the worst opening line of a (fictitious) book. Lyttle Lytton Contest, a derivative favouring...
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Student life The Spartan Daily KSJS Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest Reed Magazine John Steinbeck Award for Fiction Sigma Delta Alpha Sigma Theta Psi People...
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Whelan — artist and illustrator specializing in imaginative realism; Science Fiction Hall of Fame inductee Lorna Dee Cervantes — poet, Pulitzer Prize nominee...
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Student life The Spartan Daily KSJS Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest Reed Magazine John Steinbeck Award for Fiction Sigma Delta Alpha Sigma Theta Psi People...
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Student life The Spartan Daily KSJS Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest Reed Magazine John Steinbeck Award for Fiction Sigma Delta Alpha Sigma Theta Psi People...
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