Has anyone here ever entered the Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest?
This is a contest with no (as far as I can tell) prize except for the sheer (and perhaps dubious) honor of winning. For all lovers of the extreme cliche. (I have wanted to enter in the past-- maybe this year).
No, my wife and I have never entered, but we've played with the idea and come up with some ridiculous sentences. There seems to be two different versions of the criterion for winning. Is it the "worst opening sentence" of a novel, or the "opening sentence of the worst novel"? Winners seem to be sometimes one, sometimes the other.
by Maddie Ruud 13 years ago
Just a quick heads up that there's something new and fun going on, now 'til June 15th, headed up by our very own lmmartin. If you're familiar with the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, you'll know how much fun this can be. If you're not, head on over to the HubPages blog to see how it...
by Susan Keeping 12 years ago
The winner has been chosen for 2011"Cheryl’s mind turned like the vanes of a wind-powered turbine, chopping her sparrow-like thoughts into bloody pieces that fell onto a growing pile of forgotten memories."http://www.pw.org/content/university_of … t_sentence
by Simone Haruko Smith 11 years ago
Hey everyone! I hope you're excited to participate in the HubPages Cookbook Contest! It comes with a boatload of great prizes, after all. PRIZES (62 PRIZES WORTH $3,600)$1400 in $50 Daily Drawing Prizes awarded to one randomly selected recipe entry every day of the contest$1400 in $50 Weekly Prizes...
by abcd1111 14 years ago
With all the writers to survey here, I wondered if ANY have ever won a writing contest? More specifically, I was wondering if anyone has ever won a cash prize for a contest you paid to enter? An example would be for one of Writers's Digest contests or something similar?I have only submitted to a...
by ThunderKeys 13 years ago
How can you be sure that you have successfully entered the Hubpages writing contest?I tried to enter the hubs I wrote yesterday and today, by typing "WritingContest" tag on the Hub as instructed. Yet I can't find any indication that they have been entered into a contest...please advise....
by LetitiaFT 11 years ago
Does it suffice to publish a hub on the topic of a contest during the contest? Example: It is the first day of the recipe contest. I just published my first recipe. Is my recipe hub automatically entered in the contest or is some other action required on my part?
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