2018 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest Winners

[duaneiac]

This year's Grand Prize winner in the contest which honors well-crafted bad writing went to 17 year old Tanya Menezes from my hometown of San Jose (move over Joey Chestnut, we have a new hero).  It is an entry which made me laugh out loud at the laundromat when I read it!

In an article I read in the local paper, she said she had been working on and refining that one sentence since her freshman year.  Nice to see her hard work paid off.

Prize winners and runners-up in various genre categories can be found here:

https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/latest-winners

Edited September 6, 2018 by duaneiac

[JSngry]

Too many commas.

[duaneiac]

Can bad writing ever have too many commas?

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Tom Lehrer did it better in '53

 

I hold your hand in mine, dear

I press it to my lips
I take a healthy bite from
Your lovely fingertips

My joy would be complete, dear
If you were only here
But still I keep your hand
As a lovely souvenir

The night you died I cut it off
I really don't know why
For now each time I kiss it
I get bloodstains on my tie

I'm sorry now I killed you
For our love was something fine!
Until they come to get me
I shall hold your hand in mine!

 

MG