Lyttle Lytton Contest
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The Lyttle Lytton Contest is a diminutive of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, first run in the year 2001. Both are tongue-in-cheek contests that takes place annually in which entrants are invited "to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels."
The Lyttle Lytton Contest (run by Adam Cadre) varies from the Bulwer-Lytton in favouring extremely short first sentences, of 25 words or less.
Winners for each of the past four years are:
- 2004 - "This is the story of your mom's life." (R. Lambert)
- 2003 - "For centuries, man had watched the clouds; now, they were watching him." (S. Sachs)
- 2002 - "The pain wouldn't stop, and Vern still had three cats left." (A. Davis)
- 2001 - "Turning, I mentally digested all of what you, the reader, are about to find out heartbreakingly." (T. Changwatchai)
External links
- Lyttle Lytton website (http://adamcadre.ac/lyttle.html)