Bulwer-Lytton

[ bool-wer-lit-n ]

noun

1. 1st Baron. George Edward Lytton.

Bulwer-Lytton

/ ˈbʊlwəˈlɪtən /

noun

1. See Lytton

Example Sentences

In Week 1411 the Empress asked for a bad final sentence or two to a novel, a counterpart to the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for bad opening sentences.

From Washington Post

The film was inspired by the 1871 novel The Coming Race, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who famously inspired a long-running contest for deliberately terrible writing.

From The Verge

No. 1 is probably closest to a softball — lots of trivia nerds might recognize Bulwer-Lytton as the author who penned the now-cliched opener, “It was a dark and stormy night.”

From Washington Post

In 2000, Mr. Dahl was a grand prize winner in the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for dreadful prose.

From Washington Post

Mr. Dahl, a resident most recently of Jacksonville, was also vastly proud of having won, in 2000, the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, which honors deliberately dreadful prose.

From New York Times