Even though I ran two columns of top entries in my local version of the international Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, there were several others that received significant judge support but couldn’t be ...

When it comes to recognizing good literature, you've got all kinds of prizes - the National Book Award, the Nobel, the Booker. But when it comes to recognizing truly bad writing, there's the ...

THEY'RE funny at first and lighten the heart, like a ray of sunshine, gleaming and sparkling on a perfect mountainous snow-laden landscape although just as the sun's gentle warmth, in caressing the ...

For four decades, an English professor at San Jose State University has run a fiction contest for a single opening sentence to "the worst of all possible novels." He has decided to retire the contest.