Tuesday, June 29, 2010

2010 Bulwer-Lytton Winner

Seattle writer wins 2010 bad writing contest: "An unseemly sentence that compares a kiss to the union of a thirsty gerbil and a giant water bottle has won the top prize in an annual bad writing contest.

San Jose State University said Tuesday that Molly Ringle of Seattle was the grand prize winner of the 2010 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.

In her entry, Ringle describes a 'lengthy, ravenous kiss' between two lovers: 'Ricardo lapping and sucking at Felicity's mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water bottle and he were the world's thirstiest gerbil.'"

4 comments:

Lawrence Person said...

I won Dishonorable Mention in the Bulwer-Lytton three or four times, but I've gotten out of the habit of submitting as of late....

lastromantic49 said...

I used to buy the regular Best of... (or was it Worst of...?) Anyway I always get a kick out of reading them.

Anonymous said...

The World's Thirstiest Gerbil? Brilliant imagery!

Jeff

Todd Mason said...

The overall winner is a good choice, but entirely too many of the runner's-up and subsidiary winners are too easy, too winking. I can do worse than that!

Lawrence, you're needed, clearly.