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 ...

Barring some very unexpected development, this will be my last Bulwer-Lytton column this year. Last time I shared some of the entries that received votes from the judges but didn’t make the two ...

“Detective Bart Lasiter was in his office studying the light from his one small window falling on his super burrito when the door swung open to reveal a woman whose body said you’ve had your last ...

One generation’s master is the next generation’s hack. One generation’s classic is the next’s punch-line. Witness the case of Edward George Earle Bulwer, Baron Lytton of Knebworth–or, as he became ...

The English professor sat there thinking, alone on a dark night in 1981, as nights were then and are now even without storms, which are dark too. He pondered how to get students writing more and ...

Although her novel is not very far along, it has already won for Sheila Richter of Minneapolis a major literary competition: the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. Here is what she wrote: ”The notes ...

Having a writing contest named after you more than a century after your death would seem to be a great honor. Not so, if your name was Edward Bulwer-Lytton. His legacy stemmed not from some of his ...