The Bad Writing Contest

The Bad Writing Contest celebrates the most stylistically lamentable passages found in scholarly books and articles published in the last few years.

The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest: Home

The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest challenges ... write an atrocious opening sentence to the worst novel never written. Our whimsical literary competition ...

When Ideas Get Lost in Bad Writing; Attacks on Scholars Include a ...

Said said that Fredric Jameson, a Duke professor who uses Marxist theory to study post-modernism and whose work has won the Bad Writing Contest ...

Why Academics Revel in Bad Writing - The Walrus

In 1998, the journal Philosophy and Literature held its fourth and final Bad Writing Contest, which recognized “the most stylistically ...

Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest - Wikipedia

Entrants are invited "to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels" – that is, one which is deliberately bad. According to the official ...

r/books on Reddit: The 2022 winners of the Lyttle Lytton contest ...

I heard you like terrible story starters. So I put a bad intro, in your bad intro, so you can laugh while you wtf.

The world's worst writing | Books | The Guardian

The world's worst writing. This article is more than 24 years old. Each year Philosophy and Literature, an academic journal, runs a bad-writing ...

2023 Bulwer-Lytton "Terrible Opening Lines" contest winners ...

I feel like that's because a lot of these people just treated this as a general joke contest, rather than a contest about parodying bad writing.

The best of bad writing - DataVis.ca

... Literature , based in New Zealand, holds an international Bad Writing Contest. Its aim? To ridicule the worst excesses of academic writing.

Bad Writing - A Commonplace Blog

Every year since 1994 the journal Philosophy and Literature has held a Bad Writing Contest, asking its readers to submit “the ugliest, most stylistically awful” ...

The New Bad Writing Competition...just for laughs! (LANGUAGE)

... a bad writing contest, trying to keep my shit together. There I was, with a collection of Hefty bags, a big shovel, a rake, and a Super ...

Competitive Bad Writing - Kahn's Corner

Originally a promotional even for Harry's American Bar & Grill, The International Imitation Hemingway Contest, also known simply as the Bad ...

The Bad Writing Contest

We are pleased to announce winners of the fourth Bad Writing Contest, sponsored by the scholarly journal Philosophy and Literature. The Bad ...

Wisconsin professor wins 2011 bad writing contest. - Jacurutu

What's the worst that could happen, plagiarism? Image Paul of Dune was so bad it gave me a seizure that dislocated both of my shoulders and prolapsed my anus. ~ ...

Bulwer-Lytton Bad Writing Contest Hall of Shame 2021!

Here are the results from the 2021 contest! The Bad Writing Hall of Shame 2021. First Place. I was falling, like a salad thrown out of a ...

Judith Butler on Bad Writing - Theologies

Judith Butler on Bad Writing ... In 1999, Judith Butler won a Bad Writing Contest run by the journal Philosophy and Literature for this sentence:.

The case of the Bad Writing Contest: Literary theory as commodity ...

Bad Writing Contest, which was held in the late 1990s by the journal Philosophy and Literature, in order to ridicule the worst samples of ...

Denis Dutton on Bad Writing

How different from the desperate incantations of the Bad Writing Contest winners, who hope to persuade their readers not by argument but by ...

Wisconsin Professor Wins SJSU's Bad Writing Contest

Professor Scott Rice of SJSU's Department of English and Comparative Literature founded this competition, which celebrates purposely bad writing.

Bill White: Bad writing contest returns - The Morning Call

You can find all their winners past and present at the website bulwer-lytton.com. I often bill our competition as a bad writing contest, but it ...