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Bad writing becomes an art form in annual contest for world's worst prose

Ellsworth Toohey
Dec 19, 2024
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A flying pork product helped an Austin writer claim literary infamy in this year's Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, which crowns the author of the worst opening sentence to an imaginary novel. Lawrence Person beat out more than 6,300 contestants with his deliberately dreadful description:

"She had a body that reac…

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