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The contest was started in 1982 by Professor Scott E. Rice of the English Department at San Jose State University and was named for English novelist and playwright Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, author of the much-quoted first line "It was a dark and stormy night". This opening, from the 1830 novel Paul Clifford, reads in full:
"My precious." Gollum: Andy Serkis: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers: 2002 86 "Attica! Attica!" Sonny Wortzik: Al Pacino: Dog Day Afternoon: 1975 87 "Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!" Julian Marsh Warner Baxter: 42nd Street: 1933 88 "Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor. Don't you ...
Contests have also been run on various other Wikimedia projects, generally eliciting excitement and support; the Wikinews writing contest in March/April and the second German writing contest (part of the International writing contest) both attracted over 10 unusual prizes from the community to hand out to the lucky/skillful winners.
Patchett's life as a writer, from her earliest grade school writing, through college and graduate school, magazine writing, novels and ultimately selling books at her Nashville independent bookstore Parnassus, is woven throughout. Patchett describes These Precious Days as a sequel to her 2013 essay collection This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage.
The First Line (ISSN 1525-9382) is an American literary magazine founded in 1999 by David LaBounty, Robin LaBounty, and Jeff Adams. It is a quarterly journal based in Plano, Texas . The premise of the magazine is simple: each story begins with the same first line.
The International Imitation Hemingway Competition, also known as the Bad Hemingway Contest, was an annual writing competition begun in Century City, California.Started in 1977 as a "promotional gag", [1] and held for nearly thirty years, the contest pays mock homage to Ernest Hemingway by encouraging authors to submit a 'really good page of really bad Hemingway' in a Hemingway-esque style.
Writing for The New Yorker, John Updike said: "As realism, her novel is pale; but as a metaphoric representation of growth it transcends its sentimentality." [ 4 ] Writing for Publishers Weekly , Andrew O'Hagan said, "The book is lovely to read and is satisfyingly bold in its attempt to say something patient and true about family."
The annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest was formed in 1982. The contest, sponsored by the English Department at San Jose State University, recognizes the worst examples of "dark and stormy night" writing. It challenges entrants to compose "the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels."