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 ...

“Deep within the tree-covered woods the aroma emitted from the trees was eerily reminiscent of the smell given off by those little pine shaped things that people hang from their rearview mirrors.” ...

“She had a body that reached out and slapped my face like a five-pound ham-hock tossed from a speeding truck.” That sentence, submitted by Lawrence Person of Austin, Texas, was the Grand Prize Winner ...

The pen is mightier than the sword. And funnier too … thanks to Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, a cartoon beagle and Bulwer-Lytton admirers at San Jose State University in San Jose, Calif. Since 1982, ...

For four decades, an English professor at San Jose State University has run a fiction contest for a single opening sentence to "the worst of all possible novels." He has decided to retire the contest.