The 2008 Bulwer-Lytton contest winners have been announced, along with dishonorable mentions. The winning entry – one of eight submitted by Garrison Spik, not to be confused with Garrison Keilor:
Theirs was a New York love, a checkered taxi ride burning rubber, and like the city their passion was open 24/7, steam rising from their bodies like slick streets exhaling warm, moist, white breath through manhole covers stamped “Forged by DeLaney Bros., Piscataway, N.J.”
What is this prize? It’s sort of like the Ig Nobel awards, but for literature, a celebration of truly bad writing. You can get a full literary critique by the winner in this Washington Post article.
