Bad writing contest: an award no writer wants
For most writers, winning an award or contest is a great honor, and for a novice scribe, can really get their literary career moving. Many awards, aside from offering a monetary award, can also be the key to the world of publishing.
But there is one award I don’t think any serious writer wants to even be associated with. It’s the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest sponsored by San Jose State University. Whereas most writing contests look for the best, this contest looks for the worst. It’s the one award where cliches, bad metaphors, incoherent sentences, and overall bad prose can earn you this prestiges prize.

Anthony, Mar 15, 2010 re: J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter, ebooks, and the definition of irony