The Lyttle Lytton Contest is a diminutive derivative of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, and was first run in the year 2001. Both are tongue-in-cheek contests that take place annually and in which entrants are invited "to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels."
The Lyttle Lytton Contest (run by Adam Cadre) varies from the Bulwer-Lytton in favoring extremely short first sentences, of 25 words or fewer. For the 2008 competition, the maximum combined word count of an entrant's submission was increased to 30 words, and an individual entry may consist of multiple sentences.The limit was raised again to 33 words after the 2010 contest, and for the 2012 contest, a 200-character per submission limit was established instead.
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