This is a contest that I found and thought you might be interested. Here are the instructions on entering with the email/snail mail info following:

The rules to the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest are childishly simple:

Each entry must consist of a single sentence but you may submit as many entries as you wish. (One fellow once submitted over 3,000 entries.)

Sentences may be of any length but we strongly recommend that entries not go beyond 50 or 60 words. Entries must be “original” (as it were) and previously unpublished.

Snail mail entries should be submitted on index cards, the sentence on one side and the entrant's name, address, and phone number on the other.

E-mail entries should be in the body of the message, not in an attachment (and it would be really swell if you submitted your entries in Arial 12 font). One e-mail may contain multiple entries.

Entries will be judged by categories, from “general” to detective, western, science fiction, romance, and so on. There will be overall winners as well as category winners.

The official deadline is April 15 (a date that Americans associate with painful submissions and making up bad stories). The actual deadline is June 30.

The contest accepts submissions every day of the livelong year.

Wild Card Rule: Resist the temptation to work with puns like “It was a stark and dormy night.“

Finally, in keeping with the gravitas, high seriousness, and general bignitude of the contest, the grand prize winner will receive … a pittance.

You may inflict your entries either by electronic or surface mail.

The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest

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Contact the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest

If you would like to submit an entry to the contest, or you would like to contact the Grand Panjandrum himself, you have two main options.

You may email Scott Rice at srice@pacbell.net .

You may also send your contest entries, requests, and various and sundry truckling to:

Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
Department of English
San Jose State University
San Jose, CA 95192-0090

Please include your name, phone number, and addresses — Gastropoda and e-mail. (Note: this data is for our contact information, not for public consumption.)