Some of the best examples, or the worst examples depending on your point of view, have been collected in a new book edited by English writer and literary critic John Gross, a former editor of the Times Literary Supplement.
Parody is hard to do and it's even harder to do well. Greene himself entered the competition under a pseudonym but he only came second. Peter Mares: In the 1940s, so the story goes, the New Statesman asked its readers to parody Grahame Greene.
