Bad Sex In Fiction Award cancelled as public faced ‘too many bad things’ in 2020

Bad Sex In Fiction Award cancelled as public faced ‘too many bad things’ in 2020 (Doug Peters/PA)

The annual Bad Sex In Fiction Award has been cancelled with organisers saying people have suffered enough in 2020.

The tongue-in-cheek prize, set up in 1993 by the Literary Review, usually honours poorly written, perfunctory or redundant passages of sexual description in modern fiction.