Bird-brain scribe wins bad prose gong

A SENTENCE in which tiny birds and the English language are both slaughtered has taken top honours in an annual bad writing contest.

Wed, 27 Jul, 2011 - 01:00

The contest asks writers to submit the worst possible opening sentences to imaginary novels.

Sue Fondrie won the 2011 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest in the US for her sentence comparing forgotten memories to dead sparrows.

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