Terrible prose wins literary prize

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

Terrible prose wins literary prize
Tue, 26 Jul, 2011 - 11:57

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

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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