American academic wins bad writing award NEWS
American academic-come-author, Sue Fondrie, receives bad writing award for appalling metaphors of wind turbines and maimed sparrows.
The Bulwer-Lytton prize was named in honour of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton's dire 1830 novel and its renown opening 'it was a dark and stormy night' and is awarded to fictional work that is deemed terrible.
Sue Fondrie, professor at the University of Wisconsin, is the 29th winner of the bad writing prize for the worst opening sentence. Her submission to the prize: 'Cheryl's mind turned like the vanes of a wind-powered turbine, chopping her sparrow-like thoughts into bloody pieces that fell onto a growing pile of forgotten memories'
On receiving the title, Fondrie wrote on Twitter: 'My life is a little brighter knowing I'm the Worst Writer of 2011. It's only fitting that someone who teaches people how to teach would be a bad-writing winner.'
'That's the best part about it: I'm reconnecting with students from years ago. As one of them wrote, 'I knew you were awful, so it's great that you're finally getting recognised' ' she added.
She also claimed that despite her sentence's mention of wind turbines, she is 'in no way anti-alternative energy'.
This year's Bulwer-Lytton runner-up was Rodney Reed writing: ''As I stood among the ransacked ruin that had been my home, surveying the aftermath of the senseless horrors and atrocities that had been perpetrated on my family and everything I hold dear, I swore to myself that no matter where I had to go, no matter what I had to do or endure, I would find the man who did this ... and when I did, when I did, oh, there would be words.'
And, last but not least, the romance award was won by Ali Kawashima's entry: 'As the dark and mysterious stranger approached, Angela bit her lip anxiously, hoping with every nerve, cell, and fiber of her being that this would be the one man who would understand ' who would take her away from all this ' and who would not just squeeze her boob and make a loud honking noise, as all the others had'
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