Wisconsin professor wins bad writing award
Source: torontosun.com Posted By: Johnnie R...4868 days ago
A University of Wisconsin Oshkosh associate professor has won top prize for her cringe-inducing prose.
Sue Fondrie won the 2011 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest -- an annual award that challenges entrants to compose bad opening sentences to imaginary novels. The contest takes its name from the Victorian novelist Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, who began his Paul Clifford with, "It was a dark and stormy night."
At just 26 words, Fondrie's submission is the shortest grand prize winner in the contest's....