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Wisconsin professor wins bad writing award

Source: torontosun.com Posted By: Johnnie R...4901 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....

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