A "disturbing description" by American academic Sue Fondrie won this year's Bulwer-Lytton prize for bad writing, the Guardian reported. The winning submission: "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."
This was the shortest winning sentence in the history of the award, "proving that bad writing need not be prolix, or even very wordy," said the organizers. Fittingly enough, Fondrie relayed her feelings about the win through her Twitter account: "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."