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It didn’t help that I read this BBC Online story while writing the final scene of my NaNoWriMo 2006 story, with just hours to go to before the deadline expired. That couldn’t be described as containing sex - rather some very innocent teenage snogging - but it completely put me off my stroke nonetheless:

First timer takes bad sex award

Iain Hollingshead has won the Literary Review’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award 2006 with his first novel Twenty Something.

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Now in its 14th year, the award is given to the passage considered to be the most redundant in an otherwise excellent novel.

The panel admitted it was a close call against Tim Willocks’ The Religion but Hollingshead’s reference to “bulging trousers” tipped the scales. The 26-year-old said he was delighted to be the youngest recipient.

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Among the other nominees were established names like Irvine Welsh and Will Self but the panel described them as “beyond help at this point”. Read full story here…

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