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Tag: Sex
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The literary world’s most notorious booby prize, the Bad Sex in Fiction awards, have been postponed. So Nothing in the Rulebook are running a ‘best of the best’ (or ‘worst of the worst’) competition especially for 2020
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The chisel-jawed human rights lawyer and leader of the UK Labour Party may just be about to inspire an entire wave of new erotic fiction…
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She arrived in Westminster for work experience with Boris Johnson, but she could never have imagined where she’d end up with Keir Starmer…
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It’s the most notorious ‘booby’ prize in the literary world; something designed to bring joy to readers and horror to writers; which has become something of a world-wide phenomenon since it launched in 1993. That’s right: it’s the annual ‘Bad Sex in Fiction’ award, which has just announced the shortlist for the 2019 ‘prize‘. While…
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The literary world’s most notorious booby prize is back for its 27th year, as the Literary Review announces the shortlist for its infamous ‘Bad Sex in Fiction’ award. The award is given to authors who have “produced an outstandingly bad scene of sexual description in an otherwise good novel”, according to judges. The purpose of…
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Telling stories about sexuality can be scary. In this article, Kate Orson explains how writing can throw off society’s chains and rewrite your sexual self.
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How can men get away from their “bulbous salutations” and descriptions of women as empty vassals for them to have sex with, and start writing sex that is actually good?
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At Nothing in the Rulebook, we love starting conversations and building new creative relationships. So we were thrilled to be invited onto a wonderful new podcast called Better Known Show, hosted by Ivan Wise, which seeks to uncover new things that guests think should be better known. As Ivan set out in an article for NITRB,…
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US author James Frey has been named the winner of the 2018 Bad Sex in Fiction Award for his novel Katerina. The judges at the Literary Review said they had been swayed by several sex scenes in the novel, which include encounters in a car park and in the back of a taxi, but were especially convinced…
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Nominations are in as the Literary Review prepares to announce the winner of the notorious ‘Bad Sex in Fiction’ prize, which aims to draw attention to poorly written, perfunctory or redundant passages of sexual description in modern fiction. Big-name authors James Frey and Haruki Murakami have made this year’s all male shortlist, which also includes…
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