The 2009 winner of the Vogue Talent writing competition was so utterly disappointing.
i was actually looking forward to reading the winning entry.
i never envisioned winning. but i never envisioned loosing to such poor language, grammar and just simply a tug at the heart strings.
Although i love playing with the english language and adore anyone else who does. there is a certain skill and appreciation of english which must be followed.
starting a sentence with And is an amusing nod to the ever changing of our language, as it is abolished and restated as a literary device about 50 times a year.
...but starting a sentence with "anyway", not just once but numerous times in a small essay made my skin crawl.
it is brushing off the readers intent to know more.
an article on a memory was always going to be self indulgent, my own essay perhaps more then this girl. but it lacks any story, direction or skill.
her step father, who she thinks of as father is a bad man, isn't liked by his relatives along with his new family to which she belongs.
that is not an award winning essay.
i would also like to know when a model qualifies to judge a literature competition, i would have hoped that decision to fall into the hand of a highly respected editor of vogue.
I am sure any one of the runners up are more deserving.
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