Short fiction writer Anthony Doerr has won this year's Sunday Times Short Story award for his latest offering, The Deep. The American, who recently won the Sory Prize in the USA, beat off a host of strong competitors to win the £30,00 prize, whic...
Legendary broadcaster David Dimbleby has received this year's lifetime award at the annual Royal Television Society's Awards. The 72 year old, brother of current affairs presenter Jonathan Dimbleby and son of World War 11 broadcaster Richard Dimbl...
Lord of the Rungs: By J.R. Hartley Gadaffi stood quite still, his long beard rustling in the cold morning air. There came a shout from Fido. "Will you hold that fukin ladder still!". Gadaffi sighed. She: By H. Riding Hard Harry Holloway and Leo Da vinci were tiring as the heat from the African jungle bore down on thier backs. From the bush, Ayesha emerged with her tribe. "Have you got a...
When I sat English Lit at O Level, there were three books we had to study. There was a novel, a Shakespeare play, and a book of poetry. The novel was Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy. The Shakespeare play was Richard III The book of poetry was the biggest load of old bollocks ever committed to print. I was never an ideal pupil - too much of a tearaway, dismissive of things wh...
A Facebook status update has won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction for the greatest piece of literary work in the English language. The award, which until this year was reserved for original full-length novels, was won by Psychocrazydav...
The literary community on the Isle of Wight is set to be enhanced, enlarged and enlivened by the arrival on the island of critically-acclaimed poet Len Blatt, winner of the 2002 Cromer Prize for his silent play A Lancashire Muslim in Harry Ramsden's,...
Read this hypothetical discussion between Bradley and Leavis and make notes on their differences in opinion. Will be reporting back in 20 mins. bradmeister: lol @ iago pwning the Moor leavis.fr.69: othello failed :D bradmeister: yh but that was serious ownage leavis.fr.69: nt really...othello was a n00b bradmeister: othello is a chuck norris of poetry leavis.fr.69: othello thinks...
In a surprising announcement, the Nobel committee confirmed that Patrick Starr, the character actor made famous by his role on Spongebob Squarepants, will receive the Nobel prize for literature. Patrick Starr is the Author of the novel "Undersea."...
Igloo #23, Scandahoovia - The Nobel Awards Make Better Living for All (NAMBLA) is reeling under criticism, but this time not for Obama. "Herta who?", is the cry that is resounding from all over the world, as housewives, homosexuals and nancy boy...
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts - In a large research facility staffed with hundreds of English Literature professors, three Cray II supercomputers and noted mathematician Andrew Wiles, the search for the long unknown name of the second Mrs. DeWinter has fi...
After seven years of marriage, Professor Ernest Williams and his wife Carole have filed for divorce, in a process Williams called "banal and trite". "An affair with a teacher's assistant, Carole walking in on us, my things on the lawn," Williams l...
DC Barry Hopper, the protagonist in David Hare's boring and over-analysed play, 'Murmuring Judges' is a raving loon and psychopath said, his former partner Abdul 'Jimmy' Khan. "While he may be a figment of David Hare's lack of imagination, Barry H...
His name is totally unknown in Britain, the United States and other similarly-remote parts of the Third World. Aye, a name rarely mentioned, unless in whispers, anywhere else around the globe, and especially not in polite company. The odd Albatros...
The US Government has announced that it will adopt English as its national language. English will be taught at schools. The business of government will be conducted in English. Even Hollywood
Miami, Florida - In response to a comment by Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Brave Darry of the Miami Herald, Metallica has joined up with other metal bands to start a world literary workshop tour that kicks off this weekend.
Author of the DaVinci Clod, a hair-raising tale of a clod of dirt from the infamous Garden of Eden passed down through the successive generations to a modern day Eve and her lesbian lover and mother of her children with Christ's genetic code, has...
Reports today that genuine manuscripts of the plays of William Shakespeare are turning up with monotonous regularity at a car boot sale in Tottenham North London.
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