Shite of the Year 2016

It’s that time of the year again. When the unelected people who give your taxpayers money to their friends and family give even more of it to even more of their friends and family and even charge you for the privilege of watching them rub their greedy little hands together. This year it seems that a number of University Professors have fallen on hard times as well as the usual suspects like Owen ‘bad boy’ Sheers, ‘Gross Writer’, ‘Horrid Henry’ and ‘Gloating Gower’.

This year, in Pulp of the Year 2016 the nominees are: Philip Gross (previous parasite), Paul Henry (bursary regular – £6,425), Stephen Payne (Professor who needs the cash?), Kate Hamer (bursary score – £5,000), Thomas Morris (lives in Dublin but still got a ticket), Owen Sheers (more public cash thrown at him than any other shit writer?), Jasmine Donahaye (Cash score – £20,000+), Eluned Gramich (other public money – £1,000), Daniel G. Williams (Professor who needs more cash), Mererid Hopwood (bursary score – £6,000), Gruffudd Owen (Arts Council Trougher), Cen Williams (big jobs for the boys), Jon Gower (bursary score – £8,000), Caryl Lewis (Wales Literature Exchange), Dewi Prysor (was interesting until he made this list), Simon Brooks (bursary score – £2,003), Gruffydd Aled Williams (another hard-up Professor) and Emyr Glyn Williams.

Each category winner will receive £1,000 (even though they’d never sell that many books), and the main award winners in each language get an additional £3,000.

And the real sting in the tail… Literature Wales, that gets millions of pounds a year to promote literature even has the cheek to charge you £5 a ticket for this crap!

It truly is a great time to be part of the Welsh Taffia and Gravy Train Circus. This truly embarrassing event is also sponsored by the Arts Council, Welsh Assembly Government, Aberystwyth University, Welsh Books Council and others. Once again proving that austerity just happens to other people as far as these bastards are concerned.