Category: Sentence of the Year Awards

2013 Sentence of the Year Award

By | Prose, Sentence of the Year Awards

“Speaking as an irrelevant atom of fleeting may-fly consciousness on a dust-mote planet amid countless planets in a forgotten corner of an overlooked galaxy amid billions of such random aggregations of violent fire in a chaotic cosmos, I hope I have a few decades left before my loosely cooperating atoms dissolve their partnership and erase …

2013 Runner-up Sentence of the Year Award

By | Prose, Sentence of the Year Awards

“A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.” — Nelson Algren (quoted by Garrison Keillor) _____

2012 Autumn House Sentence of the Year Award

Humor, Prose, Sentence of the Year Awards

“If Obama can force you to get health insurance just by calling it a tax, than there is nothing to stop him from making you gay marry an illegal immigrant wearing a condom on a hydroponic pot farm powered by solar energy.” — Stephen Colbert _____

2011 Autumn House Sentence of the Year Award

By | Eva-Maria Simms, Humor, Prose, Sentence of the Year Awards

submitted by Eva Simms “A Swedish moose that is believed to have become intoxicated from eating fermented apples was discovered entangled and hanging over the branches of a homeowner’s apple tree, oblivious to its fate.” from The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette _____