Jury Citation

“Virtual Clearcut is an unapologetically subjective and impassioned reckoning of the forces that have sustained and paralysed the individual and collective will of a small community. Vigorous and unflinching, Fawcett poses awkward questions of himself, his friends, environmentalists, government and the timber industry. In tracing the decline and fall of a community in Canada, Virtual Clearcut narrates a modern and ominously universal story.” – 2003 Writers’ Trust Nonfiction Prize Jury (Katherine Ashenburg, Stephen Brunt, and Ken Wiwa)