Sierra Skye Gemma wins National Newspaper Award



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Congratulations to Sierra Skye Gemma, MFA Alumna and current UBC Creative Writing Staff member, for winning the 2015 National Newspaper Award in Long Feature.

Writing in the Globe and Mail, Sierra Skye Gemma investigates her own attraction to pornography and considers what role her knowledge of porn might play in her son’s sexual education. With courage and confidence, she weaves together aspects of her own intimate life, data on porn consumption, the haphazard evolution of school sex-ed curricula, and the knowledge of experts in child and adolescent development. The judges applauded the originality and frankness, the mastery of the topic, and its graceful style.



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