Sydney Hegele (formerly known as Sydney Warner Brooman) is a Canadian writer, [1]
Sydney Hegele (formerly known as Sydney Warner Brooman) is a Canadian writer, [1]
Originally from Grimsby, Ontario, Hegele attended the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario and is currently based in Toronto. [1] They identify as queer and use gender-neutral pronouns. [1]
Hegele's debut short story collection, The Pump , was published in 2021. [2]
The Pump, a volume of interrelated short stories about outsiders living in a small town in Southern Ontario, was compared to the Southern Ontario Gothic style of writers such as Alice Munro. [2] The book was the winner of the 2022 ReLit Award for short fiction, [3] and was shortlisted for the 2022 Trillium Book Awards for English fiction. [4]
The book was also selected by CBC Books in 2022 as part of a Pride Month reading list of books by LGBTQ Canadian writers. [5]
Hegele has two forthcoming books with Invisible Publishing. [6] Their Novel Bird Suit will be published in May 2024, and their essay collection Bad Kids, edited by author Alicia Elliot, is forthcoming in 2025.
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