Sydney Hegele

Sydney Hegele, formerly known as Sydney Warner Brooman, is a Canadian writer,[1] whose debut short story collection, The Pump, was published in 2021.[2]

Originally from Grimsby, Ontario, Hegele attended the University of Western Ontario and is currently based in Toronto.[1] They identify as queer and use gender-neutral pronouns.[1]

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]

References
  1. James M. Fisher, "The Sydney Warner Brooman Interview". The Miramichi Reader, October 25, 2021.
  2. Steven W. Beattie, "Small-town Ontario has a new chronicler in debut author Sydney Warner Brooman’s new book ‘The Pump’". Toronto Star, September 2, 2021.
  3. "Toronto author Sydney Hegele wins 2022 ReLit Award for short fiction collection The Pump". CBC Books, May 13, 2022.
  4. Sadaf Ahsan, "Gothic stories, genre-defying memoirs among Trillium Book Award finalists". Toronto Star, May 10, 2022.
  5. "26 Canadian books to read for Pride Month". CBC Books, June 7, 2022.


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