@sydhegele.bsky.social
Author of The Pump (2021) Bird Suit (2024) Bad Kids (2026) @invisibooks.bsky.social
I had so much fun making this list of amazing short story writers and novelists for @49thshelf.bsky.social
It includes @zoewhittall.bsky.social @mbatiz.bsky.social Chava Rosenfarb Val Bah @sydhegele.bsky.social and more πππ 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/10...
New book reviews up. @sydhegele.bsky.social and @bokchoygurltjong.bsky.social
I only write reviews for books that I love so don't judge me for my gushy five stars! I'll give 'em out all day if I want to!!!
@invisibooks.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social
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The 5th protester from the 2023 Gillers has *finally* had her charges dropped.
The Gillers directly lobbied police to charge those protesters, and the production team behind the CBC broadcast helped police carry out the arrests.
Enjoy the longlist celebrations
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Red swirl graphic The Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic The Sunburst Award 2025 Shortlist: Barnet, Frankie β Mood Swings (McClelland & Stewart) Hegele, Sydney β Bird Suit (Invisible Publishing) Hopkinson, Nalo β Blackheart Man (Simon & Schuster) Lubrin, Canisia β Code Noir (Alfred A. Knopf Canada) Smith, Clayton B. β A Seal of Salvage (Breakwater Books)
π£β¨The Sunburst Award Society is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2025 Award. We are delighted that the five-book shortlist highlights the scope and stellar quality of contemporary Canadian literature of the fantastic published in 2024.
www.sunburstaward.org/node/144
A massive thank you to Natalee Caple, Geoff Ryman, and Lorina Stephens for selecting BIRD SUIT (@invisibooks 2024) as one of five books on the shortlist for the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. Grateful to be alongside Canisia, Nalo, Clayton, and Frankie β€οΈ
22.07.2025 20:16 β π 11 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Shortlist buddies! Congratulations, Nalo β€οΈ
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Blackheart Man has moved from the Sunburst Award longlist to the shortlist! Congratulations to my fellow authors on the list: Frankie Barnet, Sydney Hegele, Canisia Lubrin & Clayton B. Smith locusmag.com/2025/07/2025...
21.07.2025 19:26 β π 102 π 18 π¬ 7 π 0Thank you so much, Paul!
22.07.2025 20:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0congrats to @nalohop.bsky.social @sydhegele.bsky.social and all the finalists!
21.07.2025 18:22 β π 13 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0Five books have been shortlisted for the 2025 Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic! Huge congratulations to Nalo Hopkinson @nalohop.bsky.social, Frankie Barnet, Sydney Hegele @sydhegele.bsky.social, Canisia Lubrin, & Clayton B. Smith!
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PLACE Love is the place where the wounded started calling the wounds on their knees strawberries.
Andrea Gibson forever β€οΈ
#poetry
NEW PAINTING!
"Real Location"
22" x 30", acrylic, graphite, and coloured pencils on paper.
www.thestar.com/opinion/my-f... Thank you Andrea Robin Skinner and siblings for your candour.Thank you @debdundas.bsky.social and the Star team for your guidance. And @sydhegele.bsky.social letβs talk
05.07.2025 20:25 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1Such a powerful story, Sydney. Thank you for writing it. Words have such power.
05.07.2025 18:42 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Most importantly, I'd like to thank The Gatehouse, where both Andrea and I received life-saving support as csa survivors. The Gatehouse offers peer-support groups for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, both in-person and remotely, as well as one-on-one therapy. It's truly a special place.
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I'm grateful for Deborah Dundas, who worked with Andrea to share her original piece last year, and edited both Linda's piece and mine. I have wanted to work on something with Deborah for a long time. I admire everything she does.
It's also an honour to have my piece alongside Linda Svendsen's.
Andrea's piece saved my life last year while I was navigating memories of my own childhood sexual abuse. That's what the piece is about. It's also about how much Munro is in The Pump, and about not owing one another other the stories of our lives, but sometimes sharing those stories anyway.
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For the Star, @lindasvendsen.bsky.social and I share pieces one year after Andrea Skinner's editorial that detailed her childhood sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather, and revealed that her mother, Alice Munro, stayed with him. Ed. by @debdundas.bsky.social.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Thank you, Sydney and Andrea www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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a still of mahmoud khalil as he exited ice detention. heβs wearing a long sleeve khaki button up and a white and black keffiyeh wrapped around his neck. heβs got a big smile on his face and his fist raise in the air, defiant and proud.
Mahmoud Khalil is free.
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The Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature 2025 Longlist Barnet, Frankie Mood Swings (McCleland& & Stewart) Coile, Mason - William (G.P. Putnam's Sons) Ghan, Ben Berman The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits (Buckrider Books) Hegele, Sydney- Bird Suit (Invisible Publishing) Hopkinson, Nalo Blackheart Man (Simon & Schuster) Lubrin, Canisia Code Noir (Alfred A. Knopf Canada) Oliveira, Anthony Dayspring (Strange Light) O'Neill, Heather The Capital of Dreams (HarperCollins) Sawyer, Robert The Downloaded (Shadowpaw Press) Smith, Clayton B. Seal of Salvage (Breakwater Books)'
β¨The Sunburst Society is pleased to announce the longlist for the 2025 Award. We are delighted that the longlist highlights the diversity, quality, and scope of contemporary Canadian literature of the fantastic published in 2024. www.sunburstaward.org
17.06.2025 22:01 β π 52 π 19 π¬ 1 π 5The Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic is back! Read the longlist for the 2025 award! Then read the books! Big congrats to @nalohop.bsky.social, @robertjsawyer.com, and the rest of the nominees!
ππ #booksky #sunburstaward #canlit
Seconded. Kristin has turned me on to some phenomenal books by authors I hadnβt yet read (Sydney Hegele, Thomas Olde Heuvelt, @afsulli.bsky.social, among others.) A trip into the city isnβt complete without stopping in for coffee, a convo, and copping some fun new reads. Little Ghosts is the best.ππ
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Now on the EVENT website: Michelle Hardy reviews We Are Already Ghosts by Kit Dobson and Bird Suit by Sydney Hegele.
This review was originally published in the print issue of EVENT 53/3
Read it here: www.eventmagazine.ca/2025/05/mich...
At TCAF, I had the opportunity at my event for a public thank you to Toronto Writers Against the War on Gaza, & the No Arms in the Arts campaign. These artists work hard, at no small expense to themselves, to defend the lives of Palestinians, and to insist that arts funding is not also blood money.
11.06.2025 16:47 β π 197 π 16 π¬ 2 π 0The National Post is significantly editing Canadian Press copy, without notifying the reader, to push a Zionist perspective and to portray Palestinians as terrorists. It's completely unethical and a breach of basic journalism standards. A new low for The National Post.
11.06.2025 17:36 β π 188 π 87 π¬ 9 π 5βΌοΈπ Please donate
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We are floored in the best way: AMPLITUDES: An Anthology of Queer & Trans Futurity is a USA Today Bestselling book! We are THRILLED for @dianapho.bsky.social, @leemandelo.bsky.social, and all of our amazing contributors, and so happy to see queer &trans art supported now more than ever!
We are floored in the best way: AMPLITUDES: An Anthology of Queer & Trans Futurity is a USA Today Bestselling book!
We are THRILLED for @leemandelo.bsky.social, @dianapho.bsky.social, and all of our amazing contributors, and so happy to see queer & trans stories supported now more than ever! π
"oh, this time of great suffering will produce great art"
no it fucking won't, it'll mean artists spend all their creative energy on "how do I pay for food this week"
