Sydney Hegele

[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.

[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 2026.