Join Syd Hegele (The Pump, Invisible Publishing) and Nic Brewer (Suture, Book*hug Press) for an evening of reading and conversation! This event is hosted by our good friends Another Story Bookshop, located in Roncesvalles Village in the west end of Toronto.
 

SYDNEY HEGELE (they/them) (formally Sydney Warner Brooman) is the author of The Pump (Invisible Publishing). They are the winner of the 2022 ReLit Literary Award and a finalist for the 2022 Trillium Book Award. Sydney is also a Tin House Summer Workshop Alumnus (2021). They are a white settler, living with their Fiancé and French Bulldog in Tkaronto, covered by Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit.
 

NIC BREWER is a queer, autistic writer and editor from Toronto. Her first novel, Suture -- Finalist for the 2022 ReLit Award for Fiction and Finalist for the 2021 Foreword INDIES – LGBTQ Fiction -- was published by Book*hug. She is the co-founder of Frond, an online literary journal for prose by LGBTQI2SA writers, and formerly co-managed the micropress words(on)pages. She doesn’t look like her author photo, doesn’t have an MFA, and really wants to hear about what you love most in the world. She lives in Kitchener with her wife and their dog.

Buzz about THE PUMP: "Nightmarish and yet somehow fantastical, [The Pump] explores the question of morality in a town that represents the world at its most baldly violent."—This Magazine

Buzz about SUTURE: "Brewer’s debut novel uses body horror as a means of interrogating the artistic process."—Steven Beattie