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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 29d

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

canlitresponds.ca/boycott-giller

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Sunburst Award @sunburstaward.bsky.social · Jul 21

📣✨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

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The Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic
The Sunburst Award 2025 Shortlist:
Barnet, Frankie — Mood Swings (McClelland & Stewart)
Hegele, Sydney — Bird Suit (Invisible Publishing)
Hopkinson, Nalo — Blackheart Man (Simon & Schuster)
Lubrin, Canisia — Code Noir (Alfred A. Knopf Canada)
Smith, Clayton B. — A Seal of Salvage (Breakwater Books)

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Sydney Hegele @sydhegele.bsky.social · Jul 22

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 ❤️

Sunburst Award @sunburstaward.bsky.social · Jul 21

📣✨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

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Sydney Hegele @sydhegele.bsky.social · Jul 22

Shortlist buddies! Congratulations, Nalo ❤️

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Nalo Hopkinson @nalohop.bsky.social · Jul 21

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...

2025 Sunburst Award Shortlist

The shortlist for the 2025 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic was announced on June 21, 2025. Mood Swings, Frankie Barnet (McClelland & Stewart) Bird Suit, Sy…

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Sydney Hegele @sydhegele.bsky.social · Jul 22

Thank you so much, Paul!

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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸 @princejvstin.com · Jul 21

congrats to @nalohop.bsky.social @sydhegele.bsky.social and all the finalists!

Sunburst Award @sunburstaward.bsky.social · Jul 21

📣✨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

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Gory Bledalot @coreyredekop.bsky.social · Jul 22

Five 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!
quillandquire.com/omni/five-bo...
#booksky ❤️📚

Five books shortlisted for 2025 Sunburst Award - Quill and Quire

The winner of the $3,000 prize for literature of the fantastic will be named in the fall.

quillandquire.com

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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · Jul 14

Andrea Gibson forever ❤️
#poetry

PLACE
Love is the place
where the wounded
started calling the wounds
on their knees strawberries.

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Paul Vermeersch @paulvermeersch.bsky.social · Jul 11

NEW PAINTING!

"Real Location"

22" x 30", acrylic, graphite, and coloured pencils on paper.

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Linda Svendsen (she/her) @lindasvendsen.bsky.social · Jul 5

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 let’s talk

My fiction left Alice Munro shaking. Her daughter’s reality did the same to me

I wasn't able to confront my abusers — until now.

www.thestar.com

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Deborah Dundas @debdundas.bsky.social · Jul 5

Such a powerful story, Sydney. Thank you for writing it. Words have such power.

Sydney Hegele @sydhegele.bsky.social · Jul 5

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...

Andrea Skinner’s story helped me transform shame into solidarity

I have witnessed the power of storytelling to save lives

www.thestar.com

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Sydney Hegele @sydhegele.bsky.social · Jul 5

Most 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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Sydney Hegele @sydhegele.bsky.social · Jul 5

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 Skinner’s story helped me transform shame into solidarity

I have witnessed the power of storytelling to save lives

www.thestar.com

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Sydney Hegele @sydhegele.bsky.social · Jul 5

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.

www.thestar.com

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Sydney Hegele @sydhegele.bsky.social · Jul 5

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...

Andrea Skinner’s story helped me transform shame into solidarity

I have witnessed the power of storytelling to save lives

www.thestar.com

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Linda Svendsen (she/her) @lindasvendsen.bsky.social · Jul 5

Thank you, Sydney and Andrea www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Andrea Skinner’s story helped me transform shame into solidarity

I have witnessed the power of storytelling to save lives

www.thestar.com

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Linda Svendsen (she/her) @lindasvendsen.bsky.social · Jun 20

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

What is happening in Gaza is an injury to our collective conscience. We must be allowed to speak out

Silence means we can neither confront nor mourn what is going on.

www.thestar.com

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · Jun 21

Mahmoud Khalil is free.

a still of mahmoud khalil as he exited ice detention. he’s wearing a long sleeve khaki button up and a white and black keffiyeh wrapped around his neck. he’s got a big smile on his face and his fist raise in the air, defiant and proud.

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Sunburst Award @sunburstaward.bsky.social · Jun 17

✨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

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)'

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Gory Bledalot @coreyredekop.bsky.social · Jun 17

The 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!
💙📚 #booksky #sunburstaward #canlit

Sunburst Award @sunburstaward.bsky.social · Jun 17

✨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

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Laura Keeney || ثُرَيَّا @laurakeeney.bsky.social · May 20

Seconded. Kristin has turned me on to some phenomenal books by authors I hadn’t yet read (Sydney Hegele, Thomas Olde Heuvelt, @afsulli.bsky.social, among others.) A trip into the city isn’t complete without stopping in for coffee, a convo, and copping some fun new reads. Little Ghosts is the best.📚💙

Kristin Knowles @kzknowles.bsky.social · May 20

It's a beautiful day, you should enjoy it with a new book! Stop by @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social and let me suggest your next favourite read. 🧡👻📚

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Event Magazine @eventmags.bsky.social · Jun 11

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...

Michelle Hardy Reviews Novels from Kit Dobson and Sydney Hegele for EVENT 53/3 - EVENT

For EVENT 53/2, Avery Qurashi reviews two works of fiction from RM Vaughan and an anthology of stories edited by Russell Smith.

www.eventmagazine.ca

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Kate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social · Jun 11

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.

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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · Jun 11

The 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.

The Breach @breachmedia.ca · Jun 10

A new data analysis finds the National Post quietly modified nearly 200 newswire articles since Oct. 7 to push a pro-Israel narrative.

Jason Toney from @cjpme.org breaks down how the paper edited stories to erase Israeli occupation and frame Palestinians as terrorists.

National Post quietly rewrote wire stories to push pro-Israel narrative, analysis finds ⋆ The Breach

The newspaper modified nearly 200 wire stories from The Canadian Press to tilt the coverage in Israel’s favour

breachmedia.ca

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