Sydney Warner Brooman

Sydney Warner Brooman (they/them) is a 24-year-old Non-Binary fiction writer, poet, and multimedia artist born in Toronto, Ontario and raised across the lake in Grimsby. They currently live in Toronto, ON with their beloved partner and their French Bulldog Sloan, where they work as a Human Interest Assignment Editor at Diply.

Sydney received an Honors Bachelor of Arts in English Literature & Creative Writing from Western University, where they served as Western’s Student-Writer-in-Residence (2017/2018), Co-President of the Undergraduate English Society, Editorial Assistant for the Canadian Poetry Project, and Editor-in-Chief of the Slam Poetry publication SNAPS.

Their poetry, fiction, and experimental work has been published in American Chordata, Thorn Literary Magazine, Synaeresis Magazine, The Temz Review, Occasus, The Gateway Review, River River, Coffin Bell Journal, The Iconoclast Collective, and Western University's Symposium & Semicolon Literary Journals. Their short story "The Bottom" was shortlisted for The Malahat Review 2020 Open Season Awards.

Sydney's debut short fiction collection The Pump is forthcoming with Invisible Books in Fall 2021.

Their work frequently explores intergenerational trauma, queerness, mental health, and intimacy in all its forms, against the backdrop of Southern Ontario Gothic small-town living.

Sydney is a beginner guitar player, a frequent horoscope reader, a liturgy enthusiast,  a coffee snob, and a lover of so, so many people, without whom their work would not exist.

Early Life
Sydney grew up in Grimsby, Ontario, Canada.

Goals
Brooman's goals are to learn and unlearn as long as she lives.

Inspiration
Of their inspirations, Brooman says, "'The beauty and horror of everyday life. My biggest creative influences are Heather O'Neill, Shirley Jackson, Flannery O'Connor, Alice Munro, Daisy Johnson, Sheila Heti, William Faulkner, Erin Morgenstern, and Mary Gaitskill.'"

Philosophy
They believe every single person on the planet has a story to tell.

Works
The Pump, Invisible Books, Fall 2021 (forthcoming)

The Quarantine Review (Forthcoming)

American Chordata

The Temz Review

Coffin Bell

The Gateway Review

Thorn Literary Magazine

River, River