Kyle Edwards (writer)

Kyle Edwards is an Anishinaabe writer from Manitoba, Canada.[1] His debut novel, Small Ceremonies, was published in 2025.[2]

Early life and education

Edwards is a member of the Ebb and Flow First Nation and grew up on the Lake Manitoba First Nation.[1] He studied journalism at Ryerson University.[3] From 2021 to 2023, he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University.[4] He is currently pursuing his doctorate in creative writing and literature at the University of Southern California, where he is a provost fellow.[3]

Career

His debut novel, Small Ceremonies, was published by Pantheon Books in 2025. It was the winner of the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 2025 Governor General's Awards.[5] The book was nominated for the 2026 Dublin Literary Award and the 2026 Amazon Canada First Novel Award.[6][7] It was a finalist for the 2026 Young Lions Fiction Award.[8]

He is a member of the editorial staff at The New Yorker.[9] He has published work for BBC News, Maclean's, Native News Online, CBC News and the Toronto Star.[3] He won the CAJ/JHR Emerging Indigenous Journalist Award in 2019.[10]

Bibliography

  • Small Ceremonies. Pantheon Books. 2025. ISBN 9780593701515.

References

  1. 1 2 "Why Anishinaabe writer Kyle Edwards sees hockey as a ceremony". CBC. June 11, 2025.
  2. ↑ "Small Ceremonies". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved July 6, 2026.
  3. 1 2 3 "CBC Books' writers to watch: 22 Canadian writers making their mark in 2025". CBC. August 1, 2025.
  4. ↑ "Kyle Edwards". Creative Writing Program. Stanford University. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  5. ↑ Thompson, Nicole (July 7, 2025). "Kyle Edwards wins Governor General's Literary Award for fiction". Toronto Star.
  6. ↑ "4 Canadian authors among nominees for $163K Dublin Literary Award". CBC. November 24, 2025.
  7. ↑ Cassandra Drudi, "Kate Cayley, Antonio Michael Downing, Maria Reva among finalists for Amazon Canada First Novel Award". Quill & Quire, May 6, 2026.
  8. ↑ Hub, Literary (2026-04-23). "Here are the finalists for the NYPL's 2026 Young Lions Fiction Award". Literary Hub. Retrieved 2026-06-16.
  9. ↑ Ulrich, Tania (January 6, 2026). "Book on Indigenous identity, hockey wins Governor General's Award". Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU). Retrieved 2026-03-12.
  10. ↑ "Maclean's writer Kyle Edwards named top emerging Indigenous journalist". Macleans.ca (in Canadian French). May 6, 2019.
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