Skills, Education, Research

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• Sonya graduated with an MA (1^st) in Creative Writing from University College Dublin (2020).
• Sonya has completed Poetry Ireland Introductions under the mentorship of poets, Seán Hewitt, Annemarie Ní Churreáin and Jessica Traynor (2021).
• Sonya was selected for the Seamus Heaney Centre’s residential Annual summer Poetry School, Queens University Belfast (2022).
• Sonya was awarded IWC NMP 2022 – 2023 to work under the mentorship of author Wendy Erskine.
• Sonya was awarded a place by Maynooth University Department of English and Kildare Arts Office, on the programme of creative workshops Experimental Publishing & Place by Writer-in-Residence, Nathan O’Donnell, producing the collective, co-authored experimental work Unfinished Topographies (2021).
• Sonya completed the Irish Writer’s Centre courses:
  • Autofiction with author, Joanna Walsh (2021)
  • This Modern Life with poet, Rachel Long (2022)
• Sonya has completed a University College Dublin foundation course in Human Rights