Sonya graduated with an MA (1st) in Creative Writing from University College Dublin (2020).
Sonya has completedPoetry 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