Sonia Saikaley

It is a privilege to have provided a blurb for this new award in honor of esteemed author Naomi Shihab Nye. This essential prize will...

Check out my review of "Sankofa" by Chibundu Onuzo at the New York Journal of Books: http://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/sankofa-...

It is wonderful to have been nominated under the category of Music & Art (Author) in the 2023 Ottawa FACES Magazine Awards. Thank you to...

Thank you so much to everyone who stopped by my book table at the Fall Art Show. It was wonderful to meet new readers. Special thanks to...

I was fortunate to spend a lovely afternoon at Indigo South Keys in Ottawa. This is a charming store filled with books, book lovers and...

Congratulations to Ian Colford whose manuscript “The Confessions of Joseph Blanchard” won the Guernica Prize! Well-deserved. It was an...

I had a wonderful time at CBC Radio and I am so grateful to the delightful host Robyn Bresnahan, the Ottawa Morning team and Denise Fung...

In the seventies and eighties, I was a student at Elgin Street Public School in Ottawa, Ontario and it was there my love of reading and...

Many thanks to the amazing Suzy and the wonderful bloggers for taking "Samantha's Sandwich Stand" on tour in the New Year. So grateful....

Happy weekend everyone! Check out the trailer of my forthcoming children’s picture book Samantha’s Sandwich Stand:...

I am thrilled to announce that my first children’s picture book “Samantha’s Sandwich Stand” will be published by Renaissance Press this...

In honour of National Poetry Month, here’s a video of me reading from my poetry collection Turkish Delight, Montreal Winter. Special...

I am so honoured to be nominated under the category of Music & Art (Author) in the 2021 Ottawa FACES Magazine Awards. Thank you to Faces...

Inanna Publications Editor-in-Chief Luciana Ricciutelli (19 February, 1958 – 14 December, 2020) http://www.inanna.ca/about/honouring-luci...

I am so thrilled to announce that my poem “Afternoon Baklava” was an honourable mention in the 2020 John Newlove Poetry Award. Many...

Congratulations to Henry Beissel and his publisher Guernica Editions for the 2020 Ottawa Book Awards win! Well-deserved. It was an honour...

This lovely surprise arrived in the mail. I am so grateful to the IPPY Awards and to my wonderful publisher Inanna Publications. And, as...

On this Valentine’s Day, I think it is appropriate to share my love of books and, in particular, to share my admiration for the novel...

Many thanks to the wonderful Amanda Earl and her colleagues for including my poem “Afternoon Baklava” in the latest issue of Bywords....

New Year’s Eve 2018, I was in the ER with one of my sisters who had become very ill and it would take her several months to recover and,...