Recognitions

2022 Marina Nemat Award for Creative Writing in Non-Fiction

“The jury members for this category (Sam Hiyate, The Rights Factory; Shivaun Hearne, Anansi; and Laura Dosky, Penguin, Canada) said, ‘The poetic vignettes of Sahar Golshan’s Boat Stains are vivid and lingering, as in the acclaimed work of the French writer Marguerite Duras. Fragmented yet harmonious, the form of Golshan’s work aptly reflects the complexity of the narrator’s identity, which flourishes amid the many cultures and complicated histories that live inside her. Mining the unusual intersection of her family, she gives us a hopeful story of discovery and loss unlike any we’ve read before.’”

2019 Air Canada Short Film Award

Upon selection, my short documentary KAR was presented in a curated programme on Air Canada's in-flight entertainment in 2020.

Press

“Tuesday Afternoon Book Club: Sahar Golshan”, CBC Radio Here and Now, 2024

“Sahar Golshan: There is a real need to celebrate children for who they are”, The Unpredictable Podcast, 2024

“Reflections from the Contributors of Tongues: On Longing and Belonging through Language”, All Lit Up, 2021

“Tongues: On Longing and Belonging through Language”, review in Quill & Quire, 2021 (“..as Sahar Golshan reminds us, grief can open a pathway to the heart…”)

“In Conversation with Sahar Golshan”, interview in Taclanese, 2020

“KAR ou le portrait d’une relation père-fille”, interview on Radio-Canada, 2019

Funding

I’m thrilled to have the support of the Mississauga Arts Council’s 2023 Career MicroGrant.