Interviews
- INTERVIEW: Ghosal, Arpita. (2025). Sesaya Arts Magazine. Saad Omar Khan on His Debut Novel Drinking the Ocean. December 3, 2025.
- INTERVIEW: Beattie, Steven W. (2025). That Shakespearean Rag. “Everything is finite”: Saad Omar Khan on Muslim identity, writing as documentation, and his debut novel, Drinking the Ocean. July 28, 2025.
- INTERVIEW. (2025). The Miramachi Reader: Why I Wrote this Book.
- INTERVIEW. (2025). Open Book. Saad Omar Khan Delicately Illuminates the Arcs of Two Haunted Lives in Drinking the Ocean.
- INTERVIEW. (2025). River Street Writing.Power Q & A with Saad Omar Khan.
- INTERVIEW. Caygill, Sheelagh. (2025). On Creative Writing. Saad Omar Khan: Emotionally deep writing through evolution, great skill, and reading across genres.
- INTERVIEW. Mockler, Kathryn. (2025). Send My Love to Anyone (Substack). I’ve Been Meaning to Ask you.
Podcasts/Video
- INTERVIEW: Caygill, Sheelagh. (2025). On Creative Writing. Multiculturalism and creative writing: balancing love, faith, identity, and mental health in the novel (podcast).
- INTERVIEW: Ghadery, Hollay. (2025). Howl – CIUT 89.5FM. Tuesday, September 23, 2025 (podcast).
- INTERVIEW: Opatayo, Lola. (2025). Journey of the Art. Is there a connection between depression and faith? (YouTube) September 24, 2025.
- INTERVIEW: Ghadery, Hollay. (2025). New Books Network. Saad Omar Khan, “Drinking the Ocean” (Buckrider Books, 2025) (podcast) July 25, 2025.
- INTERVIEW: Whytock-Craig, Suzanne. (2025). Radio Waterloo. Reader’s Delight Episode 20 (podcast). July 27, 2025.
- INTERVIEW. Labrador, Rebecca. (2025). Canada Reads American Style. Interview – Saad Omar Khan and Drinking the Ocean (podcast). July 2, 2025.
- INTERVIEW. (2025). Talk Radio Europe. The TRE Bookshow: 06/06/25 (podcast).
- INTERVIEW. Urlando, Sonia. (2024). Episode 3. Murmurstations (podcast). November 1, 2024.
Features
- FEATURE: Fuller, Eleanor. (2025). The Artisanal Writer. Drinking the Ocean.
- FEATURE. Fox, Wendy. (2025). Electric Literature. 15 Small Press Books You Should Be Reading This Summer. July 4, 2025.
- FEATURE. (2025). AllLitUp. Under the Cover: Saad Omar Khan’s Drinking the Ocean.
Review
- REVIEW: Doyle, S. Tracing the Shape of Love in Drinking the Ocean by Saad Omar Khan. Dreamers Creative Writing. (Review of Drinking the Ocean).
- REVIEW: M, Fathima. “A Love that Doesn’t Bind: Saad Omar Khan’s Drinking the Ocean.” Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, 8 Aug. 2025. (Review of Drinking the Ocean).
- REVIEW: Sgroi, R.M. “Drinking the Ocean by Saad Omar Khan.” The Miramichi Reader. (Review of Drinking the Ocean).
- REVIEW: Wise, A.C. “A.C. Wise Reviews Short Fiction: Augur and khōréō.” Locus. (Short review of “Zones of Heaven and Earth” published in Augur Magazine).
Acknowledgement
I would like to acknowledge funding support from the Ontario Arts Council and the Government of Ontario
