DANILA BOTHA

What a beautiful surprise to get this news this morning 💗🧡📚😭🧡 so lovely to hear that A Place For People Like Us won a Independent Press Award for Contemporary Novel 💗thank you so much to my amazing editor and publisher Michael Mirolla and the amazing Heather Wood and the whole Guernica Editions team for being so awesome 🧡🧡 so grateful 🥹 https://www.independentpressaward.com/2026-winners/9781771839808

So grateful for all the wonderful support for A Place For People Like Us. Thank you so much to booklymatters for this lovely, five star review of A Place For People Like Us. I appreciate it so much 🧡📚💗 “A complex and intensely moving look at love, at trauma, at illness and the lengths a person may go to in their ultimate quest for belonging…” you can read it in full here: https://booklymatters.com/a-place-for-people-like-us/ Thank you to the wonderful Briann Shear of Hadas

As I work on final edits for my first graphic novel, Vidal, which will be published by At Bay Press with my amazing publisher, Matt Joudrey and editor, Alana Brooker, I’m getting emotional about sharing this story and art work with the world. So grateful to everyone at At Bay for their support and belief in this book 💗📚and I got even more emotional reading the descriptions at The Beguiling Books & Art , one of my favourite comics and graphic novel stores of all time 💗😍 It

I am so excited for my upcoming book tour dates for 2026. I feel so privileged to be part of such amazing events, including the Vancouver Jewish Book Festival with the amazing Claire Sicherman, in a discussion called Young Women At a Crossroads, moderated by Abby Wener Herlin At the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver Tuesday February 24th, 2026 at 7:00 PM PST https://www.showpass.com/young-women-at-crossroads-claire-sicherman-and-danila-botha/ https://jccgv.com/jew

It’s always such a pleasure and joy to get to be interviewed by the wonderful Valentino Assenza for HOWL - CIUT 89.5FM at University of Toronto🧡📚We talked about my new Guernica Editions novel, A Place for People Like Us, in terms of themes and craft and characters and research and I can’t wait for you to hear it when it airs tonight 🧡📚 thank you again so much for having me. Tune in tonight starting at 10:00 pm.

I'm incredibly excited to have a brand new short story, A Bloom of Jellyfish 🪼in new issue of the The Ex-Puritan magazine, edited by the amazing Anuja Varghese🧡💗🎉📚 The Ex Puritan is one of my favourite literary magazines, ever, and Anuja Varghese is one of my favourite fiction and short writers (if somehow you haven't, check out her brilliant Governor General's award winning collection, Chrysalis https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62090243-chrysalis and preorder her a

I’m incredibly grateful to Minyan Magazine and their wonderful editor in chief, Liz Marlow for nominating my short story Part of His Cluster for The Pushcart Prize. I’m so honoured. Liz was so generous and exacting as an editor, a total dream to work with. Thank you so much again 💗💗📚🥹🎉 https://www.minyanmag.com/nominations.html You can read the story in full here: https://www.minyanmag.com/danilabotha.html

I had the best time at Drunk Fiction tonight with all of these incredible writers. Thank you so much to Emily Weedon Andrew Daley Randall Perry and Russell Smith and to the amazing writers who came including Heather Wood, Selena Mercuri, Aviva Rubin, Ken Murray, Allyson Smith, Hope Thompson, Nora Gold, Olga Stein, Stephanie Wyeld, Diane Bracuk, Terri Favro and more. I feel so lucky to be part of such an incredible community 💗💗💗💗📚📚

I was so excited to see A Place for People Like Us included in All Lit Up ‘s Gift Guide among some of my favourite books of this year, including books by Jean Marc Ah Sen, Liz Harmer, Sophie McCreesh and Fawn Parker, Shani Mootoo, Lauren Carter, Ben Zalkind, Evelyn Lau, Elise Levine ,Sachi Nag, Valerie Bah, Lea Taranto, Leslie Shimotakahara Kate Cayley and more 💗💗💗 plus, they offer a 10 percent discount if you order directly from them this month. You can see the full list

To celebrate Jewish book month, and its incredible 100th anniversary, I’m sharing a small fraction of my Jewish book collection 🩷🩷📚 There are so many incredible Jewish writers whose work has inspired me so much; this is just a handful of their brilliance. Share your shelf of Jewish books this month . There are so many incredible Jewish authors, in every genre (though this is mostly short stories, novels and graphic novels, with a little bit of non fiction thrown in, includ