DANILA BOTHA

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

This was such a lovely surprise! It was so nice to hear that my short story collection, Things that Cause Inappropriate Happiness was a finalist in the American Book Fest BBA awards, in the Fiction: Short Story category 💗💗📚 grateful to my editor and publisher, Michael Mirolla and the whole Guernica Editions team (including Anna van Valkenburg and Crystal Fletcher and my publicist and dear friend, Heather Wood for being so wonderful) Thank you so much for this lovely reco

I'm really excited to have a new short story, Sleepwalking Too Close to the Fire in one of my favourite American literary magazines, Heavy Feather Review 🧡🧡📚🎉 Thank you so much to the wonderful editors. This story combines so many subjects I find deeply interesting; postpartum depression and psychosis, the wellness industry, the Jewish violinist Alma Rose, artistic identity versus being a mother and more. Sleepwalking Too Close to the Fire is actually the title story of m

Thank you so much to the Canadian Jewish News (The CJN) for this thoughtful and generous review of A Place For People Like Us (Guernica Editions , alongside my fellow Guernica Editions author Michael Carin, who I launched with just last month in Montreal, whose beautiful novel, Edisson and Jeremiah they also loved) I’m delighted to be in such wonderful company. . “A fast paced page turner that is at times thriller, romance, and Bildungsroman… highly engaging, offering a fasc

I was honoured to have the opportunity to review Sadiqa de Meijer’s beautiful and evocative new book, In The Field, published by Palimpsest Press) Every essay is a work of art, with gorgeous turns of phrase and a uniqueness and sensitivity that is hard to articulate. Thank you so much to the wonderful Selena Mercuri at TNQ for the opportunity to share my thoughts on this incredible book. https://tnq.ca/under-review-in-the-field-by-sadiqa-de-meijer/ I also had so much fun maki

Thank you so much to Linda Glassman Jimenez for having me on her show on Radio Sefarad💗💗🧡📚 it was an honour to get to talk about my new Guernica Editions novel A Place For People Like Us, Sephardic Judaism, beautiful aspects of Judaism I got to write about and more. It was such a pleasure to be on the show (which is recorded in Spain) again. You can listen to it here, from the Radio Sefarad website 💗💗📚🫶🏻 https://www.radiosefarad.com/a-place-for-people-like-us-with-wr

I had the best time with the incredible Ann YK Choi Shelly Sanders and Heather Wood at the Heliconian Club in Toronto last night. Thank you so much to Type Books for being wonderful, to the Heliconian Club for having us and to the wonderful audience which included the lovely Stephanie Cesca, JF Garrard and Grace Feuerverger among other amazing people. What a special night 💗💗💗📚🎉🎉 With Heather Wood, Danila Botha, Shelly Sanders and Ann YK Choi at the Heliconian Club Th

I can’t wait to do this amazing event, Once Upon A Sisterhood: Three Women Writers in Conversation with these two fantastic authors, two of my favourite writers, Ann YK Choi Simon & Schuster Canadaand Shelly Sanders HarperCollins Canada this Thursday, Oct 23rd at 7:00 at the Heliconian Club 🧡🧡🧡 I’ll be talking about and reading from my new Guernica Editions novel, A Place For People Like Us. Our bookseller is the wonderful Type Books 💗📚 The event will be hosted by the wo