DANILA BOTHA

I was so excited to see A Place For People Like Us included in TNQ’s Pride Month Reading List 🏳️‍🌈🌈(alongside some of my favourite books of this year, including books by Kate Cayley, Jaclyn Desforges - Writer In Residence , Whitney French, Hope Thompson, Anuja Varghese Aga Maksimosvka, Jaime Burnet, Lee Lai, David Ly and so many more. 💜💜💜 thank you so much to The New Quarterly: Canadian Writers & Writing and Selena Mercuri for including me) 💗 https://tnq.ca/tnq-pride-m

Lately I’ve been feeling so grateful .I'm so grateful for the opportunity to be part The University of Winnipeg Canlit Writing, Publishing and Pedagogy Conference organized by the wonderful Lindsay Wong and her colleagues last month. It was my first time in Winnipeg, and I loved it. I also had the chance to be part of two incredible panels, Moving Beyond Genres: how to transition and submit while moving beyond one’s initial or primary genre, with the amazing Leesa Dean Martha

It was such a joy to get to read from Vidal last week, for the first at Ben McNally Books with such incredible writers 🧡🧡🧡📚🎉 so grateful to get to read with MC Joudrey (also my publisher at At Bay Press) Michael Mirolla (also my publisher at Guernica Editions) Nadia Staikos, Pratap Reddy, Tim Welsh whose books I love 🧡🧡📚 Ben McNally is one of my favourite book stores, and it was such a joy to see Vidal on shelves, and to get to sign books. Thank you as always to Heat

I'm so emotional and grateful to see Vidal out in the world, a real book. It was wonderful to meet my publisher, Matt Joudrey of At Bay Press in real life, at the Canlit Conference in Winnipeg, to hold a copy of the book in my hands, and to see it in the hands of friends who've preordered. I was also incredibly touched by this first review. 🥹💗🧡I love reading Comics Grinder and I’m so grateful for Henry Chamberlain’s generous review of Vidal. ”Vidal is such a beautifully r

Wow, what a week this has been. I’m so honoured to hear that A Place For People Like Us (Guernica Editions) is also a finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Awards 🧡🎉📚 it’s lovely to see other books I’ve loved this year, including books by Elizabeth Bruce, Helen Winslow Black, Kate Woodworth and more. Congratulations to everyone 💜💜📚🎉I appreciate it so much. You can see the lists in full here: https://indiebookawards.com/previewwinners.php?t=99dc1f

Wow. Emotional and grateful to find out this morning that A Place For People Like Us is a finalist for the Eric Hoffer award 🧡🧡💗🥹Thank you so much to my wonderful publisher Guernica Editions (Michael Mirolla , Connie Guzzo McParland Marisa Jorgensen Crystal Fletcher and of course Heather Wood) congrats to all the amazing finalists (including Sarah Yahm and Martha Engber) https://www.hofferaward.com/Eric-Hoffer-Award-category-finalists.html

This has been a week of so many wonderful things, and I'm incredibly grateful for all the lovely, unexpected surprises. I'm so grateful to the Canada Council for the Arts for the grant I received. Canada Council makes such a measurable and huge difference in the lives of writers and artists across the country and I was unbelievably grateful earlier this week to discover that I'd received one. Thank you so much. I'm indebted to Lindsay Zier Vogel, who in addition to being an

Wow, I’m incredibly grateful for this beautiful review of A Place For People Like Us (Guernica Editions ) that was just published today by Asher Syed of Readers Favorite This on top of the incredible weekend I had was enough to make me cry. Thank you so much 🧡🥹 “Danila Botha’s A Place For People Like Us is a spectacular literary novel… Botha incorporates an excellent balance of both heartening and jarring moments…Botha is masterful in dichotomies… beautifully written and wh

What an incredible night. Thank you so much to the Independent Press Award for this honour, and for creating such a special event. It was so much fun to celebrate with all of these amazing authors 💗💗thank you to Heather Wood for best photos and company ever, and for such amazing publicity 🧡🧡🧡📚 🥳. thank you also, as always, to my amazing publisher Guernica Editions, my amazing publisher and editor, Michael Mirolla, Connie McParland, David Moratto, the amazing designer,

One of the great joys of my life as an author is being asked by other authors (or sometimes their publicists or agents or editors) to read and if I love it, to blurb their work and share what I loved about it. I I love to read, and reading consumes hours of my day, every day, so requests like these always make me happy. So much of our time as authors is spent in front of our computers, imagining and engaging with and recreating characters, their worlds, their experiences. It’