DANILA BOTHA

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’

I’m unbelievably grateful to the amazing team at At Bay Press and to the amazing authors and illustrators, whose work I love so much, for generously blurbing my first graphic novel, Vidal. Amy Kurzweil is one of my favourite graphic novelists and artists of all time, and I nearly cried when I read her blurb. It's safe to say, this book wouldn't exist if I hadn't read her work. I’m a huge fan of Adam Sol ‘s poetry and writing, and his work in the writing community and I’m so g

I had such an amazing time talking about A Place For People Like Us (Guernica Editions ) at Jewish Public Library‘s book club in Montreal. Aviva Rubin, author and interviewer extraordinaire asked such incredible, insightful questions and was an amazing host, and the readers asked amazing, in depth questions and had such detailed thoughts. Thank you so much to Aviva, Yael and the JPL for having me, and thank you so much to the amazing readers 💗💗💗I had the best time 🎉📚...

I had such an amazing time reading at The Palace Reading Series last week. Marisa Cadena and Rita Puskas were absolutely incredible, and E.M. Gallagher, Elliot Frances Flynn, and Alex Crowe were all amazing and so inspiring. And the audience and community were awesome. Thank you so much for the enthusiasm and all the love. I'm so grateful I got to be part of it 💗💗🧡🧡📚🎉