DANILA BOTHA

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

I had so much fun appearing on Shawn Breathes Books' wonderful podcast, thank you so much again to Shawn, who is amazing, for having me. Aside from talking about my new Guernica Editions novel A Place For People Like Us, I also got to rave about books I’ve read recently that I love including The Beauty and the Hell of it by Lynda Williams, Dead Writers by @jeanmarcahsen @michaelwlapointe Cassidy McFadzean and Naben Ruthnum and more 💗💗📚🧡 you can watch the whole episode (I’

I had the best time launching in Montreal. Paragraphe is the largest English book store in the city, and it was a joy to launch there. Thank you so much to Rebecca Papucuru for organizing and being so wonderful, Michael Carin for being so great, Andreas Kessaris and Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore for having us, and the wonderful audience including Connie Guzzo McParland from Guernica Editions who came to hear us read. What an amazing day 💗💗💗📚😍🎉 Launching A Place For Peo

I’m unbelievably grateful to Open Book for the support they’ve given me since the very beginning of my career. The introduction to this...

I'm grateful to have this new short story, Orange Clouds from my upcoming collection in the new issue of Thirteen Bridges Review 🧡🧡🧡☁️...

Incredibly grateful to Michelle Schingler at Foreword Reviews for this thoughtful, in depth review of A Place For People Like Us Guernica...