DANILA BOTHA

I had the most incredible time at Jewish Book Festival in Vancouver this week. I read from A Place For People Like Us alongside the brilliant Claire Sicherman, author of Bloom and answered insightful, thoughtful questions by Abby Wener Herlin and answered amazing questions. Our event, Women at Crossroads was so well attended, and I'm so grateful to everyone who came, who took photos and participated with such enthusiasm. It was so much fun to sign books (and to buy books) at

I’m so excited to read at Brockton Writers Series series next month, with some amazing writers, thank you so much for having me again 🧡A small excerpt from my new novel, A Place For People Like Us is up on Brockton’s blog, thank you so much to Iris, and the whole Brockton team for having me https://brocktonwriters.com/2026/02/11/brockton-writers-series-11-03-26-danila-botha/ I'm also thrilled to be part of the Vancouver Jewish Writer's Festival next week in Vancouver. I'll b

It was so much fun doing this interview and having this conversation with the wonderful and generous Jess Taylor for Jess’s amazing Stop the Doomscroll Series. Thank you so much to Jess and to everyone who was there to listen to us talk (and read from A Place For People Like Us) 🩷🧡 🌈 Jess, in addition to writing incredible books, including the amazing short story collections Pauls, and Just Pervs, and the incredible novel Play, ( https://jesstaywriter.com/about) also giv

It was incredible to get to read in Washington, DC for the first time, at an amazing series, alongside some of of my favourite writers. Andrew Bertaina and Lauren D Woods are incredible writers and writing community members and they host this incredible series in their lovely home, (which reminded me of Hazel Millar and Jay Millar of Book *Hug's amazing at home reading series) All of the readings were incredible! Tom McAllister, ( https://www.tom.mcallister.ws/ ) author of I

I was so honoured to see this wonderful review of A Place For People Like in the new issue of Ampersand Review . Thank you so much to Lynda Williams for this thoughtful and detailed analysis. “ “ Danila Botha’s second novel… is a pulsing cross section of one woman’s life in her early twenties, a thorough investigation of the deep seated need she feels for belonging and the concessions she is willing to make to maintain it… Hannah’s complexity is the book’s greatest triumph. A

I'm delighted to have two brand new short stories, from my upcoming collection, Sleepwalking Too Close to the Fire, in literary journals that I love, including Eat Your Heart Out (in Tangled Locks Journal) and The Flickering Of White Blonde Eyelashes (in Blood+Honey) Thank you so much to both editors, Teresa Berkowitz and David Estringel for being so wonderful to work with. You can read the stories in full here: https://tangledlocksjournal.com/2026/01/31/eat-your-heart-out/..

I had such a wonderful time doing this interview about A Place For People Like Us with the wonderful Christal Cooper 🩷🩷 you can read our interview in full here, thank you so much for the in depth questions https://christalcooper.com/385-inside-the-emotion-of-fiction-a-place-for-people-like-us-by-danila-botha-published-by-guernica-editions-on-september-29-2025/

I’m was excited to be part of the OLA, Ontario Library Association’s Super Conference with my publisher Guernica Editions 💗💗💗 There were so many amazing authors who were there to sign books, including Michael Mirolla, Nadia Staikos, Kathy Kacer, Jean E. Pendziwol, Lindsay Zier-Vogel, Jessica Popeski, Anuja Varghese, Mai Nguyen, Kerry Clare, Anne Baldo, Jade Wallace, as well as so many publishers. https://olasuperconference.ca/whats-happening/author-events/ I had the best

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