Danila Botha
@danilabotha.bsky.social
Author of Things that Cause Inappropriate Happiness (Guernica 2024) A Place for People Like Us (Guernica 2025)
For All the Men... reissue (Guernica 2025)
Short story and fiction enthusiast. Humber School for Writers faculty.
For All the Men... reissue (Guernica 2025)
Short story and fiction enthusiast. Humber School for Writers faculty.
One last bunch of Drunk Fiction photos from tonight 🧡🧡📚🎉
November 26, 2025 at 2:40 AM
One last bunch of Drunk Fiction photos from tonight 🧡🧡📚🎉
Some more Drunk Fiction photos from tonight 🧡🧡📚🎉
November 26, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Some more Drunk Fiction photos from tonight 🧡🧡📚🎉
Drunk Fiction is such a wonderful reading series, @emilyweedon.bsky.social is a treasure, and reading with, listening to and hearing these writers tonight was such a joy. I love the writing community 😍🩷🩷🩷📚🎉
November 26, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Drunk Fiction is such a wonderful reading series, @emilyweedon.bsky.social is a treasure, and reading with, listening to and hearing these writers tonight was such a joy. I love the writing community 😍🩷🩷🩷📚🎉
I had such a wonderful time reading from A Place For People Like Us at Literary Modiin with these amazing authors 🩷🩷📚🎉 thank you so much to the amazing @jbzuckerman.bsky.social for having me along with the amazing Nina Boug Lichtenstein Yishay Ron and Yardenne Greenspan
@guernicaeditions.bsky.social
@guernicaeditions.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I had such a wonderful time reading from A Place For People Like Us at Literary Modiin with these amazing authors 🩷🩷📚🎉 thank you so much to the amazing @jbzuckerman.bsky.social for having me along with the amazing Nina Boug Lichtenstein Yishay Ron and Yardenne Greenspan
@guernicaeditions.bsky.social
@guernicaeditions.bsky.social
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 Bookfest BBA awards, in the Fiction: Short Story category 💗💗📚
@guernicaeditions.bluesky.social
www.americanbookfest.com/2025bbafullr...
@guernicaeditions.bluesky.social
www.americanbookfest.com/2025bbafullr...
November 13, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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 Bookfest BBA awards, in the Fiction: Short Story category 💗💗📚
@guernicaeditions.bluesky.social
www.americanbookfest.com/2025bbafullr...
@guernicaeditions.bluesky.social
www.americanbookfest.com/2025bbafullr...
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.
@jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social
#jewishbookmonth #jewishbookmonth100
@jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social
#jewishbookmonth #jewishbookmonth100
November 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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.
@jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social
#jewishbookmonth #jewishbookmonth100
@jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social
#jewishbookmonth #jewishbookmonth100
Thank you so much to
@thecjn.bsky.social for this
generous review of A Place For People Like Us 🧡📚
“A fast paced page turner that is at times thriller, romance, and Bildungsroman… highly engaging, offering a fascinating character study…sure to be enjoyed by admirers of Botha’s earlier work.”
@thecjn.bsky.social for this
generous review of A Place For People Like Us 🧡📚
“A fast paced page turner that is at times thriller, romance, and Bildungsroman… highly engaging, offering a fascinating character study…sure to be enjoyed by admirers of Botha’s earlier work.”
November 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Thank you so much to
@thecjn.bsky.social for this
generous review of A Place For People Like Us 🧡📚
“A fast paced page turner that is at times thriller, romance, and Bildungsroman… highly engaging, offering a fascinating character study…sure to be enjoyed by admirers of Botha’s earlier work.”
@thecjn.bsky.social for this
generous review of A Place For People Like Us 🧡📚
“A fast paced page turner that is at times thriller, romance, and Bildungsroman… highly engaging, offering a fascinating character study…sure to be enjoyed by admirers of Botha’s earlier work.”
I’m delighted to be part of the next edition of Emily Weedon’s
Drunk Fiction Reading Series. Emily is really amazing, both as a writer and in her generosity towards the community. I’ll be reading on November 25th with Russell Smith, Randall Perry and Andrew Daley at The Caledonian at 6:00pm 🧡📚🎉
Drunk Fiction Reading Series. Emily is really amazing, both as a writer and in her generosity towards the community. I’ll be reading on November 25th with Russell Smith, Randall Perry and Andrew Daley at The Caledonian at 6:00pm 🧡📚🎉
November 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I’m delighted to be part of the next edition of Emily Weedon’s
Drunk Fiction Reading Series. Emily is really amazing, both as a writer and in her generosity towards the community. I’ll be reading on November 25th with Russell Smith, Randall Perry and Andrew Daley at The Caledonian at 6:00pm 🧡📚🎉
Drunk Fiction Reading Series. Emily is really amazing, both as a writer and in her generosity towards the community. I’ll be reading on November 25th with Russell Smith, Randall Perry and Andrew Daley at The Caledonian at 6:00pm 🧡📚🎉
And even more: thank you to everyone for making it such a wonderful night 🩷🩷🩷🩷
October 24, 2025 at 3:13 AM
And even more: thank you to everyone for making it such a wonderful night 🩷🩷🩷🩷
Some more great pictures from our event at The Heliconian club tonight. What a special evening 💗💗🧡📚🎉
October 24, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Some more great pictures from our event at The Heliconian club tonight. What a special evening 💗💗🧡📚🎉
I had the best time with these incredible writers tonight 💗💗💗💗thank you so much to @annykchoi.bsky.social Shelly Sanders and @rollwithheather.bsky.social for being so amazing, to Type Books for being wonderful, Heliconian Club for having us and the wonderful audience 💗💗📚🎉
October 24, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I had the best time with these incredible writers tonight 💗💗💗💗thank you so much to @annykchoi.bsky.social Shelly Sanders and @rollwithheather.bsky.social for being so amazing, to Type Books for being wonderful, Heliconian Club for having us and the wonderful audience 💗💗📚🎉
Incredibly excited that I get to launch A Place For People Like Us alongside these amazing fellow @guernicaeditions.bsky.social authors Rebecca Papucaru and Michael Carin in Montreal this Sunday from 2-4pm at Paragraphe Bookstore. Montreal friends and readers we’d love to see you 🧡📚🎉
October 9, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Incredibly excited that I get to launch A Place For People Like Us alongside these amazing fellow @guernicaeditions.bsky.social authors Rebecca Papucaru and Michael Carin in Montreal this Sunday from 2-4pm at Paragraphe Bookstore. Montreal friends and readers we’d love to see you 🧡📚🎉
It’s been so much fun getting to do interviews to talk about A Place for People Like Us. thank you to the wonderful @jtennant.bsky.social of Get Lit for the wonderful questions, and to the wonderful JF Garrard of the Artsy Raven podcast for the wonderful conversations💗 @guernicaeditions.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
It’s been so much fun getting to do interviews to talk about A Place for People Like Us. thank you to the wonderful @jtennant.bsky.social of Get Lit for the wonderful questions, and to the wonderful JF Garrard of the Artsy Raven podcast for the wonderful conversations💗 @guernicaeditions.bsky.social
I had such a wonderful time being interviewed by Jean Marc Ah Sen for The Toronto Star 📚🎉 www.thestar.com/entertainmen...
September 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I had such a wonderful time being interviewed by Jean Marc Ah Sen for The Toronto Star 📚🎉 www.thestar.com/entertainmen...
I had the most incredible time launching A Place For People Like Us at @catebush.bsky.social and @rollwithheather.bsky.social at Flying Books last night @guernicaeditions.bsky.social 💗💗📚🥳🎂🎉
September 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I had the most incredible time launching A Place For People Like Us at @catebush.bsky.social and @rollwithheather.bsky.social at Flying Books last night @guernicaeditions.bsky.social 💗💗📚🥳🎂🎉
Thank you so much to Aviva Rubin of The Seaboard Review for her thoughtful review of A Place for People Like Us @guernicaeditions.bsky.social
Intimate, fast paced, and full of complex, sympathetic, flawed not who they seem to be characters…the novel moves towards an unexpected and shocking ending”
Intimate, fast paced, and full of complex, sympathetic, flawed not who they seem to be characters…the novel moves towards an unexpected and shocking ending”
September 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Thank you so much to Aviva Rubin of The Seaboard Review for her thoughtful review of A Place for People Like Us @guernicaeditions.bsky.social
Intimate, fast paced, and full of complex, sympathetic, flawed not who they seem to be characters…the novel moves towards an unexpected and shocking ending”
Intimate, fast paced, and full of complex, sympathetic, flawed not who they seem to be characters…the novel moves towards an unexpected and shocking ending”
So excited to have a new short story, Part of His Cluster, in the new issue of @minyanmag.bsky.social 💗🐌🏳️🌈💙 thank you so much to Liz Marlow for championing this wild story that involves live snails travelling through the airport, to be used as tchelet in a special gift💗 minyanmag.com/danilabotha....
August 31, 2025 at 11:32 PM
So excited to have a new short story, Part of His Cluster, in the new issue of @minyanmag.bsky.social 💗🐌🏳️🌈💙 thank you so much to Liz Marlow for championing this wild story that involves live snails travelling through the airport, to be used as tchelet in a special gift💗 minyanmag.com/danilabotha....
Thrilled to see A Place For People Like Us on CBC Books list of 50 Canadian Fiction Books We’re Excited About This Fall, alongside by Ann Choi Elise Levine Michael Redhill Jen Sook Fong Lee, Souvankham Thammavongsa, Nina Dunic more 💗 www.cbc.ca/books/fictio... @guernicaeditions.bsky.social 💗📚🎉
August 22, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Thrilled to see A Place For People Like Us on CBC Books list of 50 Canadian Fiction Books We’re Excited About This Fall, alongside by Ann Choi Elise Levine Michael Redhill Jen Sook Fong Lee, Souvankham Thammavongsa, Nina Dunic more 💗 www.cbc.ca/books/fictio... @guernicaeditions.bsky.social 💗📚🎉
Thank you so much to Elizabeth Obermayer for her generous early review of A Place For People Like Us: “Botha’s prose is sharp and evocative…a beautifully told story of friendship and betrayal, of chosen family, the search for identity and the search for love.” elizabethobermeyer.ca/2025/08/18/r...
August 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Thank you so much to Elizabeth Obermayer for her generous early review of A Place For People Like Us: “Botha’s prose is sharp and evocative…a beautifully told story of friendship and betrayal, of chosen family, the search for identity and the search for love.” elizabethobermeyer.ca/2025/08/18/r...
I found out yesterday that my new short story, Sleepwalking Too Close to the Fire (the title story in the new collection Ilm working is a finalist for the Montana Prize for Fiction (as chosen by Rick Bass of The Whitefish Review) and I’m incredibly honoured and grateful 🥹🧡
August 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I found out yesterday that my new short story, Sleepwalking Too Close to the Fire (the title story in the new collection Ilm working is a finalist for the Montana Prize for Fiction (as chosen by Rick Bass of The Whitefish Review) and I’m incredibly honoured and grateful 🥹🧡
I’m also thrilled to be part of @guernicaeditions.bsky.social ‘s group launch on Sept 14th, starting at 3:30 at Supermarket 🧡📚🎉more readings to come soon 💗
August 13, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I’m also thrilled to be part of @guernicaeditions.bsky.social ‘s group launch on Sept 14th, starting at 3:30 at Supermarket 🧡📚🎉more readings to come soon 💗
I’m so thrilled to be launching my brand new novel, A Place for People Like Us, in Toronto on Weds Sept 17th, at Flying Books at 784 College Street, with the incredible @catebush.bsky.social
Join us from 6:30 -8pm 💗📚🎉 @guernicaeditions.bsky.social @rollwithheather.bsky.social
We’d love to see you
Join us from 6:30 -8pm 💗📚🎉 @guernicaeditions.bsky.social @rollwithheather.bsky.social
We’d love to see you
August 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I’m so thrilled to be launching my brand new novel, A Place for People Like Us, in Toronto on Weds Sept 17th, at Flying Books at 784 College Street, with the incredible @catebush.bsky.social
Join us from 6:30 -8pm 💗📚🎉 @guernicaeditions.bsky.social @rollwithheather.bsky.social
We’d love to see you
Join us from 6:30 -8pm 💗📚🎉 @guernicaeditions.bsky.social @rollwithheather.bsky.social
We’d love to see you