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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I’m incredibly excited for the official launch of Vidal this September 🧡🧡 Thanks so much to my wonderful publisher At Bay Press, Heather Wood Koffler Arts , Ben McNally Books and the amazing Gary Barwin for sharing the stage with me Join us Sept 9th TV at 6:00pm www.kofflerarts.org/more/public-...

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Grateful for this beautiful review of A Place For People Like Us in Reader’s Favourite 💗🎉📚 thank you so much Asher Syed “beautifully written and fully immersive, this is women’s fiction at its finest.” 🥹 @guernicaeditions.bsky.social

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

A few more photos from the Independent Press Awards, where A Place For People Like Us won for Contemporary Novel 💗💗📚🎉🥹 @guernicaeditions.bsky.social @rollwithheather.bsky.social

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

What an incredible night. Thank you so much to the Independent Press Awards for creating such a special event. It was so much fun to celebrate with these amazing authors! thank you to Heather for best photos and company 🧡🧡🧡📚 🥳 @guernicaeditions.bsky.social @rollwithheather.bsky.social

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I really can’t say enough about how wonderful this experience was. If you’re in DC, the 804 Literary Salon is fantastic, and so is the writing community 📚🧡

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Look at the amazing writers 🧡🧡🧡🧡📚

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

A few more 804 Literary Salon, what an amazing experience 🧡📚🎉

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I had the best time reading at 804 Literary Salon in Washington DC! Look at this incredible company. Thank you so much to @andrewbertaina.bsky.social and Lauren Woods for having me 🩷📚🎉

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

A few more photos from OLA today, what an awesome conference 💗💗

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I had the best time at the OLA conference today. What an amazing experience 🧡🧡🥳📚so awesome to get to sign so many books so quickly, to connect with readers, librarians, and other writers 📚🥳

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

It’s always such a joy to be interviewed by @valentinoassenza.bsky.social @howl895fm.bsky.social 📚We talked about my new @guernicaeditions.bsky.social novel, A Place for People Like Us, in terms of themes and craft and characters and research and I can’t wait for you to hear it tomorrow 🎉📚🧡

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

One last bunch of Drunk Fiction photos from tonight 🧡🧡📚🎉

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Some more Drunk Fiction photos from tonight 🧡🧡📚🎉

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

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 😍🩷🩷🩷📚🎉

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

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

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

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...

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

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

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

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.”

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

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 🧡📚🎉

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

And even more: thank you to everyone for making it such a wonderful night 🩷🩷🩷🩷

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Some more great pictures from our event at The Heliconian club tonight. What a special evening 💗💗🧡📚🎉

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

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 💗💗📚🎉

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

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 🧡📚🎉

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

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

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

I had such a wonderful time being interviewed by Jean Marc Ah Sen for The Toronto Star 📚🎉 www.thestar.com/entertainmen...

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

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 💗💗📚🥳🎂🎉

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

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”

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

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....

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

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 💗📚🎉

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

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...

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

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 🥹🧡

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

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 💗

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

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

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

So excited to share that my brand new novel, A Place for People Like Us will be published by @guernicaeditions.bsky.social on Sept 29th! I can’t wait to share it with you then 💗💗💗please feel free to preorder, from my amazing publisher, indigo, amazon or your favourite indie bookstore 🧡🧡🧡📚🎉

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

What a wonderful surprise 💗📚🥳 Thank you so much to my amazing editors at @dipitylitmag.bsky.social for nominating my short story, Roses or Herpes for the Best of the Net @sundresspub.bsky.social I appreciate this so much 💗💗💗 Also honoured to be nominated with these amazing writers

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Thrilled to have a brand new short story, Like Freedom or Fear, in the beautiful Summer 2025 issue of The Brussels Review 🧡📚This story was inspired by the incredible Friedl Dicker Brandeis, her dedication to art and teaching. You can order the issue here shop.thebrusselsreview.com/products/the... 🧡

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Really grateful to hear that my @guernicaeditions.bsky.social short story collection, Things that Cause Inappropriate Happiness was named a finalist by the National Insie Excellence Book Awards💗🥳📚🎉 along with short story collections I love and Canadian authors like Dean Brownrout and Su Chang 🧡📚🎉

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Wow, this was such a beautiful surprise. Thank you so much to the judges at the Indie Reader Discovery Awards, my @guernicaeditions.bsky.social short story collection Things that Cause Inappropriate Happiness won an award in the category of Women’s Issues, Fiction. So honoured and grateful 📚🎉🧡🧡

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

If you’re looking for a fantastic novel to read, l want to recommend @mbatiz.bsky.social ‘s brilliant A Daughter’s Place. It’s so evocative and beautifully written 💗💗📚🎉 It was an honour to get to blurb it, thank you so much to @houseofanansi.bsky.social for sending it to me 🧡🧡📚🎉

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Such a joy to get to read and blurb @karensmythe.bsky.social ‘s beautiful novel A Town With No Noise 🧡📚 and to get a copy in the mail, thank you so much @palimpsestpress.bsky.social 🧡 I highly recommend it 💗

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

So excited to share that my first graphic novel, Call Me Vidal: The Diary and Sketchbooks of Vidal Ben Soussan which I wrote and illustrated will be published by the amazing @atbaypress.bsky.social in Fall 2026 🧡🧡📚🎉 quillandquire.com/omni/rights-...

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Honoured to be interviewed by the wonderful Liisa Kovala about my writing process for her Women Writer’s series and substack 🧡📚 liisakovalawomenwriting.substack.com/p/featured-w...

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Incredibly grateful for this wonderful and thoughtful review of Things that Cause Inappropriate Happiness in Swamp Pink. Thank you so much, Michela Politi swamp-pink.charleston.edu/things-that-...

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Delighted to have a brand new short story, A Surreal Trap, in Bright Flash Literary Review today 💗 you can read it here: brightflash1000.com

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

So excited to share the cover of my new upcoming novel, A Place for People Like Us, which will be published by Guernica editions this fall 🧡🧡📚🥳 Designed by the talented David Moratto, edited by the amazing Michael Mirolla. Can’t wait to share it with you soon 💗📚

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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

So excited for my first book club of 2025 💗 it’s virtual, on January 8th at 8:00pm 🎉📚

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