My new novel, #AllThingsUndertheMoon, was released today! Na-Young, my protagonist, was inspired by my great-grandmother. I hope you enjoy her story. A huge thanks to my incredible team at @simonschusterca.bsky.social and my agent Jackie Kaiser at @westwoodcreative.bsky.social ❤️

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

October 5 In person launch at TYPE Books Junction 6:30pm Season 12 With @catebush.bsky.social Caitlin Galway Michelle Winters Live-streamed

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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 💗💗📚🥳🎂🎉

Our latest issue has historical fiction by Mark E. Paull, flash fiction by @danilabotha.bsky.social, and poetry by Roberta Eve Tovey, Robin Silbergleid, Leonard Kress, Hannah Schenk, Jacqueline Jules, Andrew Harris, Barbara Krasner, and Tova Gannana. Enjoy! www.minyanmag.com/issue-sixtee...

Thanks Jerry Levy of Ottawa Review of Books “Rarely do novels run the entire gamut of full human emotion and experience but Danila Botha has infused the plot of her excellent work…a page turner, one that continually intrigues and comes highly recommended” www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/...

Attention #NetGalley reviewers: @danilabotha.bsky.social's forthcoming #novel A Place for People Like Us which is on CBC's fall fiction list is now available for request. #CanLit @guernicaeditions.bsky.social #APlaceforPeopleLikeUs www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

BIG 🙏from us too, Aviva Rubin of @theseaboardreview.ca

A Place For People Like Us by Danila Botha www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/a-place-fo... @danilabotha.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”

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....

My short story "Maid of Honour" is in the Summer 2025 issue of Prairie Fire. Glad to have returned to writiing after a hiatus.

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...

PLEASE REPOST! WRITERS! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26. WE WANT TO SEE YOUR SHINY WORDS! buff.ly/9AyStcb

We strive to support Ontario educators, authors and publishers. It's time we had a dedicated fund for public schools and libraries to purchase books produced by Ontario's independent publishers. Email your MPP today to support Ontario publishers: win.newmode.net/supportontar...

Join us for Poetry Night — our second open mic & social of the year, happening in beautiful downtown Port, Perry, Ontario. Where: META4 Contemporary Craft Gallery, Port Perry, Ontario When: August 21, 2025 at 7 p.m. @twpofscugog.bsky.social

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 💗

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

We ❤️this interview @lwilliams-author.bsky.social, @danilabotha.bsky.social and @theseaboardreview.ca ❤️🔥

New header. Other Evolutions. Coming October 7th.

I’m so grateful for this invitation and simply cannot wait to be there! Thank you, @writersfest.bc.ca 😊🙏 @houseofanansi.bsky.social

Such a pleasure to speak with @danilabotha.bsky.social about craft and my upcoming collection of stories, The Beauty and the Hell of It, ( @guernicaeditions.bsky.social ). Interview with Lynda Williams www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/interview-...

And a BIG 🙏from us too, Lisa De Nikolits! Yay @danilabotha.bsky.social and A Place For People Like Us! 🤸‍♂️

🏭 The Brickworks by Lucy E.M. Black (Now or Never Publishing) Step back into turn-of-the-century rural Ontario in this historical novel exploring resilience, family, and the early days of Canada’s urban transformation. #lpg50 #canlit #torontohistory alllitup.ca/books/the-br...

Congratulations to the finalists for the 37th Annual @lambdaliterary.org Awards, including LPG members @arsenalpulp.bsky.social, @bookhugpress.bsky.social, @ecwpress.bsky.social, @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social, @playcanpress.bsky.social, @radiantpress.bsky.social & @sciroccodrama.bsky.social

Thank you so much to the wonderful Lisa De Nikolits for her beautiful early review of my new @guernicaeditions.bsky.social novel, A Place For People Like Us. “powerful, incredibly insightful and sensitive… with characterization [that is] flawless.” substack.com/home/post/p-...

The countdown is on @danilabotha.bsky.social! 🤸‍♂️🤸‍♂️ We're excited too.🤸‍♂️

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 🧡🧡🧡📚🎉

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

I’m thrilled to have a new short story, from the collection I'm working on published today on Hidden Attic Press. It's called I Didn’t Think You Would Turn Out To Be So Strange It was inspired by so many things, including Lydia Davis and my grandfather 💗📚 fictionattic.substack.com/p/i-didnt-th...

2/10 Open House by Drew Hayden Taylor (@talonbooks.bsky.social) & Things that Cause Inappropriate Happiness by Danila Botha (@danilabotha.bsky.social, Guernica Editions). See alt-text! #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #CanadaDay

Come read poems with us!

TOMORROW NIGHT! CIUT 89.5FM 10pm - 11pm host @hollay.bsky.social talks to Su Chang about her novel “The Immortal Woman” @houseofanansi.bsky.social & Tim Welsh about his novel “Ley Lines @guernicaeditions.bsky.social TUNE IN TOMORROW NIGHT!

One thing I was intrigued by is Teresa Wong's choice of "cartoonist" over "illustrator" - she makes a strong case for the inclusiveness of the former category. Listen to the whole conversation:

Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Vincent Anioke's "Finite Automata", from our latest Issue 174! Click here to read the full story: tnq.ca/story/finite...

Had so much fun doing #ThisorThatThursday for Heather Weidner's blog www.heatherweidner.com/blog/2025/6/...

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... 🧡

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 🧡📚🎉

open.spotify.com/episode/4N04... So grateful for the chance to talk about writing & mental health with Kino Isaac

I will be interviewing award-winning author Anne Michaels onstage at the Humber Lakeshore Campus (Toronto) on July 10. Tickets are $20 ($10 for students), and the event is licensed, so if you hate my questions, you can always get drunk instead. humber-emarketplace.paymytuition.com/anne-michael...

authoranthonyavina.com/2025/05/30/t... Day made by Anthony Avina's thoughtful and generous review of my upcoming collection, The Beauty and the Hell of It forthcoming from @guernicaeditions.bsky.social

I'm delighted that "Saskatchewan Power", a chapbook ms about my childhood home of Regina SK, is one of four finalists for the NDSU Press (@ndsuofficial.bsky.social) 2025 Poetry of the Plains & Prairies (POPP) Award that spans the US plains & the Cdn prairies. Winner gets letterpress publication!

hey! i got interviewed by Mia Funk for The Creative Process! / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @ualbertapress.bsky.social @arpbooks.bsky.social @spuytenduyvil.bsky.social ; www.creativeprocess.info/writers-inte...

Canisia Lubrin wins the 28th annual Danuta Gleed Award for her short fiction collection Code Noir #CanLit writersunion.ca/news/winners...

Valérie Bah wins Amazon Canada First Novel Award quillandquire.com/review/subte...