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 😍🩷🩷🩷📚🎉
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Thank you Literary Modiin and @jbzuckerman.bsky.social for hosting this wonderful crew of authors, including our lovely @danilabotha.bsky.social who read from her captivating novel "A Place For People Like Us!"
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 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Thank you Literary Modiin and @jbzuckerman.bsky.social for hosting this wonderful crew of authors, including our lovely @danilabotha.bsky.social who read from her captivating novel "A Place For People Like Us!"
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Sadiqa de Meijer Searches for true meaning and connection in the essays of IN THE FIELD (@palimpsestpress.bsky.social). Check out our interview with the Governor General Award winning author right here!
#AmReading #Essays #Nonfiction #CanLit
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#AmReading #Essays #Nonfiction #CanLit
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Sadiqa de Meijer Searches for True Meaning and Connection in the Essays of IN THE FIELD
Governor General’s Award winner Sadiqa de Meijer returns with a thoughtful and beautifully composed collection of essays that invites readers to look ...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Sadiqa de Meijer Searches for true meaning and connection in the essays of IN THE FIELD (@palimpsestpress.bsky.social). Check out our interview with the Governor General Award winning author right here!
#AmReading #Essays #Nonfiction #CanLit
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#AmReading #Essays #Nonfiction #CanLit
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Indie publishers @pressassembly.bsky.social & Brick Books merged operations a month ago. Today, they share a little about what led to their decision and how the early days of working as one have taken shape.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Indie publishers @pressassembly.bsky.social & Brick Books merged operations a month ago. Today, they share a little about what led to their decision and how the early days of working as one have taken shape.
alllitup.ca/teamwork-mak...
alllitup.ca/teamwork-mak...
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If you’re in Markham, drop by the library tonight at 6pm! 7600 Kennedy Road 😊
@houseofanansi.bsky.social
@houseofanansi.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 3:55 PM
If you’re in Markham, drop by the library tonight at 6pm! 7600 Kennedy Road 😊
@houseofanansi.bsky.social
@houseofanansi.bsky.social
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"It's a good trick, and, unexpectedly, repeatable."
#TodaysPoem #poetry
The Second Arrow by @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social from The Outer Wards (2020 Vehicule Press) vehiculepress.com/shop/the-out...
#TodaysPoem #poetry
The Second Arrow by @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social from The Outer Wards (2020 Vehicule Press) vehiculepress.com/shop/the-out...
November 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"It's a good trick, and, unexpectedly, repeatable."
#TodaysPoem #poetry
The Second Arrow by @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social from The Outer Wards (2020 Vehicule Press) vehiculepress.com/shop/the-out...
#TodaysPoem #poetry
The Second Arrow by @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social from The Outer Wards (2020 Vehicule Press) vehiculepress.com/shop/the-out...
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Our final #ALUGiftNext haul are for the readers who like their prose tight: here are six short story collections we think your giftees will love.
Shop our short fic recommendations (+ more!) here: alllitup.ca/gift-their-n...
Shop our short fic recommendations (+ more!) here: alllitup.ca/gift-their-n...
November 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Our final #ALUGiftNext haul are for the readers who like their prose tight: here are six short story collections we think your giftees will love.
Shop our short fic recommendations (+ more!) here: alllitup.ca/gift-their-n...
Shop our short fic recommendations (+ more!) here: alllitup.ca/gift-their-n...
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
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2026 Best Small Fictions Nominations
November 16, 2025 at 2:27 AM
2026 Best Small Fictions Nominations
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
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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
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@guernicaeditions.bluesky.social
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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
Really grateful to have a new short story, Sleepwalking Too Close to the Fire in one of my favourite American literary magazines @hfr.bsky.social
🧡🧡📚🎉 thank you so much to the wonderful editors.
You can read it in full here:
: heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/10/20/b...
🧡🧡📚🎉 thank you so much to the wonderful editors.
You can read it in full here:
: heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/10/20/b...
New Haunted Passages Short Fiction: “Sleepwalking Too Close to the Fire” by Danila Botha
I stood on the ship’s balcony, my head hanging over the railing, thick clusters of orange vomit merging with the darkening sea like Postmodern art. Agreeing to this was like stepping into a floatin…
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November 10, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Really grateful to have a new short story, Sleepwalking Too Close to the Fire in one of my favourite American literary magazines @hfr.bsky.social
🧡🧡📚🎉 thank you so much to the wonderful editors.
You can read it in full here:
: heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/10/20/b...
🧡🧡📚🎉 thank you so much to the wonderful editors.
You can read it in full here:
: heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/10/20/b...
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Seeing #NoStarsintheSky and #ADaughtersPlace together on #literaryfestival tables just never gets old. Thank you @houseofanansi.bsky.social for the gift of these books! And thank you #wildwriters for inviting me this weekend to be a part of your wonderful festival! It was such a treat! 🙏🎉🥰📚🇨🇦
November 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Seeing #NoStarsintheSky and #ADaughtersPlace together on #literaryfestival tables just never gets old. Thank you @houseofanansi.bsky.social for the gift of these books! And thank you #wildwriters for inviting me this weekend to be a part of your wonderful festival! It was such a treat! 🙏🎉🥰📚🇨🇦
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Read an excerpt from EDISSON AND JEREMIAH (Guernica Editions), the new novel by acclaimed author Michael Carin. It's free for our readers right now on Open Book!
#AmReading #Novel #Fiction #Excerpt
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#AmReading #Novel #Fiction #Excerpt
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Read an Excerpt from Edisson and Jeremiah by Michael Carin
The latest novel from renowned author and political theorist Michael Carin is a dazzling story of reinvention, faith, and illusion. Edisson and Jeremiah (Guernica ...
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November 6, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Read an excerpt from EDISSON AND JEREMIAH (Guernica Editions), the new novel by acclaimed author Michael Carin. It's free for our readers right now on Open Book!
#AmReading #Novel #Fiction #Excerpt
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#AmReading #Novel #Fiction #Excerpt
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in anticipation of the upcoming Ottawa Book Awards (which my short story collection, On Beauty, is up for), why not check this replay of the interview that Alan Neal did with me over at CBC All in a Day? / @ualbertapress.bsky.social ;
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November 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
in anticipation of the upcoming Ottawa Book Awards (which my short story collection, On Beauty, is up for), why not check this replay of the interview that Alan Neal did with me over at CBC All in a Day? / @ualbertapress.bsky.social ;
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
Huge congrats in winnning the GG @clairecameron.bsky.social 📚🎉🎉🩷
I am extremely proud to say, my new book, HOW TO SURVIVE A BEAR ATTACK, is published today.
A memoir, an investigation, nature writing, plus a dash of fiction, it's a blend because I started writing with a question -- if I'm attacked by a bear, will I survive?
#booksky #naturewriting #bearsky
A memoir, an investigation, nature writing, plus a dash of fiction, it's a blend because I started writing with a question -- if I'm attacked by a bear, will I survive?
#booksky #naturewriting #bearsky
November 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Huge congrats in winnning the GG @clairecameron.bsky.social 📚🎉🎉🩷
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I wrote a thing, and I'm quite proud of it, if I do say so myself. My thoughts on where a poem begins, randomness, surprising yourself in a poem, strangeness, and more. Thank you to @robmclennan.bsky.social for inviting me to contribute to this fantastic series on where (and how) a poem begins.
newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Lisa Richter : Where does a poem begin / @lisarichter.bsky.social @ualbertapress.bsky.social ;
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Lisa Richter : Where does a poem begin
How does a poem begin? A few weeks ago, I was on the escalator in the subway on my way home from the library. In front of me the...
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November 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I wrote a thing, and I'm quite proud of it, if I do say so myself. My thoughts on where a poem begins, randomness, surprising yourself in a poem, strangeness, and more. Thank you to @robmclennan.bsky.social for inviting me to contribute to this fantastic series on where (and how) a poem begins.
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Sibling relationships are ripe for storytelling: you can grow up in the same place with another person and have completely different experiences. Check out this book list on sibling dynamics by Nadia Ragbar, author of The Pugilist and the Sailor @invisibooks.bsky.social 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/10...
Sibling Dynamics: Grief, Loss, and Love · Blog Post · 49th Shelf
A recommended reading list by the author of The Pugilist and the Sailor (Invisible Publishing).
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November 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Sibling relationships are ripe for storytelling: you can grow up in the same place with another person and have completely different experiences. Check out this book list on sibling dynamics by Nadia Ragbar, author of The Pugilist and the Sailor @invisibooks.bsky.social 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/10...
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“One night I dreamed of such a world. I rowed upon the surface of the moon and there was no wind, there were no moments, for the moon is as empty as the inside of an eye and not even the sound of a shadow falling falls there.”
Anne Carson
Anne Carson
November 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
“One night I dreamed of such a world. I rowed upon the surface of the moon and there was no wind, there were no moments, for the moon is as empty as the inside of an eye and not even the sound of a shadow falling falls there.”
Anne Carson
Anne Carson
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.”
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CBC Books: 6 Canadian memoirs that deftly explore the messiness of being human #CanLit
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6 Canadian memoirs that deftly explore the messiness of being human | CBC Books
Three Canadian book lovers review six Canadian memoirs that helped them better understand our shared human experience.
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November 5, 2025 at 12:12 PM
CBC Books: 6 Canadian memoirs that deftly explore the messiness of being human #CanLit
www.cbc.ca/books/thenex...
www.cbc.ca/books/thenex...
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Our grant writing guru Lindsay Zier-Vogel is back with a timely and bafflement-relieving guide to the new Canada Council granting portal! Check out her wise takes on how to navigate the system right here!
#AmReading #Grants #CanLit #WritingTips
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#AmReading #Grants #CanLit #WritingTips
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Grant Writing 101: The New Canada Council Portal
The Canada Council for the Arts has a new portal and truth be told, it’s going to take us all a while to get used to it, but I’ve gathered up all ...
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November 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Our grant writing guru Lindsay Zier-Vogel is back with a timely and bafflement-relieving guide to the new Canada Council granting portal! Check out her wise takes on how to navigate the system right here!
#AmReading #Grants #CanLit #WritingTips
open-book.ca/Columnists/G...
#AmReading #Grants #CanLit #WritingTips
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