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Danila Botha
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Author of Things that Cause Inappropriate Happiness (Guernica 2024) A Place for People Like Us (Guernica 2025)
Vidal, At Bay Press, 2026
For All the Men... reissue (Guernica 2028)
Fiction and art enthusiast. Humber School for Writers faculty.
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August 26, 2026 at 10:44 AM
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Congratulations to all of the winners and finalists of our Summer 2026 Editor's Prize Contest! We would like to thank everyone who submitted their beautiful work!
Summer 2026 Editor's Prize Contest Fiction Winner: "Kelly & Lazarus" by Elena Steiert Finalists: Dani Guerrero, Bethany Bruno, Danila Botha & Rachel Whalen Poetry Winner: "Differentiation" by Tamar Jacobs Finalists: Terry Hall, Susan Shea & Eric Wittkopf Flash Winner: "The Last Book of Weirdos" by Kathryn Kulpa FInalists: Kristina Garvin, Valerie Hughes & Aaron F. Schnore Congrats! We would like to that all who shared their wonderful writing with us!
August 26, 2026 at 10:44 AM
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⭐⭐⭐⭐ EDITORIAL REVIEW

From Tiberias to France and the horrors of the Holocaust, 'Vidal' by Danila Botha is an ambitious and deeply personal story of memory, identity, family and survival.

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August 8, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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"Sometimes we could hear the distant lapping of Lake Kinneret against the rocks on the shore." #SundaySentence from @danilabotha.bsky.social's VIDAL. www.erikadreifus.com/2026/08/sund...
#SundaySentence - Erika Dreifus
The best sentence I've read during the past week, "out of context and without commentary."
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August 2, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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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-...
July 30, 2026 at 1:06 AM
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Read this book, y’all. It’ll change you. @danilabotha.bsky.social @atbaypress.bsky.social #canlit
July 15, 2026 at 11:29 PM
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Check out an excerpt from @danilabotha.bsky.social novel, A PLACE FOR PEOPLE LIKE US, which explores friendship and identity, Judaism and cults, and hypocrisy and family. —David Michael, Judith Magazine on Substack. 🙏

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A Place For People Like Us
“Make for yourself a friend.” — Pirkei Avot
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June 22, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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For our third Shortlist Saturday, we offer you this intriguing story, Everything is Temporary by Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social, now up on DarkWinter Lit! www.darkwinterlit.com/post/everyth...
Everything is Temporary by Danila Botha
Alice was always asking Paul to scratch her back. She’d ask reflexively almost immediately after he sat down beside her on the couch. [...]
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June 20, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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9/13 - #DSPBposts #SmallPress #books from @dundurnpress.bsky.social @danilabotha.bsky.social @atbaypress.bsky.social @rakishheir.bsky.social @actionbooks.bsky.social @biblioasis.bsky.social 💙📚 #BookSky #bookish #booksta #booklovers
Book cover for One Day, Hard and Clear by Anne Baldo, Dundurn: It’s 2004 and childhood friends Sami and Lucy are on the edge of adulthood. Lucy knows what she is going to do — she’s going to school and getting out. But Sami, caught in an endless loop with a boy, True, who is from a troubled family, can’t seem to get unstuck. The further Sami drifts from Lucy, the harder it is to not be guided and bound by her heartbreak for True, whose destructive presence continually interferes with Sami’s hope for stability and connection. As their paths begin to diverge, Sami must learn to navigate life in their small town — and the universe — without the one person she’s always counted on. Forthcoming in June. https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459756359-one-day--hard-and-clear Book cover for Smash & Grab by Mark Anthony Jarman, Biblioasis: A former military policeman, a veterinarian, and a French poet walk into a bar and debate the Vietnam war. A couple of men who are part of a commune discover two dead bodies while out sailing. An Irish woman hits a boy with her car and contemplates turning herself in. Two paramedics try to live and not burn out while dealing with so much death. A man on holiday in Venice is stalked by a pickpocket. A heartsick astronaut finds love on the moon. In Smash & Grab Mark Anthony Jarman offers up a mischievous medley of stories that blur the lines between the real and the imagined. Continuing to chronicle the lives of the wayward and unlucky, it confirms its author as one of the most adventurous guides to the absurdity of twenty-first century existence. https://www.biblioasis.com/shop/fiction/short-fiction/smash-grab/ Book cover for call the necromancer by Leia Penina Wilson, Action Books: Incantation or hex? Curative or curse? Buzzing, clomping, and crying out solilo-quies, Leia Penina Wilson’s call the necromancer performs boldly on the page. Be medusa’d, be transmogrified: follow cordeliababy (King Lear) down a terrificus rabbit hole where the poet, acting as voice mediator and corpse manipulator, prompts readers to weigh the value of death against the absurdity of reason. A vibrant carnival of language, call the necromancer shatters expectations for femme sexuality, embracing the vulgar, the violent, the desirous, and the pleasurable. https://actionbooks.org/leia-penina-wilson-call-necromancer/ Book cover for Vidal by Danila Botha, At Bay Press: Part Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, and Art Spiegelman’s Maus, Danila Botha’s powerful debut graphic novel, follows young Vidal who grows up in Tiberias (Ottoman Empire and then British Mandate Palestine) and moves to Paris to pursue his art and freedom and gets trapped there during World War II. Danila Botha traces the steps of Vidal’s life through Chagallian vignettes, from his Sephardic upbringing in Tiberias to studies in the Technion in Haifa, his artistic life in Paris, his work with the underground resistance, and his ultimate arrest and time in Auschwitz. Poignantly capturing the Sephardic Jewish experience, and Like Vidal and his family, the author’s family were fifth generation Moroccan Jews who grew up speaking both Hebrew and Arabic and coexisting with their neighbours and friends. https://atbaypress.com/books/detail/vidal
May 31, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: One Day, Hard and Clear by Anne Baldo, @dundurnpress.bsky.social & Vidal by @danilabotha.bsky.social, @atbaypress.bsky.social. See alt-text.

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Book cover for One Day, Hard and Clear by Anne Baldo, Dundurn: It’s 2004 and childhood friends Sami and Lucy are on the edge of adulthood. Lucy knows what she is going to do — she’s going to school and getting out. But Sami, caught in an endless loop with a boy, True, who is from a troubled family, can’t seem to get unstuck. The further Sami drifts from Lucy, the harder it is to not be guided and bound by her heartbreak for True, whose destructive presence continually interferes with Sami’s hope for stability and connection. As their paths begin to diverge, Sami must learn to navigate life in their small town — and the universe — without the one person she’s always counted on. Forthcoming in June. https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459756359-one-day--hard-and-clear Book cover for Vidal by Danila Botha, At Bay Press: Part Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, and Art Spiegelman’s Maus, Danila Botha’s powerful debut graphic novel, follows young Vidal who grows up in Tiberias (Ottoman Empire and then British Mandate Palestine) and moves to Paris to pursue his art and freedom and gets trapped there during World War II. Danila Botha traces the steps of Vidal’s life through Chagallian vignettes, from his Sephardic upbringing in Tiberias to studies in the Technion in Haifa, his artistic life in Paris, his work with the underground resistance, and his ultimate arrest and time in Auschwitz. Poignantly capturing the Sephardic Jewish experience, and Like Vidal and his family, the author’s family were fifth generation Moroccan Jews who grew up speaking both Hebrew and Arabic and coexisting with their neighbours and friends. https://atbaypress.com/books/detail/vidal
May 20, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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Thank you CBC Books for including "A Place For People Like Us," by @danilabotha.bsky.social on your list of 15 Canadian Books to Read for Jewish Book Month! #JewishHistoryMonth
danilabotha.bsky.social Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · May 11
Also so excited to see A Place For People Like Us on CBC Books’s list of Fifteen Canadian Books to Read For Jewish Book month. An honour to be there with Cary Fagan, Rebecca Hirsch Garcia, Elise Levine and more 💗 www.cbc.ca/books/15-can...
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15 Canadian books to read for Jewish Heritage Month | CBC Books
From poetry to children's books and nonfiction, we've compiled a list of books by Jewish Canadians.
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May 12, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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Bravo @danilabotha.bsky.social!!!! Thrilled to see "A Place For People Like Us," is a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award!!!! Congrats to all the incredible finalists! 🙏✨🤸‍♂️
danilabotha.bsky.social Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · May 11
Emotional and grateful to find out this morning that A Place For People Like Us is a finalist for the Eric Hoffer award 🧡🧡💗Thank you so much to my incredible publisher, congrats to the amazing finalists www.hofferaward.com/Eric-Hoffer-...
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Eric Hoffer Book Award Category Finalists
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May 12, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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Also so excited to see A Place For People Like Us on CBC Books’s list of Fifteen Canadian Books to Read For Jewish Book month. An honour to be there with Cary Fagan, Rebecca Hirsch Garcia, Elise Levine and more 💗 www.cbc.ca/books/15-can...
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15 Canadian books to read for Jewish Heritage Month | CBC Books
From poetry to children's books and nonfiction, we've compiled a list of books by Jewish Canadians.
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May 11, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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Emotional and grateful to find out this morning that A Place For People Like Us is a finalist for the Eric Hoffer award 🧡🧡💗Thank you so much to my incredible publisher, congrats to the amazing finalists www.hofferaward.com/Eric-Hoffer-...
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Eric Hoffer Book Award Category Finalists
independent book award for the small press, academic press & independent press, including self-published books
www.hofferaward.com
May 11, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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Jean Dubuffet, Building Facades, July 1946
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April 29, 2026 at 2:38 AM
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Thank you from us too, Asher! 🙏
danilabotha.bsky.social Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · Apr 28
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.” 🥹
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April 30, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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Bravo @danilabotha.bsky.social! "A Place For People Like Us," won an Independent Press Award, for Contemporary Novel.
danilabotha.bsky.social Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · Apr 28
A few more photos from the Independent Press Awards, where A Place For People Like Us won for Contemporary Novel 💗💗📚🎉🥹
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April 30, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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AMAZING! @danilabotha.bsky.social and @rollwithheather.bsky.social🙏✨❤️👏🔥
danilabotha.bsky.social Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · Apr 28
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
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April 30, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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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.” 🥹
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April 28, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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A few more photos from the Independent Press Awards, where A Place For People Like Us won for Contemporary Novel 💗💗📚🎉🥹
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April 28, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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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
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April 28, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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"A compelling look at the comforts and controls of religious devotion." Kirkus Reviews Bravo @danilabotha.bsky.social 🤩😍👏
A PLACE FOR PEOPLE LIKE US | Kirkus Reviews
Botha’s literary novel follows a young woman’s bumpy spiritual journey.
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March 31, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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April 19, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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Amazing @danilabotha.bsky.social ✨🤩
danilabotha.bsky.social Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · Feb 16
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 📚🧡
February 16, 2026 at 2:10 PM