Danila Botha

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

A 50 Books for 50 Years graphic featuring the cover of The Brickworks by Lucy E.M. Black. The cover has a textured black background with the novel’s title written in bold, distressed gold lettering centred in the middle with ornate flourishes around it. The text reads: “Literary Press Group of Canada, Celebrating 50 Years Supporting Literature. Now or Never Publishing.“

🏭 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

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A graphic for the 2025 Lambda Literary Awards featuring LPG finalists, set against a pink watercolour background. The text reads "2025 Lambda Literary Awards LPG finalists" in bold black and lavender letters. Below the text are seven book covers.

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

Mid-Summer Book Delights News and reviews so hot you'll need 60SPF sunscreen!

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-...

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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 Didn't Think You Would Turn Out to Be So Strange a short story by Danila Botha

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...

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Book cover for the play Open House by Drew Hayden Taylor (Talonbooks), with a paper house sinking into a fire made of paper human hands. Hoping to snag their perfect home in a red-hot housing market, an African Canadian man, a Chinese Canadian man, and a Jewish/Indigenous lesbian couple show up to an open house run by a white settler real estate agent. Each potential buyer feels most deserving of the prize. When a police incident outside traps them together in the house, debate erupts over which of their cultures has faced the most discrimination and exclusion. Passions run high and opinions clash. With wry humour, Open House deftly navigates current conversations about oppression, colonization, and middle-class aspirations. https://talonbooks.com/books/open-house

Book cover for Things that Cause Inappropriate Happiness by Danila Botha (Guernica Editions), with a woman covered in orange glitter leaning her head back sensually, the image cut off at her lips, her hair a luscious fall along one side. This is Danila Botha’s third collection of short fiction. From the bullied twelve-year-old to the sculptor who builds a golem and fulfills her Holocaust survivor grandmother’s wish to protect her sister to a student who overdoses on opiates and meets an adult Anne Frank, these stories pulse with Botha’s signature empathy and originality. As in her previous collection, the Trillium- and Vine-nominated For All the Men (and Some of the Women) I’ve Known, this collection will make you laugh and cry, but above all it will make you feel less alone. https://guernicaeditions.com/products/things-that-cause-inappropriate-happiness

2/10 Open House by Drew Hayden Taylor (@talonbooks.bsky.social) & Things that Cause Inappropriate Happiness by Danila Botha (@danilabotha.bsky.social, Guernica Editions).

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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:

Excerpt from Vincent Anioke's "Finite Automata" from Special Issue #174 of The New Quarterly.

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...

#ThisorThatThursday with Lynda Williams — Heather Weidner I’d like to welcome Lynda Williams to the blog for #ThisorThatThursday!

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... 🧡

Thanks so much, Erika 💗💗💗

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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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Lynda Williams | Debut Short Story Author | The Beauty and the Hell of It The Kino Isaac Podcast (Live) · Episode

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.
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The Beauty and the Hell of It & Other Stories by Lynda Williams Review In author Lynda Williams’s “The Beauty and the Hell of It,” people tackle the expectations of who they are told they are.

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

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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!

Definitely not! 💗💗💗I’m sure it’ll happen again soon 🤩

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