Danila Botha is the author of three short story collections, Got No Secrets, which was published in 2010 by Tightrope books, For All the Men (and Some of the Women I've Known) which was published in 2016 and was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award, The Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature and ReLit, and her new collection, Things That Cause Inappropriate Happiness, will be published by Guernica Editions in 2024. Stories from it have appeared in the Humber Literary Review, Changing the Face of Canadian Literature, and Jewishfiction.net. She is also the author of the novel Too Much on the Inside, which won a Book Excellence Award and was short listed for a ReLit Award. Her new novel, A Place for People Like Us will be published by Guernica Editions in 2025. Danila was the 2020-2022 writer in residence at the Toronto Heliconian Club. She teaches Creative Writing at University of Toronto SCS and is part of the faculty at Humber School for Writers.
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Danila Botha
BIO
Biography
ADDRESS
City: Toronto,
Province/Territory: Ontario
EMAIL
danilabothawriter@gmail.com
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
A Place for People Like Us
Publisher
Guernica Editions
Year
2025
Title
Things That Cause Inappropriate Happiness
Publisher
Guernica Editions
Year
2024
Title
For All the Men (and Some of the Women) I've Known
Publisher
Tightrope Books
Year
2016
Title
Too Much on the Inside
Publisher
Quattro Books
Year
2015
Title
Got No Secrets
Publisher
Tightrope Books
Year
2010
Title
Changing the Face of Canadian Literature, Anthology (contributor, short story)
Publisher
Guernica Editions
Year
2020
AWARDS
Awards
Name
Book Excellence Award, Contemporary Novel
Publication
Too Much on the Inside
Year
2016
LINKS
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS
Presentation details
Audience Size
Audience size
Any size is fine
Presentation Genre
Fiction, literary fiction, novel writing, short stories/short fiction
Presentation Length
Usually an hour or more if writing and workshopping is involved
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