Photo Credit:
Photo credit
Jonathan Hooper
Danila Botha
BIO
Biography

Danila Botha is the author of the critically acclaimed short story collections, Got No Secrets, For All the Men (and Some of the Women) I’ve Known, which was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award, The Vine Awards and the ReLit Award and Things that Cause Inappropriate Happiness, which won an Indie Reader Discovery Award and was a finalist for the Canadian Book Club Awards, the Next Generation Indie Book Awards and the National Indie Excellence Awards. She is also the author of the award-winning novels Too Much On the Inside and A Place for People Like Us which won an Independent Press award for Contemporary Novel, and was a finalist for the CIPA Evvy Book awards, the Eric Hoffer awards, the Next Generation Indie Book Awards and the National Indie Excellence Awards. Vidal, which she wrote and illustrated, is her first graphic novel.  She teaches Creative Writing at University of Toronto SCS and is part of the faculty at Humber School for Writers.

ADDRESS
City: Toronto, Province/Territory: Ontario
EMAIL
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
Title
Vidal
Publisher
At Bay Press
Year
2026
AWARDS
Awards
Name
Book Excellence Award, Contemporary Novel
Publication
Too Much on the Inside
Year
2016
LINKS
Links
https://www.danilabotha.com/
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
EQUITY INITIATIVE
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Members who identify as:
Living with a disability
Programs & Interests
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