Danila shares how she balances life with writing, how she turned a bad reviewer into a friend, and why it’s essential to understand that an author cannot control awards or reviews.

Danila Botha is the author of the critically acclaimed shortstory 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 most recently, Things that Cause Inappropriate Happiness. Thecollection won an Indie Reader Discovery Award for Women's Issues, Fiction, and was a finalist for the Canadian Book Club Awards, the Next Generation Indie Book Awards and the National Indie Excellence Book Awards. She is alsothe author of the award-winning novel Too Much On the Inside which was optioned for film. Her new novel, A Place for People Like Us will be published in Sept 2025. Her first graphic novel will be published in 2026 by At Bay Press.

At time 28:30 she reads from A Place for People Like Us.

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