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Catherine Bush

@catebush.bsky.social
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Author of Skin: Stories, out in April 2025. The novel Blaze Island (2020), and other novels. Writer, professor, dog walker, nature lover. www.catherinebush.com

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Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Eden Mills Writers Festival this Sunday September 20! I'm hosting the short story panel, The Art of the Short, at 3:30 p.m. Come join me along with writers Alison Gadsby, Nadja Lubiw-Hazard and Chanel Sutherland at this bucolic event. edenmillswritersfestival.ca/festival-sun...
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Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
I had fun writing this 'My Guilty Pleasure' piece for @thewalrus.ca all about my obsession with rescue poodles and their stories. thewalrus.ca/how-many-poo...
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How Many Poodle Rescues Have I Followed? Oodles | The Walrus
Ollie’s toe-less paw. Mozart’s long-lost father. I was hooked
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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
1/2 bonus #SmallPress #books: Devouring Tomorrow & its contribs @agpasquella.bsky.social ‬ @jeffdupuis.bsky.social @dundurnpress.bsky.social @garybarwin.bsky.social @eddyboudeltan.bsky.social @catebush.bsky.social @gooselane.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social. See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky
Book cover for Devouring Tomorrow: Fiction from the Future of Food edited by A.G. Pasquella and Jeff Dupuis (Rare Machines, imprint of Dundurn Press)‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬: An anthology of speculative short fiction imagining the possibilities of our food-insecure future. Featuring stories from Sifton Tracey Anipare, Carleigh Baker, Gary Barwin, Chris Benjamin, Eddy Boudel Tan, Catherine Bush, Jowita Bydlowska, Lisa de Nikolits, Dina Del Bucchia, Terri Favro, Elan Mastai, Mark Sampson, Ji Hong Sayo, Jacqueline Valencia, Anuja Varghese, and A.G.A. Wilmot. https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459754980-devouring-tomorrowBook cover for After Elias by Eddy Boudel Tan (Dundurn): A modern queer tragedy about a pilot's last words, an interrupted celebration, and the fear of losing everything. https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459746428-after-eliasBook cover for Skin by Catherine Bush (Goose Lane): Now, for the first time, a blistering book of short fiction from one of Canada’s most loved novelists. In Skin, Catherine Bush plunges into the vortex of all that shapes us. Summoning relationships between the human and more-than-human, she explores a world where touch and intimacy are both desirable and fraught. https://gooselane.com/products/skinBook cover for Tulip is an Axe by Gary Barwin (Above/Ground): https://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/new-from-aboveground-press-tulip-is-axe.html
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JUNCTION READS @junctionreads.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Book Review Just finished Catherine Bush's SKIN from @gooselane.bsky.social and ya, you should grab a copy of this incredible collection! @catebush.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
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Alison Gadsby's review of Skin
5/5: The longest of the stories in Catherine Bush’s collection, SKIN, opens with a piece of paper found in the pages of Barthes, containing the handwriting of a former beloved, a once promising person...
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JUNCTION READS @junctionreads.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
October 5 In person launch at TYPE Books Junction 6:30pm Season 12 With @catebush.bsky.social Caitlin Galway Michelle Winters Live-streamed
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
@catebush.bsky.social narrates how her trip to Venice to attend the #BiennaleArte2024 was overshadowed by extreme-rain warnings. She wrestles with how to view art under these conditions and the question of what kind of attention we need to bring to art and the troubled, troubling world around us.
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Rain, Carson, Art, Salt: A Venetian Matrix - Springs
The author goes to Venice to attend the Biennale seeking art that engages with Rachel Carson only to encounter extreme-rain warnings.
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Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
On Thursday, May 29, 2025 from 6:30 to 8:00 PM, Flying Books is hosting a discussion about SKIN by Catherine Bush. The author will be in conversation with Andre Alexis, its editor and author of the new short story collection Other Worlds. Titles available for purchase, and authors will be signing.
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JOIN US FOR A CONVERSATION WITH CATHERINE BUSH AND SPECIAL GUEST
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Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Tonight!
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
“All storms are alike yet each speaks to us in its particularity.” @catebush.bsky.social‬ on capturing the sensations of life’s storms.
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Writing the Wind: Capturing the Sensation of Life’s Many Storms
I arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in late September 2022, days after Hurricane Fiona blew through. The most intense Category Four hurricane ever recorded this far north, it had weakened to a post-…
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Jamie Tennant @jtennant.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Today on GET LIT we speak with Catherine Bush about her new collection, Skin. Listen in! 1230 pm 93.3 / cfmu dot ca or any time on pods and here: tinyurl.com/mry9jphz @catebush.bsky.social @gooselane.bsky.social
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Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
On Thursday, May 29, 2025 from 6:30 to 8:00 PM, Flying Books is hosting a discussion about SKIN by Catherine Bush. The author will be in conversation with Andre Alexis, its editor and author of the new short story collection Other Worlds. Titles available for purchase, and authors will be signing.
flyingbooks.ca
JOIN US FOR A CONVERSATION WITH CATHERINE BUSH AND SPECIAL GUEST
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Among others, issue 7 includes articles by @catebush.bsky.social on ecological art in Venice, by @amitav.bsky.social on the trading history of nutmeg, and by @wildpasts.bsky.social on superstitions and baboons. Go over to springs-rcc.org to read their contributions!
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Home - Springs
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Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
And in Toronto next Thursday May 29 at 6:30 p.m. join me and André Alexis at Flying Books on College for a discussion of our new story collections, Skin and Other Worlds - and André's role as editor of Skin!
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JOIN US FOR A CONVERSATION WITH CATHERINE BUSH AND SPECIAL GUEST
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Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
This Thursday in Vancouver, May 22 2025, 7:30 p.m. Join us to celebrate short stories! @writersfest.bc.ca
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Books & Ideas: Worlds of Short Fiction | Vancouver Writers Fest
The month of May celebrates one of our favourite narrative forms at the Writers Fest: short stories! Discover some of this season’s most brilliant collections at Books & Ideas on Granville Island. The...
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Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
If you're in the area, come out next Tuesday May 13 evening to the Kitchener Waterloo Public Library Eastside branch to hear me and @amandaleduc.bsky.social discuss our new books! Spread the word!
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Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Tomorrow, Sunday, at the Ottawa International Writers Festival! Come join us! @writersfest.bsky.social writersfestival.org/events/sprin...
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Long Story Short
7:00pm, Sunday May 4 at Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa — "Pure storytelling magic. André Alexis is alchemically, necromantically, spell-castingly talented, and yet he never uses his powers for...
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Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Wonderful review by Sara Harms in the @winnipegfreepress.com of Skin! "Readers of Skin, take heed: this is one to be considered, savoured and celebrated."
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Bush explores chronic pain, classics, mother-daughter relationships and more in short-story collection
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Lilian Nattel 🇨🇦✍️📚 @liliannattel.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Currently reading Skin by Catherine Bush while relaxing on the couch under a blanket. Love love the story about the mom who washes strangers’ feet. #literaryfiction #canlit thank you @hollay.bsky.social @catebush.bsky.social
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Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Tonight in Toronto! Come join us!
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Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Skin launches this Thursday in Toronto! Society Clubhouse, College at Dovercourt, 7 - 9 p.m. with guest Martha Baillie, a new film by Mike Hoolboom, and a special giveaway. I'd love to see you there!
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Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Beautiful words for Skin from David Huebert, whose gorgeous first novel Oil People has just been shortlisted for the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award.
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Vancouver Writers Fest @writersfest.bc.ca · 16/04/2025
Celebrate Short Story Month in May with brilliant new collections from André Alexis (Other Worlds), Clea Young (Welcome to the Neighbourhood), and @catebush.bsky.social (Skin), who join us in conversation with Caroline Adderson, May 22 at Books & Ideas. Tickets:
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Books & Ideas: Worlds of Short Fiction | Vancouver Writers Fest
The month of May celebrates one of our favourite narrative forms at the Writers Fest: short stories! Discover some of this season’s most brilliant collections at Books & Ideas on Granville Island.…
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Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Another beautiful endorsement for Skin from Tessa McWatt, who launches her new memoir, The Snag: A Mother, A Forest and Wild Grief, in May. Skin launches April 24th, pub date April 22nd. Coming soon!
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Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Tonight! Come out and devour some great fiction (listen to it anyway) at the launch for Devouring Tomorrow, an anthology of great spec fic on the future of food. Thrilled to have a story in it. First set of readings at 7:30. I'll be reading in the second set at 8:30 p.m.!
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Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Very happy to share this wonderful endorsement for Skin from Claire Cameron - who is just launching her own extraordinary memoir, How to Survive A Bear Attack, this week! @gooselane.bsky.social
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Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Please read all of this: an account of her own detention and the stories of other detained women as well.
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I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
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Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Skin Launch hosted by @anotherstoryto.bsky.social April 24th, 7-9 pm, Society Clubhouse, College Street West, Toronto. Come celebrate! RSVP at the Eventbrite link.
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Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Join me April 24 7-9 pm, at Society Clubhouse, Toronto, to celebrate the launch of Skin, my first collection of stories! Hosted by @anotherstoryto.bsky.social Convo with writer Martha Baillie, new film by Mike Hoolboom inispired by Skin. Would love to see you there!
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SKIN - Catherine Bush (with Martha Baillie)
Join us for the launch of SKIN, by Catherine Bush! In conversation with Martha Baillie.
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Goose Lane Editions @gooselane.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
🤩 Just arrived! 🤩 Catherine Bush's blistering book of short stories has landed at Goose Lane 😍 This unforgettable collection of fiction is officially out on April 22 but you can pre-order now at gooselane.com/skin @catebush.bsky.social
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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Acclaimed novelist Catherine Bush’s blistering new book of short fiction, Skin, is forthcoming this April 22nd with Goose Lane Editions. We have review copies available for our community! Learn more: gooselane.com/products/skin Request a review copy: www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s...
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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Listen, who are we to argue with a neurologist? Or the wildly talented Catherine Bush for that matter, who (*ahem*) has a NEW book coming out next year! Stay tuuuuuned! ✨ @nytimes.com @catebush.bsky.social #read #books #memory
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Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Join writer, broadcaster and blind adventurer Red Széll for the latest episode of AMI-audio’s My Life in Books with Canadian novelist Catherine Bush. My Life in Books airs daily at 3 p.m. EST on AMI Audio, with a new episode every fortnight, or download the podcast from your favourite provider.
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My Life in Books with Red Széll RecentEpisodes | Accessible Media Inc.
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Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Want to hear me tell a ghost story? Then come out to André Alexis's lecture, Ghost Stories, at the Toronto Reference Library, tomorrow, Monday Nov 25, 6:30-7:30.
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Ghost Stories: A Literary Lecture with André Alexis
What is the essence of a ghost story? Must the ghost appear? Under what circumstances? Why is Henry James' "Turn of the Screw" effective, though we never learn if the ghosts are real or not. And, most...
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Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
My former student Aaron Tang/Sheung-King won the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for his inventive second novel Batshit Seven -- about contemporary millennial diasporic life amid the Hong Kong protests. So chuffed! 2nd year in a row that a Guelph CW MFA grad has won this prize!
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Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Look at the gorgeous cover of the hot-off-the-press French edition of Blaze Island (2020), Le Projet Ariel. Photo by NB artist Karen Stentaford. Shot of Oliver's Cove, Tilting. How lucky I am once more to have such amazing cover art for this novel!
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Le projet Ariel – Éditions Prise de parole
Les tempêtes remuent le passé.
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Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Feeling ungrounded by current events? I am. So ... off to lead a retreat about writing on the land at the 600-acre Ignatius Retreat Centre in Guelph this weekend.
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