Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Eden 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... 110
Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 26/02/2026I 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...thewalrus.caHow Many Poodle Rescues Have I Followed? Oodles | The WalrusOllie’s toe-less paw. Mozart’s long-lost father. I was hooked 030
Reposted by Catherine BushJoanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 03/01/20261/2 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 184
Reposted by Catherine BushJUNCTION READS @junctionreads.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Book 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/...goodreads.comAlison Gadsby's review of Skin5/5: 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... 1106
Reposted by Catherine BushJUNCTION READS @junctionreads.bsky.social · 17/09/2025October 5 In person launch at TYPE Books Junction 6:30pm Season 12 With @catebush.bsky.social Caitlin Galway Michelle Winters Live-streamed 074
Reposted by Catherine BushRachel 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.springs-rcc.orgRain, Carson, Art, Salt: A Venetian Matrix - SpringsThe author goes to Venice to attend the Biennale seeking art that engages with Rachel Carson only to encounter extreme-rain warnings. 041
Reposted by Catherine BushCatherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 27/05/2025On 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.caJOIN US FOR A CONVERSATION WITH CATHERINE BUSH AND SPECIAL GUEST 0105
Reposted by Catherine BushLit 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.buff.lyWriting the Wind: Capturing the Sensation of Life’s Many StormsI 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-… 0103
Reposted by Catherine BushJamie Tennant @jtennant.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Today 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 021
Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 27/05/2025On 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.caJOIN US FOR A CONVERSATION WITH CATHERINE BUSH AND SPECIAL GUEST 0105
Reposted by Catherine BushRachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Among 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!springs-rcc.orgHome - Springs 041
Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 20/05/2025And 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!flyingbooks.caJOIN US FOR A CONVERSATION WITH CATHERINE BUSH AND SPECIAL GUEST 030
Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 20/05/2025This Thursday in Vancouver, May 22 2025, 7:30 p.m. Join us to celebrate short stories! @writersfest.bc.cawritersfest.bc.caBooks & Ideas: Worlds of Short Fiction | Vancouver Writers FestThe 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... 042
Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 07/05/2025If 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! 042
Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Tomorrow, Sunday, at the Ottawa International Writers Festival! Come join us! @writersfest.bsky.social writersfestival.org/events/sprin...writersfestival.orgLong Story Short7:00pm, 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... 110
Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 03/05/2025Wonderful review by Sara Harms in the @winnipegfreepress.com of Skin! "Readers of Skin, take heed: this is one to be considered, savoured and celebrated."winnipegfreepress.comBush explores chronic pain, classics, mother-daughter relationships and more in short-story collection 000
Reposted by Catherine BushLilian Nattel 🇨🇦✍️📚 @liliannattel.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Currently 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 152
Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Skin 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! 010
Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Beautiful words for Skin from David Huebert, whose gorgeous first novel Oil People has just been shortlisted for the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award. 054
Reposted by Catherine BushVancouver Writers Fest @writersfest.bc.ca · 16/04/2025Celebrate 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:writersfest.bc.caBooks & Ideas: Worlds of Short Fiction | Vancouver Writers FestThe 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.… 095
Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Another 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! 000
Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Tonight! 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.! 010
Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Very 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 095
Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Please read all of this: an account of her own detention and the stories of other detained women as well.theguardian.comI’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnappedI was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky 031
Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Skin Launch hosted by @anotherstoryto.bsky.social April 24th, 7-9 pm, Society Clubhouse, College Street West, Toronto. Come celebrate! RSVP at the Eventbrite link. 0103
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!eventbrite.caSKIN - Catherine Bush (with Martha Baillie)Join us for the launch of SKIN, by Catherine Bush! In conversation with Martha Baillie. 020
Reposted by Catherine BushGoose 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 151
Reposted by Catherine BushRiver Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Acclaimed 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... 0116
Reposted by Catherine BushRiver Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Listen, 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 051
Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Join 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.ami.caMy Life in Books with Red Széll RecentEpisodes | Accessible Media Inc. 030
Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Want 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.torontopubliclibrary.caGhost Stories: A Literary Lecture with André AlexisWhat 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... 040
Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 20/11/2024My 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! 040
Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Look 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!prisedeparole.caLe projet Ariel – Éditions Prise de paroleLes tempêtes remuent le passé. 050
Catherine Bush @catebush.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Feeling 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. 090