How Many Poodle Rescues Have I Followed? Oodles | The Walrus Ollie’s toe-less paw. Mozart’s long-lost father. I was hooked

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...

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-tomorrow

Book 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-elias

Book 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/skin

Book 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

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

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...

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

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October 5
In person launch at TYPE Books Junction
6:30pm
Season 12
With @catebush.bsky.social
Caitlin Galway
Michelle Winters

Live-streamed

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.

@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.

JOIN US FOR A CONVERSATION WITH CATHERINE BUSH AND SPECIAL GUEST

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.

Tonight!

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-…

“All storms are alike yet each speaks to us in its particularity.” @catebush.bsky.social‬ on capturing the sensations of life’s storms.

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:
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JOIN US FOR A CONVERSATION WITH CATHERINE BUSH AND SPECIAL GUEST

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.

Home - Springs

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!

JOIN US FOR A CONVERSATION WITH CATHERINE BUSH AND SPECIAL GUEST

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!

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...

This Thursday in Vancouver, May 22 2025, 7:30 p.m. Join us to celebrate short stories! @writersfest.bc.ca

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!

André Alexis, Catherine Bush and Bill Gaston discuss their new short story collections.

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...

Tomorrow, Sunday, at the Ottawa International Writers Festival! Come join us! @writersfest.bsky.social
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Bush explores chronic pain, classics, mother-daughter relationships and more in short-story collection

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."

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

Tonight in Toronto! Come join us!

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!

Beautiful words for Skin from David Huebert, whose gorgeous first novel Oil People has just been shortlisted for the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award.

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.…

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.

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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!

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.!

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

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

Please read all of this: an account of her own detention and the stories of other detained women as well.

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.

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!

🤩 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

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:

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