Frye Festival: Catherine Bush

Monday, April 28, 2025

Frye Festival:

Catherine
Bush

Monday, April 28 | 630pm
FREE Event. Donations welcomed and appreciated.

AX Literary Series: An In-Conversation Event with Catherine Bush

Join us on Monday April 28th, at 6:30 PM in the AX Gallery (12 Maple Ave, Sussex, NB) for a special evening with award-winning Canadian novelist Catherine Bush. Moderated by Vanessa Moeller, this event will feature readings from Bush’s Latest short story collection Skin (2025).

This event is part of the Frye Festival 26th Edition, Atlantic Canada’s largest literary festival.

Thank you to the New Brunswick Department of Tourism, Heritage and Culture for their support of this event.

Photo Credit: Arden Wray

Bio

Catherine Bush is the author of five novels, including Blaze Island (2020), a Globe & Mail Best Book, and The Rules of Engagement (2000), a New York Times Notable Book. Her books have been shortlisted for the Trillium Prize, City of Toronto Book Award, and the Books in Canada First Novel Award. She was the 2024 Writer-in-Residence at the Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society in Munich and a 2019 Fiction Meets Science Fellow, also in Germany.Bush is currently an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Creative Writing MFA at the University of Guelph.

Moderator Bio

Vanessa Moeller’s poems and short stories have appeared in numerous periodicals including The Fiddlehead, Prism International, The Antigonish Review, CV2, and The Pottersfield Portfolio and have won several awards, including the Atlantic Poetry Prize and an honourable mention in the poetry category of the National Magazine Awards. Her book, Our Extraordinary Monsters, was published by Signature Editions. She completed her MA in creative writing at the University of New Brunswick. Originally from Sussex, she now lives in Moncton where she is Senior Creative Writer at m5 the agency.

Book Description

Skin (2025) is a new short story collection by Catherine Bush. The collection explores through fiction the defining problems of our time: uncertainty, viruses, climate change, and ecological crises. Her stories focus on highlighting the fraught relationship with touch and intimacy.She brings to life unusual and perplexing intimacies: a man falls in love with the wind; a substitute teacher’s behaviour with a student brings unforeseen risks; a woman becomes fixated on offering foot washes to strangers.Skin gives a charged and animating voice to the question of how we face the world and how, in the process, we discover tenderness and allow ourselves to be transformed.