7:00pm – 8:00pm Eastern Time
Join us for the second episode of The Fine Print on October 27, for a conversation with author Catherine Bush about her new novel, Blaze Island. The Fine Print is a one-hour conversation with a change-making author in The Book Café of the Feminist Enterprise Commons. There will be time for audience Q&A and feminist networking.
Bush is the author of five novels, including Blaze Island (2020). Her work has been critically acclaimed, published internationally and shortlisted for literary awards. She is the coordinator of the Creative Writing MFA at the University of Guelph. Bush often speaks about writing fiction on the climate crisis, and was a Fiction Meets Science Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study in Delmenhorst, Germany.
“Riveting and morally complex, Blaze Island is a beautiful, kaleidoscopic work that offers a resounding reply to the question of how literature might wrestle with the deepest threat facing the planet, anthropogenic climate change.”— Kyo Maclear, author of Birds, Art, Life
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Bonus guest! Elizabeth Bush—yes, Catherine’s sister—will be joining the event. Elizabeth Bush has worked at Environment and Climate Change for about twenty years, and her work has focused on the science of climate change for most of that time. Most recently, she was very involved in preparing a major report called Canada’s Changing Climate Report which is available online to the public at changingclimate.ca. It is her hope that the release of that report and the user friendly website for disseminating results will help contribute to the conversation among Canadians about climate change. Elizabeth has also participated with her sister Catherine in many family dinner conversations about the climate crisis and what to do about it.
HEY! We’re giving away TWO FREE COPIES of Blaze Island to the first two people who email us the name the Canadian island that is fictionalized in the book.
NOTE: The signature cocktail for this episode of The Fine Print is the Vodka Kombucha Smash made with the Canadian Iceberg Vodka. For a virgin cocktail, omit the Iceberg.
