Tim Bowling

Tim Bowling (born 1964 in Vancouver, British Columbia ^[1] ) is a Guggenheim winning Canadian novelist and poet. He spent his youth in Ladner, British Columbia, and now lives in Edmonton, Alberta. ^[2] He has published four novels. He was a judge for the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize. ^[3]

Awards and recognition

• 2002: Canadian Authors Association, winner of poetry award, Darkness and Silence ^[4]
• 2003: Finalist for Governor General's Award for poetry, The Witness Ghost
• 2004: Finalist for Governor General's Award for poetry, The Memory Orchard
• 2004: Alberta Literary Awards, winner of the Georges Bugnet Award for Novel, The Paperboy's Winter ^[5]
• 2008: Guggenheim Fellowship ^[2]
• 2012: Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, finalist for The Tinsmith.
• 2025: Walcott Prize, finalist for In the Capital City of Autumn ^[6]
• 2025: Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, finalist for Graveyard Shift at the Lemonade Stand ^[7]

Bibliography

• 1995: Low Water Slack (Nightwood Editions) ISBN   0-88971-161-5
• 1997: Dying Scarlet (Nightwood Editions) ISBN   0-88971-164-X
• 2000: Downriver Drift (Harbour Publishing) ISBN   1-55017-220-4
• 2001: Darkness and Silence (Nightwood Editions) ISBN   0-88971-175-5
• 2002: Where the words come from: Canadian poets in conversation, as editor (Nightwood Editions) ISBN   0-88971-184-4
• 2003: The Witness Ghost (Nightwood Editions) ISBN   0-88971-191-7
• 2003: The Paperboy's Winter (Penguin) ISBN   0-14-301228-2
• 2004: The Memory Orchard (Brick Books) ISBN   1-894078-34-9
• 2004: In The Suicide's Library (Gaspereau Press) ISBN   1-55447-089-7
• 2006: Fathom (Gaspereau Press) paperback: ISBN   1-55447-016-1, hardcover: ISBN   1-55447-017-X
• 2007: The Bone Sharps (Gaspereau Press) ISBN   1-55447-035-8
• 2007: The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture (Nightwood Editions) ISBN   0-88971-211-5
• 2008: The Book Collector (Nightwood Editions) ISBN   978-0-88971-235-5
• 2010: The Annotated Bee and Me (Gaspereau Press) ISBN   1-55447-086-2
• 2010: Between Rainfalls (Barbarian Press) ISBN   978-0-920971-39-0
• 2011: Tenderman (Nightwood) ISBN   978-0-88971-259-1
• 2012: The Tinsmith (Brindle & Glass) ISBN   978-1-926972-43-5 ^[2]
• 2014: Circa Nineteen Hundred and Grief (Gaspereau Press) ISBN   978-1-55447-134-8
• 2024: In the Capital of Autumn (Wolsak & Wynne) ISBN   978-1-989496-86-2
• 2025: Graveyard Shift at the Lemonade Stand (Freehand Books) ISBN   978-1-990601-86-6

References

1. Birthplace and year mentioned in Penguin interview with Tim Bowling regarding The Paperboy's Winter
2. Medley, Mark (7 November 2012). "A river runs through Tim Bowling's The Tinsmith". National Post. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
3. "Judges". Griffin Poetry Prize. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
4. Canadian Authors Association: Poetry award winners list
5. Writers' Guild of Alberta: 2004 Alberta Book Awards winners Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine (PDF document)
7. https://www.cbc.ca/books/5-canadian-writers-shortlisted-for-70k-atwood-gibson-writers-trust-fiction-prize-1.7634169

External links

• Nightwood Editions: Tim Bowling
• Writers Union of Canada: Tim Bowling
• Records of Nightwood Editions are held by Simon Fraser University's Special Collections and Rare Books