Tim Bowling (born 1964 in Vancouver, British ColumbiaBirthplace and year mentioned in Penguin interview with Tim Bowling regarding The Paperboy's Winter) is a Guggenheim winning Canadian novelist and poet. He spent his youth in Ladner, British Columbia, and now lives in Edmonton, Alberta. He has published four novels. He was a judge for the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize.
Awards and recognition 2002: Canadian Authors Association, winner of poetry award, Darkness and Silence Canadian Authors Association: Poetry award winners list 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 Writers' Guild of Alberta: 2004 Alberta Book Awards winners (PDF document) 2008: Guggenheim Fellowship 2012: Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, finalist for The Tinsmith. 2025: Walcott Prize, finalist for In the Capital City of Autumn 2025: Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, finalist for Graveyard Shift at the Lemonade Stand
Bibliography 1995: Low Water Slack (Nightwood Editions) 1997: Dying Scarlet (Nightwood Editions) 2000: Downriver Drift (Harbour Publishing) 2001: Darkness and Silence (Nightwood Editions) 2002: Where the words come from: Canadian poets in conversation, as editor (Nightwood Editions) 2003: The Witness Ghost (Nightwood Editions) 2003: The Paperboy's Winter (Penguin) 2004: The Memory Orchard (Brick Books) 2004: In The Suicide's Library (Gaspereau Press) 2006: Fathom (Gaspereau Press) paperback: , hardcover: 2007: The Bone Sharps (Gaspereau Press) 2007: The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture (Nightwood Editions) 2008: The Book Collector (Nightwood Editions) 2010: The Annotated Bee and Me (Gaspereau Press) 2010: Between Rainfalls (Barbarian Press) 2011: Tenderman (Nightwood) 2012: The Tinsmith (Brindle & Glass) 2014: Circa Nineteen Hundred and Grief (Gaspereau Press) 2022: The Call of the Red-winged Blackbird (Wolsak and Wynn) 2024: In the Capital of Autumn (Wolsak & Wynne) 2025: Graveyard Shift at the Lemonade Stand (Freehand Books)
References
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