Tim Bowling

Jury Citation

“Graveyard Shift at the Lemonade Stand is masterful: a deeply felt collection from Tim Bowling that explores ageing, grief, and the experiences that transform and inform us. With startling imagery, evocative language and a gothic touch, these stories shift and unsettle as if they — like their characters — are living, breathing beings searching for understanding and a way to be. A robust and searing work of short fiction by a writer at the top of his game.”—2025 Atwood Gibson Prize Jury (Gary Barwin, Ali Bryan, and Jasmine Sealy) 

Jury Citation

“Lyrical in both its beauty and its horror, The Tinsmith reveals a writer at the height of his powers. From the battlefields of the American Civil War to the salmon canning wars in British Columbia, Bowling creates vivid worlds that move us. In John Dare — the heir to both of these conflicts — we meet a character of great moral complexity, a man trying to come to grips with the mystery at the heart of his identity. Bowling’s vision is grand, fierce, and bloody.” — 2012 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize Jury (Lynn Coady, Esi Edugyan, and Drew Hayden Taylor)