Author Tim Bowling in running for fiction prize
Shortlist for 2025 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize is released
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Edmonton-based novelist and poet Tim Bowling is among the five writers who’ve made the shortlist for the 2025 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Bowling, previously a two-time Governor General’s Award finalist, is in the running for his first collection of short stories, Graveyard Shift at the Lemonade Stand.
Two of the authors up for the prize are from Toronto: Robert McGill made the cut for Simple Creatures, and Aurora Stewart de Peña will compete with her book Julius Julius. The others are Otoniya J. Okot Bitek of Kingston, Ont. (for We, the Kindling) and Maria Reva of New Westminster, B.C. (for Endling).
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A jury selected this year’s finalists from among 120 Canadian works. The winner will be named at the Writers’ Trust Awards ceremony, which takes place Nov. 13 in Toronto. First prize is $70,000 (up from $60,000 last year). The other finalists receive $7,500 each (up from $5,000).
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