11 March 2008
Tim Bowling Shortlisted for City of Edmonton Prize

Gaspereau Press is pleased to announce that Tim Bowling’s novel The Bone Sharps (2007) has been shortlisted for the City of Edmonton Book Prize, one of nine arts awards presented by the City. Fellow nominees for this prize are Bert Almon for A Ghost in Waterloo Station (Brindle & Glass) and Meiko Ouchi for Two Plays (Playwrights Canada Press).

The City of Edmonton Book Prize was established by the Edmonton City Council in 1995 and is awarded to titles addressing some aspect of the city or written by an Edmonton author. The prize is co-sponsored by Audreys Books. The winners of all nine awards, along with the winners of the Alberta Literary Awards, will be announced at the Mayor’s Evening for the Arts to be held Monday 7 April at the Francis Winspear Centre in Edmonton. For tickets to this event or for more information about the awards, please visit www.writersguild.ab.ca

BACKGROUND
Gaspereau Press is a literary publisher and printer based in Kentville, Nova Scotia. The press is committed to literature and the book arts, incorporating a range of modern and antique forms of printing and binding to create books that are distinctive in manufacture and design. Its publications have won numerous awards, including the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Evelyn Richardson Prize, the Atlantic Poetry Prize, the Alberta Book Award, and numerous Alcuin Awards for excellence in book design.

The Bone Sharps is a fictionalized account of the life and work of Charles Sternberg (1850–1943), student of the renowned American proto-paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope. Contrasting the astonishing discoveries made in the bone fields of the Alberta badlands and the American plains with the chaos and destruction of the First World War, The Bone Sharps evokes the pivotal transition from the nineteenth-century world of order and faith to the uncertainties of the modern era. With sun-drenched flats, violent skirmishes and the lantern light of tents, Bowling brings readers into the realm of early paleontology through the life of one of its most prolific forerunners.

For more information contact
Beth Crosby at Gaspereau Press
47 Church Avenue, Kentville, NS, B4N 2M7
902-678-6002, info@gaspereau.com