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Lesley Choyce

No one has a clearer view of Atlantic Canada's literary endeavours over the past twenty years than Lesley Choyce. He is the founder of the literary journal Pottersfield Portfolio, and the publisher of Pottersfield Press. He has edited several fiction anthologies and has been the in-house editor of many books from Pottersfield Press including Making Waves, a collection of stories by emerging authors from Atlantic Canada. He is the author of more than fifty books in genres ranging from poetry and essays to autobiography, history and fiction for adults, young adults, and children. Among his recent books are the novels The Republic of Nothing, World Enough, and Cold Clear Morning, and the story collection Dance the Rocks Ashore. Choyce is the writer, host, and co-producer of the popular literary show television program, Off the Page with Lesley Choyce, which is broadcast across the country on Vision TV. He also teaches in the English department of Dalhousie University in Halifax and is leader of the rock band The Surf Poets.

Books by Lesley Choyce

The Second Season of Jonas MacPherson

by (author) Lesley Choyce

The Second Season of Jonas MacPherson (3rd ed)

by (author) Lesley Choyce

The Untimely Resurrection of John Alexander MacNeil

by (author) Lesley Choyce

State of the Ark

Canadian Futurefiction

edited by Lesley Choyce

State of the Ark

Canadian Futurefiction

edited by Lesley Choyce

High Water Mark

Stories from Atlantic Canada 1983-2023

edited by Lesley Choyce

High Water Mark

Stories of Atlantic Canada 1983-2023

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Around England with a Dog

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Closing Down Heaven

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Face the Music

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Down Home for Christmas - Holiday Stories from Atlantic Canada

by (author) Julia Swan & Lesley Choyce

Peggy's Cove

The Amazing History of a Coastal Village, Second Edition

by (author) Lesley Choyce

The Trouble With Everything

by (author) Lesley Choyce

The Rules Have Changed

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Peggy's Cove

The Amazing History of a Coastal Village

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Nova Scotia: Shaped by the Sea

A Living History

by (author) Lesley Choyce

In Praise of Small Mistakes

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Nova Scotia: Shaped by the Sea

Newly revised Fourth Edition

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Saltwater Chronicles

Notes on Everything Under the Nova Scotia Sun

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Sid the Kid and the Dryer

A Story About Sidney Crosby

by (author) Lesley Choyce
illustrated by Brenda Jones

The Ledge

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Broken Man on a Halifax Pier

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Skunks for Breakfast

by (author) Lesley Choyce
illustrated by Brenda Jones

The Thing You're Good At

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Kryptonite

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Climbing Knocknarea

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Plank's Law

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Thin Places

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Cold Clear Morning

by (author) Lesley Choyce

The Mi’kmaq Anthology

edited by Lesley Choyce & Rita Joe

Peggy's Cove: The Amazing History of a Coastal Village

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Nova Scotia Shaped by the Sea: A Living History

by (author) Lesley Choyce

The Nova Scotia Book of Fathers

edited by Lesley Choyce & Julia Swan

The Unlikely Redemption of John Alexander MacNeil

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Identify

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Identify

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Scam

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Nova Scotia Love Stories

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Off the Grid

Orca Soundings

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Off the Grid

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Into the Wasteland

by (author) Lesley Choyce

All Alone at the End of the World

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Day Trips from Halifax

foreword by Lesley Choyce
by (author) Jon Tattrie

Jeremy Stone

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Crash

by (author) Lesley Choyce

The Book of Michael

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Last Chance

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Hell's Hotel

by (author) Lesley Choyce

I'm Alive. I Believe in Everything

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Reacción

(Reaction)

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Rat

Orca Soundings

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Rat

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Accro d'la planche

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Accro d'la planche

(Skate Freak)

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Accro d’la planche

(Skate Freak)

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Breaking Point

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Breaking Point

Orca Soundings

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Breaking Point

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Gone Bad

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Dumb Luck

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Cold Clear Morning (revised edition)

New Revised Edition

by (author) Lesley Choyce

The Mi'kmaq Anthology Volume 2

In Celebration of the Life of Rita Joe

by (author) Lesley Choyce & Theresa Meuse

How to Fix your Head

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Gone Bad

by (author) Lesley Choyce

The Republic of Nothing

by (author) Lesley Choyce
afterword by Neil Peart

Random

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Raising Orion

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Dancing on the Shore

by (author) Lesley Choyce & Harold Horwood
foreword by Farley Mowat

Reckless

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Reaction

Orca Soundings

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Reckless

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Reaction

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Living Outside the Lines

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Los Pandemónium

(Thunderbowl)

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Seven Ravens

Two summers in a life by the sea

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Nova Scotia Visions of the Future

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Running the Risk

Orca Soundings

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Running the Risk

by (author) Lesley Choyce

The Discipline of Ice

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Skate Freak

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Book of Michael

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Nova Scotia Shaped by the Sea

by (author) Lesley Choyce

The End of the World As We Know It

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Wave Warrior

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Wave Warrior

Orca Soundings

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Wave Warrior

by (author) Lesley Choyce

The Republic of Nothing

Reader's Guide Edition

by (author) Lesley Choyce
afterword by Neil Peart

Driving Minnie's Piano

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Deconstructing Dylan

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Nova Scotia: A Traveller's Companion

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Sudden Impact

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Smoke and Mirrors

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Pottersfield Nation

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Thunderbowl

Orca Soundings

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Thunderbowl

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Revenge of the Optimist

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Typographical Eras

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Carrie Loses Her Nerve

by (author) Lesley Choyce
illustrated by Mark Thurman

Sea of Tranquility

A Novel

by (author) Lesley Choyce

The Coasts of Canada

A History

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Shoulder the Sky

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Refuge Cove

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Atlantica

Stories from the Maritimes and Newfoundland

by (author) Lesley Choyce, Alistair MacLeod, Joan Clark, Wayne Johnston, Carol Bruneau, Maureen Hull, David Helwig, Herb Curtis, Anne Simpson, Lynn Coady, Donna Morrissey, J.J. Steinfeld, Budge Wilson, John Steffler, Helen Fogwill Porter, Wayne Curtis, Bernice Morgan, David Adams Richards, Joan Baxter & Sheldon Currie

Carrie's Camping Adventure

by (author) Lesley Choyce
illustrated by Mark Thurman

Far Enough Island

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Caution to the Wind

by (author) Lesley Choyce

The Summer of Apartment X

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Roid Rage

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Carrie's Crowd

by (author) Lesley Choyce
illustrated by Mark Thurman

World Enough

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Beautiful Sadness

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Famous at Last

by (author) Lesley Choyce
illustrated by Jill Quinn

Good Idea Gone Bad

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Dance the Rocks Ashore

by (author) Lesley Choyce

The Mi'kmaq Anthology

by (author) Lesley Choyce
edited by Rita Joe

Go For It, Carrie

by (author) Lesley Choyce
illustrated by Mark Thurman

Falling through the Cracks

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Wrong Time, Wrong Place

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Wrong Time, Wrong Place

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Clearcut Danger

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Big Burn

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Wave Watch

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Dark End of Dream Street

by (author) Lesley Choyce

The Second Season of Jonas McPherson

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Skateboard Shakedown

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Skateboard Shakedown

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Ecstasy Conspiracy, The

by (author) Lesley Choyce

An Avalanche of Ocean

The Life and Times of a Nova Scotia Immigrant

by (author) Lesley Choyce

The End of Ice

by (author) Lesley Choyce

Fast Living

by (author) Lesley Choyce