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Awards and Honours

  • Finalist for the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Award, 1981.
  • First place in short fiction and the novel: Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia Literary Competition.
  • Pierian Spring Editor's Award for poetry.
  • The Order of St. John Award of Merit.
  • Short-listed for The Stephen Leacock Medal, 1987.
  • Two-time winner of the Dartmouth Book Award: 1990 for The Second Season of Jonas MacPherson and 1995 for The Republic of Nothing. Short-listed 1991, 1992, 1993.
  • Event magazine's Creative Nonfiction Competition: winner 1990.
  • Winner of the Ann Connor Brimer Book Award for Children's Literature, 1994, for Good Idea Gone Bad. Shortlisted 1992 and 1993.
  • Manitoba's Young Reader's Choice Award: finalist 1994.
  • Authors Award, Foundation for the Advancement of Canadian Letters: co-winner 1995.
  • Canadian Surfing Championships: first place 1995.

Lesley Choyce's works copyright © to the author.


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