GARE JOYCE

I've worked more than 30 years for dozens of publications and media outlets in Canada, the U.S. and Europe. I was a columnist and feature writer at the Globe and Mail, a senior writer at ESPN The Magazine and feature editor at Sportsnet Magazine. I have also written for the New York Times, the Athletic, Men’s Health, Reader’s Digest, the Christian Science Monitor, Toronto Life, Report on Business Magazine, Canadian Business, Maclean's, Canada’s History, Canadian Geographic and the Irish Independent. Selections from several of these can be viewed in this portfolio.

Nine of my features were selected for the Best American Sports Writing, the annual anthology published by Houghton Mifflin and Triumph. Four long-form pieces won Canadian National Magazine Awards and received nominations another 20 times in categories ranging from sports to politics, science to the arts.  

I've written 14 books and ghost-written several others. My first novel The Code was adapted for the TV series Private Eyes starring Jason Priestley. The series ran for six seasons (2016 to 2021), airing on the Ion network in the US and in 120 nations around the globe. The Code was the first book in a trilogy of mysteries, followed by The Black Ace and The Third Man In. 

I wrote and narrated an audiobook memoir, How to Succeed in Sportswriting (without Really Trying) that’s available through on Amazon as an Audible Original. A updated print version will be published by ECW Press in 2026.

My sports-fantasy novel, Every Spring a Parade down Bay Street is also an Audible Original. 

The National Post published this profile upon the release of The Code (linked here).