Rod Carley - Award Winning Author (RUFF)

Rod Carley

Biography*

Rod Carley is the award-winning author of RUFF (2024 national bestseller), GRIN REAPING (2022), KINMOUNT (2020), and A Matter of Will (2017). He’s been long listed for the Leacock Medal for Humour three times and has twice received the Silver Medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards in addition to the Bronze Medal for Humour from Foreword Review INDIES. He was a Finalist for 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Award for Humor, the 2021 Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Prize, the 2023 ReLit Award for Best Short Fiction, and the Northern Lit Award for Fiction. His short stories and creative non-fiction have appeared in numerous Canadian literary magazines. In the spring of 2025, he was Writer in Residence for the Toronto Reference Library. He is a co-founder and curator for the St. Lawrence Writers Festival in Brockville, ON. Rod is a proud alumnus of the Humber School for Writers.

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“This ain’t your mother’s Shakespeare! It’s punk rock. It’s spicy. It’s urgent. It’s hilarious. And maybe most of all, it’s a historical fiction that’s very much for the right now.”

– Morgan Murray
Author of Dirty Birds, Finalist for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour

“Rod Carley has written a captivating and bewitching novel set in England, more than 400 years ago, yet it runs rife with contemporary relevance and resonance. Sophisticated, funny, insightful, timeless yet timely, my list of plaudits grew as the pages turned. Beautifully written, with characters that lingered in my head and heart long after the curtain fell, this is a story to be savoured. Bravo!”

– Terry Fallis
Two-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour.