NORTHERN BOOK CLUB: Award-winning author Rod Carley talks to Tony Ryma about his fourth novel, Ruff, and current northern Ontario book tour.Read More »

Rod Carley’s “RUFF” tackles a fictional telling of William Shakespeare tackling issues of equality, gender, justice and censorship. If this sounds like a lot to take in, Nav Nanwa had the pleasure of talking to the author about the whole idea for the book and why it’s a book you need to read. Listen to…Read More »

RUFF is available to order from your favourite independent bookseller, Latitude 46 Publishing, Indigo/Chapters/Coles, and Amazon. Your browser does not support the video tag.Read More »

Article by: GALEN SIMMONS Award-winning author and former Stratford Festival associate director Rod Carley may not be able to launch his new book, RUFF – a fictional tale about William Shakespeare’s efforts to remain relevant in a changing world – in Stratford Upon Avon, but Stratford, Ont., will do just fine. From noon to 4…Read More »

The Stephen Leacock Associates are pleased to announce the 2023 long list for the annual Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. Celebrating 76 years since its inception, this annual award recognizes excellence in Canadian literary humour. Past winners have included Terry Fallis, Will Ferguson, W.O.Mitchell, Stuart McLean and Mordecai Richler and many others. Board President…Read More »

The Stephen Leacock Associates are pleased to announce the 2023 long list for the annual Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. Celebrating 76 years since its inception, this annual award recognizes excellence in Canadian literary humour. Past winners have included Terry Fallis, Will Ferguson, W.O.Mitchell, Stuart McLean and Mordecai Richler. Board President Michael Hill thanks…Read More »

An author and former Stratford Festival director is bringing his latest book, Grin Reaping, to Stratford’s Fanfare Books for a reading and book-signing event later this month. Inspired by the works of famously reclusive author J.D. Salinger and his tales of the fictional Glass family, Rod Carley’s newest book is a collection of short stories…Read More »

The acclaimed writer, now 60, spent his childhood surrounded by books. His mother Belva would take him and his younger brother to the library every week for a new stack of stories and would read to the boys every night before bed. “She instilled in me a great love of reading,” Carley said in a…Read More »

Grin Reaping catalogues the foibles of the fictional Boyle family. In a series of fourteen interconnected short stories and musings, Rudy Boyle, a Northern Ontario college English teacher stuck both in middle age and in the middle of his five siblings, transforms the strangeness of his everyday life into exaggerated home-movie prose. From the significance…Read More »

North Bay author Rod Carley out with new book. Read More »

Here is Grin Reaping 2022 Ontario summer book signing tour schedule:Read More »

Rod Carley, Canadian writer, director, producer, actor, and professor is one of the busiest creative people I know. Rod and I share a few laughs and some happy times catching up with his career to date. Did you know that he can translate for his cat “Hilton?” You’ll find out more as part of our…Read More »

Richard Fortin sits down with novelist, actor, director & professor Rod Carley to talk about the practices he incorporates into his day to channel his creativity. We discuss leadership, the creative process, released and upcoming novels, the joy of teaching, his journey as an artist and the real value of finding your authentic voice. Read More »

When Rod Carley found out his second novel, Kinmount, had made the long list for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, it was “like a shot in the arm. “Like a COVID vaccination,” Carley says. “It is an honour for sure, especially when you look at the other authors” who made the list of 10…Read More »

Rod Carley’s first novel, A Matter of Will, was a finalist for the 2018 Northern Lit Award for Fiction. His short story, “A Farewell to Steam,” was featured in the non-fiction anthology, 150 Years Up North and More, in 2018. His short story, Botox and the Brontosaurus, appears in Volume I of the online magazine…Read More »

I’ve known of Rod Carley’s work for over twenty-five years. In February 1987, I had seen his performance as Algernon in Whitby Courthouse Theatre’s production of ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’. Whitby had also obtained a grant to hire Rod as the director of their Youth Group production ‘The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe’.…Read More »

Some books are letters. Love letters. Rod Carley of North Bay has written a second book…this one a love letter of sorts to the theater arts in Canada. The book is called Kinmount. He spoke with Up North’s Jessica Pope. Listen to the show now!Read More »

First things first: Rod Carley’s latest novel, about a small-town conspiracy to censor Shakespeare, is not based on his three summers staging the Bard’s plays in Brockville. “They are not in any way a part of the story,” the Brockville-raised playwright, director and author jokingly insists, while discussing Kinmount, his second novel. Carley, who was…Read More »

It’s going to take a vaccine to end the COVID-19 pandemic. But it’s the arts that will help see us through it. And it’s the arts – and one particularly rough road to produce Romeo and Juliet – that’s at the centre of Rod Carley’s second novel, Kinmount. “It celebrates the human spirit,” Carley says…Read More »

Fiction We Can’t Wait to Read This Fall By Kerry Clare We give you a list of amazing fall fiction along with the REAL reasons we’re looking forward to these books in order to demonstrate that human-generated lists beat algorithm-generated lists any and every day. And we also liberally employ the royal we…. Read Full…Read More »

Rod Carley’s new book is a hilarious romp through the trials and tribulations of amateur summer theatre in a small rural town. Almost as good as going to a live performance and definitely a great read.Read More »

This is an excerpt of Kinmount by Rod Carley (Latitude 46 Publishing), presented in partnership with moorehype. They pulled into Lola’s driveway at three p.m. She greeted them in a floral one-piece jumpsuit that would’ve given Eartha Kitt pause. “Hey kids!” she gushed, wobbling down her cobblestones. “Come on in. Cocktails are on.” “Lola, we’re…Read More »

Rod’s first novel, A Matter of Will, was a finalist for the 2018 Northern Lit Award for Fiction. His non-fiction short story, ‘A Farewell to Steam’, was featured in the anthology, 150 Years Up North and More. His short story, ‘Botox and the Brontosaurus’, is featured in Cloud Lake Literary’s inaugural online review. Rod is…Read More »

Kinmount is the last place Dave Middleton wants to revisit. But Dave has taken the gig – directing an amateur production of Romeo and Juliet for an eccentric producer in farm country. Your browser does not support the video tag.Read More »

While self isolating Rod reads A Matter of Will from the safety of his home.Read More »

While self isolating Rod reads A Matter of Will from the safety of his home. Dissolve. Chapter 1Read More »

Rod’s new novel, KINMOUNT, is being released in the fall of 2020 by Latitude46 Publishing! KINMOUNT Synopsis Dave Middleton is in for the ride of his life.  Kinmount is the last place he wants to revisit. But Dave has taken the gig – directing an amateur production of Romeo and Juliet for an eccentric producer in farm country. And…Read More »

A Matter of Will is now available to purchase as an audio book, narrated by Rod Carley, at audible.ca. Click here to go to Audible.caRead More »

Rod reads A Matter of Will at LitLive on Sunday June 2, 2019, at the Staircase Theatre in Hamilton.Read More »

Rod will be doing a reading and signing of A Matter of Will at LitLive on Sunday June 2nd, 2019 in Hamilton at 7:30 pm at the Staircase Theatre, 27 Dundurn Street North. Call 905 529 3000 for more information. Rod’s non-fiction short story, A Farewell to Steam, was featured in Latitude 46 Publishing’s latest…Read More »

In the fall of 1996, while between theatre directing gigs, I was employed by a telemarketing call centre in Toronto to sell long distance phone packages to small businesses over the phone. During my eight month tour of duty I was indoctrinated into the high pressure world of telephone sales and the fight for survival…Read More »

Sudbury-based publishing company Latitude 46 will be launching five new books. One of them is by Rod Carley of North Bay. It will be his first novel. The title is “A Matter of Will”. Rod Carley joined us in studio for a chat about the book. Listen to the show now!Read More »

A Matter of Will is released at Latitude 46 Publishing’s fall book launch at Verdicchio Ristorante in Sudbury. Big thanks to Heather Campbell & Laura Stradiotto.Read More »

Rod reads from A Matter of Will at Latitude 46 Publishing’s fall book launch.Read More »

Markus Schwabe interviews Rod for CBC RADIO-SUDBURY’s “Morning North”.Read More »