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  • Top 10 Finalist for the 2023 Leacock Medal for Humour

    Top 10 Finalist for the 2023 Leacock Medal for Humour

    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 »
  • Finalist for the 2023 Next Generation Indie Book  Award for Humor

    Finalist for the 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Award for Humor

    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 »
  • Finalist for the Foreword Reviews 2022 INDIES Book of the Year Award for Humour

    Finalist for the Foreword Reviews 2022 INDIES Book of the Year Award for Humour

  • Author and former Stratford Festival director to host book signing and reading

    Author and former Stratford Festival director to host book signing and reading

    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 »
  • Acclaimed author has local roots

    Acclaimed author has local roots

    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 »
  • Camels with Botox, Lizard Overlords, & Salinger as Inspiration

    Camels with Botox, Lizard Overlords, & Salinger as Inspiration

    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 »
  • CTV News Interview

    CTV News Interview

    North Bay author Rod Carley out with new book. Read More »
  • 2022 Ontario Summer Book Signing Tour

    2022 Ontario Summer Book Signing Tour

    Here is Grin Reaping 2022 Ontario summer book signing tour schedule:Read More »
  • Rod Carley, his life and times & Grin Reaping

    Rod Carley, his life and times & Grin Reaping

    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 »
  • Watch, Rod’s  interview with Richard Fortin Presents

    Watch, Rod’s interview with Richard Fortin Presents

    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 »
  • Leacock nomination ‘a shot in the arm’ for novelist

    Leacock nomination ‘a shot in the arm’ for novelist

    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 »
  • 12 or 20 (second series) questions with Rod Carley

    12 or 20 (second series) questions with Rod Carley

    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 »
  • A New Year: Theatre Conversation in a Covid World with Rod Carley

    A New Year: Theatre Conversation in a Covid World with Rod Carley

    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 »
  • CBC Listen – Up North

    CBC Listen – Up North

    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 »
  • Rod Carley’s humorous and timely fight for the arts

    Rod Carley’s humorous and timely fight for the arts

    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 »
  • Author combines tragedy, distance for comedy

    Author combines tragedy, distance for comedy

    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 »
  • KINMOUNT added to Top 23 Books to Read This Fall

    KINMOUNT added to Top 23 Books to Read This Fall

    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 in conversation with Mike Jaycock

    Rod Carley in conversation with Mike Jaycock

    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 »
  • Excerpt from Kinmount

    Excerpt from Kinmount

    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 »
  • The Rod Carley Interview

    The Rod Carley Interview

    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 »
  • Rod Reads KINMOUNT

    Rod Reads KINMOUNT

    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 »
  • A Matter of Will Live Reading – Chapter 2

    A Matter of Will Live Reading – Chapter 2

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

    A Matter of Will Live Reading – Chapter 1

    While self isolating Rod reads A Matter of Will from the safety of his home. Dissolve. Chapter 1Read More »
  • Exciting News For 2020

    Exciting News For 2020

    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 available on audible.com

    A Matter of Will available on audible.com

    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 at LitLive

    Rod at LitLive

    Rod reads A Matter of Will at LitLive on Sunday June 2, 2019, at the Staircase Theatre in Hamilton.Read More »
  • A Matter of Will short-listed for the 2018 Northern Lit Award for Fiction

    A Matter of Will short-listed for the 2018 Northern Lit Award for Fiction

    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 »
  • Telemarketing: The Bottom Rung

    Telemarketing: The Bottom Rung

    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 »
  • Listen to this, from the CBC Radio show Morning North

    Listen to this, from the CBC Radio show Morning North

    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 ARRIVES!

    A MATTER OF WILL ARRIVES!

    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 CARLEY ENTERTAINS THE ROOM

    ROD CARLEY ENTERTAINS THE ROOM

    Rod reads from A Matter of Will at Latitude 46 Publishing’s fall book launch.Read More »
  • CBC RADIO GETS A TASTE OF A MATTER OF WILL

    CBC RADIO GETS A TASTE OF A MATTER OF WILL

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