Campfire Stories returns to the Modern for it’s 12th season! Join us under the ginkgos in the Modern courtyard every 2nd Sunday – May to October – to experience this intimate storytelling event. Reservations are available for seating 6:15 – 7pm. Visit themodernbar.com/reserve now to secure a table! Walk-ins welcome.
Campfire Stories is produced by Christian Winn, Rebecca Evans and Tomas Baiza. As usual, we are thrilled for the opportunity to work with this amazing team!
Sunday, July 12
Doors @ 6pm
Show 7 – 9
Host: Tomás Baiza
Artists: Joel Wayne, Jodeen Revere, Tomás Baiza, and TBA!
Theme: Independence / Freedom
Joel Wayne
Joel Wayne is the public programs manager for The Cabin, a literary arts nonprofit. He produces the programs Something I Heard, You Know The Place, and Reader’s Corner for NPR. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Chattahoochee Review, The Independent (UK), The Moth, and Salon, among many other places. He’s the recipient of fellowships in media arts and literature by Arts Idaho, a Silver Creek Writer’s Residency, the Lamar York Prize, and a Pushcart nod.
Jodeen Revere
Jodeen is primarily an actor and who writes. She writes things for her to perform. She has been a repeat performer at Ming Studios 7’O’clock series as well as their My On Mondays audio offerings. Her solo show, The Persistent Guest, had its first exposure at Ming Studios, before it went on to be a fully produced show at Boise Contemporary Theater. She received a $10,000 Light of Day Award from the Alexa Rose Foundation which enabled her to tour a stripped down version of her show to Seattle, New York, San Francisco and Chicago. She has been a contributor to Story Story Night, Campfire Stories, Storyfort and the CCC Fund during the Covid time. Remember that? Her writing is creative non fiction which centers around, well, herself. By the time you read this, she will have started dropping random posts on Substack. She has been working with Nick Jaina from Modern Mythographer for the last two years writing memoir.Keep your eyes on the distant horizon for a collection of darkly funny fever-dreamish, memoirish tales. She and Tracy Sunderland will be performing and further developing a Solo Duet Live Action Memoir Show called & – The Bothness of Things during Artfort.
Tomás Baiza
Tomás Baiza is originally from San José, California, but now finds himself in Boise, Idaho. He is the award-winning author of Delivery: A Pocho’s Accidental Guide to College, Love, and Pizza Delivery (Running Wild Press, 2023), A Purpose to Our Savagery (RIZE Press, 2023), and Mexican Teeth: Stories and Assorted Artifacts of an Errant Chicanidad (Inlandia Books, 2026). Tomás’s work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best American Short Stories, and the O. Henry Prize, and both Delivery and Mexican Teeth have been accepted into the holdings of the Library of Congress Center for the Book. Sherman Alexie has called Tomás’s writing “painful, scary, hilarious, incredibly vulnerable, and powerful in equal measure.” Tomás has been stalked by wild dogs while hitchhiking in Mexico, was once escorted by security out of the Pebble Beach & Tennis Club, and had the privilege of delivering a dozen pizzas to a Klingon-themed orgy at a sci-fi convention.