Campfire Stories returns to the Modern for it’s 11th season! Join us under the ginkgos in the Modern courtyard every second Sunday to experience this intimate storytelling event. Visit themodernbar.com/reserve now to secure a table!
Campfire Stories is produced by Christian Winn, who has invited collaborators Rebecca Evans, Allison Maier, and Tomas Baiza to curate and host Season 11! We are thrilled for the opportunity to work with this amazing team.
Sunday, May 11 – Mother’s Day
Host: Rebecca Evans
Writers: Courtney Harler, Editor of Craft; Robin Bethel; Ed Wolf, sharing/performing memoir-in-progess.
Courtney Harler
Court(ney) Harler (she/her) is a queer writer, editor, and educator based in Northern Kentucky. She holds an MFA from University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe (2017) and an MA from Eastern Washington University (2013). Court is currently editor in chief of CRAFT Literary Magazine and editorial director for Discover New Art, and has read and/or written for UNT Press’s Katherine Anne Porter Prize, The Masters Review, Funicular Magazine, Reflex Fiction, and Chicago Literati in recent years. She also instructs and edits for Project Write Now, and formerly (co)hosted their podcast, PWN’s Debut Review. For her creative work, Court has been honored by fellowships and/or grants from Key West Literary Seminar, Writing By Writers, Community of Writers, Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, and Nevada Arts Council. Court‘s work has been published in multiple genres in literary magazines around the world. Links to her publications and other related awards can be found at https://harlerliterary.llc. Find her on Instagram @CourtneyHarler.
Robin Bethel
Robin Bethel is a writer, editor, book coach, and host of the podcasts Voice Note Me and Sacred Conversations, with Dr. Nicole Dolan and Robin Bethel. She is also a mother, and a lover of life: as poem.
Ed Wolf
Ed Wolf was born in New York, the oldest of 10 children, and is featured in the award-winning documentary “We Were Here,” He’s told stories of growing up as a queer kid in Florida, attending the University of South Florida in the late 60s, life in New York’s Greenwich Village at the beginning of gay liberation, and the early days of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco at the Sundance Film Festival, the Berlinale (Berlin International Film Festival), Molodist (Kiev International Film Festival) and Side-by-Side LGBT Film Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia. He lives in Portland Oregon and is currently working on a memoir. You can read more of Ed’s stories at edwolf.substack.
Thanks to Story Forward and a grant from the Boise City Department of Arts and History, original fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, screenplays and more will be offered from Idaho’s rich literary community.
Stories are central to the Modern Hotel. Our story is planted deep in Idaho, in the rich history of the west, Basque boarding houses, sheep herding, immigration, the American dream and stories told around the campfire by pioneers. We tell the story of how the Modern came to exist each time a guest inquires about the pictures on the walls of our lobby.