It Was a Dark and Stormy Night …

The ghouls are back in town! After darkness falls, accomplished local authors emerge in BARN's Great Room to read their chilling stories as you treat yourself to yummy treats, wine, and dark 'n' stormy cocktails. You can even come in costume — if you dare.

Authors

In addition to the winner of our Dark and Stormy Night Short-Story Contest, we're excited to have these brilliant authors:

Carol Cassella

Carol is an anesthesiologist and the national bestselling author of the novels, "Gemini," "Healer," and "Oxygen." All were Indie Next Picks and have been published in multiple languages. Her books have been finalists for the Washington State Book Award and highlighted as top choices by Library Journal, BookList, Harpers Bazaar, People Magazine, Poets & Writers, Women’s Day, and USA Today, among others. She lives on Bainbridge Island.  

Christine Day

Christine is the award-winning author of "I Can Make This Promise," "The Sea in Winter," "She Persisted: Maria Tallchief," and "We Still Belong." Her shorter works also have appeared in the anthologies Ancestor Approved, Faeries Never Lie, and Our Stories, Our Voices. She is a citizen of the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe. She lives with her family in the rainy and resplendent Pacific Northwest.

Rachel Noll James

Rachel is an award-winning screenwriter, producer and director as well as a classically trained actor with a background in both theater and film. Notable credits include feature films "Ingress," "The Storyteller," "Malibu Road," and "Don't Pass Me By," and short films "Paramnesia" and "Half Light." She received the Silver Prize in the Page Screenwriting Awards for "The Storyteller" and Best Feature Writer at LA Femme Festival for "Don't Pass Me By." She received nine nominations for "Ingress" during its 2023 festival run.

Jennifer Longo

Jennifer is a novelist with Penguin Random House Books. Her novels "Six Feet Over It" and "Up To This Pointe" received starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and The Bulletin, and were finalists for the Washington State Book Award. Her third novel, "What I Carry," won the 2020 Washington State Book Award (Young Adult Literature) and the 2021 Iowa State Book Award (Young Adult Literature). Jennifer lives on Bainbridge Island with her family and a cat and a whole bunch of dogs.

Luciano Marano

Luciano is an award-winning writer, journalist, and photographer, author of the werewolf novella trilogy "The Ambush Moon Cycle" and numerous works of short fiction, which have appeared in anthologies such as Year’s Best Hardcore Horror and The Best New Weird Horror, as well as Nightscript, Pseudopod and Chilling Tales for Dark Nights. A former staff reporter at both the Bainbridge Review and Port Townsend Leader, he was twice named a Feature Writer of the Year by the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association.  A U.S. Navy veteran originally from Pennsylvania, he now lives on Bainbridge Island.  

Rafe Posey

Rafe is the author of the novel "The Stars We Share," as well as numerous works of short fiction, which have appeared in journals such as Poydras Review, Empty Sink, Urbanite, and The Light Ekphrastic. He worked as the fiction editor for Cobalt Review for several years, and as a guest editor for a [PANK] special issue. After teaching English, writing, and humanities at the University of Baltimore and, most recently, in a maximum-security prison in Maryland, Rafe now works as a bookseller on Bainbridge Island.

 Warren Read

Warren is the award-winning author of the novels "One Simple Thing" and "Ash Falls," as well as the memoir "The Lyncher in Me." His short fiction has been published in Hot Metal Bridge, Mud Season Review, Sliver of Stone, Inklette, Switchback, and The Drowning Gull. In 2015 he received his Master of Fine Arts from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. In 2022, he retired after 31 years as an elementary teacher and high school associate principal.

 

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