A poster for the March 2026 Bocas Book Bulletin titled “Greetings from The Barracuda Hotel”, featuring a resort building, a shark in the water, and a skeletal fence.

Greetings from the Barracuda Hotel

Author: Ronaldo Katwaroo
Genre: Fiction

Synopsis

Greetings from the Barracuda Hotel (Self-Published) by Ronaldo Katwaroo presents short stories steeped in the horrific and macabre, with the fictitious Barracuda Hotel functioning as an architectural and psychological centrepiece to the characters’ baleful journeys. Katwaroo, shortlisted at 19 years old for the 2022 NGC Bocas Youth Writer Award, brings menace and mystery to the page, reaching into the roots of local and Caribbean folklore, then imbuing them with his contemporaneous take on the unsettling.