Meet Candice

Candice wrote her first book as a senior in high school. A Time to Trust and A Time to Stand (Trilogy, 2022) introduce the Times series, a collection of personal memoirs written for teenage girls. Her latest release, A Time to Learn, follows her journey studying writing in Oxford, England. Since the age of fourteen, Candice has compiled an estimate of over half a million journaled words.

 

Candice holds four Oklahoma Award of Merits in First Person Essay (2019, 2021), Short Film (2021), and Book Chapter (2021). In 2018, she placed Top 5 in the nation for First Person Essay, and Top 3 in the nation for First Person Essay (2019) and Book Chapter (2021) at the National Fine Arts Festival. She was also awarded the Bernhardt Scholarship in 2023 at WriterCon where she placed First Runner-Up in modern verse poetry. Candice graduated from Oxford University with a Distinction in her Undergraduate Diploma in Creative Writing. She is currently studying journalism at Harvard and enjoys speaking on the power and practice of journaling. ​

 

When not journaling, Candice may be running, traveling to document others’ stories, or simply at the pool with friends. Readers of all ages can stay up to date by following her on Instagram, as there is always a book in the wings: @author_candicegibbons. You can also subscribe to her email list for the inside scoop.