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 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 won separate distinctions in screenwriting, stage plays, poetry, and life writing. Candice's passion for journalism led her to study news reporting and writing at Harvard University under Washington Post editor and Pulitzer Prize recipient Matthew Hay Brown. Candice's wrote on hospice and medical trauma, US Olympic and Paralympic Training events in Oklahoma City, and historical events in her hometown of Ozark, Missouri. She is currently writing a biography for a loved relative who recently passed away. 

 

Candice may be found traveling to document others' stories, training for her next half-marathon, or simply at the pool with friends. Readers can stay up to date by following her on Instagram, as there is always a book in the wings: @author_candicegibbons.