board members
Candice louisa daquin
Candice Louisa Daquin is a certified four-license trauma psychotherapist and a well-established literary editor as well as French/Egyptian immigrant to America. She has edited many socially-urgent activist projects including: We Will Not Be Silenced (#metoo); SMITTEN This Is What Love Looks Like (lesbian award-winning poetry); and The Kali Project (Indian women poets). Daquin was Senior Editor with feminist micro-press Indie Blu(e) publishing for 8 years and is now Managing Editor for Lit Fox Books (Austin, TX) & Reviews Editor for Austin Poetry Review. She's also Associate Editor with Life & Legends, Poetry Editor at Writers Resist & Consultant Editor with Raw Earth Ink. Daquin regularly writes for World Literature Today & co-judges The Northwind Writing Award. Her novel 'The Cruelty' (Flowersong Press) was released last year. www.candicelouisadaquin.com
ash goedker
Ash Goedker received her MFA in poetry at the University of Idaho where she was also the Editor-in-Chief at Fugue. She was the winner of the University of Idaho’s Academy of American Poets Prize and a finalist in the 2016 Indiana Review ½ K Prize. Her poems have appeared in The Broadsided Press, Great Lakes Review, Indiana Review, Third Point Press, and others. She teaches poetry and creative writing at Northeastern State University and lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
William justice III
William Justice is a designer and technologist with scrappy beginnings in rural newspaper photojournalism. He unwittingly became a web designer after learning enough code to showcase his photography online. Inspired, he abandoned paid photography to launch Serial Free Press, an early online literary and arts magazine. He went on to help other artistic startups go online, including The Documentary Channel and the Untitled Artist Group in Nashville, Tenn. From there, he expanded into research-led design across multiple industries. More recently, he has found his true calling in service design, focusing on projects that help people navigate and understand the complexities of healthcare, finance, and law.
Nic sims
Nic Sims is a semi-retired strategic marketing professional who lives to help businesses and individuals create meaningful experiences in person and on the page. She spends the rest of her time writing and building a creative community by co-founding the Wilmington Rising & Revising writing group, a cohort of non-fiction writers, and hosting weekly Shut Up & Write events. Nic is developing three books: one, a memoir about what Gen-Xers owe their Silent Generation parents, two, a children's book called "Letters to Heaven" about dealing with the loss of a parent, and three, translating the contents of her workshop, "Storytelling As A Tool of Recovery," into a nonfiction instructional book. Though Nic will forever be from New York, she currently lives in Wilmington, NC, with her husband.