After serving as Purdue University’s
fiction editor,
James Tadd Adcox
, with editor-in-chief,
Rebekah Silverman
, formed Chicago’s
. With the first print edition of Artifice not slated for publication until Feb. 2010, the team has relied on their Web site, word-of-mouth and their online “
” to garner submissions and grass-roots support within the Chicago literary community. Adcox, a Raleigh, N.C. native, relocated to Chicago in 2007. His writing has appeared in
and
, and is forthcoming in
,
, and
. Silverman, a 2008
award nominee, has written for
,
and
.
author of “Why I Fight,” which won both winner of the
regional competition and an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Award, is a curator and editor for the Serendipity Theatre Collective’s
storytelling series. His writing has appeared in
,
,
,
and others, and Oaks was selected for
’s “Stories On Stage” program.