Phoebe Wilby lives in the UK with her husband, Ewen, two of her five children, and their two Jack Russell dogs. She has been writing since childhood, including horror stories, humour, and poetry, usually about life as she saw it then. While studying for her Bachelor of Journalism at Queensland University of Technology, Phoebe won the Literary Achievement Award for Excellence in Fiction from the Golden Key International Honour Society, of which she is a lifetime member.
Phoebe fits in her writing while co-running her own admin business, arranging music for children’s songs written by a friend, voluntary work for her Church and of course, family commitments. She loves to travel, and recently returned from a magical trip to Ireland.
Phoebe is working on several writing projects in various stages of completion. All demand to be written and so she divides her time between them. In the past three years she has managed to publish three books, and looks forward to finishing the rest.
When a story wants to be told, there is really no holding back!
Read more about Phoebe on her website: www.phoebewilbyauthor.com
Phoebe fits in her writing while co-running her own admin business, arranging music for children’s songs written by a friend, voluntary work for her Church and of course, family commitments. She loves to travel, and recently returned from a magical trip to Ireland.
Phoebe is working on several writing projects in various stages of completion. All demand to be written and so she divides her time between them. In the past three years she has managed to publish three books, and looks forward to finishing the rest.
When a story wants to be told, there is really no holding back!
Read more about Phoebe on her website: www.phoebewilbyauthor.com
Phoebe's Books - click on the images to go to Amazon.com
Point of View - It's all relative really (published August 2015)
This collection of short stories, poetry and essays by award winning author, Phoebe Wilby highlights the truth in the statement that “everyone has a story to tell”.
Phoebe lays a fresh perspective on the ordinary, and not so ordinary, events of everyday life in her 13 stories, seven poems and three essays.
Her writing style emphasises the point that even the mundane can become interesting depending on the points of view of the reader and the story teller. It’s all relative, really.
The collection is named for “Point of View”, her winning entry of the 2002 Golden Key International Honour Society Literary Achievement Award for Excellence in Fiction.
“Point of View” is a fictionalised account of the effect of the September 11 tragedy in 2001 on the lives of three survivors and clearly demonstrates the theme of this collection.
This collection of short stories, poetry and essays by award winning author, Phoebe Wilby highlights the truth in the statement that “everyone has a story to tell”.
Phoebe lays a fresh perspective on the ordinary, and not so ordinary, events of everyday life in her 13 stories, seven poems and three essays.
Her writing style emphasises the point that even the mundane can become interesting depending on the points of view of the reader and the story teller. It’s all relative, really.
The collection is named for “Point of View”, her winning entry of the 2002 Golden Key International Honour Society Literary Achievement Award for Excellence in Fiction.
“Point of View” is a fictionalised account of the effect of the September 11 tragedy in 2001 on the lives of three survivors and clearly demonstrates the theme of this collection.
Time is of the Essence (published October 2017)
Time marches on. Use it wisely...
These stories all have ‘time’ as their theme. Some deal with a specific point in time while others explore time in other ways. For example, A Moment In Time is a mystery with overtones of ages past, A Modern Fairy Tale tells a light-hearted story of how two people might meet, and Bonnie and Claude explores how relationships might develop over time.
Included in this collection are stories resulting from interviews Phoebe conducted with three ex World War 1 soldiers, two of whom were imprisoned during the war, one in Europe and the other in the South Pacific.
Phoebe’s favourite of these resulted from a 2002 interview she had with Eric Abraham, who at the time was 102 years old. She wrote a short piece about some of his experiences, intending to write more. He died a few years later and she regretted not taking the time to speak with him again.
Time marches on. Use it wisely...
These stories all have ‘time’ as their theme. Some deal with a specific point in time while others explore time in other ways. For example, A Moment In Time is a mystery with overtones of ages past, A Modern Fairy Tale tells a light-hearted story of how two people might meet, and Bonnie and Claude explores how relationships might develop over time.
Included in this collection are stories resulting from interviews Phoebe conducted with three ex World War 1 soldiers, two of whom were imprisoned during the war, one in Europe and the other in the South Pacific.
Phoebe’s favourite of these resulted from a 2002 interview she had with Eric Abraham, who at the time was 102 years old. She wrote a short piece about some of his experiences, intending to write more. He died a few years later and she regretted not taking the time to speak with him again.
Always One Step Ahead of the Storm: An 8-year-old’s Down Under Adventure (Published August 2018)
With cyclones Wanda and Tracy acting as bookends, the O'Briens swap their comfortable suburban home in Brisbane for a 17.5 foot caravan and the adventures of a lifetime.
Travel along with Phoebe, her mum, Stephanie, stepdad, Glen, older sister, Babette, younger siblings, Benny, Becky and Danny, as she takes us along for the ride, travelling across Western New South Wales, into Victoria, through South Australia and across The Nullarbor Plain into Western Australia - and then back home and up the Queensland Coast!
Although nearly 45 years have passed since that trip, Phoebe relies on her own memories, flavoured with a little Google research and seasoned with her mother's memories, to describe how it felt to see this vast country of Australia.
In her owns words: "When all is said and done, my memory of 1974 is of a fun-filled, educational trip across the bottom half of this great country I still call home, wherever I happen to live."
Perhaps her story can inspire you to live your dream, whatever it is, and wherever it will take you.
With cyclones Wanda and Tracy acting as bookends, the O'Briens swap their comfortable suburban home in Brisbane for a 17.5 foot caravan and the adventures of a lifetime.
Travel along with Phoebe, her mum, Stephanie, stepdad, Glen, older sister, Babette, younger siblings, Benny, Becky and Danny, as she takes us along for the ride, travelling across Western New South Wales, into Victoria, through South Australia and across The Nullarbor Plain into Western Australia - and then back home and up the Queensland Coast!
Although nearly 45 years have passed since that trip, Phoebe relies on her own memories, flavoured with a little Google research and seasoned with her mother's memories, to describe how it felt to see this vast country of Australia.
In her owns words: "When all is said and done, my memory of 1974 is of a fun-filled, educational trip across the bottom half of this great country I still call home, wherever I happen to live."
Perhaps her story can inspire you to live your dream, whatever it is, and wherever it will take you.
