Since seeing a book in her mum’s study as a child called Words Were Originally Magic Phoebe has been obsessed with writing. She studied Journalism and Cultural Studies in university, winning department prize for Best Dissertation and gaining a first class honours degree, followed by an MA in English that she received with Distinction. Later she completed her NCTJ qualification in Journalism while working on a newspaper in Wales and made headlines on Hold the Front Page when she passed her 100wpm shorthand test after starting learning it from scratch in just six months.
For five and half years she was editor, then Editor-at-Large at Wanderlust Travel Magazine until she left to go freelance. She frequently appears in a range of magazines and newspapers in the UK and overseas including Conde Nast Traveller, The Guardian, Telegraph, Financial Times, The Times and Metro. And she also regularly appears on BBC Radio 4’s From Our Own Correspondent with reports from around the globe.
She writes regularly for Calm.com – where she is also Sleep Storyteller-in-Residence, penning bedtime stories for grown-ups. And writes the entire script for all her Wander Woman podcasts.
Awards
She has won several awards for her work (including writing, editing and photography) including:
Sustainability Writer of the Year 2021 - TravMedia Awards for Orkney by e-campervan and Rewilding Alladale
Broadcast Programme of the Year 2021 - Travel Media Awards for Wander Woman Podcast ‘Quirk and Circumstance’
Travel Blogger of the Year 2020 - AITO Travel Writer of the Year Award for Beyond Lapland
Best Broadcast 2020 - Visit USA Media Awards - Wander Woman Podcast ‘Wild Waters Run Deep’
Travel Blogger of the Year 2019 - AITO Travel Writer of the Year Awards for Sex on the Reef
Best Broadcast 2018 – Visit USA Media Awards – ‘From Our Own Correspondent’
Best US Travel Destination Article 2016 - IPW Travel Writer Awards USA – ‘A Walk in the Woods’
Article with Best Photography – CLIA UK Cruise Journalism Awards 2016 – ‘Southern Exposure’
Best Canada Media Coverage 2014 - British Annual Canada Travel Awards – ‘Beyond the End of the Road’
Editor of the Year 2015 - PPA New Talent Awards
Magazine of the Year 2013 – Wanderlust – IPN PPA Awards
She was also shortlisted for the Travel Media Awards 2016 for Travel Broadcast Programme of the Year (for Walk in the Woods and Travel Guidebook of the Year for Book of the Bothy); The Independent Travel Awards for Best Guide Book (Book of the Bothy).
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