Carol Libke - Creative writer - BJ Born in British Guyana in 1952, Carol Libke is the third of six children. She moved to England as a baby and was educated in Hertfordshire until the age of fourteen when the family immigrated to Australia. Carol completed her education at Salisbury State High School in Brisbane. Her love of writing began at an early age with short stories and articles published in school magazines. She continued her personal writing while working in the Public Service. In 1973, Carol married Michael Libke. Their family, including three boys, moved to Cairns permanently in 1989 where she completed a Bacholor of Journalism at JCU while working part-time writing features, advertorial and sub-editing for a local magazine.
As a member of Tropical Writers Group Cairns, she has been published in anthologies: Between the Leaves, Mangoes on Fire and Raining on the Sun. Being part of a writer's group has also encouraged Carol to write across genre. She has submitted two short stories and a poem for the 2010 anthology.
Carol was commissioned to write the fifty-year history of the Ellis Beach SLSC. Our Club -The History of Ellis Beach SLSC 1957-2007 was published in 2007.
Her play Angus was short-listed for the Short & Sweet Festival in Brisbane and Sydney in 2009.
Carol Libke is passionate about working with Alzheimer's Australia to create a program to write the life stories of people with dementia. She is currently drafting a murder-mystery novel, which she hopes to complete in 2010, whilst editing and proofreading other writer's work.
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CONTACT DETAILS: Carol Libke Phone: 4041 1919 / 0419715254
