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Barbie Perkins Cooper
Born: August 22
Columbus, GA
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Biography
Dedicating fifteen years to a career in the hospitality industry, Barbie Perkins Cooper is a talented, award-winning writer and photographer. She specializes in entertainment, public relations, hospitality, food, restaurant, travel guides, and has published numerous articles and photographs for regional, trade, health and beauty and travel publications, including AAA Midwest Traveler, Kentucky Monthly, Carolina Magazine, Hair and Beauty, and the Travel Channel.
In September 2007, she was chosen as an approved artist for literary arts with the SC Arts Commission Arts in Education Roster of Approved Artists.
Professional organizations include International Food and Wine and Travel Writers Association [IFWTWA]
As a writer of accomplishment, she works diligently to achieve her goals as a professional travel writer, photographer, screenwriter and playwright. Entering the America’s Best competition, she placed as a finalist in the teleplay category with her screenplay, “the Commish...The Signature Rapist.” Another screenplay, “Child of Darkness,” placed in the top 10 percent at the 1994 Austin Heart of Film festival. Additional screenplays were selected as finalists for the Chesterfield Writers’ Film Project and the Goldie Film Awards, Fade In competition, The Writers Network, and America’s Best, The Writers Foundation.
In February 2004, she was awarded the Grand Goldie Film Award for her screenplay, “Not My Papa.” In her spare time, she likes to kick off her shoes, relax on the beaches of South Carolina, sing, dance, read, travel, and listen to good music, especially blues, jazz, and anything that lights the muse.
Professional Organizations: North American Travel Journalists Association [NATJA] 2004-2006 International Food, Wine and Travel Writers Association [IFWTWA] South Carolina Writers Workshop (Vice President 1999-2005) Write Click
For my Press Kit, please click here: Press Kit Link
Public relations and professional writing and photography experience includes:
•Construction, including Green and LEED buildings
•Food and Wine
•Health and Beauty
•Health, Caregiving, Cancer, Diabetes
•Higher Education
•Hospitality
•Military, newsletters
•Real Estate
•Restaurant
•Screenwriting
•Travel
Editor for Veterans of Foreign Wars newsletter publications and Public Relations, Glenn L. Jeffers Post 10624, March 2008 - present
Awards
Awards:
2005 – Chattahoochee Child – Second Place/Honorable Mention – South Carolina Writers Workshop Carrie McCray competition, creative non fiction
2004 – Grand Goldie Film Award for screenplay, Not My Papa
2003 – Certificate of Merit – 2003 International Screenplay Competition – American Screenwriters Association/Writers Digest - Child of Darkness, screenplay
2003 -- First Place, Playwriting – Certificate of Merit, Southeastern Writers Conference, June 2003
2003 – Third Place, Playwriting – Catfish Stew Anthology for The Coffee Club, a Play, South Carolina Writers Workshop
2002 -- Third place, Best of Issue – short story, “Footsteps: Stepping Back in Time,” South Carolina Writers Workshop
2002 – Goldie Film Award for screenplay, Child of Darkness
Staged Reading:
2005 – Hugo, South Carolina Writers Workshop Conference, Myrtle Beach, SC
2002 -- Play, Not My Papa, held at the historical Ritz Theatre, Brunswick, GA, June 2002
The Writers Network:
2001 -- Semi-finalist The Writer’s Network 8th Annual Screenplay and Fiction Competition, Child of Darkness, November 2001
1998 -- The Writers’ Network Screenplay and Fiction Competition, 1998
1997 -- Honorable Mention; Quarter-finalist – the Writer’s Network Screenplay and Fiction Competition 1997
Chesterfield Film Company Writers Film Project:
2001 -- Semi-finalist – Chesterfield Film Company Writer’s Film Project November 2001
2000 -- Semi-finalist – Chesterfield Film Company Writer’s Film Project January 2000
1997 -- Semi-finalist – Chesterfield Film Company Writer’s Film Project 1997
Fade In Competition:
2000 -- Quarter finalist – Fade In: magazine 4th Annual Screenwriting Award – February 2000
America’s Best, The Writers Foundation:
1999 -- Finalist – America’s Best, The Writers Foundation for Best TV Drama Category – NOT MY PAPA, July 1999
1997 -- Semi-finalist – America’s Best Screenplay Competition, the Writer’s Foundation 1997
1994 -- America’s Best Screenplay Competition, the Writer’s Foundation 1994 TV finalist
The Writers Network:
1997 -- The Writer’s Network Screenplay and Fiction Competition
1996 -- The Writer’s Network Screenplay and Fiction Competition
1995 -- The Writer’s Network Screenplay and Fiction Competition
1994 -- The Writer’s Network Screenplay and Fiction Competition
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