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Barbie Perkins Cooper
Born: August 22
Columbus, GA
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Biography
Barbie Perkins-Cooper is a talented award-winning writer of screenplays, plays, travel stories and she works full-time as an editorial photojournalist. Barbie has published numerous articles and award-winning photographs for regional, trade, health and beauty and travel publications and the Travel Channel.
Approved artist for literary arts, SC Arts Commission Arts in Education Roster of Approved Artists
Author of Career Diary of a Photographer, scheduled for publication in late 2008. Professional writer experienced in regional, trade and consumer magazines, hospitality, food and wine, newspaper, and business writing, including DoD contractors, technical manuals. Author of articles in numerous publications; author of non-fiction memoir; award winning screenwriter and playwright.
Ms. Perkins-Cooper is intrigued by the unique characters she meets while traveling. Her stories and photographs target the flavors of food and wine, hospitality, adventure, theater, and the many fascinating events that take place on her journeys. Recent travel articles include stories in Hair and Beauty Magazine, Southern Hospitality, and she is targeting food and wine publications.
She freelances assignments for regional, trade, and national publications, and is a correspondent for Northstar Travel Media, publishing three travel guides in 2006 [Charleston, SC, Myrtle Beach, SC, and Daytona Beach, FL]. Ms. Perkins-Cooper began her writing career as a child, publishing a science fiction story during third grade in Atlanta, Georgia. Additional areas of writing expertise include marketing for radio and television, fiction, non-fiction, articles, plays and screenplays. In 2001, she published a complex memoir based on her father’s battle with esophageal cancer. The non-fiction memoir is titled, “Condition of Limbo.”
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
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Award-winning photographer
Award-winning writer of screenplays, creative non-fiction, plays, and numerous articles for regional, health and travel publications.
Recipient of Grand Goldie Film Award
Selected as a finalist for the photography competition, picture.com.
Publication Credits:
Editorial Photojournalist, Author, Award winning photographer, Screenwriter
•Gardner’s Guide Publications
•AAA Midwest Traveler
•Travel Channel
•RSI Magazine
•Kentucky Monthly Magazine
•To Be Read Aloud Publishing, LLC
•Diabetes Health
•Southern Hospitality Magazine
•The Muse Marquee
•Carolina Magazine
•Construction Equipment Guide
•Easy Street Magazine
•Hard Hat News
•Hair and Beauty Magazine
•Johnson & Wales Alumni Magazine
•Leighcortpublicity.com
•On thesnow.com
•SoGoNow.com
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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