Barbara Temperton

Barbara Temperton is an award-winning Western Australian writer. Her poems, song lyrics, short stories, reviews and articles have appeared in journals, newspapers, anthologies, have been performed live and broadcast on radio. Barbara lives in Geraldton where she is employed as Librarian and editor and moonlights as the poetry editor for Westerly. Barbara has also worked on community writing and theatre projects and as tutor in English and Creative Writing courses at the UWA – Albany Centre, Edith Cowan University and Curtin University in Perth. Southern Edge is her third collection of poetry, written for her MA at the University of Western Australia.

Awards

Winner, South Perth Poetry Park (Neil McDougall Park): Panel poem On Finding White Feathers, 2008
Australian Premier’s Book Award Plaque.
Winner, Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards, 2002
Winner, Tom Collins Poetry Prize, The Lighthouse Keeper’s Wife, 2002
Highly Commended, Tom Collins Poetry Prize, 1998
Second Prize, Tom Collins Poetry Prize, 1996
Winner, John Birch Award (Poetry), 1994
Commended, Tom Collins Poetry Prize, 1993
Short listed, TAG Hungerfod Award, 1993
Winner, Tom Collins Poetry Prize, 1992
Winner, Bobbie Cullen Memorial Poetry Award, 1992
Highly commended, The Lyndall Hadow Short Fiction Award, 1992
Highly Commended, Tom Collins Poetry Prize, 1991
Second Prize, The Talus Prize (Short Fiction), Edith Cowan University, 1991
Commended, Alan Marshall Award (Collection/Short Stories, 1990
Short listed, TAG Hungerford Award, 1990
Second Prize, NSW McArthur Regional Short Story Competition, 1988
Commended, Alan Marshall Award (Collection/Short Stories, 1986
Commended, Binalong Banjo Paterson Poetry Prize, 1986
Commended, Canning Literary Award, 1986
Commended, NSW McArthur Regional Short Story Competition, 1986
Winner, NSW McArthur Regional Short Story Competition, 1985

Books available from Fremantle Press

• Southern Edge 2009
• Southern Edge ebook 2009