Barbara (Anne) Cameron

The 16th recipient of the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award and author of perhaps the bestselling work of fiction ever published in BC by a B.C.-born author,Daughters of Copper Woman. She was also an accomplished screenwriter (Dreamspeaker, Ticket to Heaven, Bomb Squad, The Tin Flute, A Matter of Choice, Homecoming and Drying Up The Streets).

AWARDS Alberta Poetry Competition (1972) Bliss Carman Award for Poetry, Banff School of Fine Arts (1973) Alberta Poetry Competition (1973) Etrog for best Screenplay - Dreamspeaker (screen) (The awards were formally renamed Genie Awards in 1980.)(1979) Gibson Award for Literature - Dreamspeaker (novel) (1979) Gemini Award for Best Pay Television Dramatic Series- Mistress Madeline (1987) George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award (2010) Presented at the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts, Sechelt in 1995.