Awards

• Governor General's Award for Poetry, Short-list, 1982
• League of Canadian Poets National Poetry Contest, Honorable Mention, 1990
• Confederation Poets Prize, Honorable Mention, 1994
• Confederation Poets Prize, Winner, 1995
• League of Canadian Poets National Poetry Contest, Honorable Mention, 1995
• Scarborough Bi-Centennial Award of Merit, 1996
• Canadian Literary Awards, Finalist, 2002
• The National Magazine Awards, nominated by both Grain and Arc, finalist for Arc, 2002
• Petra Kenney Poetry Competition, 2nd Prize, 2002
• Shortlisted, Governor General's Award for Poetry for The Burning Alphabet, 2005
• Canadian Authors Association Jack Chalmers Award for Poetry for The Burning Alphabet, 2006
• 
  

Honours

• Poetry Judge for the 1997 Sterling Writing Awards
• Poetry Judge for the 1997 Arc Poem of the Year Contest
• Poetry Adjudicator, Banff Centre for the Arts, 1999
• Poetry Judge for the 1998 Pat Lowther Award
• Poetry Adjudicator, Banff Centre for the Arts, 2000
• Editor, Brick Books, 1999-
• Poetry Adjudicator, Banff Centre for the Arts, 2001
• Faculty, Poetry Studio, Banff Centre for the Arts, 2002
• 
  

Barry Dempster's works copyright © to the author.