[1] After attending the NIDA Playwrights Studio, her play No Man's Land (later Crossfire) jointly won the Newcastle Playwriting Competition (with John Romeril's A Floating World) in 1974.

Compton returned from Australia to Wellington for several years[2] at the end of 1975 and in August 1976 appeared in the play 'Fanshen' at Unity Theatre.

[4] Her stage play The Big Picture was premiered at the Griffin Theatre in Sydney in 1997 and was published by Currency Press in 1999.

Barefoot was short listed for the John Bray Poetry Award at the Adelaide Festival in 2012.

[5] This City was published by Otago University Press in July 2011 and won the Kathleen Grattan Award in New Zealand.