Eleonore Schönmaier

Eleonore Schönmaier is a Canadian poet and fiction writer.

Career

Eleonore Schönmaier is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collections Dust Blown Side of the Journey (2017), Wavelengths of Your Song (2013), and Treading Fast Rivers (1999). Her award winning poems have been published widely in literary magazines in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, including Grain, Event, Descant, Prairie Schooner, Magma, and Stand and have been translated into Dutch and German. Her work is widely anthologized, and her poem "Weightless" was published in Best Canadian Poetry.

Schönmaier has taught advanced fiction writing at St. Mary's University and creative writing at Mount St. Vincent University, and has worked as a writing mentor for the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia. Schönmaier has won numerous awards, including the Alfred G. Bailey Prize, the Earle Birney Prize, and the Sheldon Currie Fiction Award. American, Canadian, Scottish, Dutch and Greek composers have all written music based on Schönmaier's poetry including Michalis Paraskakis,[1] Carmen Braden and Emily Doolittle.[2] The New European Ensemble,[3] and the St. Andrews New Music Ensemble[4] have performed her poetry in concert.

Awards
  • National Broadsheet Contest Winner 2019
  • Arc poem of the year shortlist 2015
  • Bridport Poetry Prize shortlist 2015
  • Winston Collins Descant Prize for Best Canadian poem, Finalist 2012
  • The Antigonish Review's Great Blue Heron Poetry Contest, Third Prize 2009
  • Alfred G. Bailey Award 2009
  • Earle Birney Prize 2008
  • Great Canadian Literary Hunt, This Magazine, Poetry Finalist, 2007
  • Sheldon Currie Fiction Award, Second Prize, 2009
  • Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, Finalist Best First Book of Poetry, Canada, 2000

Works
  • Passion Fruit Tea Roseway Publishing (1994) ISBN 0-9698407-0-5
  • Treading Fast Rivers McGill-Queen's University Press (1999) ISBN 0-88629-361-8
  • Wavelengths of Your Song McGill-Queen's University Press (2013) ISBN 9780886293611
  • Dust Blown Side of the Journey McGill-Queen's University Press (2017) ISBN 9780773550131

References
  1. http://michailparaskakis.com/composer.html
  2. Migrations by Canadian Composer Emily Doolittle based on Schönmaier's poem of the same name
  3. http://neweuropeanensemble.com/dust-blown-side-of-the-journey.html
  4. https://synergy.st-andrews.ac.uk/musicplanet/events/st-andrews-new-music-ensemble/
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