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| First Name | Eleonore |
| Last Name | Schönmaier |
| Member Since | April 20, 2021 |
| Website | https://eleonoreschonmaier.com |
| @elschonmaier | |
| Bio | Eleonore Schönmaier's Field Guide to the Lost Flower of Crete is forthcoming in June 2021 (McGill-Queen's University Press). Her collections are widely praised in reviews. Wavelengths of Your Song (MQUP) was published in German translation as Wellenlängen deines Liedes in 2020 by parasitenpresse (Cologne). Dust Blown Side of the Journey (MQUP) was a finalist for the Eyelands Book Awards (Greece). Treading Fast Rivers (MQUP) was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for best first book of poetry in Canada. She has taught advanced fiction courses at St. Mary's University, creative writing at Mount Saint Vincent University, and has worked as a poetry mentor for the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia. Her poetry has been set to music by Canadian, Dutch, Scottish, American and Greek composers and she has performed her poetry in concert with The New European Ensemble among others. She has won the Alfred G. Bailey Prize and the Earle Birney Prize, and the National Broadsheet Contest 2019. Published in League of Canadian Poets Poem in Your Pocket Day Brochure in 2018, 2019 and 2021, she has also been widely anthologised including in Best Canadian Poetry. Her poetry was also presented in a twelve page feature by The New Quarterly. "Live-Retrieved Memory: the Poetry of Eleonore Schönmaier." |
| Publications | Field Guide to the Lost Flower of Crete. (poetry). Montreal & Kingston - London - Chicago: McGill-Queen’s University Press, (June 2021). Wellenlängen deines Liedes. (poetry). Wavelengths of Your Song in German translation. Translator Knut Birkholz. Cologne, Germany: Parasitenpresse, 2020. Dust Blown Side of the Journey (poetry). Montreal & Kingston - London - Chicago: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017. Wavelengths of Your Song (poetry). Montreal & Kingston - London - Ithaca: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013. Treading Fast Rivers (poetry). Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1999. |
| Awards | Eyelands Book Awards finalist 2020 for Dust Blown Side of the Journey National Broadsheet Contest Winner 2019 The Antigonish Review's Great Blue Heron Poetry Contest, honourable mention, 2019 Arc poem of the year short list 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 Prize 2009 Earle Birney Prize 2008 First Prize, Literary Competition, Poetry, 2007, Writers Federation of New Brunswick Great Canadian Literary Hunt, Poetry Finalist, 2007 This Magazine Sheldon Currie Fiction Award, Second Prize, 2005 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for Best First Book by a Canadian, Finalist, 2000 |
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| Genres | Fiction, Poetry, Short Stories |
| Available For | Readings, Presentations, Workshops, Book Club Meetings, Speaking Engagements |