Eleonore Schönmaier

Eleonore Schönmaier's poetry collection, Treading Fast Rivers (Carleton University Press, 1999), was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poetry in Canada, and was widely praised in reviews. Her collection of fiction is Passion Fruit Tea (Roseway Publishing, 1994).

Her writing has been published in magazines internationally, and has been broadcast on CBC radio shows such as The Arts Today. 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.

Currently she is at work on a collection of poetry, a collection of fiction, and a series of black and white photographs of writers' hands.

 

Awards

Sheldon Currie Fiction Award, second prize, 2005.
Fundacion Valpariso Fellowship, Spain, 2005.
Banff Writing Studio Scholarship, 2002.
Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, Best First Book of Poetry, Finalist, 2000

Hawthornden Fellowship, Scotland, 2000

 

Selected Publications
Treading Fast Rivers (Carleton University Press, 1999) ISBN: 0-88629-361-8
Passion Fruit Tea (Roseway Publishing Company, 1994) ISBN: 0-9698407-0-5

Selected Anthologies
To Find Us:  Words and Images of Halifax (HRM, 2004) ISBN: ISBN: 0-9687262-3-2
Words Out There: Women Poets in Atlantic Canada (Roseway Publishing Company, 1999) ISBN: 1-896496-09-1
Vintage 1999 (Ronsdale Press, 1999) ISBN: 0-921870-70-1
Vintage 97-98 (Quarry Press, 1998) ISBN: 1-55082-224-1

 

Books in Print
Schonmaier, Eleonore
Treading Fast Rivers (Poetry) Carleton University Press, 1999 ISBN: 0-88629-361-8
Passion Fruit Tea (Fiction) Roseway Publishing Company, 1994 ISBN: 0-9698407-0-5

Eleonore Schonmaier, c/o Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, 1113 Marginal Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4P7
phone: 902-423-8116; Fax: 902-422-0881
talk@writers.ns.ca
www.writers.ns.ca