Eaton Hamilton (born July 19, 1954) is a Canadian short story writer, novelist, essayist and poet, who goes by "Hamilton", and uses they/their pronouns.
Hamilton has published the novel Weekend (Arsenal Pulp Press 2016), three books of poetry, Body Rain (Brick Books 1992) and Steam-Cleaning Love (Brick Books 1993), Love Will Burst into a Thousand Shapes (Caitlin Press, 2014), a poetry chapbook (Going Santa Fe, winner of the League of Canadian Poets Poetry Chapbook prize) and two volumes of short fiction July Nights and Other Stories, (Douglas and McIntyre, 1991) and Hunger, (Oberon, 2001). They are also the author, under the pseudonymous name of Ellen Prescott, of the memoir Mondays are Yellow, Sundays are Grey retitled No More Hurt which was included on the Guardian's Best Book of the Year list and was a Sunday Times bestseller. Their books have been shortlisted for the BC Book Prizes, the ReLit Award, the VanCity Award, the Pat Lowther Award, the Ferro-Grumley Award, and the MIND Book Prize.
Their short work has appeared in such publications as En Route, The Sun, The New York Times, Maclean's, Geist, LARB, Guernica, the Missouri Review, Gay Magazine, Salon, The Rumpus, The Globe and Mail and Seventeen. They have won many awards for short work, including, twice, first prize in the CBC Literary Awards (2003/2014), 2015's Lit Pop Prize, judged by George Saunders, twice first prize in the Prism International Short Story Award, Canadian Poetry Chapbook of the Year from the League of Canadian Poets, the event Non-Fiction Award, and many others. They have had notable essays in BAE multiple times, and a notable short story in BASS. Work has appeared in the anthology series BAX 2020: Best American Experimental Writing.
They were a litigant in the Canadian same-sex marriage case between 2000 and 2003. They spent several years as a photographer and for years volunteered for the organization Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep.
Since 2020, Hamilton has created a new series of small oil paintings.
Bibliography Would You Like a Little Gramma on Those, chapbook, above/ground press, 2020 Weekend, novel, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2016 Love Will Burst into a Thousand Shapes, poetry, Caitlin Press, 2014 No More Hurt, cnf, ebury/Random UK, 2011 Hunger, short fiction, Oberon Press 2002 (hardcover) (softcover) Going Santa Fe, poetry, League of Canadian Poets, 1997, Steam-Cleaning Love, poetry, Brick Books, 1993, July Nights, short fiction, Douglas and McIntyre, 1992 Body Rain, poetry, Brick Books, 1991, Jessica's Elevator, children's picture book, Press Porcépic, 1989, as J.A. Hamilton
Notable awards Splinter, Notable, Best American Essays, 2022 Game Show, Best Canadian Poetry, 2020 The Dead Green Man, Event, Notable, Best American Essays, 2021 The Pleasure Scale, Gay Magazine, Notable, Best American Essays, 2021 Battery, Best American Experimental Writing, 2020 Splinter, second place, Malahat Review, cnf Contest, 2020 The Dead Green Man, Event, winner, Non Fiction Contest, 2020 The Nothing Between Your Legs, Notable, Best American Essays, 2019 Skinning the Rabbit, Notable, Best American Essays, 2018 Wish You Were Here Best Canadian Poetry, 2016 Never Say I Didn't Bring You Flowers, Notable, Best American Essays, 2016 Battery, Lit Pop fiction, 2015, winner (judge: George Saunders) Smiley, CBC Canada Writes, fiction, 2014 The Lost Boy, CBC Literary Awards, first prize, fiction, 2003 Territory Journey Prize anthology, 1999 Goombay Smash Prism Int'l Short Fiction Prize, first, 1998, Best Canadian Stories, 1999 Graduation Journey Prize anthology, 1998 How to Have Heart Disease (Without Really Trying) notable, Best American Short Stories, 1997 Death in One Another's Arms story, cited, Pushcart Prize, 1989
Notable awards, books Weekend was longlisted for the ReLit Award Going Santa Fe won the 1997 League of Canadian Poets Canadian Poetry Chapbook Award July Nights was short-listed for the VanCity Award and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Award in the BC Book Prizes Body Rain was short-listed for the Pat Lowther Award No More Hurt was shortlisted for the VanCity Award and the MIND book award Hunger, 2003 Publishing Triangle Awards, Ferro Grumley Prize, finalist, longlisted Lambda Literary Award, 2004
See also Lesbian Poetry
References
External links Eaton Hamilton's writing web site The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Infarct, I Did Battery Jane Eaton Hamilton: Biography Anne Malcolm interview, Montreal, 2014 Westwood Creative Artists