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Eaton Hamilton (born July 19, 1954) is aCanadian short story writer, novelist, essayist and poet, who goes by "Hamilton", and uses they/their pronouns.^[1]

Hamilton has published the novelWeekend (Arsenal Pulp Press 2016), three books of poetry,Body Rain (Brick Books 1992) andSteam-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 fictionJuly Nights and Other Stories, (Douglas and McIntyre, 1991) andHunger, (Oberon, 2001). They are also the author, under the pseudonymous name of Ellen Prescott, of the memoirMondays are Yellow, Sundays are Grey retitledNo More Hurt which was included on the Guardian's Best Book of the Year list^{[citation needed]} and was a Sunday Times bestseller.^{[citation needed]} Their books have been shortlisted for the BC Book Prizes, theReLit Award, theVanCity Award, thePat Lowther Award, theFerro-Grumley Award, and theMIND Book Prize.

Their short work has appeared in such publications asEn Route,The Sun,The New York Times,Maclean's,Geist,LARB, Guernica, the Missouri Review,Gay Magazine, Salon,The Rumpus,The Globe and Mail andSeventeen. They have won many awards for short work, including, twice, first prize in the CBC Literary Awards (2003/2014),^[2] 2015's Lit Pop Prize, judged byGeorge Saunders, twice first prize in thePrism International Short Story Award,Canadian Poetry Chapbook of the Year from theLeague of Canadian Poets, theevent Non-Fiction Award, and many others. They have had notable essays inBAE multiple times, and a notable short story in BASS. Work has appeared in the anthology seriesBAX 2020: Best American Experimental Writing.^{[citation needed]}

They were a litigant in the Canadiansame-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.^[3]

• Would You Like a Little Gramma on Those, chapbook, above/ground press, 2020ISBN 978-1-77460-127-3
• Weekend, novel, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2016ISBN 1551526352^[4][5]
• Love Will Burst into a Thousand Shapes, poetry, Caitlin Press, 2014ISBN 1927575575^[6][7]
• No More Hurt, cnf, ebury/Random UK, 2011ISBN 0091943337
• Hunger, short fiction, Oberon Press 2002ISBN 0-7780-1202-6 (hardcover)ISBN 0-7780-1203-4 (softcover)
• Going Santa Fe, poetry, League of Canadian Poets, 1997,ISBN 1-896216-06-4
• Steam-Cleaning Love, poetry, Brick Books, 1993,ISBN 0-919626-68-8
• July Nights, short fiction, Douglas and McIntyre, 1992ISBN 1-55054-015-7
• Body Rain, poetry, Brick Books, 1991,ISBN 0-919626-50-5
• Jessica's Elevator, children's picture book, Press Porcépic, 1989, as J.A. HamiltonISBN 0-88878-281-0

• 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^[8]
• Battery, Lit Pop fiction, 2015, winner (judge: George Saunders)
• Smiley, CBC Canada Writes, fiction, 2014^[9]
• 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

• Weekend was longlisted for the ReLit Award^{[citation needed]}
• Going Santa Fe won the 1997 League of Canadian Poets Canadian Poetry Chapbook Award^{[citation needed]}
• July Nights was short-listed for the VanCity Award and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Award in the BC Book Prizes^{[citation needed]}
• Body Rain was short-listed for the Pat Lowther Award^{[citation needed]}
• No More Hurt was shortlisted for the VanCity Award and the MIND book award^{[citation needed]}
• Hunger, 2003Publishing Triangle Awards, Ferro Grumley Prize, finalist, longlisted Lambda Literary Award, 2004^{[citation needed]}

• Lesbian Poetry

• Eaton Hamilton's writing web site
• The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Infarct, I Did
• [1]Archived 2016-09-27 at theWayback Machine Battery
• Jane Eaton Hamilton: Biography
• Anne Malcolm interview, Montreal, 2014
• Westwood Creative ArtistsArchived 2016-09-27 at theWayback Machine

• Living people
• Canadian lesbian writers
• 1954 births
• 20th-century Canadian poets
• 21st-century Canadian poets
• Canadian women poets
• Canadian LGBTQ poets
• Canadian women short story writers
• 20th-century Canadian women writers
• 21st-century Canadian women novelists
• Chapbook writers
• 20th-century Canadian short story writers
• 21st-century Canadian short story writers
• 21st-century Canadian novelists
• 21st-century Canadian LGBTQ people
• 20th-century Canadian LGBTQ people

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