Jane Eaton Hamilton
| Jane Eaton Hamilton | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 19, 1954 Hamilton, ON |
| Occupation | short story writer, poet, visual artist, and photographer |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Citizenship | Canadian |
| Notable awards | CBC Literary Awards/Canada Writes, 2003/2014, first place, fiction |
| Children | 2 |
Jane Eaton Hamilton (born July 19, 1954) is a Canadian short story writer, visual artist, poet and photographer.
Overview
Hamilton has published 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). She is also the author, under the pseunomymous 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. Her books have been shortlisted for the BC Book Prizes, the VanCity Award, the Pat Lowther Award, the Ferro-Grumley Award, and the MIND Book Prize, UK.
Her short work has appeared in such publications as En Route The New York Times, Maclean's, Geist, the Missouri Review and Seventeen. She has won many awards for her short work, including, twice, first prize in the CBC Literary Awards (2003/2014),[1] 2015's Lit Pop Prize, 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.
She was a litigant in the Canadian same-sex marriage case between 2000-2003.
She spent several years as a photographer specializing in Hollywood portraits, travel and newborn photography, and for years volunteered for the organization Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep. Hamilton is also a visual artist whose work can be found at Fine Art America.
She has two grown daughters, two stepgranddaughters, and one granddaughter.
Jane Eaton Hamilton is also a Master Gardener who wrote the intermittent column for You Grow Girl, reprinted in several other places, called 'The Adequate Gardener.'. The garden she created in east Vancouver was nominated for Vancouver's Best Front Garden Award.
Bibliography
Weekend, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2016 ISBN 1551526352
Love Will Burst into a Thousand Shapes, Caitlin Press, 2014 ISBN 1927575575
No More Hurt, ebury/Random UK, 2011 ISBN 0091943337
Hunger, Oberon Press 2002 ISBN 0-7780-1202-6 (hardcover) ISBN 0-7780-1203-4 (softcover)
Going Santa Fe, League of Canadian Poets, 1997, ISBN 1-896216-06-4
Steam-Cleaning Love, Brick Books, 1993, ISBN 0-919626-68-8'Jessica's Elevator, Press Porcépic
July Nights, Douglas and McIntyre, 1992 ISBN 1-55054-015-7
Body Rain, Brick Books, 1991, ISBN 0-919626-50-5
Jessica's Elevator, Press Porcépic, 1989, as J.A. Hamilton ISBN 0-88878-281-0
List of awards
Books
Hunger, 2003 Publishing Triangle Awards, Ferro Grumley Prize, finalist
Hunger was longlisted for the Lambda Literary Award, 2004
No More Hurt was shortlisted for the VanCity Award and the MIND book award
Body Rain was short-listed for the Pat Lowther Award.
July Nights was short-listed for the VanCity Award and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Award in the BC Book Prizes.
Going Santa Fe won the 1997 League of Canadian Poets Canadian Poetry Chapbook Award.
Short stories
2015:
Battery, Lit Pop, 2015, winner, judge: George Saunders
Battery, CBC, 2015, longlisted
The River of Running Sand, Bristol Short Story Prize, 2015, longlist
The Night SS Sloan Undid His Shirt, Exile Carter V Cooper Award, short list
The Storm Chasers, H E Francis Award, 2015, long list
The River of Running Sand, CBC Literary Awards, 2015, long list
OLDER:
Death in One Another's Arms, Yellow Silk Best Story of the Year 1988
Death in One Another's Arms, Pushcart Prize Honourable Mention 1988
Grain short-short Finalist 1990
Prism, short fiction finalist, 1991
Easter, Federation of BC Writers short fiction First 1992
Accusation, Prism short fiction winner 1993
Prism short fiction Honourable Mention 1994
Hunger, Paragraph erotic short fiction First 1995
How to Have Heart Disease (Without Really Trying), Prism short fiction winner, 1995
DNA, Thistledown young adult story contest Finalist 1995
Goombay Smash, Prism short fiction first prize winner, 1998
How to Have Heart Disease (Without Really Trying), Best American Short Stories Distinguished Story, 1997
Territory, This Magazine first prize winner, 1998
Wax Brains, Fish finalist 1998
Graduation, Journey Prize inclusion, 1998
Winter, sub-Terrain runner-up, 1998
Cretins, H. E. Francis Award finalist, 1999
Fat Ankles, CBC Literary Awards finalist, 1999
Tightrope, Serpentine, Honorable Mention, 1999
Just Be Glad You Have Heels, Stand (UK) fifth place, 1999
Anemones, Exotic Erotic Writing Contest runner-up, 1999
Tightrope, Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society contest, finalist, 2000
Fat Ankles, Fish Short Story Prize, shortlisted, 1999–2000
A Drosophila's Wings, Real Writers (UK), shortlisted, 2000
Travel Tips for Girls, Prism International, third prize winner, 2001
Wax Brains, The New Quarterly, honourable mention, 2001
Travel Tips for Girls, Prism International, third prize, 2001
Half Waikiki, CBC/En Route contest finalist, 2002
Easter, Fish story contest finalist, 2002
Do You Want Whiskey? Canadian Authors Association contest shortlist, 2003
Sperm King, Prism International first prize, 2003
Many People Have Been Gored, Room of One's Own story contest finalist, 2003
The Lost Boy, CBC Literary Awards, first prize, fiction, 2003
Social Discourse: 1944, Pushcart Prize nomination, 2004
Wart's Ugly, Carve Magazine finalist, 2004
The Ninth Foot, Prism International short fiction finalist, 2014
Smiley, first prize winner, fiction, CBC Canada Writes 2014
Battery, first prize winnder Lit Pop, Matrix, 2015
River of Running Sand, longlist,
Poetry
Elemental, Absolut Vodka finalist 1991
League of Canadian Poets Finalist 1991
Special Needs, Prairie Fire long poem Honourable Mention 1994
Stephen Leacock Poetry Competition, Certificate of Merit, 1995–96
Tilden Canadian Literary Awards, Finalist, 1996
League of Canadian Poets Finalist 1997
Luby's Cafeteria, killeen, Texas, Stand, 5th. Prize, 1998
Stand honorable mention, 1998
This New Country, Atlanta Review Int'l Merit Award Winner, 1999
Crescendo, Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society, semi-finalist, 1999
Delor Street, New Letters (University of Missouri) fourth place, 1999
Vermilion, Outlaw Editions Chapbook Competition, finalist, 1999
Mr and Mrs Mouse, Summer Literary Seminars, Russia, third prize 2000
Survivor, finalist ARC contest, 2002
Non-fiction
CBC Literary Competition Finalist 1989
Tilden Finalist 1995
Walking on the Ancestors, Event First 1995
Federation of BC Writers Finalist (humour) 1995
Tilden Canadian Literary Awards, Finalist, 1996
Permanent Wave, Belle Lettres, Essay First, 1996
Permanent Wave, Pirate's Alley Faulkner Award finalist, 1998
Girls Like Me (Or Not), Creative Non-Fiction contest, 2001
21 Questions, Creative Non-Fiction contest, 2001
On the Piano, Pirate's Alley Faulkner contest, finalist, 2001
Permanent Wave, Prism Maclean Hunter contest shortlist, 2002
Being Jane Hamilton, Prism Maclean Hunter contest shortlist, 2002
Being Jane Hamilton, Missouri Review Editors' Awards runner-up, 2002
Being Jane Hamilton, Grain, co-winner Long Grain of Truth, 2002
Waiting for Dierdre, finalist, CBC Canadian Literary Awards 2004
Citations
Canadian Who's Who, 1999–present
Death in One Another's Arms was cited in the Pushcart Prize, 1989
How to Have Heart Disease (Without Really Trying) was cited as distinguished by Best American Short Stories, 1997.
Territory was shortlisted for the Journey Prize
Goombay Smash was cited as one of the best published stories in Canada by Best Canadian Short Stories.
Graduation was shortlisted for the Journey Prize
Tulips was optioned by Bravo! TV and produced for broadcast in 1996
Piñata was chosen by Poetry in Transit to appear on BC public transit, 1997
References
- ↑ "CBC Literary Awards - Winners". CBC Radio. Retrieved February 15, 2010.
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