Biography: Sharon J. Hamilton has taught English from elementary school through to doctoral level during her forty-year career. She has a PhD in language and literacy from the University of London (UK) and has participated in writing seminars at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and the Faber Academy, London. Additionally, she’s owned, trained, and shown shelties, and was a member of the Winnipeg Area Shetland Sheepdog Association. Hamilton lives in Winnipeg with her partner and two shelties. She has a son, an actor and playwright, who lives in Toronto.

Residency Project:

Sharon Hamilton: “At Deep Bay Cabin, I will begin drafting The Box Where the Smiles Were Kept, which focuses on a five-year period, 1945-1949.  During these years, the Children’s Aid Society (now Child and Family Services) transitioned from an orphanage – adoption model to a receiving home-foster care model. The post-war baby boom flooded the already strained facilities, creating a vortex wherein orphaned, unwanted or abused and neglected infants, toddlers, and children seriously outnumbered spaces available for them. This book will blend historical fact, memory, and storytelling into a work of historical fiction.”

Writing Workshop free to attend. All are welcome.

Location: Dauphin Public Library. Google Event Listing.