English | Creative Writing Workshop

Creative Writing Workshop with D.J. Hamilton

How do writers get started? How do writers find their voice? How can you unlock your imagination to discover images, ideas, characters and narratives to write about? The Creative Writing Workshop will give you prompts and exercises to guide you in this process of discovery and finding your voice. The workshop will get you writing and give you tools to keep you writing.

Participants wishing to share their work, or bring previously written work will be offered feedback as time permits.



Workshop Leader

Mr. D.J. Hamilton

D.J. Hamilton’s book of poems, The Hummingbird Sometimes Flies Backwards, won the Proverse Prize. He has won awards in Washington State and New York for poems, plays and play directing. His poems have appeared in Voice & Verse, the Madrona Project, Tentacle Ofi Press; Repentino; Dalmo’ma Anthology, Bumbershoot Anthology, Firecrackers, Compages, Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthologyand other publications.

Hamilton has worked as an actor, juggler, theatre director and writer. He has performed and/or directed plays in Europe, Canada, Mexico, and US cities including New York and Seattle, where he founded, Theatre Babylon, an experimental theatre company. He taught for many years, in Washington State Schools and International Schools in Mexico, China & Hong Kong, including Lingnan University.

Hamilton grew up in Wisconsin and later lived in Seattle. He has lived almost 8 years in Hong Kong after 12 years in Mexico and 1 year in mainland China.