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[citation needed] and was a Sunday Times bestseller.
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.
Work has appeared in the anthology series BAX 2020: Best American Experimental Writing.
[citation needed] They were a litigant in the Canadian same-sex marriage case between 2000 and 2003.