Below you will find a history of my writing efforts and publications.
In my college days, I wrote vignettes and poems for the college newspaper at the State University of New York at Geneseo. After finishing graduate school and finding a job in the mental health field, I coauthored a book for the West Virginia Department of Human Services entitled Specialized Foster Care, a book on the treatment of disadvantaged youth and children placed in the foster care system.
Then I began to write articles for magazines, such as Dog Fancy Magazine and Glass Digest. But I preferred to write fiction, so I began taking graduate writing classes at the University of Kentucky. I spent years honing my fiction writing skills without seeking to get published.
Over the past decade or so, I have written more than 100 articles on self-help topics for online newsletters and journals, in addition to writing more than 100 articles on my three websites, pertaining to a multitude of mental health, positive psychology and psychotherapy topics. Also, I have written three full-length eBooks: Relationship Gold, Happiness Secrets and Relationship Revelations Revealed.
But my heart's desire was to return to fiction writing. In the summer of 2020, I returned to school to study writing. I was accepted into the Bluegrass Writer's Studio at Eastern Kentucky University where I earned my MFA in Creative Writing in the summer of 2023. In recent years, I have had a few short stories published in literary magazines. The latest, An Epiphany, was published in the fall issue (October 2025) of the Wilderness House Literary Review. You can read it there. Just look for my name and story under the fiction section. R.E. Hamon - An Epiphany. Currently, I write full-time and am working on a coming-of-age novel and a short story collection.