Carol's Bio                  

Speaking:

Professional speaker, Carol Hamilton, has presented school programs, women’s retreats, writing and speaking classes in seven states.

As a conference presenter she teaches Professional Speaking for Writers and a variety of other classes. She also judges contests. She is also available for keynote speeches.

Carol currently presents The Princess and the Superhero or Friends in Christ programs with an anti-bullying component for Christian schools and youth groups using scripture, stories, and student activities.

Carol presented assemblies and workshops for four years through Bucketfillers for Life, Inc. as Northeast Regional Director covering five states.

Memberships and Service:

Carol earned the level of Distinguished Toastmaster in 2020. Along this twelve-year journey she learned about speaking and leadership. Thank you to all the people who assisted her in acheiving this goal!

She has been a five-year member of National Speakers Association and is the past Director of Marketing/PR for the Pittsburgh chapter’s board.

Toastmasters International, District 13 Area 6 Governor for 2012-2013, New Castle’s First Toastmasters Club: past president, past VP of education, current secretary, contest judge. She has also successfully competed in over twenty contests.

American Christian Fiction Writers, Contest judge, Pennsylvania chapter secretary in 2016

Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators

St. Davids Christian Writers Association: past president, past board member, and writing contest judge

Word Weavers International

Writing credentials:

or five years Carol was the Pittsburgh Christian Living Examiner for Examiner.com: http://www.examiner.com/christian-living-in-pittsburgh/carol-hamilton.

She has over one hundred articles, stories, poems, and devotionals published. Her passion is writing Christian young adult novels.

Published in:

• Time of Singing
• Welcome Home
• Women Alive!
• Upper Case
• Today’s Christian Woman
• Central News
• Story Friends
• Penned from the Heart
• Shepherdess Journal
• Butler Eagle
• Vista
• Examiner.com
• National Speakers Association Pittsburgh website
• Bucketfillers for Life, Inc. News and Views
• St. Davids Christian Writers Blog
• ACFW PA Keystone Blog
• ACFW Blog
• Whispers of Grace, Volumn 3

Christian Service:

Carol teaches the teen Sunday school class at her church.

She and her husband Dennis served on the Mission to the World Global Disaster Response executive committee.

For American Christian Fiction Writers Pennsylvania chapter she was the 2016 board secretary.

She served as VP of Ascension Presbytery Women’s Executive Committee 2013-2015

Speaker for Mothers of Preschoolers, (MOPS, International) since 2004

Some of her roles during twenty-one years as a Portersville Christian School parent and beyond include chapel speaker, writing workshop presenter, basketball coach, athletic activities bus driver, and school newspaper sponsor.