Red Weather is a literary & arts journal based in upstate New York. We are committed to providing a creative space to showcase and empower diverse student work from Hamilton College that varies in genre, theme and style.

We publish work once per semester and submissions are opened the beginning of every semester. Please submit through rweather@hamilton.edu.

We are looking for your best work. Send us work that is exciting, honest, and true to you.

Submissions are currently CLOSED.

Red Weather’s story began in 1976 when Kirkland College sophomore Jo Pitkin became editor of the campus magazine, changed its format and christened it anew as “Red Weather” from the Wallace Stevens poem “Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock.” On June 30, 1978, Hamilton College, then an all-male college merged with Kirkland, an all-female college, to become the larger, co-ed college that is known as Hamilton today. Red Weather survived the transition and is continuously adapting and changing with every year. The rest, as they say, is history.

Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock

The houses are haunted
By white night-gowns.
None are green,
Or purple with green rings,
Or green with yellow rings,
Or yellow with blue rings.
None of them are strange,
With socks of lace
And beaded ceintures.
People are not going
To dream of baboons and periwinkles.
Only, here and there, an old sailor,
Drunk and asleep in his boots,
Catches tigers
In red weather.

A publisher of poetry, prose, and art, Red Weather seeks to embolden the Hamilton campus with creative work that challenges accepted modes of expression and experiments with language.