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.

To celebrate Red Weather’s 45th anniversary, we are seeking alumni submissions to publish alongside student work for this fall issue! Alumni and student work are evaluated separately. Guidelines: please send only ONE piece per category (poetry, prose, art) in an email to rweather[at]hamilton[dot]edu.

In addition to her poems appearing in Red Weather in Fall 2021, she has been published in Suture, Hamilton’s humanities-based academic journal, in 2023. She is also the 2022 recipient of the John V.A. Weaver Prize in Poetry and the 2023 recipient of the Doris M. and Ralph E. Hansmann Poetry Prize awarded by the Academy of American Poets. Her ...

Red Weather and Dead Sweaters: A Conversation with Peter Cameron. By Lucy Seward ‘24. Peter Cameron graduated Hamilton in 1982 with a B.A. in English Literature. He went on to have a long and very impressive career as an author. After college, Peter began to publish short stories, many for The New Yorker, and later transitioned to novels.

At Red Weather, we believe firmly in the power of language. We believe in the ability of art to influence the nation’s socio-political identity and cultural zeitgeist.

Besides Red Weather, Abigail is involved with a number of other campus organizations, and loves rock climbing, experimental cooking, and sitting in the grass. Bella Moses ‘23 (Fall) Bella Moses is a junior at Hamilton College currently pursuing a BA in creative writing. She is the recipient of the The Adam Gordon Poetry Prize for First-Year ...

Back to Fall 2021. It’s Too Late. Dr. Bronner’s Pure Peppermint Castile Soap. Will never not remind me of the ocean. The last episode of the third season

When you became head editor, was there a specific vision that you had for Red Weather? Julia Rosenbaum: I knew coming to Hamilton that I really wanted to be part of a literary scene since I had been in my high school and I had led the magazine at my high school by the end as well.

Rachel Lu: What was your involvement in Red Weather like when you were on campus? What was your vision for Red Weather ? Obviously, you founded it, so what were your hopes in creating it, and what did you want it to become on campus?

In my stint as editor, I have always been looking back in order to move forward, which is to say, the past five issues I’ve edited have had elements in them inspired by previous Red Weather issues even as I sought to have each issue reflect the cultural/campus “zeitgeist,” so to speak.