THE YALE REVIEW is a home for Yale University students interested in learning about public writing, editing, and publishing. Through our student programs, Yale undergraduate and graduate students receive in-depth training in key aspects of print and digital media, as well as the opportunity to work with professional writers, editors, and publishers. Over the course of the academic year, students read submissions, digitize work from the archives, help with social media, and assist with events. Each semester, TYR holds seminars and professional training sessions in skills such as magazine editing, fact-checking, podcasting, and pitching articles, to which all students are invited. We invite undergraduate and graduate students at Yale to apply for the following positions:
Undergraduates
UNDERGRADUATE READERS At the start of each academic year, TYR selects at least fifty undergraduate readers to help evaluate submissions. This volunteer program gives students exposure to the inner workings of a literary magazine. Students read submissions and write reader reports, meet with editors, attend special issue launch parties, and have their names listed in the journal. Students are also invited to the professional development seminars and talks TYR hosts with leading editors, publishers, and writers.
Applications for the 2025–2026 academic year are currently closed. Please check back next fall about applications for the 2026–2027 academic year.
UNDERGRADUATE FELLOWS Our paid undergraduate fellowship offers students entry-level training in magazine publishing. Working four hours per week during the academic year, TYR Undergraduate Fellows may take on a specialized role within the organization, such as social media intern, archives intern, or production intern, as well as providing general help to our staff. Our undergraduate fellows also evaluate journal submissions, helping to select pieces for publication, and occasionally assist with fact-checking, promotional copy, and special projects. All students with a serious interest in writing and publishing are invited to apply, whether or not they have taken creative writing classes or worked on a Yale student publication. Many of our paid fellows begin as volunteer readers, so we encourage students interested in working for TYR to join our reading program. Applications are currently closed.
SUMMER INTERNSHIPS The Yale Review offers paid internships for eight-week periods every summer. Summer interns read submissions, digitize pieces from the archives, provide research and production assistance, and more. A call for applicants goes out in February of each academic year. This position is part of the Yale Arts Apprenticeship Program, and it qualifies for the Summer Experience Award (SEA). This program is on hold for summer 2026.
Graduate Students
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FELLOWSHIPS Graduate Student Fellowships at The Yale Review offer Yale doctoral students a place on the editorial team of America's oldest quarterly of literature and culture, recently relaunched and reimagined for the twenty-first century. Fellows train in the full range of skills that sustain a magazine of ideas today: reading and evaluating submissions, fact-checking, copyediting and proofing, giving editorial notes, pitching pieces, writing headlines, assigning art and illustration, conceiving archival features and web-native special projects, running social media and publicity campaigns, and mentoring undergraduate interns. The fellowship is not limited to students pursuing editorial careers, but those who complete it gain substantive, hands-on experience in intellectual journalism and a clear sense of what distinguishes good public writing from the merely competent. Fellows are trained directly by members of our staff, who have worked as editors at publications including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Drift, and Slate, and they participate in learning sessions with working editors and writers across the industry. Recent cohorts have met with editors from The New Yorker, the Atlantic, and Fitzcarraldo Editions.
We are, above all, looking for candidates who are curious, engaged, motivated, and attentive to detail. Nothing beyond that is required, but any of the following would be useful: a prior interest in magazine publishing or serious engagement with the literary and intellectual magazines of the moment; copyediting experience; and digital fluency paired with genuine curiosity about how the internet, podcasts, and social media shape The Yale Review's identity as a publication.
Note that only Ph.D. students in their teaching years, eligible for guaranteed sixth-year teaching, or approved for 7th-year extended funding may apply for this position. No student may be assigned to a Professional Development Opportunity for more than two consecutive terms unless approved by the Teaching Fellow Program.
Applications are currently open for the Fall 2026 semester. Please apply here with a resume and cover letter by May 1, 2026.
ART FELLOW In this academic-year-long paid position, a graduate student in art or design works approximately five hours a week with our art editor and managing editor to find art, secure rights, assist in cover production, and keep track of captions for each print issue and our website. The art fellow occasionally designs graphics for print and the web, and supports our editors in finding art for online-only stories. Applications are open on a rolling basis. Interested graduate students should email a cover letter, resumé, and portfolio to managing editor Will Frazier at [email protected].