Our Story
The Yale Literary Magazine, founded in 1836, is the oldest student literary magazine in the United States. We are a print and online literary journal publishing outstanding poetry, fiction, and visual art by Yale University undergraduates. We publish twice per academic year.
Notable alumni featured in the magazine while students include Sinclair Lewis, Susan Choi, Meghan O’Rourke, ZZ Packer, Max Ritvo, Sarah Sze, Thornton Wilder, and many others. Wikipedia.
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Questions? Ideas? Want to collaborate? Drop us a line at yaleliteditors@gmail.com or find us on Instagram @yalelitmag or on Twitter @theyalelit.
Are you a Yale student interested in working on the staff of a literary publication? We take a new cohort of poetry readers, prose readers, and art staffers at the start of every semester. We’ll teach you how to evaluate submissions, and you’ll have a direct stake in what gets published in our issues. No publishing experience or application required. Give us a follow on our Instagram and sign up for our Mailing List to hear about new openings at the start of each semester.