We’re excited to read your writing! We welcome work from emerging and established writers alike, and we often publish new voices that we first encounter in our Submittable queue. Please read our guidelines closely so we can best consider your piece. We encourage you to read recent issues of The Yale Review (accessible online) and our online-only prose and poetry to determine whether your work is a good fit for us. We read submissions from September to May. We read everything with care, and we will respond, but it may take us some time.

General Guidelines

All submissions to The Yale Review must be in English, and all must be previously unpublished in print or online, including on personal websites, blogs, or Substacks. We are happy to consider simultaneous submissions, but we kindly ask that you notify us promptly if a piece is accepted for publication elsewhere. Please note that we review only completed pieces, not pitches, through Submittable. (During designated windows, we consider pitches and time-sensitive topical pieces via email, as detailed in our Pitch Guidelines.) 

Fees & Fee Waivers

The Yale Review relies primarily on its own funds to operate. To defray the labor and software costs associated with Submittable, we charge three dollars per submission. Submitters may claim this fee against a new subscription to the journal. Because we believe that financial hardship should not be a barrier to submission, we offer a limited number of fee-free submissions; to request a waiver, please email theyalereview@gmail.com with the subject line “Fee Waiver.”

Compensation

For information about compensation for print and online pieces, please visit the Submissions page of our website. Print contributors will receive two complimentary copies of the issue in which their work appears. Upon acceptance of their work, all contributors will receive a contract outlining payment and rights. Contributors retain full copyright of their work.

Editing

Please note that we reserve the right to edit accepted pieces for length, clarity, tone, and house style in collaboration with the writer.

Timing

Every submission will receive a response by the end of May. We are unable to respond to inquiries about the status of your submission via email.

AI Guidelines

The Yale Review publishes writing grounded in human insight, voice, and responsibility. While we recognize that some writers may use generative AI technologies in the course of their work, our priority remains publishing pieces of human authorship and expression.

Writers submitting to TYR should keep the following in mind: 

• Primary authorship must be human. We do not accept submissions that rely on AI to generate entire drafts, arguments, or analyses.
• Process-level use is acceptable. AI technologies may be used to support your process—for example, to generate prompts or organize research—especially in projects that reflect on or engage with AI itself.
• Transparency matters. If a piece incorporates AI-generated language or structure in a meaningful or visible way, please briefly indicate, at the time of submission, how AI was used in the composition of the piece.
• Writers are responsible for accuracy. All factual claims in a piece must be verified. As always, TYR conducts its own round of fact-checking prior to publication.
• Editorial review is always human. Every piece published in The Yale Review is reviewed and shaped by human editors, and we remain committed to work that reflects lived experience and individual sensibilities.