Since 1997, the WLA’s scholarly journal Western American Literature has been offering graduate students editorial fellowships.

Currently, these fellowships are at the Northern Michigan University in Marquette, where our editor, Amy Hamilton, resides.

The WAL Editorial Fellow position offers MA and MFA students enrolled at Northern Michigan University the opportunity to learn about academic publishing. The position includes a stipend funded by Northern Michigan University. Editorial Fellows maintain WAL databases, assist with copy editing and source checking, develop WAL social media, and work with the Book Review Editor to deliver volumes to reviewers. 

The current fellow (2024-2025) is Jennifer McMahon.

Previous fellows at NMU:

• 2023-2024: Phoebe Billups
• 2022-2023: Nadine Rodriguez
• 2021-2022: Allison Peters

Fellows at University of Nebraska, Lincoln (under editor Tom Lynch)

• 2020-2021: Hailey Fischer
• 2019-2020: Maura Bradshaw
• 2018-2019: Hannah Kanninen
• 2017-2018: Anne Johnson
• 2017-2018: Christian Rush
• 2016-17: Emily Dowdle
•  2014-16: Lydia Presley

Fellows at Utah State University (under editor Melody Graulich)—except for the very first one, these were overlapping, 2-year fellowships

• 2011-2013: Josh Anderson
• 2010-2012: Jaquelin Pelzer
• 2010-2011: Brett Sigurdson
• 2008-2010: Pamela Pierce
• 2007-2009: Diane Bush
• 2006-2008: Jacoba Mendelkow Poppleton
• 2005-2007: Sarah Stoeckl
• 2004-2006: Matthew Lavin
• 2003-2005: Sarah Vause
• 2002-2004: Angela Waldie
• 2001-2003: Alan Barlow
• 2000-2002: Matt Burkhart
• 1999-2001: Sarah Rudd
• 1998-2000: Vanessa Hall
• 1997/98 (one-year term): Angela Ashurst-McGee