The Rock Creek Review is an undergraduate literary criticism journal edited, produced and published by students at Heidelberg University in partnership with the English Department. This journal will solicit literary research from schools around the world for an annual publication every Spring.
Call For Papers
The Rock Creek Review - R e a d i n g t h e U n r e a l
In 1817, English poet, writer, and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge published his two-volume autobiography entitled Biographia Literaria. In his writing, Coleridge proposed the idea of the “suspension of disbelief”, in which an audience willingly suspends their ideals of what is real or not to fully understand and immerse themselves in a narrative or story. This year’s edition of The Rock Creek Review invites undergraduate essays analyzing and critiquing pieces of literature in which the reader must confront the unreal and suspend their disbelief. Essays falling outside of this theme will be accepted, but priority is given to those that do.
All submissions must:
Be in English
MLA Style
Less than 5,000 words
In a Google Doc or Word format
Submissions close December 10th at 10 pm Eastern US time
*We will take submissions outside of the theme, but priority is given to those fitting.
