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The Rock Creek Review
ISSN 2689-7415
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.
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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.
Please watch for the Call For Papers for the 2026 volume in October 2025.
All submissions must:
- Be in English
- MLA Style
- Less than 5,000 words
- In a Google Doc or Word format
Questions? Email: rockcreek@heidelberg.edu\
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Questions about The Rock Creek Review? Please contact Barry Devine, Associate Professor of English, at bdevine@heidelberg.edu.
