Submissions for Edition 20 (2026-27) are NOW OPEN!
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Submissions for Edition 20 (2026-27) are NOW OPEN! 〰️
Reverberations
Edition 20: Reverberations. The Honours Review invites contributors to explore “Reverberations” as both consequence and a reaction. When something reverberates, it echoes beyond its origin. It hints at repercussions which are yet to be completely understood. What may start as a small tremor may amplify itself and bring into question established modes of thought or behaviour.
Reverberations invites contributors to explore these echoes: the consequences, reactions, patterns, and possibilities that emerge from an initial event. Reverberating means identifying the root event and its aftermath, understanding a sequence of events as having a knock-on event. As the famous metaphor goes: a butterfly flaps its wings from one side of the world, unknowingly causing the beginnings of a storm that will later devastate many on the other side.
We ask you to consider: what ideas keep returning within your discipline? Which assumptions, questions, discoveries, or concerns have echoed across generations of thought? What has changed, and what has remained familiar? And perhaps most importantly: what might those echoes tell us about where the discipline and its minds are headed next? Writers are encouraged to approach this theme expansively. We welcome all interpretations of the word "reverberations" and what it can mean to you and your research.
Sign up here to contribute and check out our submission guidelines here. We are now accepting submissions at our inbox honoursreviewrug@gmail.com, with the deadline set for February 20th, 2026. Extensions are possible, but only through request via our email, honoursreviewrug@gmail.com.
We accept: short essays (max. 2500 words), long essays (max. 5000 words), columns (max. 600 words), and poetry (max. 50 lines).
Submissions are open to ALL students, regardless of field or year of study!
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Once (or twice) a year, we print a compilation of high-quality, peer-reviewed articles in the form of the Honours Review magazine. Each edition examines a shared theme or idea from a multidisciplinary lens, and aims to introduce it to the general public. The journal provides Honours students and University of Groningen students with an opportunity to engage with the academic writing process and get their work published.
So far, the Honours Review is proud to have produced 19 official editions covering a wide range of disciplines, topics and issues, including interviews from Nobel Laureates and groundbreaking research. You can find the latest edition in the Honours tower, or browse them online through our archive.