cream city review

We’re excited to announce our new masthead for Fall 2024 —with lots of new and returning editors! You’ll also notice that we have two new submission categories.

In recognition of the fact that so many of our readers are writers, teachers, and students of creative writing and literature, we now have an Essays category (in addition to our more narrative-based creative nonfiction pieces). When submissions open, send us your analysis of literature, the craft of writing, and creative writing pedagogy.

We’re also thrilled to be making space in our pages for translated works. Our Translations Editor, Sophie Nunberg, says she is looking for writing that is “bold, beautiful, and unafraid of its feelings and its lyricism. Finely crafted, artfully rendered.”

General submissions open on August 1, so mark your calendars!

And a big thank you to the outgoing editors for their contribution to Cream City Review. We’ll miss you!

CREAM CITY REVIEW 48.1 IS NOW AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE! We're thrilled to release the latest issue of CCR, featuring work by the talented Kayleb Rae Candrilli, MICHAEL CHANG, Kiyanna Hill, Taara Khalilnaji, Maurya Simon, Dashka Slater, Jeffrey Utzinger, and many more! The cover art is by the brilliant Amal Azzam.

AND for a LIMITED TIME use code CCR24 at checkout to get 20% off when purchasing our new issue or a CCR subscription! If you're an existing subscriber, you can also use the code to extend or renew your subscription. This offer is only available for JULY and AUGUST, so act fast! https://uwm.edu/creamcityreview/subscriptions/

Current subscribers and contributors will receive their copies mid-to-late July!

Cream City Review is dedicated to uplifting the work of writers and artists who are Black, Indigenous, or People of Color. We seek to create a space where underrepresented stories and experiences can thrive. By providing a platform for BIPOC creators, we aim to amplify the rich, multifaceted narratives that are often overlooked in mainstream literary circles.

The free submissions period for BIPOC writers and artists opens today, July 1st, and will continue throughout the month until July 31st. We encourage you to submit your work to us! Link in bio.

General submissions open on August 1st.

Flash Friday from Cream City Review, "Fireflies" from Ted Kooser, originally in CCR issue 16.1 (Spring 1992).

Friday Flashback: Ted Kooser – Fireflies | Cream City Review Friday Flashback: Ted Kooser – Fireflies Posted by [email protected] | Mar 8, 2024 | Blog In the lead-up to our 50th Anniversary next year, Cream City Review is revisiting work in our Archives. Below is one from Ted Kooser, Pulitizer Prize winner, former U.S. Poet Laureate, and one of the great liv...

New in Cheshire: A quintet of Asemic Objects from the great Grzegorz Wróblewski. Dig in!

Cheshire – Grzegorz Wróblewski | Cream City Review Cheshire – Grzegorz Wróblewski from Asemic Objects Artist Note: “I have been dealing with the asemic writing technique for several decades. I usually performs this type of work using the ink technique on various types of paper. These are often made of handmade paper, but also of smooth, slipper...

Cheshire is here!
Our new digital home for weird, wild text & image begins with a selection from Ben Miller’s hybrid work Make. Take a breath.

https://uwm.edu/creamcityreview/cheshire-ben-miller/

This week’s Poem of the Week is “Giving or Gutting” by Roseanna Alice Boswell.

Read the poem and author's note here: https://missourireview.com/giving-or-gutting-by-roseanna-alice-boswell/

Dropping off some free library copies in Milwaukee.

Our annual contest closes on January 1st! Don’t wait—submit today! 🌿

https://mississippireview.submittable.com/

Our 5th Anniversary Issue is finally here! Immerse yourselves in this truly tremendous winter issue! ❄️☃️✨

We are so grateful for the support we have received. Thank you to our contributors & readers.

https://www.theshorepoetry.org/issue-20

We're celebrating the launch of Cream City Review issue 47.1 with a free online reading on Sunday, September 24 at 6.30pm CT.
Featured writers and artists include Kyoko Mori, William Fargason, Melissa Llanes Brownlee, Peggy Kyoungwon Lee, Andrew Bertaina, dezireé a. brown, Wendy Oleson, Laura Schmitt, Melissa Wang, Katie Kopajtic, Stephanie Choi, Jessica Tanck, Andrew Collard, Julie Lunde and more!
Register on Zoom here: https://wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcpc-CqpzMsHdTV-JdQf2nLJmQS24CpPf9i

new work Melissa Llanes Brownlee, who’s also in our latest, from The Cincinnati Review!

miCRo: "Or Better Yet" by Melissa Llanes Brownlee In “Or Better Yet,” Llanes Brownlee captures the whirlwind of color and sound of a bustling family gathering.

Did you know our open reading period supplies
MOST of the books that we publish?! And it’s happening RIGHT NOW!

Tupelo Press is holding open submissions for book-length poetry collections (48-90 pages) and chapbook-length poetry collections (28-47 pages) for the month of July.

Selected manuscripts will receive publication by Tupelo Press, a $1,000 advance, a book launch, and national distribution with energetic publicity and promotion. Please read the complete guidelines before submitting your manuscript.

**This is not a contest. We choose what we love!**

https://www.tupelopress.org/july-open-submission/

Hey, literary community! Pithead Chapel is seeking new Assistant Editors in Prose Poetry. Join our team to read some fantastic writing and gain valuable experience working with a lit journal! (A pretty cool one, if we do say so ourselves...)

Exciting news: our Larry Brown Short Story Award will be open for submissions soon!
✍️ 1 story per entry up to 4,000 words
📝 Reading previously unpublished work
🏆 Awarding up to $500 and publication

We & judge .nagamatsu can't wait to read your work!

https://pitheadchapel.com/larrybrown/

A little over TWO WEEKS left to enter your poem in our Full Circle Haiku Contest!

Click here for more info:

https://sonicboomjournal.wixsite.com/sonicboom/full-circle-haiku-contest

After a brief delay, CCR is happy to officially announce the opening of our new digital imprint, Cheshire. Inaugural work forthcoming from James Knight, ReVerse Butcher, Stephen Nelson, Marco Giovenale & more! Subs open in August!

Cheshire | IØ | Cream City Review Cheshire | IØ The original Cheshire began at the Wisconsin State Teachers College in 1931 and ended at UWM in 1968, a year before the new Creative Writing program began. In 1964, it was at the center of a university censorship case; when the off-campus printer refused to publish certain poems it de...

Cream City Review #47.1 is here!
feat. work from: Shane Allison (cover), Adam Clay, Melissa Llanes Brownlee, Alejandro Lucero, Tyler Starks, Laura Schmitt, Catherine Eaton Skinner, Alana Solin, Renée Lepreau, Caleb Jordan, Sean Cho A., Stephanie Choi, Lisa Lewis, Andrew Collard, Nandini Dhar, Heidi Lasher, William Fargason, Catherine Garbinsky, Wendy Oleson, Benjamin Faro, Andrew Bertaina, Jerry Xiao, Peggy Kyoungwon Lee, Katie Kopajtic, dezireé a. brown, Julie Lunde, Arien Alana Reed, Josephine Florens, Matthew Tuckner, Kyoko Mori, Sam Herschel Wein, Jessica Tanck, Dorsía Smith Silva, and Melissa Wang.

Copies will be mailed out 2-3 weeks.

Prizes for Indigenous Writers – swamp pink From July 1st to July 15th, submit fiction and nonfiction of up to 25 pages or a set of 1-3 poems. Winners in each genre will receive $500 and publication.

We're thrilled to share an interview with Bo Hee Moon, whose debut collection of poems, OMMA, SEA OF JOY AND OTHER ASTROLOGICAL SIGNS, is a gorgeous meditation on identity, longing, and grief. Her poems "Generosity" and "Korean Little Girl" appear in our Fall 2022 issue.

Many thanks to our intern, Hazel Ramos, for her careful reading
and thoughtful questions!

Searching Beneath the Stars: An Interview with Bo Hee Moon | Cream City Review Searching Beneath the Stars: An Interview with Bo Hee Moon Posted by [email protected] | May 3, 2023 | Blog, Interviews Cream City Review intern, Hazel Reese Ramos, recently connected with Bo Hee Moon to discuss her new poetry collection and themes of identity, hunger, and the connections that nouris...

Submit – petrichor General Submissions: April 15-June 1 Pebbles Submissions: April 15-April 30 We’re into: Poetry: Send a single attached doc or docx file of no more than three poems, unpublished elsewhere. Visual Poetry/Comics/Imagetext: No more than five separate PNG files, or a single PDF. When it comes to format...

Still time to submit!!!

This issue’s spine-line is our recent-favorite office art!

For Cream City folks: This open mic started last summer and has really grown into the city’s next big lit happening!

Presenting: Tabi Po, a “live poetry event”, with free poetry reading by a featured writer as well as a poetry open mic! 🎤

🇵🇭 Although the name is a nod to the founders Filipina’s roots*, there is no theme. The featured reader starts the first 20 minutes of the program, then turns it over to the open mic readers.**

🍒 This month’s featured reader is local Milwaukean Bryan Cherry, a poet and musician. More info on his musical and poetry work: https://bryancherry.com/

We’re excited to host this uniquely cerebral event! Join us in the Joyce Room this Sunday from 3-430pm! On-street parking is available.

💻 Their website: https://www.tabipopoetry.com/poetry-series-open-mic

*Tabi Po is “said aloud when passing through dwellings of spirits”.
**Interested in Open Mic? Simply sign up at the beginning. You get 5 minutes or 1-2 poems. There’s about 10-12 readers total.

Issue 46.2 is here! The print copies will be mailed to subscribers and contributors in the next 2-3 weeks!

✨It’s here!✨

We are THRILLED to announce Issue 44.2 of Cream City Review, full of memorable and energetic stories, poems, essays, and art! Inside you'll also find winners, runners-up, and selections from our 2020 summer prizes!