since 1975, cream city review has been MILWAUKEE’S LEADING LITERARY JOURNAL AND is ONE OF THE OLDEST GRADUATE-STUDENT RUN LITERARY MAGAZINES IN THE COUNTRY.

issue 50.1: on disunion

This issue begins in celebration and foreshadowing with the winners of our 2025 Summer Prizes in Fiction & Poetry: Mohammad Salah Sahragard’s short story “Morphine and the Knight,” chosen by Deesha Philyaw, and Susan...

CCR’s 2026 Pushcart Prize Winner: Hannah Licht’s “Consanguinity”

We have just received news that Hannah Licht's fiction piece, "Consanguinity," featured in our 49.1 Spring/Summer issue, has won a Pushcart Prize! Congratulations to Hannah, a talented and devoted member of the writing...

Our 2025 Summer Contest Winners!

We are thrilled to announce Susan Muth and Mohammadsaleh Sahragard as our winners! Susan Muth's "Main Post Chapel" was selected by MICHAEL CHANG as the winner for our 2025 Summer Poetry contest! and Mohammadsaleh...

cream city review turns 50: a reflection

There is a lot to be said about fifty years. In the scheme of a literary landscape, it is many, many generations, but cream city review’s ethos remains young, vibrant, and contemporary. In these pages is witnessed the...

Book Review: Revolutionary Algorithms: A Tiktok Manifesto by Torey Akers

by Luise Noe On the surface, Torey Akers’ Revolutionary Algorithms: A TikTok Manifesto (Grand Central, 2025) explores the counter-hegemonic potential of TikTok and the (fabricated) political outrage against the app on...

Submit to Our 2026 Summer Prize, Judged by Aimee Bender and Heid E. Erdrich! $1000 in prizes!

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Latest issue: 50.1 (Spring/Summer 2026)

Featuring: Claire Denson, Daniel Lurie, Ngozi Ekeledo, August Reed, Nabeela Washington, KP McLaughlin, Victoria Hood, our 2025 contest winners:  Mohammad SalehSahragard and Susan Muth, and more.

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Photo of cover of Cream City Review Issue 44.2

49.2: 50 years of cream city review 

Featuring: Roxane Gay, Mary Oliver, Ocean Vuong, Aimee Bender, Deb Olin Unferth, Brenda Cárdenas, Billy Collins,  Kyoko Mori, Terrance Hayes, Maggie Smith, Paige Towers, Heid E. Erdrich, Aimee Bender, and many more.

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