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...

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...

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...

by Allie Farrell Photograph by Morgan Lyttle   Maria Zoccola, a queer Southern writer and educator from Memphis, Tennessee, brings the epic to the everyday in her debut collection, Helen of Troy, 1993 (Scribner, 2025)....

by LG Sebayan   Nathan Xavier Osorio’s award-winning debut poetry collection, Querida, looks at the lives of a family of immigrant origin in the San Fernando area of Los Angeles. Chosen by Shara McCallum as the winner...