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 deemed “obscene,” the editors inserted them into copies anyway. More on that story here.

 

In that same revolutionary spirit, Cream City Review is proud to reintroduce our predecessor as our new home for work that operates outside the printed page. Cheshire seeks bold new writing, coding, videography, and expression from all over the world.

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See also our past IØ editions below for more interactive writing!

What we want: asemic writing, concrete poetry, interactive fiction & poetry, video, collage, hypertext essay, GIFpoetics, programmatic, gamic, and all hybrid and multimodal points along the way, things that capture process and procedure, lines and the signs between.

We are also interested in work guided by a philosophy of the new, which is to say work in which form and message converge in radical new ways. Queer, anticolonial, and ecotextual work are more than welcome.

What we don’t want: Text-based work that engages very little with mixed and/or  digital medium. For instance, if the only thing “experimental” about your poems is the spacing, they may be a better fit for our Cream City Review print issues (and you should totally send them there).

Not sure if your work is a fit? Query us at infoccr00 at gmail dot com and tell us a little about it.

For full Cheshire guidelines, go to the main Cream City Review General Submissions page.