Founded in 1975, the cream city review is published twice yearly and is produced entirely by students in the Creative Writing Program. ccr offers our students practical, hands-on experience in all facets of publishing, from reviewing manuscripts to managing finances.

ccr has a strong national reputation for publishing poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction by new and established writers. Learn more about CCR.

To support ccr, please give to the Cream City Review Fund.

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.