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Thank you for your interest in contributing to Cream City Review. We are devoted to publishing memorable and energetic fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid texts, and artwork that represent a broad range of creators with diverse, unique backgrounds. General submissions are accepted for our print magazine and/or online feature from August 2 to November 2 and from January 2 to April 2nd. Submissions are considered for issues one year in advance. Contributors are given a one-year subscription to CCR beginning with the issue in which their work appears. Works from current UWM students(and Alumni from the past two years) are not eligible for submission.

THEMED CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Disunion: a state of

cream city review calls for rupture. For the Spring/Summer (50.1) issue, we want fiction, poetry, and hybrid texts that wrestle with the theme of Disunion: a state of, where form follows the fault lines of separation and traces the fractures of our current terrain. We are drawn to pieces that unravel the shifting self, its relationships, and its upheavals. 

Disunion is absence and aftermath, breakage and becoming. We welcome interrogations of dismantling and what emerges in its wake. Show us the ache of severance, pains of distance, and the clarity of exile. How, in its unraveling, might disunion reveal new possibilities and perhaps, an unexpected union. 

Please only upload one submission per genre (up to five pieces per submission for poetry and visual art). Multiple submissions in a single genre will be ignored.

Reading Fee: $2.50

Cream City Review does not accept any work, under any conditions, that was generated using Language Learning Models (LLMs) or generative AI.