Our Fall 2011 issue is now available. Subscribers and contributors should be receiving their issues by mail shortly. To order a copy, click subscribe above. Issues are $12 US/ $14 Canada. Our Spring 2012 issue 36.1, featuring our annual contest winners, is underway and should be available this May.

Our online submission system is now closed to new submissions, but fear not… we begin reading general submissions again beginning August 1st for our new theme, CONSTRAINTS.

You can apply the idea of constraints to the content or the form of your work. Constrain your characters. Constrain yourself. Write a story about being limited by your body, by finances, by unbreachable borders. Or write a poem in which every line MUST begin with “I can not…” Tie your hands together as you write. Limit by number of words or number of syllables. There are no constraints on how to interpret “constraints…”

Our judges have chosen the winners of our annual contests in fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction!

Fiction Winner: Caroline Wilkinson for “The Half-Glass Bed”
Judged by Vanessa Hua

Poetry Winner: Don Judson for ”Appalachia,” “Florida Scrapbook,” “Waiting,” “season of the witch (revisited),” and “Saying the Names”
Judged by Esther Lee

Creative Nonfiction Winner: Debra Marquart for “Ephemera”
Judged by Margaret MacInnis

Thanks to all who entered… we at cream city review deeply appreciate your support and hope you will enter again when our contest re-opens beginning June 1st (closing December 31). Our fee is$15/story (no longer than 20 pages) or 3-5 poems, payable to cream city review. The entrant’s fee includes the issue in which prize winners are announced. We offer a prize of $1,000.00 plus publication and a free copy of cream city review. Address your submission to either fiction contest, poetry contest, or nonfiction contest and send to:

cream city review
Department of English
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
PO Box 413
Milwaukee, WI 53201

Prize submissions must be typed, double-spaced (poetry may be single-spaced), and include the author’s name and address. There is no need to include an SASE. Simultaneous submissions are acceptable as long as cream city review is notified in the event the manuscript is accepted elsewhere. The reading fee is non-refundable. Good luck!