Welcome to Lucent Dreaming. We publish books and a biannual print and online creative writing magazine featuring beautiful, strange and surreal work from contributors worldwide.
Our stories deserve to be treated with integrity, not as a trend. Unless fair, living wages are made a priority for independent authors and publishers, this will not change.
We are super excited to share that two of our previously published contributors have recently released debut books of their own. Bethany Handley’s Cling Film
We hope you can join us at The Riverfront in Newport on Thursday 10 April 2025 from 6pm to celebrate the publication of Cling Film by Bethany Handley and Beyond
We are so excited to formally announce that Sodïq Oyèkànmí has joined the Lucent Dreaming team as freelance Poetry Editor. Having co-edited Andrew Ogun’s Slingshot
To mark the occasion, we’ve gone all out with a gleaming gold foil cover. This edition features work from 30+ writers and artists worldwide. Order
We’re so excited to introduce Kandance Siobhan Walker and Matt Kendrick, our respective poetry and flash fiction judges for the new Lucent Dreaming Prize, with
Aurora M. Lewis, whose story ‘Into the Thicket’ was first published in issue 5 of Lucent Dreaming, was born and raised in California and has
Read ‘In Bloom’ by Taylor Edmonds, first published in Lucent Dreaming Issue 1.
