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.
We are excited to share this year’s Lucent Dreaming Prize Flash Fiction longlist, as selected by judge Matt Kendrick. (In alphabetical order) Longlisted titles: 74
Our first ever book, Maps and Rooms: Writing from Wales, is available to preorder. In this anthology, writers from across Wales provide literary reflections on maps and rooms, and reveal a long held and layered relationship with place.
PRESS RELEASE Lucent Dreaming will be Wales’ first funded book and magazine publisher led by and employing two full-time editors of colour. Cardiff-based publisher Lucent
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
Kolawole Samuel Adebayo (he/him), whose piece ‘The Poem in Which I Open Myself Like a Door’ is published in issue 7 of Lucent Dreaming, is
Think about the story you have in mind. Think about what happens next. Think about how it ends. Think about what the characters might be thinking about. Think about the nearby landscape, the sights and smells and sounds.
We are delighted to announce the winners of Lucent Dreaming’s 2021 Flash Fiction contest. The winning stories appear below, and will be published in our
We are delighted to announce the winners of Lucent Dreaming’s 2021 Poetry and Short Story contests. The winning poems and short stories will appear below,
Lucent Dreaming issue 9 has arrived at Lucent HQ and we think it’s our best one yet. Subscribe today from only £20 to purchase your
After one of the toughest judging periods in our 3+ year history, we are proud to announce the winners of Lucent Dreaming’s 2020 Poetry and
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
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.
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