Welcome to Lucent Dreaming, an independent magazine and book publisher for emerging authors and artists worldwide.
Although we now publish poetry collections, novels and anthologies, we began as a creative writing magazine, launching our first website for submissions on October 31st 2017. Our first magazine launched in April 2018 and we continue to produce a biannual print, online and audio magazine for beautiful, strange and surreal short stories, poetry and artwork. We are based in Cymru.
You can support our mission to champion emerging talent by buying, subscribing, or becoming a Lucent Dreaming Patron on Patreon!
Curious? Peruse issue 0 and issue 1 which are freely available to read on our website!
Team
Lucent Dreaming is managed and created by our editorial board and staff.
Jannat Ahmed

Jannat is co-founder and director at Lucent Dreaming.
Samiha Meah

Samiha Meah is fiction editor at Lucent Dreaming.
Jonas David

Jonas David is a writer of strange fiction living in the Seattle area. His stories have appeared in BarBar lit, Writing Disorder, Propagule, and others. At Lucent Dreaming he is a fiction editor and sometimes article writer and slush reader. His own writing appears on jonas-david.com, and you can follow him on Twitter @thejonasdavid.
Sodïq Oyèkànmí

Sodïq Oyèkànmí is a poet, dramaturge and editor from Nigeria. A 2022/23 Poetry Translation Centre (UK) UNDERTOW Fellow. He is a 2024 Best of The Net winner, and 2x Pushcart Nominee. A recipient of the Unserious Collective Fellowship (2023), he won the SEVHAGE/Hyginus Ekwuazi Poetry Prize (2023). His works have been published in ANMLY, Blue Earth Review, Frontier Poetry, LOLWE, Lucent Dreaming, Modern Poetry in Translation, North Dakota Quarterly, ONLY POEMS, Passages North, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Wales, Strange Horizons, The Polygot, and more. Find him on X @sodiqoyekan & on Instagram @sodiq_oyekanmi
Joachim Buur

Joachim works as an English teacher and is one of Lucent Dreaming’s founding editors. He’s an average Jo on the outside, but half-geek-half-snob on the inside. When Jannat manages to rouse him, he makes the magazine’s covers and does other little odd jobs. He’s currently chipping away at a science fiction story, but can’t decide whether to write it in English or Dutch.
His motto? Eyes, being photonic receptacles, can see light everywhere.