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PRESS RELEASE: Publication day for our first fiction title: ‘Jude’ by Elin Heron

September 30, 2024

Lucent Dreaming has been operating as a creative writing magazine since April 2018 from Cardiff. In 2023, we began our single-author trade publishing venture, launching Dominoes and Miracles by former Wales Children’s Laureate, Connor Allen. This autumn, financially supported by Books Council Wales, we launch our first fiction title. Jude by Elin Heron is a young adult novel that explores

Elin Heron in the spotlight

August 5, 2024

Today we shine the spotlight on Elin Heron, whose story John Truslove appeared in issue 11 of Lucent Dreaming, and whose book Jude is forthcoming with Lucent Dreaming. So, what inspired your piece ‘JOHN TRUSLOVE’? Can you tell us a little more about what it’s about? There is so much I could tell you about this story because it is

COMING SOON: Slingshot by Andrew Ogun (3 Oct 2024)

March 25, 2024

Lucent Dreaming signs Andrew Ogun’s debut poetry collection ‘Slingshot’

Lucent Dreaming is Highly Commended in The British Book Awards: Small Press of the Year (Wales) Category 2024

March 11, 2024

The Bookseller have announced their winners for regional and country finalists for The British Book Awards Small Press of the Year 2024. Lucent Dreaming have been highly commended in their category amongst many deserving publishers. Receiving this recognition as a small press at the beginning of our book publishing journey means the world. We look forward to our growth from

Kolawole Samuel Adebayo in the Spotlight

November 28, 2021

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 an old soul in a young Nigerian body whose poems seek to awaken the human consciousness. His works have appeared or forthcoming on Kanstellation, The Kalahari Review, Glass Poetry, Button Poetry, Burning House Press, The

Thoughts on… Writing Advice [by Jonas David]

November 22, 2021

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.

Lucent Dreaming 2021 Flash Fiction Competition, Winning and Highly Commended

October 11, 2021

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 upcoming 10th issue next month. Highly commended stories will appear in issue 10 of Lucent Dreaming which is available to preorder. 1st Place Jeffrey Skinner, ‘Mission Creep’ 2nd Place Julia Clayton, ‘Dacre Must Fall’ 3rd

Issue 9 arrives!

April 23, 2021

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 copy. Issue 9 features prose and poetry inspired by fairytale and folklore. And, to celebrate our upcoming third anniversary of issue 1 this April 28th, we’ve gone all out with a foil cover for our

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Thoughts on… Lucent Dreaming [by Jannat Ahmed]

September 13, 2024

At the end of last year, our writers and funders received an email from me outlining a new publication timeline. It followed a long period of sporadic communication and delays. I referenced my mental ill health, exacerbated by grief and loss. I was grateful for the kind messages in response, all supportive and understanding. At the time, writing things out

To the women who planted flowers in my body, by Michael Imossan (Lucent Dreaming Issue 13)

May 15, 2024

How do we tell the difference between light and flight?Because what is unheavy, unheld by the weight of bloodwill always make it to the sky. The cricket knows toSlice the evening with its chirping. The songbird knows itmust gift its voice to the frailness of morning just like I knowI must gift all my tenderness to the women who planted

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Lucent Dreaming to publish debut novel ‘Jude’ by Elin Heron

May 15, 2024

We’re honoured to share that we will be publishing our first novel this September 2024. Fiction Editor Samiha Meah officially acquired Jude by Elin Heron in April 2023. When asked about why she wrote this story, Elin Heron tells us ‘As a writer I am concerned with landscape and magic and Jude is a novel where I explore these themes, alongside the

maghrib by Sodïq Oyèkànmí (Lucent Dreaming Issue 13)

May 13, 2024

time & seasons are in God’s handsit is Friday/ i sujood in the masjid & asks God to return meback/ to the spring of my life a life where there’s still enough light/in the eyes of my mother where the pictures of our homeis still hanging/ perfectly/ on the walls & not fraying at the edges/ decaying/slowly/ gathering dust no

SNARE by Calhoun Crimin (Lucent Dreaming Issue 13)

May 8, 2024

TOMB SEALED BY FLOOR RISE SCIENCE FIGHTS NATURE FOR BODY OF MAN IMPRISONED The body of Theo Wood was located earlier today, having been removed from the fatal tunnel. He had been pushed into what appeared to have been a crystalline grotto, now shattered and crushed by falling rocks. According to eyewitness reports, a hand was visible. It is still

To the Low Church by AN Grace (Lucent Dreaming Issue 13)

May 6, 2024

AN Grace lives in Liverpool. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Another Chicago, North Dakota Quarterly, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and others.T: @isthisboring Buy issue 13 today. Lucent Dreaming is an independent creative writing magazine and book publisher for beautiful, imaginative and surreal fiction, poetry and artwork from emerging authors and artists worldwide. Subscribe to Lucent Dreaming

Strawberries and Cream, by Rowena Newman (Lucent Dreaming Issue 13)

April 29, 2024

The bathroom floor tiles are bulgy and uneven. Within a week, they divide like tectonic plates. Floating away in the tub, I picture the continents and how the world used to be one single mass of land. How easy it would have been to visit Duriania if it had existed back then. When I tell my husband where my parents

Rosewood Chest, by Madalena Daleziou (Lucent Dreaming Issue 13)

April 25, 2024

My great-grandmother’s chest is swollen. It is rising and falling fast tonight. My family says it’s never done this before, not since she brought it home on her market tray in 1963. The tray broke down afterwards, its right wheel rolled away in disgrace. Not that it mattered much to her. It is not every day that you find a

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