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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 (Seren, 2025) and Richard Hooton’s The Margaret Code (Sphere, 2025) are now available to buy or order online and via your favourite bookshops. Bethany Handley, first published in issue 8 of Lucent Dreaming, is an
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 alongside Jannat Ahmed, he will be involved in poetry editing and selection across our publications. Sodïq Oyèkànmí is a poet, dramaturge and editor from Nigeria. A 2022/23 Poetry Translation Centre (UK) UNDERTOW Fellow. He is
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
This week we’re putting the spotlight on debut poet and Children’s Laureate Wales Connor Allen. Isabelle Copland interviews our author about his new children’s collection Miracles. “Every child and every person on this planet is a miracle…” What inspired you first to pick up a pen and start writing? Reading Harry Potter as a child and escaping to Hogwarts was
I wrote Mutability during the first UK lockdown in 2020, which was a time of great instability and upheaval. It was my way of processing all the disorientation and confusion around me.
Tonight we put the spotlight on Rose Segal, whose poem ‘Inventory of Important Things’ is published in issue 10 of Lucent Dreaming. You can watch and listen to the author read the piece on YouTube. So, what inspired your piece ‘Inventory of Important Things’? Can you tell us a little more about what it’s about? We were inbetween house moves
Tonight we put the spotlight on E.S. Northey, whose story ‘Grimoire’ is published in issue 10 of Lucent Dreaming. So, what inspired your piece ‘Grimoire’? Can you tell us a little more about what it’s about? I had been listening to an interview with the writer Alan Moore. He lamented the lost power of writers and explored the shared language
The idea for ‘Café Herakles’ came about when I was planning a trip to Vienna and reading a lot of guidebooks. I began to wonder just how much legwork went into researching these books, and whether guidebook writers were ever tempted to plagiarise each other’s work.
Tonight we put the spotlight on Elisse Sophia Ahmet, whose story ‘Lost in the Waterpark’ is published in issue 10 of Lucent Dreaming. You can watch and listen to the author read the piece on YouTube. So, what inspired your piece ‘Lost in the Waterpark’ in issue 10? Can you tell us a little more about what it’s about? I
