Laura Wainwright in the Spotlight
September 5, 2020
“I can’t name my favourite books or art all the time because there are just too many and I find that different works resonate more at different times in life.”
“I can’t name my favourite books or art all the time because there are just too many and I find that different works resonate more at different times in life.”
‘There are still some double standards within the society that needs to be addressed. I wanted to give a voice to that. A voice that actually lived and experienced and loved”
David Hartley, whose poem ‘Silver Birch’ is published in issue 6 of Lucent Dreaming, is the scribe of many a strange tale that have burrowed their way into various delicious publications. His oddments and curios can be found in Ambit, Black Static, Structo, The Shadow Booth and BFS Horizons, among plenty of others. His most recent collection of flash fiction Spiderseed came out in
Sacred Cuts is the pseudonym Jodie Day, whose poem ‘The Mind’s Eye Has An Infinite View’ is featured in the seventh issue of Lucent Dreaming, uses for her collage work, chosen to represent the ritual process she undertakes and the spiritual journey she embarks on throughher work. Her works deals with themes of transcendency, rituals, and other esoteric philosophies. Although
Drew James, whose poem ‘Apocalypse and Camels’ is published in issue 6 of Lucent Dreaming, graduated from UNC Greensboro with a degree in English. This is his first publication. So, what inspired your piece ‘Apocalypse and Camels’? Can you tell us a little more about what it’s about? It actually started out as a story I wrote my junior year
Janet Innes, whose poem ‘Birdie, Birdie’ is published in issue 7 of Lucent Dreaming, is a poet and writer from Rhode Island. Her poetry has been published both in print and online by Arsenic Lobster, Abyss & Apex, and the American Journal of Nursing, among other publications. ’Birdie, Birdie‘ is her first piece of flash fiction. So, what inspired your piece ‘Birdie,
“I often use a lot of pronouns in my poetry and here, I was playing with the historical and the contemporary – and figuring out where, ‘me’, fits into this conversation”
Laura Theis, whose poem ‘salt apples’ is published in issue 7 of Lucent Dreaming, grew up in a place in Germany where each street bears the name of a mythical creature and now lives in Oxford with her little demon dog. Writing in her second language, she gained a Distinction in the Mst Creative Writing at Oxford University. Her writing
“The story is, first of all, about friendship, and then: what war (in this case the Rwandan Genocide) can do to the fabric of friendship.”
“I returned to writing as a way to deal with the loneliness and isolation of being an immigrant. In some ways, writing saved my life”