September is here and with NaNoWriMo and Lucent Dreaming issue 3 on the horizon, we have a challenge for the story story writers. We want to read your best, preferably fictional, untold stories. We’re looking for stories about secrets, stories hidden from ordinary view, stories from marginalised people and places. Our contest is free to enter and you could win
The Lucent Dreaming team congratulate our 1st prize winner Peter Burton with his story Tomorrow’s Possibilities and 2nd prize winner Tessa Byars with her story Save the Heart for Last. Their prizes, exclusive Lucent Dreaming merch and Amazon giftcards, have been sent and we look forward to seeing their work in print in our forthcoming issue 2! Excerpt from Tomorrow’s
CLOSED FOR JUDGING Looking for a summer challenge? Try our short story contest! It’s free to enter and you could win an Amazon gift card, limited edition Lucent Dreaming merch and publication on our website. Our prompt is WONDER. Download Lucent Contest PDF or scroll down for full details/rules/terms and conditions You are invited to Lucent Dreaming’s summer short story
Feel like you’ll never reach your dreams or that your art is unimportant? Don’t believe that voice in your head! Listen to the LD editors talk dreams, collaboration and creativity in our new YouTube video.
We’re officially open for short story and poetry submissions for the second issue of Lucent Dreaming. We’re looking for original, memorable, beautiful, surreal and strange fiction from new and emerging authors worldwide. View our submission guidelines and read our blog post about the submissions we like best. Please help us spread the word! Lucent Dreaming is an independent creative
If you’re wondering whether LD is right for your story/poem/art, read this post!
Announcing our short story contest winners: 1st Prize went to Jane Dougherty’s In a Blue Barque and 2nd Prize to Baris Cansevgisi’s The Mouldy Loaf. Congratulations both! Find an excerpt from Jane’s story below (You’ll find the full story in our debut issue!) and Baris’ full story following after: In a Blue Barque by Jane Dougherty They stole a
We’ve officially launched our independent creative writing magazine!
26 hours ago we received the first print run of Lucent Dreaming’s debut issue. Oh my goodness. It looks awesome. It’s full colour, illustrated and high quality and features new and emerging authors and artists. And when you’ve read and reread the stories and poems, you can even colour in our illustrations! We’re open for preorders for issue 1 until
Big news, dreamers! We now have a sample issue of Lucent Dreaming online for your perusal. Issue 0 is a little taster of what you can expect in our issues to come. The content is written and created by our editors and is our interpretation of the beautiful, strange and surreal writing and artwork we specialise in publishing. Download Lucent
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