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 print edition. Browse our contents page below.
seven disney princesses fall headlong into a new tale by Timi Sanni
Meadowsweet by Hannah Durham
Magic Bean Broth by Dann Castillo
Queen Amina by Matosan Nelson
pete davidson (ariana grande could never) by Ella Sadie Guthrie
In Silk and Brine by Kathryn Tann
Sirena by Sara Veal
Refractions in Salt Water by Pauline Jérémie
Sunburn Affairs by Imogen. L. Smiley
Shard of Memories by Rahma O. Jimoh
Pond Life by Jean Gillespie
Holy Pool by Creanu Bosac
Where Summer and Winter Meet by Nicolette Elzie
The Goddess with Two Faces by Molly Montgomery
Cyclops by Jasmine Hope Hemmings
Two Sons by Ryan Shane Lopez
Adoption Leave by Rhys Pearce-Palmer
The Knight and the Dragon by Jamie Williams
And yet homologation with save us by Giulia Medaglini
Now I am human by Rosie Garland
I am Greg by Özgür Uyanık
Geneva by Juanita Cox
‘You think too much’ by Neha Maqsood
Power Play by Rob McIvor
The Year I Ran by Amy Cameron
No Need to Worry by Justine Gardner
Into the Light by Hannah Walker
Sleeping Bag by Agnieska Filipek
Little Friends by Josie Deacon
Fellow Possessions by Ellen HUang
Anticks by DW Evans
Frances Griffiths and the Cottingley Fairies by Poppy Jennings
Birch by J.S> Watts
Pillar by Philip Berry
Pine by Alex Howe
Family Folklore by Ellie Butler Church
I wonder what it would be like to meet a blue whale by Alexander Smith
Origin Story by Katie Jenkins
The End Times by Shona Ray Ferguson
On My Chest by Madalena Daleziou
Fantasised Future by Abigail Christine Carlton
Windows by Aanchal Verma
Intersection Blues by L M Rees
Neverland by Federica Colletti
Rainforest Cafe Proverb by Charlotte Knight
Lodestone by Kevin Risner
soul food by Hatice Acikgoez
sleep paralysis by Jessamine Liu
Bridesmaid by Charlotte Murray
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