We will be open for issue 10 submissions from new and emerging writers between June 1st 2021 – August 8th 2021. You must have read a recent issue, or be a Lucent Dreaming subscriber, to submit work to the magazine. This will help you get a feel for the kind of writing we enjoy and give you the best chance. If you do not have access to a copy of Lucent Dreaming via your library, and have no or very low income, please email dreaminglucent@gmail.com to receive a free copy.

We exist to platform new and emerging writers. We consider a new/emerging writer someone who has been published in 10 or fewer publications in the past 5 years, and has not published a book or full collection. If you have published more prolifically, or are established, we ask that you do not submit work to us and instead share our call-out with new writers. Our next open submission call (for both new and established writers) will be for issue 11.

Word Limit: 1500-3,999 words
Pay Rate: Fixed £100 and a free contributor copy (from issue 10 onwards).

Pay per word rate approximately £0.025/$0.03 to £0.06/$0.08 as of 4th April 2021. 

Language: English

We enjoy beautifully written fiction, especially writing that embraces and explores inner-lives. We are excited by fiction with characters we can root for and care about, and longer fiction where we see character development. 

For an easier time, avoid:

• Zombies, vampires, werewolves, especially sexy ones
• Elves, dwarves, and other fantasy scenarios that come across as LOTR fan fiction
• Fan fiction based on copyright texts (as this is illegal for us to publish!)
• Gratuitous gore/torture and other violence for the sake of violence
• Erotica

Submissions Process:

Please use our submission form to upload your submission. You may need to create a Gmail address. 

Submissions should be unpublished stories submitted as a .doc/.docx file and in standard manuscript format. Please don’t submit stories that have been previously published in English, including stories you have published yourself, be it on your blog, or anywhere else.

Please only submit one story at a time. Wait until you’ve been accepted or rejected before sending us another story. Although we do try to give feedback on many of the submissions we receive, if we’ve rejected a story previously, don’t submit it again unless we specifically asked you to–even if it’s been fixed up based on our suggestions. If you do submit it, we’ll reject it unread.

We accept simultaneous submissions. Please contact us to immediately withdraw if accepted elsewhere. 

Please allow up to 8 weeks after the submission window ends for a response before inquiring about the status of your submission.

If you have been previously published by Lucent Dreaming, please wait 2 issues before submitting again.

Upon acceptance, the Lucent Dreaming team will send a contract for you to sign asking for the exclusive first rights to publish the story in print, the exclusive first rights to electronically publish the story on this website and the right to republish the story in or in connection with Lucent Dreaming, including electronic, audio, video, and hard copy promotional material and printed compilations, provided that authorial credit is given in every instance of reproduction. We will ask that you do not republish your work within six months of your piece being published by us online. Copyright remains with the author. 

Lucent Dreaming licenses its published content (when modified, edited, presented, or formatted by Lucent Dreaming, i.e. our version of your work) as CC-BY-NC. If you have any questions relating to CC licensing, please contact us at dreaminglucent@gmail.com 

We will be open for issue 10 submissions from new and emerging writers between June 1st 2021 – August 8th 2021. You must have read a recent issue, or be a Lucent Dreaming subscriber, to submit work to the magazine. This will help you get a feel for the kind of writing we enjoy and give you the best chance. If you do not have access to a copy of Lucent Dreaming via your library, and have no or very low income, please email dreaminglucent@gmail.com to receive a free copy.

We exist to platform new and emerging writers. We consider a new/emerging writer someone who has been published in 10 or fewer publications in the past 5 years, and has not published a book or full collection. If you have published more prolifically, or are established, we ask that you do not submit work to us and instead share our call-out with new writers. Our next open submission call (for both new and established writers) will be for issue 11.

Line Limit: Maximum 56 lines (including line spacing)
Pay Rate: Fixed £35 and a contributor copy of Lucent Dreaming (from issue 10 onwards).

Pay per line rate approximately £0.62/$0.86 to £35.00/$48.00 as of 17th April 2021. 

Forms: Any
Language: English

We enjoy beautifully written poems, especially surreal, experimental poems, evocative poems that explore the themes of identity, inner-lives and society, prose poetry, sci-fi and speculative poetry, poems that make us think and feel. 

Submissions Process

Please use our submission form to upload your submission. You may need to create a Gmail address. 

Submissions should be unpublished poems submitted as a .doc/.docx file and in the format you would like your poem to appear. Please only submit one poem at a time. Wait until you’ve been accepted or rejected before sending us another. Please don’t submit poems that have been previously published in English, including poems you have published yourself, be it on your blog, or anywhere else.

We accept simultaneous submissions. Please contact us to immediately withdraw if accepted elsewhere. 

Please allow up to 8 weeks after the submission window closes for a response before inquiring about the status of your submission. 

If you have been previously published by Lucent Dreaming, please wait 2 issues before submitting again.

Upon acceptance, the Lucent Dreaming team will send a contract for you to sign asking for the exclusive first rights to publish the poem in print, the exclusive first rights to electronically publish the poem on this website and the right to republish the poem in or in connection with Lucent Dreaming, including electronic or hard copy promotional material and printed compilations, provided that authorial credit is given in every instance of reproduction. We will ask that you do not republish your work within six months of your work being published by us online. Copyright remains with the author. 

Lucent Dreaming licenses its published content (when modified, edited, presented, or formatted by Lucent Dreaming, i.e. our version of your work) as CC-BY-NC. If you have any questions relating to CC licensing, please contact us at dreaminglucent@gmail.com

We will be open for issue 10 submissions from new and emerging writers between June 1st 2021 – August 8th 2021. You must have read a recent issue, or be a Lucent Dreaming subscriber, to submit work to the magazine. This will help you get a feel for the kind of writing we enjoy and give you the best chance. If you do not have access to a copy of Lucent Dreaming via your library, and have no or very low income, please email dreaminglucent@gmail.com to receive a free copy.

We exist to platform new and emerging writers. We consider a new/emerging writer someone who has been published in 10 or fewer publications in the past 5 years, and has not published a book or full collection. If you have published more prolifically, or are established, we ask that you do not submit work to us and instead share our call-out with new writers. Our next open submission call (for both new and established writers) will be for issue 11.

Word Limit: 400-1500 words
Pay Rate: Fixed £40 and a free contributor copy (from issue 10 onwards).

Pay per word rate approximately £0.026/$0.03 to £0.10/$0.13 as of 4th April 2021. 

Language: English

We enjoy beautifully written fiction, especially writing that embraces and explores inner-lives. We are excited by fiction with characters we can root for and care about, and longer fiction where we see character development. 

For an easier time, avoid:

• Zombies, vampires, werewolves, especially sexy ones
• Elves, dwarves, and other fantasy scenarios that come across as LOTR fan fiction
• Fan fiction based on copyright texts (as this is illegal for us to publish!)
• Gratuitous gore/torture and other violence for the sake of violence
• Erotica

Submissions Process:

Please use our submission form to upload your submission. You may need to create a Gmail address. 

Submissions should be unpublished stories submitted as a .doc/.docx file and in standard manuscript format. Please don’t submit stories that have been previously published in English, including stories you have published yourself, be it on your blog, or anywhere else.

Please only submit one story at a time. Wait until you’ve been accepted or rejected before sending us another story. Although we do try to give feedback on many of the submissions we receive, if we’ve rejected a story previously, don’t submit it again unless we specifically asked you to–even if it’s been fixed up based on our suggestions. If you do submit it, we’ll reject it unread.

We accept simultaneous submissions. Please contact us to immediately withdraw if accepted elsewhere. 

Please allow up to 8 weeks after the submission window ends for a response before inquiring about the status of your submission.

If you have been previously published by Lucent Dreaming, please wait 2 issues before submitting again.

Upon acceptance, the Lucent Dreaming team will send a contract for you to sign asking for the exclusive first rights to publish the story in print, the exclusive first rights to electronically publish the story on this website and the right to republish the story in or in connection with Lucent Dreaming, including electronic, audio, video, and hard copy promotional material and printed compilations, provided that authorial credit is given in every instance of reproduction. We will ask that you do not republish your work within six months of your piece being published by us online. Copyright remains with the author. 

Lucent Dreaming licenses its published content (when modified, edited, presented, or formatted by Lucent Dreaming, i.e. our version of your work) as CC-BY-NC. If you have any questions relating to CC licensing, please contact us at dreaminglucent@gmail.com 

Open for submissions from July 3rd 2021 and close September 15th 2021.

Dimensions: A5 Portrait, 300dpi artwork of any style with 3mm bleed (151x213mm) or
A4 Landscape, 300dpi artwork of any style with 3mm bleed

Style: Any, as long as it fits our dimensions. We accept reprints as well as exclusive art.

Payment: £10 and a contributor copy of Lucent Dreaming.

Submissions Process

Please email submissions to submissions@lucentdreaming.com with ART: NAME OF ARTWORK in the subject line.

Include your name and a cover letter. Your cover letter should contain any relevant history, and anything about yourself you feel is relevant.

Submissions should be submitted as a .jpeg, .jpeg2000 or .png file.

Please allow up to 3 weeks for a response before inquiring about the status of your submission.

Please only submit one piece at a time. Wait until you’ve been accepted or rejected before sending us another.

Please don’t send anything that is currently submitted elsewhere (simultaneous submissions).

Upon acceptance the Lucent Dreaming team will request:

• the right to electronically publish on this website, and
• the right to republish this art in or in connection with Lucent Dreaming, including electronic, audio, video, and hard copy promotional material and printed compilations, provided that authorial credit is given in every instance of reproduction.

Lucent Dreaming licenses its published content (when modified, edited, presented, or formatted by Lucent Dreaming, i.e. our version of your work) as CC-BY-NC. If you have any questions relating to CC licensing, please contact us at dreaminglucent@gmail.co

Word Limit; 40,000-80,000+ words 

Pay Rate: Advance fee of £500, 20% royalties 

Genres: Any, but with a preference for accessible literary, fantasy, sci-fi, speculative and/or surreal fiction

Language: English

You must be a UK resident for your work to be considered. We are especially looking for novel submissions from writers who are under-represented in UK publishing. 

We enjoy beautifully written fiction that is readable, especially writing that embraces and explores inner-lives, identity and society (our own or otherwise). We like fiction with characters we can root for and care about, and longer fiction where we see character development. 


You may submit whatever you want, but certain themes and plot types stand a significantly smaller chance. You may, however, take this as a challenge to write one of them exceedingly well and convince us!

For an easier time, avoid:

• Zombies, vampires, werewolves, especially sexy ones
• Fan fiction based on texts with copyright intact (This is illegal for us anyway!) 
• Gratuitous gore/torture and other violence for the sake of violence

Please be aware that as an indie published, we will not be distributing our books to bookshops or online companies who we know to exploit their workers. Selling and reselling on these platforms will be prohibited. As we know the life cycle of a book is long, we will instead set up our own reseller platform for people choosing to sell a previously purchased copy of any book published by Lucent Dreaming, ensuring the author continues to receive royalties. We would prefer to minimise our financial support of these companies as, unlike established publishers, we are not currently dependent on that income and would like to remain that way.

Submissions Process:

Please email your first three chapters (around 10k) to submissions@lucentdreaming.com with NOVEL SUBMISSION: STORY TITLE in the subject line by 31 July 2021. 


Include your name, cover letter, and word count. Your cover letter should contain any publishing history, and anything about yourself you feel is relevant.



Submissions should be submitted as a .doc/.docx file and in standard manuscript format.

Please wait until you’ve been accepted or rejected before sending us another novel. We aim to get back to you within two months. 


Although we do try to give feedback on many of the submissions we receive, if we’ve rejected a story previously, don’t submit it again unless we specifically asked you to–even if it’s been fixed up based on our suggestions. If you do submit it, we’ll reject it unread.


Please don’t submit work that have been previously published in English, including work you have published yourself, be it on your blog, or anywhere else.