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"We publish books and a biannual print and online creative writing magazine featuring beautiful, strange and surreal work from contributors worldwide."

"We publish books and a biannual print and online creative writing magazine featuring beautiful, strange and surreal work from contributors worldwide."

Vibe

Send us your best but less intimidating

Response Time

2 months after close

Acceptance Rate

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  • Payment

    Yes: £10-£100

  • Fee

    No

  • Simultaneous submissions

    Yes

  • Previously published

    No

  • Expedited response

    No

  • Available in print

    Yes

  • Provides contributor copies

    Yes: yes

  • Examples online

    Yes

  • Active on social media

    Yes

Accepted genres

5 genres

Fiction

Max words: 4000

Max pieces: 1

Fiction

Max words: 1500

Poetry

Max lines: 56

Max pieces: 1

Art

Max pieces: 1

Photography

Max pieces: 1

Fiction

Max words: 4000

Max pieces: 1

Fiction

Max words: 1500

Poetry

Max lines: 56

Max pieces: 1

Art

Max pieces: 1

Photography

Max pieces: 1

Statistics

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Track submission

14

Total submissions tracked

157 days

Average response time

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Average acceptance rate

57 days

Fastest response time

237 days

Slowest response time

How to submit

Process

Issue submission forms are posted at https://lucentdreaming.com/submit/

Cover letters

This magazine does not list any details on their website for this section.

Eligibility

No specific eligibility requirements

Formatting

Submissions should be unpublished stories submitted as a .doc/.docx file and in standard manuscript format.

Rights for published work

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.

Additional info

Submissions are free, but we ask that you read a recent issue before submitting work to the magazine. You can purchase a digital issue from as little as £3 or subscribe to the magazine from as little as £10. Pays! Fixed £100 (£200 for low-income writers in the UK*) and a free contributor copy. For art: £10 and a contributor copy. We define low-income in the UK as anyone who earns around £17,500 or less per year, lives in the UK, and doesn’t receive significant or regular contributions in kind from wealthier family or friends (e.g. living in your aunt’s flat in London at a reduced rate or for free).

About the Magazine

Founded in 2017 | United Kingdom

You are welcome to Lucent Dreaming, an independent magazine for emerging authors and artists worldwide. We are a biannual print and online magazine publishing beautiful, strange and surreal short stories, poetry and artwork from contributors worlwide. We love print, so every issue is published to the highest quality specification we can afford. Issue 9, for example, is printed on 120gsm uncoated paper, in full colour, wrapped in 300gsm silk paper with a soft matte finish and silver foiling.

Masthead

We currently list only main editors, more will be added later! If you are an editor, you can edit your masthead in our admin panel :)

Jannat Ahmed

Editor-in-Chief

Joachim Buur

Founding Editor

Jonas David

Fiction Editor

Samiha Meah

Editor

Christa Harwood

Editor