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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
Acceptance Rate
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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14
Total submissions tracked
157 days
Average response time
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
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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Submissions should be unpublished stories submitted as a .doc/.docx file and in standard manuscript format.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
Examples
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