Dominique

  • Death Waited Like a Stage Door Johnny 

    Death Waited Like a Stage Door Johnny 

    By LindaAnn LoSchiavo [Content Warning: Suicide]

  • Something Changed Capital Steez

    Something Changed Capital Steez

    By LindaAnn LoSchiavo [Content Warning: Suicide]

  • Five Men

    by Henry Stevens Eben has already written about the kinds of characters we want to see in your writing, but this week, while I was reading Orson Scott Card’s book dedicated to creating compelling characters, I found a nugget of his writerly advice that I felt deserved to be shared.

  • To The Person Who Stole My Package

    To The Person Who Stole My Package

    By Caitlin O’Halloran To the person who stole my package, I’m sure that you were surprised to find the set of human teeth wrapped in yesterday’s newspaper. You see, the thing about other people’s mail is that you never know what you’ll stumble upon.

  • Beige

    Beige

    By Allan Lake Beige on beige quietly but pointedly whines,  Please check me out as I humbly pretend to be

  • Submersible

    Submersible

    By Megan Cartwright Six-headed Scylla sets men six feet under, slides her twelve feet twelve thousand feet deep, dandling oxygen just out of reach.

  • Sticking the Landing: Writing a Satisfying Ending

    By Malai Escamilla When I’ve reached the end of a submission, one of the worst feelings to be left with is: “It didn’t go anywhere.”

  • Miss Revolutionary 3

    Miss Revolutionary 3

    Part 3 of 3 By Troy Hornsby She and Papa ate in silence, their cereal crunched softly inside the invisible cloak of silence that rested over their long oak table. Papa was scrolling through the NEWS app on his phone while Nasreen was reading the latest discussion post for her Classical Music class. The soft…

  • Beyond the Page: Writing Compelling Characters

    Beyond the Page: Writing Compelling Characters

    By Eben Bracy This week, we’re returning to our series on the common reasons why we reject stories, and what we are looking for instead. This week’s focus is on how we value characters and plots when we read submissions.

  • About Dominique

    We founded Dominique because we believe there are more deserving submissions than there are literary magazines to publish them. We came to this conclusion after working for several other literary magazines and having to be part of that rejection process. While Dominique aims to publish artful writing, our blog format, rolling submissions, and personalized rejection…