Dead Reckoning Collective

Dead Reckoning Collective Representing the misrepresented. Shining a light on veterans living well.

Lots of us can carry a conversation, but can you put one on the page? We look at our hands all the time, but even for sk...
06/11/2025

Lots of us can carry a conversation, but can you put one on the page? We look at our hands all the time, but even for skilled artists they’re one of the most difficult things to capture and so is compelling dialogue. Learn how to craft your story through genuine conversation that reads naturally and offers insight about the characters.

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Please register on our website and join us virtually on Saturday, June 14th from 2:00-5:00 PM EST for a one day course, The Art of Dialogue, hosted by Matt Smythe who is a creative writing professor at Finger Lakes Community College and the author of Revision of a Man.

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You will receive an email Friday evening with the meeting link and all other pertinent information.

What is it they say? “It’s easier said than done”? 📗Have you ever struggled with putting conversation on the page? Maybe...
06/06/2025

What is it they say? “It’s easier said than done”?
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Have you ever struggled with putting conversation on the page? Maybe you’ve gotten it to a point you’re satisfied, but it could be better. This class is gonna make it a little easier to understand with prompts and exercises to enhance the way you put dialogue on the page.
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Join us on 6/14 from 11-2 PST in a one day virtual class with Matt Smythe (creative writing professor and author of Revision of a Man)

Our friendship with Michael Jerome Plunkett began at a workshop we hosted in Maine while everyone was still terrified to...
05/31/2025

Our friendship with Michael Jerome Plunkett began at a workshop we hosted in Maine while everyone was still terrified to leave their quarantined households and we forged lifelong bonds while we ripped apart each other’s drafts of stories, poems, and essays over the course of several days.
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We are so excited to be holding this one in our hands. Our friend has been hard at work on this project for so long and it’s surreal to finally have a galley to dig into.
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As we continue to drown in forever wars and total intolerance for next door neighbors, everyone should be reading this novel that focuses on the lasting generational burden of armed conflict in a modern retelling of the Sisyphus myth.
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We are so proud of our friend and thankful for the team behind him at Unnamed Press for recognizing the value of this story and the talent of this storyteller.

Much like many things, our peers and communities tell us we have to feel one way or another on certain days and do not u...
05/25/2025

Much like many things, our peers and communities tell us we have to feel one way or another on certain days and do not usually approve of anything in the middle or outside those boundary lines.
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If you’re celebrating Memorial Day, our recommendation is that you should enjoy the weekend and the day to honor those no longer with us. How you choose to do it and cherish the life you have is entirely up to you, but our only request is you live your remaining days well and refrain from trying to dictate how others live.
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Be good to each other and be good to yourselves.

Support independent bookstores and buy DRC titles from bookshop.org 📚📚📚
04/26/2025

Support independent bookstores and buy DRC titles from bookshop.org 📚📚📚

Next up! ✍️ ✍️✍️ [2-5 EST on Google Meet]
04/14/2025

Next up! ✍️ ✍️✍️ [2-5 EST on Google Meet]

NEXT UP! If you missed Journaling 101, this might be of interest. If you are looking at writing as a creative outlet to ...
04/02/2025

NEXT UP! If you missed Journaling 101, this might be of interest. If you are looking at writing as a creative outlet to dial in your self care, sign up. If you want to nerd out on prompts about Jungian shadow work with the author of Odysseus and the Oar, this is the course you don’t want to miss.
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Adam Magers is a Licensed Professional Counselor who served in the US Army as a combat medic and “IED (Improvised Explosive Device) Hunter” in Baghdad during the Iraq War. He was awarded the Army Commendation Medal with Valor for his actions during the Battle of Sade City. Since 2014, he has worked with hundreds of veterans in a variety of capacities. Today he serves as the Clinical Manager at The Battle Within, a non-profit that provides quality therapeutic programs to veterans and first responders; in addition to serving clients at his private practice.
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Join us 2-5 PST on Saturday 4/12 for another banger.

If you’re around AWP this week check out this offsite event at Sick City Records.
03/25/2025

If you’re around AWP this week check out this offsite event at Sick City Records.

If you submitted poems for So Long: The Anthology of Poet Warriors VOL III, please check your email. Whether it is an ac...
03/21/2025

If you submitted poems for So Long: The Anthology of Poet Warriors VOL III, please check your email. Whether it is an acceptance or rejection notification, we thoroughly enjoyed reading each and every submission and have been humbled over and over as we digested them and made our decisions.
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We want to thank you for your patience. It took us quite some time to sort through the submissions for this anthology and we take great care in how we make selections for the upcoming release, but want to acknowledge that we have fell so much further behind on our timeline than we would have liked and for that we apologize.
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Originally, we had So Long slated for a Veterans Day 2024 release, but ultimately decided to push that to August. A lot of things get lost in the mix with different ways to observe Veterans Day and while the two previous anthologies have themes consistent with the holiday, the meaning for this one is rooted in the end of the Global War on Terror and needed a publication date that was synonymous with it.
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So Long will be released on August 30, 2025 – The anniversary of the final day of the US Withdrawal from Afghanistan. Pre-Orders will begin on 5/31/2025.

Happy Valentine’s Day, y’all. Write a short and awful love poem (“roses are red, violets are blue…”) to someone and tag ...
02/14/2025

Happy Valentine’s Day, y’all. Write a short and awful love poem (“roses are red, violets are blue…”) to someone and tag them in the comments. Extra points awarded if it’s to your homie and not your significant other. 📗❤️📗❤️📗

Go birds 🦅
02/10/2025

Go birds 🦅

Are you a fan of writing what’s “real,” but you want to do it creatively. A memoir vs an autobiography perhaps? The pers...
01/26/2025

Are you a fan of writing what’s “real,” but you want to do it creatively. A memoir vs an autobiography perhaps? The personal essay is the best place to start and the braided essay is as good as it gets.
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A braided essay is one that weaves two or more distinct “threads” (a story with a plot or simply a string of thought about a specific topic) into a single essay.
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Join DRC co-founder, Tyler James Carroll for a class on this beautiful part of the craft on February 15th on Google Meet.

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