SF, Ep. 70

 

September 7, 2022 — After too many moons away, Literary Death Match made its gleeful return to San Francisco (and more specifically, Valencia Room). The brilliant night finished with Kate Folk narrowly topping her co-finalist Vanessa Hua in an Original or Adapted? finale that went down to the wire, winning Folk the LDM SF, Ep. 70 crown, and literary immortality to go with it. 

Here's the full lineup from the night: 

JUDGES: 

Literary Merit: Matthew Clark Davison, author of Doubting Thomas (a Foreword Indies Finalist), and creator/teacher at The Lab :: Writing Classes with MCD

Performance: Dominic Lim, musician, actor (who's performed everywhere from Off-Broadway to Carnegie Hall), and author of the debut novel, All the Right Notes (forthcoming from Hachette in June 2023)

Intangibles: Kala Keller, stand-up comedian currently raising a pack of feral children and outrunning existential dread

READERS:
Round 1:
* Tauheed Zaman, a Bengali-American immigrant, writer and physician, he was selected as a 2022 Lambda Literary Emerging Voices fellow for nonfiction, and has been featured in Salon, Foglifter Press, and at LitQuake. When not writing, you can find him singing and storytelling with the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus

* Vanessa Hua, author of the all-new, Forbidden City (recommended by Time Magazine), national bestseller A River of Stars, and the Asian/Pacific American Award-winning collection, Deceit and Other Possibilities

Round 2: 
* Kate Folk, a Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford and author of the all-new collection Out There

* Matt Carney, musician, fabulist fiction writer and co-creator of the series Club Chicxulub — stream his synthrock art band N! now!

Hosted by LDM creator Adrian Todd Zuniga (author of the award-nominated novel Collision Theory)
 

Produced by Matthew DeCoster