SF, Ep. 71

October 19, 2022 — Literary Death Match returned to SF for its record 71st event, partnering with the Litquake festival for what an electrifying night of bookish wonder at The Valencia Room that saw Tomas Moniz topple Ploi Pirapokin at a Repeat After Me finale by a narrow 2-0 margin, winning Moniz the Literary Death Match SF, Ep. 71 crown, and literary immortality to go with it.

Here's the full lineup from the sterling evening: 

JUDGES: 
Literary Merit: Ingrid Rojas-Contreras, Colombian-born author of the all-new The Man Who Could Move Clouds, a National Book Award Finalist (!!!), and Fruit of the Drunken Tree (a silver medal winner in First Fiction from the California Book Awards and a New York Times editor’s choice) 

Performance: Ivy Vasquez, stand-up comedian — listen to her album "Pizza Rolls & Champagne"

Intangibles: Astrid Kane, award-winning journalist and Senior Editor at The San Francisco Standard

READERS:
Round 1:
* Ploi Pirapokin, the Nonfiction Editor at Newfound Journal whose work has been featured in Tor.com, Pleiades, Ninth Letter, Sycamore Review, Gulf Stream Magazine, and more

* Colin Winnette, award-winning author of the indie best-sellers Coyote and Haints Stay, and The Job of the Wasp, an American Booksellers Association’s Indie Next Pick, plus his next novel, Users releases February 2023.

Round 2: 
* Tomas Moniz, author of the debut novel Big Familia, finalist for the 2020 PEN/Hemingway, LAMBDA, and Foreward Indies Awards, and editor of Rad Dad and Rad Families anthologies, plus he teaches writing at Berkeley City College

* Olga Zilberbourg, Russia-born author of Like Water and Other Stories, four Russian-language collections of short stories, and is consulting editor at Narrative Magazine, co-facilitator of the SF Writers Workshop, and co-runs Punctured Lines, a feminist blog on post-Soviet and diaspora literature

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

Produced by Matthew DeCoster

Where: The Valencia Room, 647 Valencia St, San Francisco