Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 11:38AM October 20, 2011 — In an epic confrontation in the land of 10,000 lakes (though we only counted 15 from our plane window), the Nomad World Pub played house to one of the most electrifying comeback victories in LDM history as winner Peter Bognanni overcame a 5-1 "Cyrillic-Off" deficit to storm to a 8-6 win over brilliant co-finalist Cole “Inky” Sarar, winning him the Literary Death Match crown.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 at 7:48PM October 18, 2011 — While snowflake-lazy rain sifted down from the gunmetal sky onto the Space 4 Art stage, it was Heather Fowler who found her literary-hoops range first, in an Anonymous film-themed finale, as she out-shot Jincy Willet by a final score of 3 to 2.5 to win the Literary Death Match crown, presented by the genius/madmen of So Say We All.
Friday, October 14, 2011 at 1:49AM October 13, 2011 — The special Litquake edition of the Literary Death Match stunned the standing-room-only crowd when Simon Rich's bag of silly string outweighed John Butler's by an axis-shifting 2.5 grams! That's less than a tenth of an ounce, in case you failed the Metric System in high school.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 1:34AM October 12, 2011 — Before a crowd hushed by tension and sparseness, LDMs return to NYC ended with Jon-Jon Goulian out-literary-spelling Starlee Kine by a final score of 14-9 (impressing with a spot-on race through H-O-U-E-L-L-E-B-E-C-Q) to capture NYC's 39th-ever Literary Death Match crown.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 9:20AM October 11, 2011 — At a jam-packed Sala Rossa, an epic unfolding of literary and comedic oddity occurred (presented by Maisonneuve), all finished by crumpled book burners being somewhat-nimbly flung through a Nerf hoop to decide the champion. In a wild scramble, Katrina Best bested Zoe Page by 5-2 in a closer-than-the-score-shows finish to win Best the Literary Death Match Montreal crown.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 8:25PM September 14, 2011 — Nestled in the urban glamour of Shoreditch High Street, four erudite contenders, alike in faculty, took the stage for another epic instalment of Literary Death Match. Sparring and story-telling ensued in the underground bunker of Concrete, eventually culminating in lyrical wunderkind Sean Mahoney cantering off, audience’s hearts and LDM crown in tow.
Thursday, September 8, 2011 at 10:39AM September 8, 2011 — On one of the great start-to-finish nights in Literary Death Match history, The Workman's Club's stage was lit with stars, and none shined brighter than Sarah Maria Griffin ("the Reggie Miller of Ireland") as she out-shined her equally excellent co-finalist Simon Ashe-Browne by 5-3 in a anti-book burning basketball shootout for the ages that snared her the LDM's ultimate prize.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 9:00AM September 6, 2011 — In a brilliant Voodoo Rooms clash of Scottish literary titans, it was sci-fi brillianteur Hal Duncan who rocked the literary rim, winning a neck-and-neck basketball shootout with fiction-fascinateur Katerina Vasiliou by a score of 5-4 — winning him the Literary Death Match Edinburgh crown!
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 6:52AM August 17, 2011 — In a wild mathematical-seeming themed Books by Numbers finale, it was playwright and novelist Nat Segnit that out-added his finals opponent, the BAFTA-nominated film producer Nick Taussig, with the wily selection of John Buchan to win the Literary Death Match crown by a mere six points!
Sunday, July 17, 2011 at 5:18AM July 17, 2011 — Within the steamy and sexy Le Carmen confines, the Literary Death Match's triumphant return to Paris — presented by Shakespeare & Co. — saw Paris Literary Prize-winner Rosa Rankin-Gee bring home the Literary Death Match crown in quickstrike du pain-tossing fashion over fellow finalist Rachel Zucker.