HomeHomehttp://www.literarydeathmatch.com/upcoming-events/2010-03-16T00:38:44ZSquarespaceMarch 18, 2010http://www.literarydeathmatch.com/upcoming-events/march-18-2010.htmlLiterary Death Match2010-03-19T00:13:00Z2010-03-19T00:13:00ZPRE-ORDER NOW AND SAVE $5! 

The Literary Death Match is back in NYC for another knockdown, dragout literary non-snore-athon that will feature a wonderful cast of judges, including Soft Skull editor Denise Oswald, comedian Eddie Sarfaty and Piper Weiss of My Mom the Style Icon. 

They'll take turns judging an excellent foursome of fierce pen-and-ink combatants, including Tin House co-founder and author of Use Me, Elissa Schappell, H.O.W. Journal's Alexios Moore, hilarity genius Jason Roeder (author of Oh, The Humanity!) and Union Station's Syreeta McFadden. 

Hosted by Opium's Todd Zuniga & Bernie Kravitz.

]]>SF, Ep. 27http://www.literarydeathmatch.com/upcoming-events/sf-ep-27.htmlLiterary Death Match2010-03-13T00:07:14Z2010-03-13T00:07:14ZMarch 12, 2010 — Raucous readings. Hilarious tales of personal highs and lows. An Elbo Room so packed it should have to change its name. But in the end, the never-less-than-sidesplittingly-funny Ali Liebegott (The IHOP Papers) reigned victorious, and deservedly so, after first-round winner Tania Katan (My One Night Stand With Cancer) narrowly lost The Shortest Spelling Bee in Modern History finale. 

To kick off the evening, Katan stared down Chris Colin and won the coin flip, the coin being host Elissa Bassist's constant companion: Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar. Katan impressed the crowd with the tale of a lesbian couple applying to work as period characters in a Mormon version of Colonial Willamsburg. They would wear bonnets and churn prairie

]]>March 26, 2010http://www.literarydeathmatch.com/upcoming-events/march-26-2010.htmlLiterary Death Match2010-01-28T17:35:00Z2010-01-28T17:35:00ZThe Literary Death Match is thrilled to team up with the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival for a star-studded night of literary brilliance, and judging tomfoolery, featuring prolific cookbook author Kit Wohl and actor/writer Jeremy Lawrence (as Tennessee Williams) in the judges chairs, and a cast of four fantastic scribes, including Arthur Phillips (a five-time Jeopardy! champion and author of Prague), Amanda Boyden (trapeze artist and author of Pretty Little Dirty), Chuck Perkins (poet and the Voice of the Big Easy) and Michael Patrick Welch (journalist and author of Commonplace). 

Hosted by Opium's Todd Zuniga.

]]>April 6, 2010http://www.literarydeathmatch.com/upcoming-events/april-6-2010.htmlLiterary Death Match2010-01-02T18:57:00Z2010-01-02T18:57:00ZRob Callahan, and awesomeness instructor Dennis Cass (author of My New Look).

They’ll be judging a group of four dynamite writers, including 2-time Opium Magazine contest winner John Jodzio (author of If You Lived Here You'd Already Be Home), poet Darci Schummer, and Brian Beatty (as seen on McSweeney’s).]]>LDM 2010http://www.literarydeathmatch.com/upcoming-events/ldm-2010.htmlLiterary Death Match2009-12-19T23:48:00Z2009-12-19T23:48:00ZApril: 
1st: Chicago (The Hideout)
3rd: Iowa City (TBD)
8th: Denver (Jonesy's Bar)
9th: San Francisco (Elbo Room)
13th: San Diego (The Loft at UCSD)
14th: LA (The Mountain Bar)
14th: New York City (Bowery Poetry Club)
22nd: Austin (TBD) 
27th: Chicago (TBD)

May:
1st: Dublin (The Sugar Club)

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