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.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 1:32AM October 12, 2011 — Kicking off a bi-coastal LDM double-header (an LDM in NYC happened just hours later), the Literary Death Match in London finished with Tom Cox claiming the crown!
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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.
Friday, September 9, 2011 at 8:24PM September 10, 2011 — In an epic duel of fill-in-the-blanks poetry, erudite Kevin Spenst conquered feisty Dina Del Bucchia, to become Vancouver’s second-ever Literary Death Match Champion! When asked how it felt to wear the crown, Spenst could only sob with pride.
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.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 8:11PM September 8, 2011 — In a northwest literary love-in, it was Live Wire's Scott Poole's elastic mouth that led him to a narrow and momentous victory over fellow co-finalist Fiona McCann in a battle to consume giant marshmallows while pronouncing giant words. It will go down in PDX literary history as the sweetest duel of all time.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 8:13PM September 7, 2011 — On a night when Scottish rain blurred the evening's sightlines with horizontal rain, those inside Mono witnessed Allan Wilson become the 1000th LDMer of all-time, though it was the ever-fabulous Kirsty Neary who out-smooched Alasdair Gray to topple co-finalist Katy McAulay, to win the Literary Death Match Glasgow crown.
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!
Monday, August 22, 2011 at 3:13PM August 22, 2011 — In a literary showcase like few before it, the Literary Death Match talent-fest at Edinburgh Book Festival finished with a Scot-off, as Christopher Brookmyre stole victory at a Books By Numbers finale that saw him overtake co-finalist Billy Letford in the late-seconds, winning the LDM crown by the narrowest three point margin literature has ever seen.