Sunday, March 13, 2011 at 11:22AM March 13, 2011 — In one of the most brilliant city debuts in LDM history (presented by Summer Literary Seminars, and supported by Iambik Audiobooks), the winner — Jon Paul Fiorentino — managed to outlast co-finalist Melissa Bull in an epic social-networking finale that paid homage to Montreal's finest scribes. When it was all finished, Team Fiorentino won the closer-than-the-score-would-indicate finale 29-17.
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 5:54AM March 10, 2011 — During LDMs remarkable five-year anniversary spectacular, Andre Perry cupcake-flung his way to victory e'er-so-narrowly over the inimitably quick-witted Jane Bussmann at Brooklyn's Cameo to snare the lauded Literary Death Match crown.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at 2:35AM March 2, 2011 — In what was simply a Hawkeye State classic, LDMs return to Iowa City was a ridiculous triumph that saw Wag's Revue Essays Editor Sandra Allen out-Literary Memory her co-finalist/nemesis Robin Hemley in a hotly-contested finale that ended 5-3, winning Allen the LDM crown.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 at 2:31AM March 1, 2011 — LDMs return to Minneapolis was greeted with sub-zero weather, but that didn't stop the literary die-hards who packed the sold-out Aster Cafe, and witnessed literary history when InDigest rep Brad Liening and his band of merry sitters outlasted Water~Stone Review rep Barrie Jean Borich in a wild session of Muzakal Chairs. The final score was 3 to 1, winning Liening the LDM crown.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011 at 10:33AM February 16, 2011 — Heartbreak! Barbara Cartland! Thrills! Literary Death Match London's 12th episode at Shoreditch House was an instant all-around classic that saw literary upstart Guy Folligrey (and his merry ukelele) out-Cupid Julie Mayhew to win the LDM crown in a bow-and-arrow contest that will not soon be forgotten.
Saturday, February 5, 2011 at 10:33AM February 11, 2011 — On a classic night in Literary Death Match History the finish came when Monica Nolan raced to the end of a passage from Candide — her mouth full of marshmallows — as she out mushmouthed co-finalist and poet Geoff Bouvier to win literature's grandest prize.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011 at 9:48AM February 2, 2011 — Descending on the Nation's Capital for the first time ever, Literary Death Match DC, Ep. 1 at The Black Cat — sponsored by ModCloth, and produced in tandem with 826DC — was a spectacular AWP spectacle of whimsy, wit, wildness and otherwise, as The Written Wardrobe rep David Wanczyk took the crown over Dzanc Books rep Matt Bell in a dashing game of Literary Fashion Mastah by a score of 26 to 24 to take home the LDM crown.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 at 8:29AM January 26, 2011 — On a snow-smothered and messy NYC night, Literary Death Match celebrated the launch of Shya Scanlon's Forecast in fantastic and whimsical fashion at Le Poisson Rouge, as Morgan Meis and his team of merry mimes toppled Anya Ulinich in a game of "Blank with a Chance of Blank" with a score of 6 to 5 to win the coveted LDM NYC crown.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 at 8:40AM January 25, 2011 — On an icy northeast evening, the Literary Death Match returned to Cambridge's Enormous Room for an electric night of literary and comedic merriment (a sold out night!) that saw PEN Discovery Award-winner and New York Tyrant rep Eugenio Volpe overtake Best American Short Stories series editor Heidi Pitlor (author of The Birthdays) in a hotly contested (and longest-ever) match of Literary Memory by a score of 15 to 11 to win the first LDM crown of 2011.
Friday, December 31, 2010 at 9:48AM To put it plainly: 2010 was, for Literary Death Match, a jaw-dropper (especially now that we’re looking back in disbelief at how we pulled off the whole grassroots mess).
On October 6, 2010, in San Francisco, we celebrated a thrilling milestone when we pulled off our 100th-ever