Sunday, August 12, 2012 at 3:12PM August 12, 2012 – In its first visit to the serene Wilderness Festival, Literary Death Match made them wild in a hot hurry, in an electric showcase that saw host Suzanne Azzopardi hand a well-earned gold medal to Femi Martin after a stunning display of instantaneous anagram-solving.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 7:41AM December 7, 2011 — A converted brewery tucked behind Spitalfields Market became a Santa’s grotto of literary greatness for the final LDM of the year as Kat Brown defeated Ed Hogan in a tense, sudden-death Bauble-Off! that lasted a nail-gnawing four rounds before Brown triumphed over her adversary to claim the Death Match crown.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011 at 8:22PM November 3, 2011 — In what's being hailed "the feel-good literary event of Dublin's year" it was Peter Sheridan who shined brightest amongst the e'er twinkling lit-and-comic stars at The Workman's Club, winning a literary spelling bee by only a smidgen (6-5) over poetess Erin Fornoff to win himself the Literary Death Match crown.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011 at 11:17AM November 2, 2011 — Literary Death Match teamed with the first direct Dialogue Festival for our first-ever trip west (in London, at least). The night finished with a historic beard-enthused battle that saw Jacques Strauss score a five-beard run to out-beard co-finalist John Osborne by a score of 7 beards to 2. What are we talking about? Let's start from the top.
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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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!