Thursday, October 17, 2024 at 7:32PM October 17, 2024 — After two years away, LDM retured to Odessa, as as we once again teamed with the geniuses at Odessa Arts for an electric fun night that saw Elizabeth Wetmore narrowly defeat Jonathan Pizarro in a Lone Star Lit finale that won Wetmore the LDM Midland & Odessa, Ep. 6 crown, and literary immortality to go with it.
Friday, October 12, 2018 at 3:23PM October 12, 2018 — In our grand return to the Permian Basin, we partnered with Odessa Art as part of NEA Big Read: ArtPocalypse, for a Literary Death Match knockout that ended in a game of Arithme-Lit that saw Jodi Egerton topple Sean Petrie in a down-to-the-wire match winning Egerton the LDM Midland & Odessa, Ep. 4 crown, and literary immortality to go with it.
Thursday, March 2, 2017 at 11:12PM March 3, 2017 — In what's become an annual tradition, Literary Death Match heads back to the glory of West Texas as we teamed up with the Odessa Shakespeare Festival for a rollicking night that saw Chaitali Sen outduel Joy Jones in sudden death in a Lone Star Lit II matchup, winning Sen the LDM Midland & Odessa, Ep. 3 crown, and literary immortality to go with it.
Saturday, April 9, 2016 at 3:37AM April 9, 2016 — For our semi-annual trek to the wonders of Midland & Odessa — Texas Forever! — we once again teamed up with the Books in the Basin festival to put on a knockout night of lit, wit and all kinds of joyfulness in between that finished with Rachel Caine outdueling Josh Kilmer-Purcell in Literary Spelling Bee II, to win Caine the LDM Midland & Odessa, Ep. 2 crown.