After too many moons away - we've missed you SF! - Literary Death Match is teaming with Lit Camp as we return to the Elbo Room for a brilliant like-minded evening of literature, laughs, levity and above all a noble distraction from the crash-and-burn administration festering in our White House. Click to see the lineup so far!
What is Literary Death Match? Part literary event, part comedy show, part game show, Literary Death Match brings together four of today’s finest writers to compete in an edge-of-your-seat read-off critiqued by three celebrity judges, and concluded by a slapstick showdown to decide the ultimate champion.
JUDGES: Literary Merit: D.A. Powell, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet of Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys
Performance: TBA
Intangibles: TBA
READERS: Round 1: * Bich Minh Nguyen, American Book Award-winning authr of Short Girls and Pioneer Girl* Jason Bayani, National Poetry Slam finalist, author of Amulet, and a Kundiman fellow / Round 2: * Vanessa Hua, Asian/Pacific American Award-winning author of Deceit and Other Possibilities (also a California Book Award finalist) * TBA
Hosted by LDM creator Adrian Todd Zuniga. Produced by Matthew DeCoster.
Where: Elbo Room, 647 Valencia St, SF (map)
When: 7:15pm start; 6:30 pm doors; after drinks at 8:57pm
Cost: TBA shortly
After too many moons away - we've missed you SF! - Literary Death Match is teaming with Lit Camp as we return to the Elbo Room for a brilliant like-minded evening of literature, laughs, levity and above all a noble distraction from the crash-and-burn administration festering in our White House. Click to see the lineup so far!
What is Literary Death Match? Part literary event, part comedy show, part game show, Literary Death Match brings together four of today’s finest writers to compete in an edge-of-your-seat read-off critiqued by three celebrity judges, and concluded by a slapstick showdown to decide the ultimate champion.
JUDGES: Literary Merit: D.A. Powell, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet of Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys
Performance: TBA
Intangibles: TBA
READERS: Round 1: * Bich Minh Nguyen, American Book Award-winning authr of Short Girls and Pioneer Girl* Jason Bayani, National Poetry Slam finalist, author of Amulet, and a Kundiman fellow / Round 2: * Vanessa Hua, Asian/Pacific American Award-winning author of Deceit and Other Possibilities (also a California Book Award finalist) * TBA
Hosted by LDM creator Adrian Todd Zuniga. Produced by Matthew DeCoster.
Where: Elbo Room, 647 Valencia St, SF (map)
When: 7:15pm start; 6:30 pm doors; after drinks at 8:57pm
Cost: TBA shortly
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