Literary Death Match 61st Event

Literary Death Match returns to SF and the Elbo Room for our record 61st event for a duel fundraising effort, as proceeds from the show will support our all-new web show — LDM Book Report, and Lit Camp is raffling off book-skewed prizes to raise money for scholarships to their annual writer’s conference.

What is Literary Death Match? Four writers read their own work for five minutes or less, and are then judged by three all-star judges. Two finalists are chosen to compete in the Literary Death Match finale, a vaguely-literary game to decide the ultimate winner.

What is LDM Book Report?: Watch now to find out! LDM Book Report (and don’t forget to subscribe!)

JUDGES:
Literary Merit: TBA
Performance: Rebecca Garza-Bortman, visual designer and singer for Happy Fangs
Intangibles: Mark Morford, award-winning columnist for SF Chronicle, author of The Daring Spectacle

READERS:
* Janis Cooke Newman, author of A Master Plan for Rescue (SF Chronicle Best Book 2015), Lit Camp founder
* Baruch Porras-Hernandez, writer, performer, visual artist, storyteller & Lambda Literary Fellow in Poetry
* Na’amen Tilahun, author of The Root, co-creator of podcast The Adventures of Yellow Peril + Magical Negro
* Sarah Ladipo Manyika, lit professor at SF State and author of Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun

Hosted by LDM creator Adrian Todd Zuniga

Where: Elbo Room, 647 Valencia St., SF (map)
When: Show at 7:15pm sharp; doors at 6:30pm; afterdrinks at 9
Cost: $7 preorder ($10 for preorder + 3 raffle tickets); $10 at the door

Raffle Prizes Include:

* 1-hour studio portrait sitting—perfect for your author photo—from Ian Tuttle Photography
* $130 salon service from Peter Thomas Hair (to get ready for that author photo or your big reading)
* 2-night stay at The Crash Pad in Jacksonville Oregon — The perfect writing retreat
* 5 artisanal, hand-rolled Cuban cigars — Time to fulfill that Hemingway fantasy
* Bottle of Writer’s Tears whiskey
* $50 VaycayHero gift certificate — Another great writing retreat
* 4-issue, monthly subscription to Journal of the Month—A surprise literary journal each month.
* $50 gift card from Out of Print Clothing http://www.outofprintclothing.com