Literary Death Match
September 22, 2009
- Opium's Network of Writers Experiment continues in Opium9. How does it work? You send us a quote told to you by another writer, about writing to our inbox. If we dig it, we'll feature it in Opium9 on one of our wildly-designed (thanks to David Barringer) pages. An example of quotes from Opium8, for inspiration, is below. ****************************************** A record-setting amount of ...
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May 19, 2009
- I won SF's Literary Death Match, Friday before last. The competition was really stiff. We were all champions! The audience and the judges and the promoters were all fantastic. It came down to a literary smack down. I felt scared and excited at the same time. Like a virgin. Read all about it at www.literarydeathmatch.comSingle Woman of a Certain Age, an anthology edited by Jane ...
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March 23, 2009
- Hello friends:Just a semi-quaver of a note to let you know of some goings-on...First off, yours truly is one of the 'contestants' (with Jason Myers, Lorelei Lee and the Dwarves' own Blag Dahlia) in the April edition of the Rebel Reading Series' Literary Death Match, sponsored by Bay Area lit.-mag OPIUM. It's happening Friday, April 10th (6.30 start), at the Elbo Room, 647 Valencia St., San ...
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January 11, 2009
- So imagine this: The club is packed. Standing room only. Stuffy, unbreathable air. Candlelit tables. The sounds of clinking glass, talking, and laughter. All these people have come to hear four authors read their work for Opium's Literary Death Match. They're lining the walls, sitting on the floor, perched on the bar. I squeeze through the crowd to greet friends that have come to the reading. It ...
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October 13, 2008
- This was my first Litquake, and it definitely won't be my last. It's nice to know that literature is still alive and thriving—you read enough news alone with your blog and you feel like no one reads anymore.But they do! Boy, do they ever. Whether it was at LDM on Monday, hearing U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan and others (including Dan Bellm) in Grace Cathedral, or the reading I attended at the ...
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April 11, 2008
- Honesty, I think, was the link common to the very different writers at the Literary Death Match. I listened to every word with moment-to-moment renewed respect, and heard an honesty I aspire to. Andrew's crystal clear, compact glimpses, Rupert's passion and brutal pictures of political ca-ca, Justin Chin's irony and razor humor. Is Sky a genius? Does she have an inspired committee? Superb ...
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April 10, 2008
- Last night Jennifer Massoni, Huntington Sharp, and I had the pleasure of attending Literary Death Match Episode 7at the Rickshaw Stopin San Francisco. Red Room Authors Jane Ganahl and Alan Black along with Mia Lipman were judges for the evening. Another Red Room author, the legendary Clive Matson delivered an electric reading of the most sensuous poetry I’ve ever heard. Justin Chin’s ...
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