Berkeley, Ep. 1

May 4, 2019 — In our first-ever Young Adult Edition (authors read, young adults judge), Literary Death Match teamed with the Bay Area Book Festival for a mid-afternoon hour of literary delight that finished with Gordon Jack narrowly defeating Zoraida Córdova in a Literary Spelling Bee to win Jack the LDM Berkeley, Ep. 1 medal, and literary immortality to go with it. 

Judges: 
Suzana Beyene (12th grade; from Eritrea)
Fatimah Dieng (10th grade; from Senegal)
Ana Akpawu (12th grade; from Togo)

Readers: 
Round 1: 
Zoraida Córdova
Cindy Pon

Round 2: 
Gordon Jack
Lee Wind

Hosted by LDM creator (and author of Collision Theory) Adrian Todd Zuniga

Where: Bay Area Book Festival, Word Power Stage
When: 2:30 pm sharp (until 3:30pm)
Cost: Free!