Orlando, Ep. 4

November 15, 2016 — For our first post-election event, Literary Death Match returned for our annual team-up with Burrow Press for a magical evening at the Lowndes Shakespeare Center that saw Suzannah Gilman topple Ama McKinley in a LDM Quiz of Death battle that went to sudden death before Gilman nailed the final answer, winning her the LDM Orlando, Ep. 4 crown, and literary immortality to go with it.

Here's the full lineup from the show:

JUDGES:
Literary Merit: Kay Rawlins, President of Orlando City Soccer Foundation
Performance: Chrysanthe Mum, Orlando-based drag queen and hair stylist
Intangibles: Cody Bush, improviser at SAK Comedy Lab

READERS:
Round 1
* Trevor Fraser, writer for Orlando Sentinel, and the host of Thinking in Public and Drunken Problem Solving
* Suzannah Gilman, fiction writer, blogger and poet behind the chapbook I Will Meet You at the River
Round 2
* Ama McKinley, writer, speaker, lecturer and contributor to Huffington Post
* Glendaliz Camacho, fiction writer featured in The Female Complaint: Tales of Unruly Women and All About Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color

Hosted by LDM creator Adrian Todd Zuniga. Produced by Ryan Rivas.

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