Saturday, August 13, 2011 at 10:25AM August 13, 2011 — The inaugural Literary Death Match, Standon Calling was a barrel of laughs that saw two-time LDM finale loser Nikesh Shukla deftly take his long-deserved Literary Death Match medal in a Twilight-inspired parlour game against Chimene Suleyman.
Saturday, August 14, 2010 at 3:57PM August 10, 2010 — Deep in the recesses of a brilliant dungeon (a.k.a. The Banshee Labyrinth), the Literary Death Match's Edinburgh debut — teamed with Utter! at the Free Fringe — was pitch- and picture-perfect, with Scotland's homegrown Jenny Lindsay narrowly winning over Molly Naylor (Whenever I Get Blown Up I Think Of You) in a breakneck game of Pass-the-Haggis to take the LDM crown.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at 6:03AM February 24, 2010 — The Literary Death Matches 4th London episode at The Book Club — alongside the brilliant YARN Festival — was jam-packed with onlookers, levity, talent and enough smart-spun judging quips to make the whole matter a must-see. In the end, finalists Richard Milward (representing Faber) narrowly topped The Book Club Boutique's Salena Godden in a wild game of Springtime Olympic Cadbury Egg Bowling® that saw Milward fill both Jane Austen and W.B. Yeats wide maws with rolled choco-eggs, and thus raise himself to the rare standard of Literary Death Match immortality.
Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 4:37PM The Literary Death Match has already gone global (Beijing), but now we’re launching in Europe. LDM London, Ep. 1’s lineup features Nick Harkaway (The Gone-Away World), Salena Godden (of The Book Club Boutique), Joe Dunthorne (Submarine), Tim Wells (representing Pen Pusher), and judges like Luke Brown of Tindal Street Press—with more to be announced shortly!