Friday, June 24, 2011 at 10:31AM June 24, 2011 — While rain showers flooded Dublin, inside The Workman's Club, the literary stars shined bright-hot, as Stephen James Smith out-near-kissed James Joyce (using a Nerf shotgun with lipstick-tipped darts), narrowly beating co-finalist Virginia Gilbert to win Smith the Literary Death Match crown.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 at 11:53AM June 16, 2011 — A dazzling night before a wonderfully packed Concrete crowd ended when three-point expert John Butler narrowly outshined co-finalist David Whitehouse 5-4 in an anti-book burning netball shootout that won Butler the coveted Literary Death Match crown!
Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 2:14AM June 9, 2011 — The Literary Death Match's triumphant return to the 416 was a riotous success, with Holly Luhning out-celebrating Margaret Atwood (via cupcake tossing) and undoing co-finalist Nathaniel G. Moore's championship hopes, winning Luhning the coveted LDM crown.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 10:29AM June 7, 2011 — In a stand-up-and-cheer finale for the ages at The Hideout, Ian Belknap was clutch when it mattered, slam-dunking a picture of Max Brod to win a dramatic, basketball-style game of Down with Book Burners!, outsniping co-finalist Samantha Irby 5-4 to win the Literary Death Match crown.
Sunday, June 5, 2011 at 5:32PM June 5, 2011 — On a wonderfully steamy northern night at Aster Cafe, literary history was made as Jessica Fox-Wilson narrowly outshined co-finalist Geoff Herbach in a down-to-the-wire game of Literary Card Sharks to take the Literary Death Match crown by a final score of 5-3.
Thursday, June 2, 2011 at 7:59AM June 2, 2011 — In the Literary Death Match's historic 150th episode, Davida Gypsy Breier and her teammate out-charaded co-finalist war-zone hopping author Dan Fesperman and teammate/daughter "Emma" by a 5-3 count, winning Breier the Literary Death Match crown!
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 8:35AM May 31, 2011 — In an end-to-end thriller, Literary Death Match Miami's second-ever episode at Churchill’s Pub was an epic clash that saw fictionist Matt Gajewski out-sharpshoot performance poet extraordinaire James Sprang 5-2 (before a wonderfully boisterous packed house) in a basketball shootout that won Gajewski the LDM crown.
Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 8:30AM May 29, 2011 — After a brilliant night of literary fascination, Literary Death Match at Urban ReThink ended after Gregory Sherl out-sniped co-finalist Ashley Inguanta in a wild Kerouac-inspired Cupcake-Tipped Nerf Dart-Off to earn the LDM crown.
Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 8:00AM May 26, 2011 — In the rowdiest debut Literary Death Match has ever seen, Philadelphia's monster lineup (presented by Painted Bride Quarterly) brought down the house again and again, with the night ending after Team Leonard Gontarek outdueled Team Angel Hogan in a wild and baffling game of Literary Charades, winning Gontarek the LDM crown by a oh-so-close! 3-2 score.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 at 10:45AM May 25, 2011 — In the most hotly contested (and closest) Literary Death Match finale ever, Jenny Slate (creator of the endlessly charming Marcel the Shell with Shoes On) narrowly toppled Anthropology of an American Girl author Hilary Hamann in a fantastically messy silly string-firing finale to snare the Literary Death Match crown.