Opium's Literary Death Match SF August 21, 2007

"Opium's Literary Death Match challenges the notion that a reading series has to be a mind-numbing affair hosted in a drafty room with no booze breaks. The Death Match is a competitive, humor-centric reading series that features four literary publications (both online and in print) in an edge-of-your-seat read-off. Readers do their thing for eight minutes or less, and three guest-star judges affectionately discuss their favorites in terms of literary merit, performance and everything in between."

Participants:
Instant City, Kirk Read
Big Ugly Review, Andy Raskin
Edifice Wrecked, Andy Dugas
Sweet Fancy Moses, Matt Herlihy

The Judges:
Oscar Villalon, SF Chronicle
Danielle Svetcov, Levine Greenburg
Rob Baedeker, Kasper Hauser

Cost: $5 (and a free copy of Opium to the first 25 guests)

Official Website: http://www.literarydeathmatch.com/