History
| Name | Date | Location | Judges | Participants | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blindfolded Stabbing | Monday, March 6, 2006 | New York City | Ben Greenman (The New Yorker), Moby, and comedian Jack Kukoda | Bryan Charles (Open City), Deb Olin Unferth (NOON Magazine), Geoff Wolinetz (Yankee Pot Roast), Mike Sacks (as read by Ted Travelstead) reading for Sweet Fancy Moses | Ted Travelstead |
| Mathematical Rumble | Monday, April 10, 2006 | New York City | Ben Greenman (New Yorker), comedian Jack Kukoda and Ted Travelstead (Sweet Fancy Moses, LDM Champ) | Shya Scanlon (elimae), Kristin McGonigle (Pindeldyboz), Manuel Munoz (Swink), Pauls Toutonghi (One Story) | Manuel Munoz |
| Geographical Violence | Monday, May 22, 2006 | New York City | Todd Zuniga (founding editor, Opium Magazine), Ben Greenman (New Yorker) and David Goodwillie (Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time) | Sean Casey (McSweeney's), Tyler Gore (MeThree), Andy Horwitz (Nerve.com), Thomas Hopkins (Quick Fiction) | Sean Casey |
| Running for Their Lives | Wednesday, June 7, 2006 | Washington Square Park, NYC | Ben Greenman (New Yorker), Dennis DiClaudio (Comedy Central) and Opium’s soccer pundit, Ben Mainwaring. | Opium's own Todd Zuniga, Elizabeth Koch, associate editor Heather Kelley and two-time Opium print writer, Shya Scanlon | Todd Zuniga |
| Rumble in the Bay | Tuesday, July 17, 2007 | Harlot, San Francisco | Jon Wolanske (Killing My Lobster), Beth Lisick (author of Everyone into the Pool), and ZYZZYVA editor, Howard Junker | Stephen Elliott (McSweeney's, Canteen), Joyce Maynard (Canteen), Michelle Richmond (Fiction Attic) and Sam Hurwitt (Kitchen Sink) | Sam Hurwitt |
| Hara-Kari Haiku at Harlot | Tuesday, August 21, 2007 | San Francisco | SF Chronicle’s Oscar Villalon judging literary merit, Kasper Hauser’s Rob Baedeker on performance, and Levine Greenburg literary agent Danielle Svetcov on intangibles | Matt Herlihy (Sweet Fancy Moses), Andy Raskin (Big Ugly Review), Kirk Read (Instant City), Andrew O. Dugas (edifice WRECKED) | Kirk Read |
| Cyrillic Battle to the Death | Wednesday, September 19, 2007 | The Rickshaw Stop, San Francisco | Jesse McKinley (New York Times), Anika Streitfeld (Random House) and Matt Herlihy (Sweet Fancy Moses) | Bucky Sinister (Progressive Reading Series), Regina Louise (Inside Story Time), Carol Queen (Writer’s With Drinks), Kelly Beardsley (Porchlight Entertainment) | Bucky Sinister |
| Litquake Hoop-a-Lot | Friday, October 12, 2007 | Swedish American Hall, San Francisco | literary merit judge Ben Greenman, performance judge Shaun Landry (Oui Be Negroes) and Oscar Villalon (SF Chronicle) speaking to intangibles | Evany Thomas (McSweeney's), Wesley Stace (Swink), Daniel Handler, Gary Kamiya (Salon.com) | Daniel Handler |
| NYC Cyrillithon | Tuesday, October 23, 2007 | The Kitchen, New York City | Ben Greenman (New Yorker), Amanda Stern (host of the Happy Ending Reading Series) and Joshua Furst (Short People) | Giancarlo DiTrapano (New York Trant), Susan Buttenwieser (failbetter), Pedro Ponce (Quick Fiction and Thomas Cooper (Opium Magazine) | Giancarlo DiTrapano |
| Death Matching Thy Lobster | Tuesday, November 6, 2007 | Harlot, San Francisco | Michelle Richmond (The Year of the Fog), Kurt Bodden (Talk Show Live) and Sean Finney (Canteen Magazine) | Four actors from the legendary Killing My Lobster comedy troupe stormed the stage and read from past print issues of Opium Magazine: Jon Wolanske, Eric Schniewinde, Joel Dovev and Todd Brotze | Jon Wolanske |
| Naming that Tune | Wednesday, March 12, 2008 | Rickshaw Stop, San Francisco | Larry Gallagher, Helena Echlin and Laura Lee Mattingly | Daphne Gottlieb (Soft Skull Press), Jon Longhi (Manic D Press), Eric B. Martin (MacAdam/Cage) and Andrew Lam (Heyday Books) | Andrew Lam |
| Poets Doubling as Madmen | Wednesday, April 9, 2008 | Rickshaw Stop, San Francisco | Jane Ganahl (Litquake co-founder), Mia Lipman (Canteen) and Alan Black | Clive Matson (publisher of the Crazy Child Scribbler), Andrew O. Dugas (Unlikely Stories), Rupert Estanislao (Suicide Kings) and Justin Chin (Manic D Press) | Rupert Estanislao |
| Pin the Body on the Head! | Saturday, May 10, 2008 | Rickshaw Stop, San Francisco | Stephen Elliott (Happy Baby), Kurt Bodden (Talk Show Live), Michelle Richmond (The Year of the Fog), Jon Wolanske (Killing My Lobster), Sean Finney (Canteen) and Todd Zuniga (LDM’s co-creator) | Kirk Read (Episode 2’s winner), Andrew Lam (Episode 7's winner), Tony DuShane (Episode 6 winner) and Sam Hurwitt (Episode 1 Winner) | Andrew Lam |
| Recyclement Extravaganza | Thursday, May 29, 2008 | Housing Works, New York City | Ben Greenman of the New Yorker, comedian Joel Dovev and the first-ever mute judges in LDM history, Street Performers Gill and Jill Bumby | Aaron Garretson (representing Opium), Bob Powers (Lost Magazine), Cole Kazdin (Smith Magazine) and Garth Hallberg (Canteen Magazine) | Aaron Garreston |
| Urban Sack Race Antics | Thursday, June 26, 2008 | Sara D. Roosevelt Park, New York City | Ben Greenman (New Yorker), writer/comedienne Julie Klausner and Jeff Gordinier (X Saves the World) | John Williams (Titlepage.tv), Debbie Kuan (Wigleaf), Gabrielle Mitchell-Marell (Anderbo.com) and Amy Shearn (Brick Magazine’s representative and the author of How Far is the Ocean from Here) | John Williams |
| Mathematizing and Literacy | Thursday, July 24, 2008 | Amnesia, San Francisco | Damion Searls, Litquake’s Elise Proulx and Tony DuShane. | Matt Rohrer (Watchword Press), Lisa K. Buchanan (Missouri Review), Alan Black (Redroom.com) and Evan Rehill (Instant City). | Alan Black |
| Literary Scavengry | Friday, September 19, 2008 | Amnesia, San Francisco | Gravity Goldberg of Instant City, Jack Boulware of Litquake and Ian Lendler | Kim Addonizio (Litquake), Rhea DeRose-Weiss (Whore Magazine), Damion Searls (n+1) and Tom Barbash (One Story) | Kim Addonizio |
| Lightnin' & Rasslin' (part of Lit Crawl NYC) | Saturday, September 27, 2008 | Supreme Trading, Brooklyn NY | The New Yorker’s Ben Greenman, Opium’s .com editor Cicily Janus and Aussie scribe Lee Bob Black | Timmy Waldron (Word Riot), Jensen Whelan (Hobart), Christina Kallery (Failbetter) and Tim Mucci (Slice Magazine) | Timmy Waldron |
| Litquake Duel to the Death | Monday, October 6, 2008 | San Francisco | |||
| Invisible Bullets Near Broadway | Tuesday, October 14, 2008 | The Kitchen, New York City | The New Yorker’s Ben Greenman, SF improviser Kurt Bodden and Kansas comediess Jodi Bullock | Dennis DiClaudio (Guerilla Lit Reading Series), Lincoln Michel (L Magazine Literary Upstart), Katherine Taylor (Vermon on the Mount Reading Series) and Thaddeus Rutkowski (Poetry vs. Comedy) | Dennis DiClaudio |
| TV Money Grabstravaganza | Tuesday, November 11, 2008 | Housing Works Bookstore, New York City | Ben Greenman (The New Yorker), Lesley Arfin (Dear Diary) and comedian Todd Levin | Tao Lin (Muumuu House), Amy Sohn (Brooklyn Writers Space), Mishna Wolff (Swink) and Alex Rose | Tao Lin |
| Fowl Language | Friday, November 14, 2008 | Amnesia, San Francisco | Jonathon Keats, Leslie Waggoner, and Robin Ekiss | Jeff O’Keefe (Epoch Magazine), Vince Donovan (Fiction Attic), James Hass (Farallon Review) and Joshua Citrak (Slouch Magazine) | Joshua Citrak |
| Shakespeare & Hoops | Friday, January 9, 2008 | The Elbo Room, New York City | Andrew Leland (The Believer), Melanie Case (Killing My Lobster) and James Hass (The Farallon Review) | Jaynel Attolini (Six Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak), Katie Crouch (Tin House), Veronica Chater (Memoir) and Rodes Fishburne (Going To See the Elephant) | Veronica Charter |
| Windy City Cartography Gouge | Wednesday, February 11, 2009 | The Hideout, Chicago | Kevin Guilfoile, Matt Herlihy (founder of Sweet Fancy Moses) and Mark Bazer (“The Interview Show”) | Rachel Yoder (Quick Fiction), Megan Stielstra (Dollar Store Reading Series), Julius Kalamarz (Juked), Gwendolyn Knapp (Hayden's Ferry Review), Holly Wilson (The Southeast Review) and Aaron Burch (Hobart) | Megan Stielstra |
| Democratic Lit Music Off | Friday, February 13, 2009 | San Francisco | Jonathan Keats, Conceptual Artist | Luke Sykora, Melissa Hansen | Luke Sykora |
| Learn How to Draw | Wednesday, February 18, 2009 | The Slipper Room, New York City | Ben Greenman (The New Yorker), Amy Sohn (My Old Man) and Joshua Lyon (Pill Head) | Andrew Sean Greer, Cintra Wilson, Elliott Holt (The Kenyon Review) and Christopher Monks (McSweeney's) | Cintra Wilson |
| Holy City Zoo-Down | Friday, March 13, 2009 | San Francisco | Trina Robbins, Lisa Geduldig and Andrew Leland | Bucky Sinister (reading Tao Lin, A Poem Written by a Bear), Candy Churilla (reading John Cheever, Reunion), Will Durst (reading Donald Barthleme, The School) and Paco Romane (reading George Saunders, In Persuasion Nation) | Will Durst |
| Bookworm Festival Brawl | Saturday, March 14, 2009 | The Bookworm, Beijing | Jen Hyde (Small Anchor Press), Ben Foster (G2 Studios) and John Leary (fiction writer featured in Opium4, Opium1) | James West of Australia(Beijing Blur), Liz Niven of Scotland, Ridley Pearson of the USA and Zachary Mexico of the USA (China Underground) | Liz Niven |
| Rebellious Vibrations | Friday, April 10, 2009 | The Elbo Room, San Francisco | Michael Layne Heath, Lorelei Lee, Jason Myers and Blag Dahlia | Jonathan Keats, Kimi Recor and Benjamin L. Perez | Lorelei Lee |
| Rocky Mountain Bladebath | Tuesday, April 14, 2009 | Mercury Cafe, Denver | Daniel Grandbois, Laura Pritchett, Teague Bohlen and Kathy Fish | David Hicks, PhD, Jody Reale and Shawn Owen Hazelwood | Daniel Grandbois |
| Baseball Chopstick War | Thursday, April 23, 2009 | Pianos, New York City | B.C. Edwards(pax americana), Cheryl Wagner (Five Dials), Amy Lawless (Black Maze Books), Heidi Julavits (The Believer) | Anna deVries (Scribner), Scott Adsit (30 Rock) and Richard Lawson (Gawker) | B.C. Edwards |
| Yo' Mama's So Literary... | Friday, May 8, 2009 | The Elbo Room, San Francisco | Ellen Sussman (Word for Word), Peter Orner (A Public Space), Jesse Nathan (Milk Machine) and April Sinclair (Single Woman of a Certain Age) | Andrew Leland (The Believer), Eve Batey (SF Appeal) and Andy Raskin (The Ramen King and I) | April Sinclair |
| Literary Tea Party | Thursday, May 21, 2009 | The Paradise Lounge, Boston | Jane Roper (Memoirious), Steve Almond (Grub Street), William Giraldi (AGNI) and Jeannie Greeley (Stuff Boston) | Eve Bridburg (Grub Street founder), Tom Perrotta (The Abstinence Teacher and Election) and Christopher Monks (The Game Guide to Your Life) | Jeannie Greeley |
| NYC Poets & Madmen Both | Wednesday, May 27, 2009 | Pianos, New York City | Rivka Galchen (Atmospheric Disturbances), Josh Weil (The New Valley), Anthony Tognazzini (BOA Editions) and Michael Muhammad Knight (Soft Skull Press) | Ben Greenberg, comedian Chelsea Peretti, Chris March | Michael Muhammad Knight |
| LDM University Recycled Hoop-Off! | Friday, June 5, 2009 | Syracuse University | Mi Detmar (Stone Canoe), Roy Kesey, Dan Roche (Le Moyne College) and Alex Yates (representing Salt Hill) | Chris Kennedy, Elizabeth Koch and Phil Lamarche | Roy Kesey |
| SF Infinite Jesticulation | Friday, June 12, 2009 | Elbo Room, San Francisco | Jim Nelson (Instant City), K.M. Soehnlein (Switchback), Eric Puchner and Katharine Noel (Canteen Magazine) and Michelle Richmond | Ayelet Waldman (Bad Mother), playwright Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, and Josh Kornbluth | K.M. Soehnlein |
| NYC Bowery, Poetry, Infinity | Thursday, June 25, 2009 | Bowery Poetry Club, New York City | Luna Lemus (Like Son), Lisa Carver (Drugs Are Nice), Julie Metz’s (Perfection) and Zachary Mexico (China Underground) | Ben Adams, an editor at Bloomsbury, comedian Todd Barry (known for this roles in The Wrestler and Flight of the Conchords), and Vice Magazine co-founder Gavin McInnes | Julie Metz |
| London: Episode 1 | - | Old Queen's Head, London | Luke Brown (Tindal Street Press), Laura Dockrill, and Tim Clare (Aisle16) | Amber Marks (Book Club Boutique), Joe Dunthorne (English Writers Football Team), Tim Wells (Pen Pusher Magazine), and Nick Harkaway (BBC Radio 3's The Verb) | Amber Marks |
| New York City: Episode 16 | - | New York City, New York | Michael Musto, Brant Rumble (Scribner), and comedian Bob Powers | Abraham Smith (Spinning Jenny), Luke Dempsey (Bloomsbury USA), Donald Breckenridge (Brooklyn Rail), and Gigantic's Yuka Igarashi | Abraham Smith |
| Chicago: Episode 3 | - | Chicago, Illinois | Nami Mun (Miles from Nowhere), artist Jay Ryan, and Barry Hite (iO, Second City, Annoyance Theaters). | Spencer Dew (THE2NDHAND), Adam Levin (Ninth Letter), Gabriel Gudding (MAKE), Febronio Zatarain (contratiempo), Simone Muench (POETRY), Kathleen Rooney (Switchback Books), Paul Killebrew (Canarium Books), and Michael Czyzniejewski (Another Chicago Magazine) | Spencer Dew |
| Los Angeles: Episode 1 | - | Cinespace, Los Angeles | Mark Sarvas (The Elegant Variation), Sarah Thyre (Strangers with Candy and author of Dark at the Roots) and Alison Becker (Mayne Street) | Rich Ferguson (The Nervous Breakdown), Joshua Lyon (Hyperion), Chris "Whitey" Erickson (Flatmancrooked), Melinda Hill | Rich Ferguson |
| Denver: Episode 2 | Forest Room 5, Denver | Chris Ransick (Denver's Poet Laureate), Curtis Pesman and Tara Anderson (Lijit Networks) | Nick Franciose (Lighthouse Writers), Jessy Randall (Ghost Road), Sharon McGill (Monday Night), Nicky Beer (Copper Nickel) | Nick Franciose | |
| Seattle: Episode 1 | Jewel Box Theater, Seattle | Mary Guterson (Gone to the Dogs), Lindy West (The Stranger), and Luke Smith (Bungie Studios) | Ryan Boudinot (Monkeybicycle), Matthew Simmons (HTMLGiant), Matt Briggs (Reading Local: Seattle), Peter Gajdics.(New York Tyrant) | Matthew Simmons | |
| The Battle Of The Independent Bookstores | San Francisco | Andrew Lam, Beth Spotswood, and Scott Sigler (Borderland Books) | Jade Brooks (City Lights), Derek Powazek (The Booksmith), Alvin Orloff (Dog Eared Books), Paul Neilan (Green Apple Books) | Paul Neilan | |
| New York City: Episode 17 | New York City | Scott Jacobson (The Daily Show), Ethan Nosowsky (Graywolf Press) and Tony Arcabascio (Alife's co-founder) | Janice Erlbaum (GIRLBOMB), Elisa Albert (The Book of Dahlia), Blaise Allysen Kearsley (How I Learned reading series), David Ellis Dickerson | Elisa Albert | |
| San Francisco: Episode 21 | Elbo Room, San Francisco | Elissa Bassist, Dan Klein (Kasper Hauser), Stacey Lewis (City Lights) | Tracy Clark-Flory, Genie Gratto, Jack Boulware (Litquake), Noria Joblanski | Tracy Clark-Flory | |
| Raleigh: Episode 1 | Pour House, Raleigh | Rhett and Link, Daniel Wallace, and KGBebe | Jodi Lynn Villers, Scott McClanahan, Billy Warden, Jeff Polish | Jodi Lynn Villers | |
| London: Episode 2 | Queen of Hoxton, London | Damian Barr (Get It Together), Fuchsia Dunlop, and Amy Lamé | Ashna Sarkar, Tom Chivers, Musa Okwonga, and Craig Taylor (Five Dials) | Ashna Sarkar | |
| New York City: Episode 18 | Bowery Poetry Club, New York | Franklin Bruno (The Mountain Goats), Ben Schafer (DeCapo Press), and Carla Rhodes | Christopher R. Weingarten, James Gavin, Jessica Hopper, and Courtney Gillette | Courtney Gillette | |
| Paris: Episode 1 | Le Reservoir, Paris | David Foenkinos, Yorgos Archimandritis, and Bo | Mohamed Razane, Max Monnehay, Philippe Jaenada, and Frédéric Beigbeder | Mohamed Razane | |
| LDM: Litquake | October 14, 2009 | Verdi Club, San Francisco | artist Paul Madonna, actress/poet Amber Tamblyn, David Wiegand (SF Chronicle) | Tod Goldberg (Other Resort Cities), Lynka Adams (A Skeleton at the Feast), Frances Dinkelspiel (Towers of Gold), and James Nestor | James Nestor |
| New York City: Episode 19 | September 29, 2009 | Bowery Poetry Club | Grove/Atlantic's Amy Hundley, The Colbert Report's Peter Grosz (also featured in Sonic commercials), and Gabe Liedman | David Henry Sterry (Hos, Hookers, Call-Girls, and Rent Boys: Prostitutes Writing on Life, Love, Work, Sex, and Money), Sarah Jane Stratford (author of The Midnight Guardian), David Hollander, and Robert Lopez (author of Part of the World) | Robert Lopez |
| LDM: Texas Book Festival | October 31, 2009 | The Sanctuary, Austin | Jane Smiley, Richard Russo, and Owen Egerton | Amelia Gray (AM/PM), Kyle Beachy (The Slide), Jeff Martin (editor, The Customer is Always Wrong), and Jason Sheehan (Cooking Dirty: A Story of Life, Sex, Love, and Death in the Kitchen_ | Amelia Gray |
| London: Episode 3 | November 3, 2009 | Old Queen's Head, London | Will Skidelsky (book editor for The Independent), Sara J. Stockbridge, and Molly Parkin | Matthew De Abaitua (The Idler), Ross Sutherland, John Grindrod (representing Faber), and Nathan Jones (Mercy) | Matthew De Abaitua |
| Oxford: Episode 1 | November 4, 2009 | Corner Club | poet Kate Clanchy, Dan Kieran (author and editor of the Idler magazine), and musician Ben Walker | George Chopping (author of collections Derailed & Shelf Life), Miranda Ward, Jake Wallis Simons (author of The Exiled Times of A Tibetan Jew) and Megan Kerr | George Chopping |
| Seattle, Ep 2: "Nonsensical Animal Toss" | November 11, 2009 | Paul Constant (The Stranger), Marie Semple (former writer for Arrested Development, Jonathan Evison (All About Lulu) | Aaron Dietz (KNOCK), Stacey Levine (My Horse and Other Stories), playwright Kelleen Conway Blanchard (Small Town) and Danbert Nobacon (Chumbawumba) | Kelleen Conway Blanchard | |
| Portland, Ep 1 | November, 2009 | Chelsea Cain (author, Evil at Heart), Scott Poole (author, Hiding from Salesmen) and Zia McCabe (The Dandy Warhols) | Michael Parker (author, Our Beloved 26th), Jeff Hardison (Back Fence), Arthur Bradford (author, Dogwalker) and Kerry Cohen (author, Loose Girl) | Arthur Bradford | |
| San Francisco, Episode 23 | November 2009 | Arline Klatt (Porchlight), cartoonist Michael Capozzola, and Todd Zniga (Opium founder) | Charlie Haas (The Enthusiast), Shanthi Sekaran (The Prayer Room), Seth Harwood (Jack wakes Up) and D.W. Lichtenberg (The Ancient Book of Hip) | D.W. Lichtenberg | |
| New York City, Episode 20: Nerf-machine-gun Assault | 2009 | Terese Svoboda (Weapons Grade), performance artist Joseph Keckler, Mishna Wolf (I'm Down) | Sarah Walker (Really, You've Done Enough), Edith Zimmerman (Esquire, Heeb, others) Teddy Wayne (Kapitoil) and Jon Friedman (The Rejection Show). | Edith Zimmerman | |
| San Francisco, Episode 24 | December 11, 2009 | Elbo Room | Chicken John, Isaac Fitzgerald (managing editor, The Rumpus), Nina Lesowitz (Spinergy Group, Litquake) | Derek Powazek (founder, Fray Magazine), Lynka Adams, Beth Spotswood (SF Appeal and SF Gate) and Elissa Bassist (The Rumpus.net) | Beth Spotswood |
| New York City, Episode 21 | December, 2009 | Ben Greenman (The New Yorker), Devorah Rose (Social Life magazine) and Jared Bloom (Full Ginsburg) | James Yeh (Gigantic), Jason Helm, Terese Svoboda (Weapons Grade) and Elna Baker (The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance) | Elna Baker | |
| San Francisco, Episode 25: The Bell Jar Charades | January 8, 2010 | Elbo Room | Michelle Tea (author, TransForming Community), Ali Liebegott (The IHOP Papers) and Twitter novelist Matt Stewart (The French Revolution) | Laura Joyce Davis, science comedian Brian Malow, cartoonist Michael Capozzola and Matty Byloos and Josh Atlas | Matty Byloos and Josh Atlas |
| Boston, Episode 2: Musical Chairs | January 13, 2010 | Billy Giraldi (writer, senior fiction editor, AGNI), Audrey Ryan and comedian Lamont Price | Janaka Stucky (Handsome), Michelle Hoover (Night Train), Elisa Gabbert (Open Letters) and Steven Brykman | Janaka Stucky | |
| Chicago, Episode 4: Draw the Judges | January 14, 2010 | Fizz | author Kathleen Rooney, rockstress and critic Jessica Hopper, and Shawn Smith (Shawnimals) | James Kennedy (The Order of Odd-Fish),
Rebekah Silverman (Artifice), Andy Farkas (Subito Press) and Davis Schneiderman (&NOW) |
James Kennedy |
| Dallas, Episode 1: Fling-the-Foamskin | January 15, 2010 | Dallas Museum of Art | Ben Fountain (author, Brief Encounters with Che Guevara), Tina Parker and Owen Egerton (How Best to Avoid Dying) | Katherine Center (author, Everyone is Beautiful), Amelia Gray (author, AM/PM), Will Clarke (author, Lord Vishnu's Love Handles: A Spy Novel, Sort Of) and William Razavi | Will Clarke |
| New York City, Episode 22: Awards Acceptance Speech-Off | January 21, 2010 | Bowery Poetry Club | Caitlin Roper (managing editor, The Paris Review), musician Emily Zuzik, writer Jess Grose | Nelly Reifler (SWEET: Actors Reading Writers), Daniel Nester(author, How To Be Inappropriate), Christopher Kennedy (New York Tyrant) and Michael Atkinson (author, Hemingway Deadlights | Nelly Reifler |
| Baltimore, Episode 1: Draw the Judges | January 30, 2010 | Windup Space | Michael Kimball (author, Dear Everybody), Rafael Alvarez(The Wire) and writer Carolyn Zaikowski | Mike Young (author, We Are All Good if They Try Hard Enough), Dave Housley (Barrelhouse), Jen Michalski (JMWW) and Michael M Hughes (CityLit) | Mike Young |
| San Francisco, Episode 26: Chocolates and famous love writers | February 12, 2010 | Elbo Room | Douglas McGray (editor in chief, Pop Up Magazine), Peter Finch (KFog Radio), humorist Janine Brito | Dylan Schaffer (Life, Death and Bialys), Michelle Tea (Valencia), Samantha Schoech (The Bigger the Better, the Tighter the Sweater), Joshua Mohr (Some Things that Meant the World to Me) | Dylan Schaffer |
| New York City, Episode 23: Faintly Mardi-Gras Themed | February 18, 2010 | Bowery Poetry Club | Rob Spillman (editor, Tin House), Sini Anderson, Cintra Wilson (author, Caligula for President) | Gladstone (Hate By Numbers), poet Melissa Broder (When You Say One Thing But Mean Your Mother), Elyssa East (author, Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town) and Joanna Smith Rakoff (author, A Fortunate Age) | Wayne Gladstone |
| Washington D.C., Episode 1: Capital | February 2, 2011 | The Black Cat | Jennine Capo Crucet (author, How to Leave Hialeah), Delaney Williams, (actor, The Wire), Chris Richards (The Washington Post) | David Wanczyk (The Written Wardrobe), Regie Cabico, Rae Bryant, Matt Bell | David Wanczyk |
| Washington D.C., Episode 2: Max Brod | November 8, 2011 | DC9 | Karen Sommer Shalett (editor, DC Magazine), S.M. Shrake, (Co-Founder, Story League), Justin Purvis | Sean Carman (The Huffington Post), Sacha Scoblic, Vijai Nathan, Jamaal May | Sacha Scoblic |
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