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Brecon Beacons, Green Man Festival, Ep.1

Oh Literary Death Match at Green Man was such fun, thanks to the 1000+ audience for coming and watching at Babbling Tongues on Saturday afternoon, and to Adrian, Laura and Fiona for inviting me along, it was so, so very close...









August 18, 2018 — In our first foray into an event at a National Park, Literary Death Match headed to the Green Man Festival in Brecon Beacons, Wales for an afternoon delight that saw Rebecca Tantony narrowly outduel Susie Wild in sudden death during a One Star Wonder finale, winning Tantony the LDM Green Man, Ep. 1 crown and literary immortality to go with it. 
Here's the lineup from the event: 
JUDGES: 
Literary Merit: Anita Sethi, award-winning writer, journalist and broadcaster
Performance: Johnny Lynch
, a.k.a. Pictish Trail, a Scottish musician for the ages
Intangibles: Horatio Clare, critically-acclaimed author and journalist, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and author of Icebreaker: A Voyage Far North
READERS:
Round 1:
Ross Sutherland
, writer, performer and award-winning podcaster, who works across theatre, film and radio
Susie Wild, author of Better Houses, journalist, critic, lecturer, festival organiser and editor based in Cardiff
Round 2:
Rebecca Tantony, spoken word artist, journalist and author of Talk You Round Til Dusk
Hari Ramakrishnan, Bristol-based actor, writer and director 
Hosted by LDM creator Adrian Todd Zuniga (check out his debut novel Collision Theory today!)

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