Opium Magazine

09/18/2018

We post to this sparingly, but know this: Adrian Todd Zuniga's debut novel is out in the world. Order a copy now, and he would be so thrilled. https://www.amazon.com/Collision-Theory-Adrian-Todd-Zuniga/dp/1945572825/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1532698438&sr=8-1&keywords=collision+theory+zuniga

St. Louis Post-Dispatch BestsellerThomas Mullen is struggling. Everything for him feels at risk, spiked with threat, since he witnessed a woman jump to her death fifteen months ago. Now there are the pleading calls from his parents to come home, please come home. But it is not until his best frie...

04/15/2013

Congratulations to Adam Peterson and his story — winner of $1,000 and O***m's Shya Scanlon 7-Line Story Contest! Read the PDF here/now: http://issuu.com/adriantoddzuniga/docs/opium_s_shya_scanlon_contest_winners

09/28/2012

We're at 299 backers for our Kickstarter. Be the 300th? It's just a better number. 2 hours to go: http://ow.ly/1OqJXH

09/13/2012

PLEASE READ: LDM Kickstarter: Help Us Make Literary History. http://conta.cc/ROPd3X

"We all have a blind spot and it's shaped exactly like us." The amazing Junot Diaz said that at the Edinburgh Book Festival two weeks ago. He was talking about editing one's own work, but it got me thinking about my blind spot: my naïveté. Because I genuinely believe Literary Death Match will be a T...

06/29/2012

"To know them, to understand who they essentially were, you only had to know what they had lost. This was explicitly clear: Everyone could be seen that way." -Bret Anthony Johnson from "Corpus Christi"

02/28/2012

6 Years! LDM200! Tom Perrotta! Darin Strauss! Riikka Pulkkinen! Huffington Post! http://conta.cc/ziSgwY

02/01/2012

RT : Check out my piece in LA Weekly--Literary Death Match: S*x, Booze and Competitive Storytelling: http://bit.ly/xaBhKR

01/05/2012

Name one female and one male author you'd kill to do a writing workshop with.

12/01/2011

Literary Death Match December! http://conta.cc/rZ7h4w

11/18/2011

So nice, is judging LDM twice. This time: TONIGHT in Miami! Be there: http://ow.ly/1r5OtM

08/25/2011

LDM September: Edinburgh (6th), Glasgow (7th), Dublin (8th, Portland (8th), Vancouver (10th), London (14th). Which will we see you at?

08/17/2011

Only two hours left to preorder for Literary Death Match London tonight. It's going to be rammed with awesome people. Be one of them: http://ow.ly/5ZA6E

08/11/2011

O***M MAGAZINE IS ONCE AGAIN LIVE. Finally. That took forever. Contest finalists judged by Amy Hempel will be announced Friday.

08/10/2011

The O***m39 finalists are ready to announce, but the O***m site is still f'd because of our hosting — ARGH! 5 days of waiting...

07/20/2011

The 15 finalists for 's 7-Line Contest are selected! We'll announce them once Amy Hempel chooses the winner.

07/11/2011

Loved 's piece on Hemingway 50 years after his death (plus, started reading A Moveable Feast last night): http://ow.ly/5Bfim

07/04/2011

Literary Death Match is in the hunt for an assistant producer — interested? Drop a line quick: todd @ literarydeathmatch.com.

07/01/2011

RT : Francis Ford Coppola Headed To Comic-Con http://bit.ly/iZS0zD