19 June — LDM Melbourne is BACK

Hey, it’s Adrian over at LDM! After a SPECTACULAR event in April, on 19 June (pics here to prove it) we’re putting on “The Greatest Literary Night of 2024” (I can feel your tall poppy instincts bristling, but shut those down!). Not only will we be doing Melbourne's third-ever Literary Death Match at Fringe Common Rooms, we’ll be having an after-party with music from DJ William Shakespeare (for real). 

This is our second (and last) event funded by the City of Melbourne Arts Grants — which is why tickets are only $20 — and it serves as a sort of proving ground for the show here, as we’ve longed lived by the mantra: “If you show up, we’ll come back.” So show up, because there’s so much talent in Victoria, and we want to keep showcasing it in our weird, fun way.

Here’s who’s participating in order of appearance, a.k.a. the lineup in visual form. Hope to see you there, it’d mean the world to me!

Ben Russell, award-winning comedian (he won Melbourne International Comedy Festival's 2024 Director's Choice Award), improviser and actor for Thank God You're Here and Aunty Donna, and the series creator/writer of Hug the Sun

Alex Hines, multi-award-winning comedian, she's won the 2024 Moosehead Award, Best Independent Theatre Performer 2023 Green Room Awards, the Golden Gibbo 2022 from Melbourne International Comedy Festival and Best Cabaret Production 2022 Green Room Awards 

Reuben Kaye, multi-award winning Australian comedian, singer and writer, he's won the prestigious Offie Award for Best Cabaret in London, Green Room Awards for Best Artist & Best Cabaret Production, and Adelaide Fringe Award for Best Cabaret twice (plus he's a TikTok sensation)

Isabelle Oderberg, journalist and author of Hard to Bear, she's worked for newswires across Europe and Asia, and as Australia's first social media editor at Melbourne’s Herald Sun. Her work's appeared in The Age/SMH, Guardian, ABC, Meanjin and elsewhere

Guido Melo, Afro-Brazilian-Latinx, multilingual author whose words can be found in Overland Magazine, Meanjin Quarterly, Kill Your Darlings, ABC, SBS Voices, and in the books Growing Up African in Australia and Racism: Stories on Fear, Hate & Bigotry

Scott Limbrick, writer and comedian, his short stories have appeared in Electric Literature, Griffith Review, Westerly, Debris Magazine, Going Down Swinging, The Big Issue Fiction Edition, The Furphy Anthology and Kill Your Darlings’ New Australian Fiction. He's currently the Copyright Agency Frank Moorhouse Fellow

Manisha Anjali, author of Naag Mountain (Giramondo, 2024), and founder of Neptune, a research and documentation platform for dreams, visions and hallucinations. She is one half of Whelk, an ambient music collaboration with Genevieve Fry

Hosted by LDM creator Adrian Todd Zuniga (author of the award-nominated novel Collision Theory)

Produced by Kate Cameron producer/theatre-maker/photographer

Where: Fringe Common Rooms (Trades Hall), 54 Victoria St, Carlton VIC 3053 (map)
When: Show at 8pm sharp; doors at 7pm; dance party at 9:30pm
Cost: $20; $10 Mob Tix (click to buy now!)