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Nov.21.2012
LDM TV: The Pilot is happening. It's really, really happening.
On December 12 at Florentine Gardens in Los Angeles. The heart of Hollywood! The most exciting part? The scale has gone from simple to massive. Looking at our original plan, it's like we didn't have a clue. Because, to...
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Aug.13.2012
On October 9, 2012 at Largo at the Coronet in LA we'll be filming the first-ever LDM TV pilot, as part of a star-studded double feature (Dexter's Michael C. Hall, the musician Moby, best-selling author Susan Orlean, and comedian/Marcel the Shell creator Jenny Slate are all on board...
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Aug.16.2011
We are thrilled to announce the fifteen finalists for Opium39's 7-Line Story Contest (judged by Amy Hempel). The issue, which will release in November, will feature the winner and nine other of these stories, while a handful will appear online as a run-up to the issue's release. The winner will be...
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Jul.07.2011
Opium is in a wild, last-minute hunt for your most brilliant stories for our Heaven issue. If you have written a story about these topics, we want you to submit them IMMEDIATELY (or, say, by Wednesday, July 13th):
Mothers, death, sadness, dying, living, heaven, hope, happiness, loss of hope,...
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May.17.2011
It's been a strange series of months for Opium. Before we became a nonprofit in February 2010, we announced Opium100: A Century of Literary Humor - which was to be our most ambitious project ever. Thing is, ambition in this case also meant expensive, and while we've evaded admitting it until now,...
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Jan.12.2011
To put it plainly: 2010 was, for Literary Death Match, a jaw-dropper (especially now that we're looking back in disbelief at how we pulled off the whole grassroots mess).
On October 6, 2010, in San Francisco, we celebrated a thrilling milestone when we pulled off our 100th-ever event at Litquake...
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Nov.11.2010
A little over a month ago, I embarked on what was possibly the nuttiest Opium misadventure, yet: the LDM100 celebration & Opium for the Arts fundraiser. I went back and forth across America in what my friend deemed "the most fiscally responsible not-quite-jet-setting" he'd ever...
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Oct.02.2010
To celebrate the 100th episode of the Literary Death Match, we're going on tour! We'll be visiting several cities throughout the month of October in order to spread the lit love in every corner of literacy, and to give everyone a chance to join in the excitement, no matter where you are.
For tour...
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Jun.01.2010
Opium100 Announcement and Call for Donations
When Opium Magazine transitioned to Opium for the Arts (finally deciding to become a 501(c)3 nonprofit after almost nine years of impoverished independence), we knew there was an opportunity to build beyond anything we've ever done, to take our literary...
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Sep.22.2009
Opium's Network of Writers Experiment continues in Opium9. How does it work? You send us a quote told to you by another writer, about writing to our inbox. If we dig it, we'll feature it in Opium9 on one of our wildly-designed (thanks to David Barringer) pages. An example of quotes from Opium8, for...
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Jul.01.2009
Since the release of our 8th issue, the scene at Opium HQ has been one of blithesome disbelief. We're blown away by the unprecedented flurry of media coverage surrounding the issue, and we wanted to share our excitement.
Thanks to our Jonathan Keats-designed cover...
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About Adrian
Adrian Todd Zuniga is the founding editor of Opium Magazine and a co-founder of the Literary Death Match reading series. A Pushcart Prize nominee, his fiction has appeared most recently in Canteen, and online at Lost Magazine. With his second novel recently...