November 29th, 2011 / 6:32 pm
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2011 Tournament of Bookshit Brackets & Prizes

Bracket predictions for the 2011 Tournament of Bookshit will close tomorrow at noon eastern time, at which point the tourney will begin.

You can fill out & submit your bracket here.

The current prize pool, to be given to the highest bracket score or scores (to be determined soon), includes the following list. Thanks to everyone so generous so far. Anyone else wanting to contribute, please comment.

* Lit Pub t-shirt(s) & a stack of Lit Pub books from Lit Pub

* Melissa Broder’s poems Meat Heart and Justin Sirois’s novel Falcons on the Floor from Publishing Genius

* Treating A Sick Animal, Flash and Micro Fictions from Timothy Gager

* $5 cash from Mark Leidner & $5 cash from Ken Baumann

* In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje from Ken Baumann

* *signed* first edition [Knopf, New York, 2005] of ishiguro’s ‘never let me go,’ hard cover w/ dust jacket ‘fine condition’ from Jimmy Chen

* subscription to Moonshot

* an assortment of chapbooks, plus a copy of anna joy springer’s ‘the birdwisher.’ from Birds of Lace

* copies of the Lifted Brow

* “The Necropastoral” by Joyelle McSweeney, “From the Fjords” by Zachary Schomburg, and “Complements, Of Us” by Heather Palmer from Spork

* PANK 5 and Matthew Salesses’s book from Pank

* Normally Special, Please Don’t Be Upset, So You Know It’s Me, and Steal Me for Your Stories from Tiny Hardcore Press

* 3 copies of Fog Gorgeous Stag from Sean Lovelace

* a year’s subscription to New York Tyrant

* “nim chimpsky: live at the german bordello” by Daniel Bailey and Elizabeth Taddonio.

and more to come.

29 Comments

  1. November 29th, 2011 / 6:35 pm Mike Young—

      I will donate a copy of Ofelia Hunt’s Today & Tomorrow and a Star Trek action figure

  2. November 29th, 2011 / 6:39 pm Anonymous—

      Can I just say I don’t see how there’s any way “foot fetish” won’t win?

  3. November 29th, 2011 / 6:43 pm Anonymous—

      Wait, are we supposed to be picking which thing is worst of all?  Or best?

  4. November 29th, 2011 / 7:34 pm Mason Johnson—

      That very question is what makes this so interesting.

      I went with bowtie.

  5. November 29th, 2011 / 7:44 pm Ryan Call—

      i throw in a copy of my book and ‘backpacking with your dog: a nuts ‘n’ bolts guide’ by richard lerner

  6. November 29th, 2011 / 7:57 pm Tummler—

      If I’ve filled out the bracket and saved my predictions, then does that mean that it has been “submitted” to you guys? If not, how do I submit it?

  7. November 29th, 2011 / 8:24 pm Trey—

      if anyone has anything other than self-published sci fi 4 part epic winning, they are wrong

  8. November 29th, 2011 / 10:06 pm jesusangelgarcia—

      I’ll donate a copy of my 3xbad DVD documentary film.

  9. November 29th, 2011 / 10:10 pm Bobby Dixon—

      Discussing Race in Publishing vs. Dinner at Chili’s is fucking killing me. 

  10. November 29th, 2011 / 10:11 pm Bobby Dixon—

      I made the right choice. 

  11. November 29th, 2011 / 10:11 pm Mark C—

      Big Lucks will donate a year subscription and a home recipe from each of our editors.

  12. November 29th, 2011 / 10:12 pm Mark C—

      year, year’s, ears, whatever.

  13. November 29th, 2011 / 10:25 pm Bobby Dixon—
  14. November 29th, 2011 / 10:48 pm Muumuu House—
  15. November 29th, 2011 / 11:33 pm BAC—

      Dark Sky would add to the list, but shit the list is getting insane. I think “Giving away too many books in a lit competition giveaway thingy” should be added to the bracket. That being said, We can throw in a copy of Issue Two and a later to be determined title depending on how we feel that day and shit. 

  16. November 30th, 2011 / 12:23 am Matthew Simmons—

      If someone named Matthew wins, I’ll totally send him (or her, I guess) a bunch of personalized 1st edition lit fiction titles that thank “Matthew” for “helping out with the event,” or “the very nice intro.”

  17. November 30th, 2011 / 12:42 am Mark C—

      Chili’s definitely has the most upset potential.

  18. November 30th, 2011 / 1:12 am Tim Jones-Yelvington—

      I will throw in a copy of THEY COULD NO LONGER CONTAIN THEMSELVES.

  19. November 30th, 2011 / 2:16 am La Petite Zine—

      La Petite Zine will donate either a trophy or a pimp cup — winner’s choice

  20. November 30th, 2011 / 2:17 am Roxane—

      Will the pimp cup be monogrammed?

  21. November 30th, 2011 / 2:21 am La Petite Zine—

      Yes — H T M L G

  22. November 30th, 2011 / 2:22 am Roxane—

      Fuck yessssss.

  23. November 30th, 2011 / 9:28 am Madison Langston—

      omg that dream scene is dominating all the way up 2 alcoholism and then probably dominating that too

  24. November 30th, 2011 / 10:30 am Justin Sirois—

      I love you, Matthew. 

  25. November 30th, 2011 / 10:55 am Gigantic—

      Gigantic will include a special “Winner’s Pack,” consisting of Gigantic Issue #1 and Gigantic #3: Gigantic Indoors.

  26. November 30th, 2011 / 11:32 am Erik Stinson—

      1 packet of beef jerky ‘teriyaki sstyle’

  27. November 30th, 2011 / 1:32 pm deckfight—

      this is insane. i’ll send a copy of my book — ambient florida position — to the first person that just finds my email & asks for the book. 

  28. November 30th, 2011 / 3:26 pm Tummler—

      Sweet, thank you.

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