After 35 years, GDS needs your help to stay alive. Our Survival Drive is off to a flyer, but there’s...
Anthony O’Sullivan live at One Night Wonders – Poem for the Anthem for a Generation+
Before Derrick Brown took to the One Night Wonders stage back in May, the night was opened by the talents...
PRISM International: Our Favourite Writing from Canadian Lit Mags+
Once a month we're swapping articles and interviews with Canadian literary magazine PRISM to share our writers with a wider...
Help Save Going Down Swinging+
After 35 years, GDS needs your help to stay alive. Our Survival Drive is off to a flyer, but there’s...
Anthony O’Sullivan live at One Night Wonders – Poem for the Anthem for a Generation+
Before Derrick Brown took to the One Night Wonders stage back in May, the night was opened by the talents...
PRISM International: Our Favourite Writing from Canadian Lit Mags+
Once a month we're swapping articles and interviews with Canadian literary magazine PRISM to share our writers with a wider...
Poesis Ex Machina: Non-Human Language and Mechanic Poetry+
Poetry has long been a way of trying to come to terms with something we don’t fully understand. In the...
A Freelancer’s Guide to Europe: Provence+
Online editor Megan Anderson gives up a roof, friends and financial stability to write around Europe. When freelancing in Provence,...
Psychological Shopping: Coles+
Can a shopping aisle have the emotional effect of a Broadway musical or a literary canon? Oliver Mol reviews aisle nine...
Why I Went to Lebanon+
Australian freelance journalist Fiona Broom on travelling to Lebanon, ignoring government warnings, and following a madman.
Library of Congress+
We sat and listened to the rain fall. Me and Eduard nursing our whiskies. Ice disappearing, drinks turned oil spills....
Open Readings and How to Botch Them+
Paul Mitchell on open readers at poetry evenings – and the bad first impressions that can be made.
That Tiny Spark of Here and Now: Writing from Hungary’s Archives+
Kim Sherwood travels to Hungary to research material for her novel on the Hungarian Holocaust and explores the significance of...
Scott Wings: Voices from the Edinburgh Fringe+
Scott Wings captures the monologues of the Edinburgh Fringe after premiering his show Icarus Falling
Derrick Brown’s Live Album is Here: Try a Free Sample+
Derrick Brown’s live album is ready for release, and we’ve never been prouder of anything. The first One Night Wonders...
South Africa at Edinburgh Fringe: Interview with Nat Ramabulana+
We spoke to Nat Ramabulana from Hayani, a South African play that questions the identity of this transitional society.
PRISM International: Tweeting Stories+
Social media isn’t exactly new, but it’s still something that writers have only recently begun experimenting with.
Listen in: An Exclusive Anis Mojgani Track as His Oz Tour Kicks Off+
There is something about Anis Mojgani that makes you like him as soon as he starts talking. The legendary American...
Talking in Dead Tongues+
Languages die like people. Sometimes it’s a gentle goodnight; other times it’s sudden and violent.
Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge: #26 A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy+
This week’s Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge is covered by guest reviewer Sally Evans. Sally is a poet and lecturer/tutor based...
The Poetry of Food: Awarding the SecondBite Prize+
The topic of food has long been a lively muse for the creative mind – think sensual stimulation, social ritual,...
Psychological Shopping: Harvey Norman+
Can a shopping aisle have the emotional effect of a Broadway musical or a new flick? Oliver Mol reviews aisle nine...
Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge: #25 The Bielski Brothers by Peter Duffy+
In Gilmore Girls, aka the best show ever written, bright-eyed Rory Gilmore is continually seen reading a wide array of...
PRISM International: Excerpt from ‘This is How I Remember You’+
Once a month we’re swapping articles with Canadian literary mag PRISM to share our writers with a wider international...
Sometimes Cancer Has to Be Hilarious+
Cancer isn’t funny, but it’s definitely good for a laugh. Anyone who’s heard Tig Notaro’s famous comedy set performed in shock...
Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge: #24 Bitch by Elizabeth Wurtzel+
This week’s Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge is covered by guest reviewer Marlee Jane Ward. Marlee is a Sydney writer with...
Psychological Shopping: Target+
Can a shopping aisle have the emotional effect of a Fringe show or a new flick? Oliver Mol reviews aisle nine at...
What It Really Means to Graduate in the Arts+
My graduation ceremony was rather unceremonious. No silk robes, no shaking the hand of someone I know I should recognise,...
The Sensitive Artist’s Guide to the World Cup+
So, you’re an artist. And naturally, you hate sport. That’s OK. That’s just part of your creative soul. Those of...
Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge: #23 The Bhagavad Gita+
I’ve actually tried to read the Bhagavad Gita before, back in university. I was doing this amazing course in Indian...
A Freelancer’s Guide to Europe: True Stories from Edinburgh Share Houses+
Online editor Megan Anderson gives up a roof, friends and financial stability to write around Europe.
PRISM International: An Interview with Jean Kwok+
Going Down Swinging is going global. Once a month we’re swapping articles with Canadian literary mag, PRISM international.
Sender Beware: Editorial Bias in Australian Poetry+
Paul Mitchell examines the editorial biases at work in the Australian poetry community.
Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge: #22 Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney+
In Gilmore Girls, aka the best show ever written, bright-eyed Rory Gilmore is continually seen reading a wide array of...
The (Public) Space Invaders+
Tyne Daile Sumner challenges our sincerity when dealing with each other in packed spaces.
Spoken Wordsters: Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz+
The Official Bio Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz is the author of six books of poetry (including Dear Future Boyfriend, Hot Teen...
Crowdsourcing Stories with Amazon’s Mechanical Turk+
Entrepreneur of absurdities Adam Grant (Jafflechutes) shares a time-travelling story from his curiously curated blog, Eggs on Toast with Thyme....
Stealing From the Past+
Jenny Sinclair explores why, and how, historical fiction is worthwhile – through the life of Queen Victoria’s would-be assassin, Edward...
Why You Can’t Bend Language to your Will+
As with everything to do with humans, getting some kind of change to occur is a laborious process. So the...
Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge: #21 Beloved by Toni Morrison+
In Gilmore Girls, aka the best show ever written, bright-eyed Rory Gilmore is continually seen reading a wide array of...
Pitch Proper+
When I was a writing student at RMIT (twice), I was told that if I ever worked as a freelance...
PRISM International: An Interview with Tessa Mellas+
Going Down Swinging is going global. Once a month we’ll be swapping articles and interviews with Canadian literary magazine, PRISM...
