As the first season of ABC’s Glitch wraps up, Matilda Dixon-Smith hopes there is room for more in Australian...
Please Stop Saying These 18 Ridiculous Phrases At Work+
You do not want to remember these words and say them at work. They are the words of bad robot...
Crossing the Nullarbor: Part One+
Poet Omar J. Sakr attempts to drive across Australia – and back again – in just nine days.
Good Grief: How Loss in ABC’s Glitch Leads to Magical Thinking+
As the first season of ABC’s Glitch wraps up, Matilda Dixon-Smith hopes there is room for more in Australian...
Please Stop Saying These 18 Ridiculous Phrases At Work+
You do not want to remember these words and say them at work. They are the words of bad robot...
Crossing the Nullarbor: Part One+
Poet Omar J. Sakr attempts to drive across Australia – and back again – in just nine days.
The Art Behind the Ebook: Introducing ‘Essays, Letters, Reflections’+
We catch up with 'Essays, Letters, Reflections' illustrator Genna Campton ahead of this Thursday’s Melbourne launch.
PRISM International: ‘Dinner With the Vittrekwas’ by Carleigh Baker+
Once a month we're swapping work with Canadian literary magazine PRISM to share our writers with a wider audience.
A Short History of Melbourne Art+
The Depressionist movement emerged at the turn of the century with a group of Melbourne-based artists whose mild disappointment with...
Get Inside Longbox: Ringbark, a New Novella by Luke Johnson+
In a few dozen pages, Luke Johnson demolishes the romantic Australian idea of the shearing shed. A former shearer, Luke...
The Prophet Effect+
Fiona Broom reads Gibran's masterpiece for the first time, at the right time, and considers its effect.
Get Inside Longbox: ‘Looking a Little Drawn’ by Andrew Denton+
It’s intriguing when a person noted for particular skills tries something altogether different. Some attempts end better than others. Andrew...
The Psychopath in Our Every Word+
Lara S. Williams on the psychological traits shared by psychopaths and writers.
Longbox Launched+
For those who missed it, the big multi-format issue we call Longbox launched in Sydney a week or so ago....
Sean M. Whelan & the Mime Set – Live Album Released+
“This Friday night something very special is happening and it will never happen again.” That’s how the frontman put it. Through the...
Longbox – the New Multiformat Collection from Going Down Swinging+
Longbox: the thirty-sixth edition of Going Down Swing. Six extended works by eleven artists
All Grown Up+
Fiona Broom on growing up – and why your teenage self didn't have it as wrong as you think.
Get Felix Nobis – his Live Album is Here+
Felix Nobis brings a warmth and robust humour to his storytelling that wins over every audience: long, rolling tales in the...
As the Animal Leaves the Flesh: More Notes on the Bullfight+
Daniel East on the bullfight.
A Place for Women in Hollywood Action Blockbusters+
Matilda Dixon-Smith on 'Mad Max' as a feminist film – and the failure of other blockbusters to keep up.
PRISM International: Excerpt from ‘Doughnut Eaters’ by Diane Bracuk+
Once a month we're swapping posts with Canadian literary magazine PRISM to share our writers with a wider audience.
The Stratified Stare+
Tessa Toumbourou writes on the hierarchy of who looks and is looked at in Jakarta.
The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman+
This week’s Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge is covered by guest reviewer Daniel East. Daniel is an Australian poet and critic...
Finding the Will+
Willpower. We need it in so many aspects of our lives, and yet it can be so hard to come...
Positions Vacant: General Manager, Digital Editor+
Going Down Swinging is looking for a new General Manager, and for a Digital Editor. Part of Australian literature since...
Spoken Wordsters: Ebony MonCrief+
Alabama-raised Ebony MonCrief is a writer, performance poet, speaker and MC.
A Fan Letter Never Sent Because I Was Too Much A Coward+
Terry Pratchett: I meant to write to you sooner (isn’t that always the way?), but in my case ‘sooner’ meant...
Lessons in Self-Sabotage+
After releasing a collection of essays on the struggles and scrapes of the working artist, As Dire as its Title:...
What Red Wine Doesn’t Do+
Do know what red wine doesn’t do? Judge you for drinking red wine.
Prism Writing Prompt: Haters Gonna Hate+
PRISM's executive editor Clara Kumagai calls on you haters to get writing.
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger+
I read The Catcher in the Rye at the correct time – somewhere around the age of seventeen or eighteen...
Wardrobe+
The two of you will be in love forever. Many other couples have got it wrong, but not you. You...
Spoken Wordsters: Ryan Van Winkle+
Van Winkle has that kind of voice you believe instantly, the kind of poems you want to curl up with...
Sarah White Says Thanks+
Following on from Going With Fergus, Z. P. Heller searches for the serendipitous moment in Scotland. There were no otters...
‘Warren’ by Trisha Cull+
Once a month we're swapping articles and interviews with Canadian magazine PRISM International to share our writers with a wider...
Nostalgia with a Price Tag+
The greatest insult I can level at Will Gluck’s remake of Annie is that it turns the saccharine, impudent 1982...
Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White+
This week’s Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge is covered by guest reviewer Michelle Law.
Lingua Fracas+
What happens to language in wartime? Rafael S. W. looks at the implications of regulated speech.
Person of Letters: An Interview with Carmine Starnino+
Once a month we're swapping articles and interviews with Canadian literary magazine PRISM international to share our writers with a...
Spoken Wordsters: Anis Mojgani+
The Official Bio Anis Mojgani is a two-time National Poetry Slam Champion and winner of the International World Cup Poetry...
People Are Reading your Stuff on the Internet+
Sandra Hajda on what it means to write – and be read – in the internet age.
A Man Made Entirely of Bats+
When he’s not reading obscure novels for The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge, Patrick Lenton writes stories. His first collection of...
10 Things I’ve Learnt about the Writing Life+
1. It’s not a life. It’s a profession, a hobby, an activity or an obsession. Life goes on regardless of...
