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Going Down Swinging is one of Australia’s longest-running and most respected literary journals: publishing digital as well as print and audio anthologies since 1979 and producing sensational, sold-out live events.
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Where fierce, fresh writing lives. Here you’ll find opinions, profiles, poetry, stories, reviews, treasures from our archives and food for the mind. All the things you need to go down swinging.

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Everything from sound projects to spoken word, from past editions and new content commissioned for online publication.

Articles:

Articles

Crime Factory's Double Debut

“If I have any appeal at all, it’s to the fellow who takes out the garbage,” said tough guy film icon Lee Marvin. Actually, the Cat Ballou and Point...
Articles

The Stratified Stare
Articles

Lingua Fracas
Articles

Making a Pretty Pink Picture

Articles

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 first question you might be asking about bending language...
Articles

Going With Fergus

The Latest from The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge:

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Stories and Poems:

Stories & Poems

Other Adventures...

When I was Born When I was born I saw the beginning of things. I saw the tide roll in and the tide roll out. I saw the moon...
Stories & Poems

Eviction
Stories & Poems

Election
Stories & Poems

Sarah White Says Thanks

Stories & Poems

Two People Write Letters to each Other about Things That Happen While They are Travelling in Different Countries Even Though, Sometimes, Not a Lot Actually Happens: Part I

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Buddies Oliver Mol and GDS deputy ed Katia Pase revive the epistolary form by writing to each other – across continents. Dear Oliver, Here I am in Bogota, at the...
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'Warren' by Trisha Cull

On Writing:

On Writing

Why Do You Write Poetry? – Maria Takolander

Once a month I quiz the poets of this world and ask them why they do the thing they do that makes them poets. They answer in innumerable (thanks...
On Writing

Sender Beware: Editorial Bias in Australian Poetry
On Writing

Why Do You Write Poetry? – Frank X. Walker
On Writing

The Meditations: Kavita Bedford on 'The Most Northern Southern City'

On Writing

Truth or Myth: 'A Writer Writes, Always'

It should be obvious that a quote about writing that has its origin in a comedy movie starring Billy Crystal wasn’t meant to be taken seriously.
On Writing

What are your Words Worth?

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