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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, On Writing

Catholicism Can Be Sexy: Finding Poetry In the Pews

It was the Church that taught me first about the body.
Articles

Crossing the Nullarbor: Part Two
Articles

How to Bend Language to Your Will (in Eight Easy Steps)
Articles

Food for Thought: The Birth of the SecondBite Poetry Prize

Articles

The (Public) Space Invaders

Tyne Daile Sumner challenges our sincerity when dealing with each other in packed spaces.
Articles

When Your Limbs Are No Longer Ghosts

The Latest from The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge:

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Stories and Poems:

Stories & Poems

Pelican

New fiction from PRISM international's Andrew F. Sullivan.
Stories & Poems

Wardrobe
Stories & Poems

Dark Matter
Stories & Poems

Alternate Histories

Stories & Poems

Beards of Australia

Comic artist Michael Baylis has something to say about Australian beards.
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 II

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On Writing:

On Writing

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 it. In fact, life doesn’t care whether I write...
On Writing

A Small Boy
On Writing

Why Do You Write Poetry? – Stu Hatton
On Writing

Lessons in Self-Sabotage

On Writing

How to Make a Buck in the Henhouse

So The Monthly’s editor, John van Tiggelen, recently made public his spat with former editor (now Good Weekend editor) Ben Naparstek. If you didn’t catch it, it was all...
On Writing

The Importance of Writing It Down

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