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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

The Sensitive Artist's Guide to the World Cup

What is one to do about the World Cup?
Articles

Why You Can’t Bend Language to Your Will
Articles

The Crushed Pineapple
Articles

The (Public) Space Invaders

Articles

Video: Under Milk Wood

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This video was published in our inaugural digital edition in 2011, Edition No. 31. Under Milk Wood is a short film created by Vanessa Hughes using a combination of...
Articles

A Short History of Melbourne Art

The Latest from The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge:

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Stories and Poems:

Stories & Poems

Sarah White Says Thanks

Following on from Going With Fergus, Z. P. Heller searches for the serendipitous moment in Scotland. There were no otters in Otter Haven that afternoon, at least none we...
Stories & Poems

Irish Orphan Immigration
Stories & Poems

Why I Went to Lebanon
Stories & Poems

Excerpt from 'Little Monsters'

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

Crowdsourcing Stories with Amazon's Mechanical Turk

On Writing:

On Writing

The Meditations Part III: Rafael SW on 'Deep Throat Jesus'

The Meditations is a curated series of reflections on writing and storytelling from contributors to the thirty-third issue of Going Down Swinging. This reflection comes from Rafael SW on his story...
On Writing

Why Do You Write Poetry? – Robbie Coburn
On Writing

Why Do You Write Poetry? – John Tranter
On Writing

Lessons in Self-Sabotage

On Writing

The Importance of Writing It Down

Yesterday, I had a brilliant idea for this column. I stood in the doorway of my lounge room and thought, Yes, that’s it; that will roll off the keyboard...
On Writing

A Freelancer's Guide to Europe: Provence

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