XYZ Prize for Innovation in Spoken Word
Presenting the winners for the XYZ Prize for Innovation in Spoken Word, in partnership with Queensland Poetry Festival.
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Presenting the winners for the XYZ Prize for Innovation in Spoken Word, in partnership with Queensland Poetry Festival.
Continue readingRemember when Scott Wings convinced an entire audience they were dinosaurs?
Continue readingCanadian word-wizard Tom Joyce captivated audiences at the Lithuanian Club in 2015.
Continue readingWe’re honoured to have captured Australian poetry stalwart Judith Rodriguez.
Continue readingJoin the party as we launch our fiesty new print edition, Going Down Swinging 37.
Continue readingEdited by Katia Pase, Matthew Harnett, Rhys Tate, 2016
Continue readingGoing Down Swinging is calling far and wide for submissions to our next print production, due for release mid 2016.
Continue readingAndrew Denton’s first cartoon collection. Bridget Lutherborrow’s first book of short stories. First novellas from Luke Johnson, Libbie Chellew and Katherine Kruimink. Pat Grant’s graphic novella reimagined as a fold-out poster book with DVD extras.
Continue readingI reckon that people who write are really the crucible, or the cradle of all culture, because most things come out of writing.
Continue readingWe found this explosion of an interview – A Brilliant Fantastic Great Interview with Pi O – in the sixth issue of Going Down Swinging, published in Spring 1984.
Continue readingFree, downloadable and totally portable ebook of the best essays, travel stories and musings from our online history.
Continue readingRecordings from Derrick Brown, Eleanor Jackson, Felix Nobis, and Sean M Whelan and the Mime Set
Continue readingEdited by Geoff Lemon, Zoe Norton Lodge, Rhys Tate, Katia Pase and Simon Cox, 2014
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Continue readingEditors: Bhakthi Puvanenthiran, Geoff Lemon, 2013
Continue readingEditors: Geoff Lemon and Jessica Friedmann, 2011
Continue readingEditors: Jessica Friedmann and Geoff Lemon, 2011
Continue readingEditors: Lisa Greenaway, Ella Holcombe, Nathan Curnow, 2010
Continue readingEditors: Steve Grimwade, Lisa Greenaway, 2008
Continue readingEditors: Steve Grimwade, Lisa Greenaway, 2008
Continue readingEditors: Steve Grimwade, Lisa Greenaway, 2008
Continue readingEditors: Steve Grimwade, Lisa Greenaway, 2007
Continue readingEditors: Steve Grimwade, Lisa Greenaway, David Prater, 2006
Continue readingEditors: Steve Grimwade, Alicia Sometimes, Lisa Greenaway, 2003
Continue readingEditors: Steve Grimwade, Alicia Sometimes, Anna Hedigan, Adam Ford, 2004
Continue readingEditors: Steve Grimwade, Alicia Sometimes, Anna Hedigan, Adam Ford, 2003
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