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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

Interview with Bruce Pascoe, 1987

I reckon that people who write are really the crucible, or the cradle of all culture, because most things come out of writing.
Articles

Video: Under Milk Wood

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Articles

That Tiny Spark of Here and Now
Articles

The (Public) Space Invaders

Articles

Psychological Shopping: Harvey Norman

Can a shopping aisle have the emotional effect of a Broadway musical or a new flick? Oliver Mol reviews aisle nine at shopping centres across Australia.
Articles, On Writing

Catholicism Can Be Sexy: Finding Poetry In the Pews

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

On the Attractions of Innocence

We can never go back, never return. You smile as you scoop sangria from the bowl, finger my albums’ battered covers. We can’t recall what it is to know...
Stories & Poems

Excerpt from 'Little Monsters'
Stories & Poems

Dress Young
Stories & Poems

The Bedroom Philosopher Tour Diary #4

Stories & Poems

Beards of Australia

Comic artist Michael Baylis has something to say about Australian beards.
Stories & Poems

Pelican

On Writing:

On Writing

Locked in Limbo: What Paid Parental Leave Means for Freelancers

In February this year, I had my second child. Having a baby is a wonderful time in a writer’s life – if you’re like me, you swear black and...
On Writing

Little Black Diaries
On Writing

Truth or Myth: 'A Writer Writes, Always'
On Writing

Why Do You Write Poetry? – Frank X. Walker

On Writing

PRISM International: Al Purdy Versus Earle Birney (Letter Excerpts)

Once a month we're swapping articles with Canadian literary magazine PRISM to share our writers with a wider audience.
On Writing

What Television Teaches Us About Literary Fiction

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