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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

Crime Factory editor and publisher Liam Jose points out that, despite a fierce Lee cult following, “it seems stupid that there hasn’t been much written about him”.
Articles

Looking For Daisy Pearce
Articles

Video: Knitting & Short Film
Articles

What It Really Means to Graduate in the Arts

Articles

The Future of Phantoms

Prosthetics are giving amputees not just the ability to walk again, but the chance to damn well stride.
Articles

Everyone Remembers Their First Time

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

Election

Una Cruickshank’s satirical take on the 2013 federal election – Scout-style. The meeting convened in the Scout hall at exactly 7pm. Having made sure that all the parents had...
Stories & Poems

Janis Ian remembers
Stories & Poems

Alternate Histories
Stories & Poems

What Red Wine Doesn’t Do

Stories & Poems

Irish Orphan Immigration

New spoken word and poetry from GDS contributor Tiggy Johnson, who also provides a commentary on the creative work that emerged from her research into the Earl Grey Scheme of...
Stories & Poems

there are important incongruities

On Writing:

On Writing

Pitch Proper

When I was a writing student at RMIT (twice), I was told that if I ever worked as a freelance journalist (an ill-advised career path), the best way to...
On Writing

Fringe Binge '13: A Yarn
On Writing

Publish or Perish
On Writing

A Freelancer's Guide to Europe: Provence

On Writing

My First Orgy

Writers have changed. No more are they sitting pretty in brothels and brocade drawing rooms diligently scribbling into their goat paper. No more are they sipping absinthe in bohemian...
On Writing

A Freelancer’s Guide to Europe: Paris

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