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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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Everything from sound projects to spoken word, from past editions and new content commissioned for online publication.

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

Crossing the Nullarbor: Part Three

The dramatic finale to poet Omar J. Sakr's ambitious drive across Australia.
Articles

Don't Read This Review Until You Read This Book
Articles

In Defence of Slam Poetry
Articles

I Have This Friend

Articles

The Crushed Pineapple

Nova Weetman returns to scenes from her childhood – and instantly regrets it.
Articles

Hettie Jones: Writing Behind Beats & Bars

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

A Real Good Catch

He real nice this one. Want you to meet him. This one he real good to me. I’m happy. Real happy. Lost six kilo. Don’t know how, why. Just...
Stories & Poems

The Bedroom Philosopher Tour Diary #2
Stories & Poems

Beards of Australia
Stories & Poems

Sometimes Poems...

Stories & Poems

Glorious Kingdom

He’s waiting for me. He’s just sitting there, in his car in the parking lot outside the store, biding his time.
Stories & Poems

Excerpt from 'Atlas Dharma'

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On Writing:

On Writing

Fringe Binge '13: A Yarn

Lily Fish unravels the creative process and mythologies behind her upcoming Melbourne Fringe performance, Yarn.
On Writing

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

The Meditations: Chloe Wilson on 'Lyudmila Pavlichenko, From the Orchard’
On Writing

The Value of Writing

On Writing

Teaching Poetry under Bunjil

Paul Mitchell reflects on his experience running Australian Poetry-sponsored workshops with the Aboriginal community at Lake Tyers, Victoria. I’m standing on the balcony of the Lake Tyers Indigenous Training...
On Writing

Why Do You Write Poetry? – Maria Takolander

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