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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.

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The Falling Sky: Drones and Modern Warfare

Rafael S. W. imagines how drones will change the future of warfare.
Articles

Roald Dahl, Ugliness and Morality
Articles

How to Bend Language to Your Will (in Eight Easy Steps)
Articles

I Have This Friend

Articles

What It Really Means to Graduate in the Arts

Four years of mental, physical and psychic exhaustion culminated in receiving a (bent) Do Not Bend envelope containing four pieces of paper.
Articles

Talking in Dead Tongues

The Latest from The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge:

Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

Stories and Poems:

Stories & Poems

PRISM International: Excerpt from 'This is How I Remember You'

Once a month we’re swapping articles with Canadian literary mag PRISM to share our writers with a wider international audience.
Stories & Poems

A Man Made Entirely of Bats
Stories & Poems

The Poetry of Food: Awarding the SecondBite Prize
Stories & Poems

The Bedroom Philosopher Tour Diary #4

Stories & Poems

Horses

Today there are horses bolting out of the sun, towards us in a snort of black heat. Close your eyes and the likeness of a sun remains somewhere, there...
Stories & Poems

Library of Congress

On Writing:

On Writing

The Meditations Part VII: Eric Yoshiaki Dando on 'The Novel Teacher'

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 Eric Yoshiaki Dando on his...
On Writing

Publish or Perish
On Writing

Why Do You Write Poetry? – Frank X. Walker
On Writing

The Meditations Part IV: Anne M. Carson on 'The Limits of Goodwill'

On Writing

Editing from the Country

With editors scattered across the country like a rather wild connect-the-dot drawing, the production of Going Down Swinging No. 35 has proved a unique one. Co-editor Rhys Tate gives...
On Writing

This New Grub Street: The Rise of the Creative Writing Course

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