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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

Talking to a Terror Way Beyond Falling

Something understandable but regrettable happens when someone close to us tries to die – we try to save them.
Articles

Does Australia Have a Culture of Complacency?
Articles

Our Enduring Obsession With J.F.K.
Articles

Kim Ho and 'The Language of Love'

Articles

Voices from the Edinburgh Fringe

Scott Wings captures the monologues of the Edinburgh Fringe after premiering his show Icarus Falling in 2014.
Articles

The Falling Sky: Drones and Modern Warfare

The Latest from The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge:

Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

Stories and 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

there are important incongruities
Stories & Poems

Eviction
Stories & Poems

Dark Matter

Stories & Poems

Excerpt from 'Badass'

This is a sneak preview from our up-coming Going Down Swinging #33 from the story Badass by Michael Trudeau. We will be launching the new GDS #33 on Sunday...
Stories & Poems

Excerpt from 'The Old Woman's Tale'

On Writing:

On Writing

A Small Boy

Going Down Swinging co-founder Kevin Brophy on confronting the fear of writing.
On Writing

Why Do You Write Poetry? – Kevin Brophy
On Writing

Mental Health and Memoir
On Writing

Why Do You Write Poetry? – Pi O

On Writing

People Are Reading your Stuff on the Internet

Sandra Hajda on what it means to write – and be read – in the internet age.
On Writing

On Rejection

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