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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

Video: Knitting & Short Film

Anyone that watches Zero can't help but be entranced.
Articles

What It Really Means to Graduate in the Arts
Articles

I Believe in Magic
Articles

Poesis Ex Machina: Non-Human Language and Mechanic Poetry

Articles

Looking For Daisy Pearce

Anastasia Kanjere on growing up with AFL legend Daisy Pearce.
Articles

Mardi Gras Night

The Latest from The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge:

Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

Stories and Poems:

Stories & Poems

He Carried Oranges

Aldo said, in his very own voice, meet me here at half to nine in the morning – here at the top of the stair, by the locked door,...
Stories & Poems

Wardrobe
Stories & Poems

Love Letter
Stories & Poems

A Shortage of Santas

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

Horses

On Writing:

On Writing

What are your Words Worth?

Paul Mitchell considers the question of vocation when it comes to writing and its worth. A true story: one of Australia’s leading writers is watching a documentary. A surgeon...
On Writing

Finding the Words (Post-Birth)
On Writing

Disappointing Japonica
On Writing

Why Do You Write Poetry? - alicia sometimes

On Writing

Poetry As Ritual: Directing the ‘Kimono of Mourning’

Anne M. Carson writes on confronting grief through ritual and poetry, and discusses the creative process surrounding the upcoming collaborative performance of her poem, ‘The dresser removes the Kimono...
On Writing

The Meditations Part V: Melissa Howard on 'The Beginner's Guide to Travelling With Children'

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