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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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Our Programmability

In a culture of rock pushers the question 'why am I doing all this?' is a lethal one.
Articles

I Believe in Magic
Articles

Like Rooney Mara, Only Darker
Articles

When Your Limbs Are No Longer Ghosts

Articles

Suspended Animation Inc.

Rafael S. W. on the collapsing cryogenics movement and how you can help.
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How Digital Culture is Making You Someone Slightly Different

The Latest from The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge:

Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

Stories and Poems:

Stories & Poems

Other Adventures...

When I was Born When I was born I saw the beginning of things. I saw the tide roll in and the tide roll out. I saw the moon...
Comics

Sir Tramsalot
Stories & Poems

Dinner With the Vittrekwas
Stories & Poems

Glorious Kingdom

Stories & Poems

The Bedroom Philosopher Tour Diary #4

#4 Excerpt from The Bedroom Philosopher Diaries — the new book from Justin Heazlewood Sunday August 14. Burnie. Burnie Arts & Function Centre. Gig vibe: 7 Venue treatment: 7.5...
Stories & Poems

Excerpt from 'Atlas Dharma'

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On Writing:

On Writing

A Small Boy

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

Disappointing Japonica
On Writing

A Freelancer's Guide to Europe: Glasgow
On Writing

Why Do You Write Poetry? – Kevin Brophy

On Writing

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

The Meditations is a curated series of reflections on writing and storytelling from contributors to Going Down Swinging No. 35. This reflection comes from Chloe Wilson on her poem ‘Lyudmila...
On Writing

How to Get Teenagers Interested in Poetry

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