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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:

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I Have This Friend

I have this friend. He’s a little bit chubby and he sweats a lot and the other thing about him is that he’s right into porn.
Articles

Suspended Animation Inc.
Articles

How Digital Culture is Making You Someone Slightly Different
Articles

Psychological Shopping: Room 4 Pets

Articles

‘Angie Hart Made Me Want to Move to Melbourne’: Stories of Loving a Local Singer

Kill Your Darlings’ Julia Tulloh writes on Angie Hart’s commissioned performance at the Going Down Swinging Issue #33 launch in September 2012. Read the original article here. Read about the Angie Hart...
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Bitcoins; or, The Time I Was Almost a Millionaire

The Latest from The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge:

Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

Stories and Poems:

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

Do Not Shake The Bridge
Stories & Poems

Irish Orphan Immigration
Stories & Poems

Two People Write Letters to each Other about Things That Happen While They are Travelling in Different Countries Even Though, Sometimes, Not a Lot Actually Happens: Part IV

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Stories & Poems

Dinner With the Vittrekwas

Once a month we're swapping work with Canadian literary magazine PRISM to share our writers with a wider audience.
Stories & Poems

Election

On Writing:

On Writing

Why Do You Write Poetry? – Kevin Brophy

Adam Ford tracks down poets and asks them the most difficult of questions: 'Why do you write poetry?'
On Writing

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

A Freelancer's Guide to Europe: London
On Writing

What Television Teaches Us About Literary Fiction

On Writing

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

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 Anne M. Carson on...
On Writing

The Meditations: Kavita Bedford on 'The Most Northern Southern City'

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