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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

I Believe in Magic

It’s Christmas Eve, 2006. I’m in Newcastle, spending Christmas with my family. In Newcastle the air is cool even in summer and it feels rich with magic, the way...
Articles, On Writing

Catholicism Can Be Sexy: Finding Poetry In the Pews
Articles

Talking to a Terror Way Beyond Falling
Articles

A Brilliant Fantastic Great Interview with Pi O

Articles

Hettie Jones: Writing Behind Beats & Bars

Megan Anderson chats to Beat legend Hettie Jones.
Articles

The Future of Phantoms

The Latest from The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge:

Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

Stories and Poems:

From the archives

Bananas

Poetry by Grant Caldwell from Going Down Swinging #21.
Stories & Poems

Horses
Stories & Poems

there are important incongruities
Stories & Poems

Excerpt from 'Atlas Dharma'

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Stories & Poems

Sometimes Poems...

Cold Was the Ground dark was the night Blind Willie Johnson huffs in my ears weeping into God. How easy to loop the past into a soundtrack, light digestion...
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 I

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On Writing:

On Writing

10 Things I've Learnt about the Writing Life

1. It’s not a life. It’s a profession, a hobby, an activity or an obsession. Life goes on regardless of it. In fact, life doesn’t care whether I write...
On Writing

Teaching Poetry under Bunjil
On Writing

Prism Writing Prompt: Haters Gonna Hate
On Writing

A Freelancer’s Guide to Europe: Paris

On Writing

Why Do You Write Poetry? – Astrid L'Orange

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

PRISM International: Vavuniya via Anuradhapura by Michael Lockett, in Photos

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