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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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Reality is a Virtue: Oculus and the Rift in Virtual Reality Gaming

Rafael S. W. trials the latest upgrade in gaming – the Oculus Rift – and considers the future of gaming and the practical applications of virtual reality. It was...
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Roald Dahl, Ugliness and Morality
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The (Public) Space Invaders

Tyne Daile Sumner challenges our sincerity when dealing with each other in packed spaces.
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Nostalgia with a Price Tag

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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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Oliver Mol and Katia Pase revive the epistolary form by writing to each other – across continents.
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Dark Matter

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Alternate Histories

I’d been thinking about how I could fuse my music and prose writing, listening to plenty of Lou Reed and Paul Kelly and Belle & Sebastian, all of whom...
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He Carried Oranges

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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...
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Why Do You Write Poetry? – Robbie Coburn
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A Spare Room of One’s Own. Sort of.

Paul Mitchell on finding the space to write.
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