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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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Everyone Remembers Their First Time

British India guitarist Nic Wilson recalls his first time onstage.
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The Falling Sky: Drones and Modern Warfare
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Composing Online Languages
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‘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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Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

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The Poetry of Food: Awarding the SecondBite Prize

The topic of food has long been a lively muse for the creative mind – think sensual stimulation, social ritual, folk traditions, nourishment, and its converse, deprivation. The inaugural...
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Library of Congress
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Why I Went to Lebanon
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Other Adventures...

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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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Excerpt from 'Little Monsters'

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The Meditations Part VIII: Emilie Zoey Baker on 'Fuck You, Glee'

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 Emilie Zoey Baker on her...
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This New Grub Street: The Rise of the Creative Writing Course
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PRISM International: Vavuniya via Anuradhapura by Michael Lockett, in Photos
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Finding the Will

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Why Do You Write Poetry? – joanne burns

Adam Ford tracks down poets and asks them the most difficult of questions: ‘Why do you write poetry?’
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Pitch Perfect: Or, How to Make Your Manuscript Shine

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