GDS #38 Launch Preview: Rafael SW
November 10, 2017
The final piece of the puzzle of authors performing at the #38 launch.
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The final piece of the puzzle of authors performing at the #38 launch.
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Part two of our three-part series profiling the authors performing at the #38 launch.
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Part one of our three-part series profiling the authors performing at the #38 launch.
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Pack up the car, it’s time for a road trip.
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Former Going Down Swinging editor Bhakthi Puvanenthiran has her finger on the Melbourne Writers Festival pulse.
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A new filmmaking initiative that’s anything but a raw deal.
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Film buffs, you have some serious scheduling to do.
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Going Down Swinging is collecting creations of all kinds for our next print production, due for release late 2017.
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Applications are now open to join our team as an Editorial or Online Intern.
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One Night Wonders is back with three new shows in 2015.
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For those who missed it, the big multi-format issue we call Longbox launched in Sydney a week or so ago. In a Marickville warehouse, under the rumble of low-flying planes, we heard from Luke Johnson, Bridget Lutherborrow and Andrew Denton,…
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For writers and illustrators. But read up, because this time it’s different. Our next collection will be made up of long pieces. Properly long, from around 10,000 words up to the length of a short book. Each will be paired with an illustrator and published as part of…
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What a difference some love makes. A month ago, GDS was looking down the barrel. Our main funding was gone, our last two editions hadn’t made back enough of their costs, and if our next one went the same way…
Continue readingBefore Derrick Brown took to the One Night Wonders stage back in May, the night was opened by Anthony O’Sullivan and Jessica Alice, whose sets will be made available progressively over coming weeks. Jessica’s inquisitive ‘I’ve Been Wondering About How Dinosaurs…
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After 35 years, GDS needs your help to stay alive. Our Survival Drive has raised $16,312 on Pozible and through our online shop. No charity: every supporter gets back well over the dollar value they put in. More than cash though, we need to…
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Cancer isn’t funny, but it’s definitely good for a laugh. Anyone who’s heard Tig Notaro’s famous comedy set performed in shock just after her diagnosis will know there’s no reason that the subject can’t handle comedy. It’s actually most likely the best way to handle…
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This open letter lays out a case against proposed government cuts to Australian arts organisations, and is signed by an extensive list of eminent writers and publishers. It was published in a range of locations online, and on May 23…
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Ten dates in four cities for a writer with one of the world’s most bullshit-exciting CVs. He’s performed at Glastonbury Festival and La Sorbonne, got picked by the Flaming Lips for All Tomorrow’s Parties in New York, did The Tonight…
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Going Down Swinging is Breakfast-Club-air-punch happy to announce One Night Wonders, a series of top-class spoken word shows to run throughout 2014. “What if he goes under a bus or something?” was the question that kicked it off. When playwright and performer Felix Nobis…
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Acclaimed US writer Derrick Brown will visit Australia for the first time in late May, on a live tour supported by Going Down Swinging. Derrick Brown reckons poets should tour like rock bands. He’s played thousands of shows, collaborating with…
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As we prepare for Going Down Swinging’s first-ever WA launch, our Perth-based deputy ed Simon Cox reflects on the Perth literary scene and what to expect from tonight’s event. Going Down Swinging No. 35 launches in Perth tonight with an…
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Party with us in Fitzroy next Friday as we celebrate the launch of Going Down Swinging No. 35: a very special book full of new writing and art, with an audio anthology of stories, music and spoken word. To do…
Continue readingWe’ve hunted far and wide, and we’re extremely happy to announce that Zoe Norton Lodge will be joining Going Down Swinging as our new co-editor. Zoe replaces Bhakthi Puvanenthiran, who departs to our farewelling handkerchief-waves as she takes on regional Victoria,…
Continue readingSo… last Friday. You sailed into Brunswick’s Dawson St Studios on a lake of Bulmers cider, and what a night it was. Props to Zoe Norton Lodge for her hypnotic words; Florelie Escano for sending us into a swoon; and…
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It’s safe to say that we’d never published anything like it. I’m not sure who in the world had. So when GDS made our first exploration of digital publishing in 2011, with edition number 31, we had very little to…
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Last year’s Going Down Swinging warehouse party took the roof off. So we’re doing it again to celebrate the launch of GDS No. 34. We’ll have longer hours, more drinks, better wine, and a lot more dancing. With tales from…
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Photo / Zina Lebedeva There were no Christmas trees at Valery Petrovskiy’s reading party at the National Library of Chuvash last Thursday. “No, there was no Christmas tree there; [the] event took place as if on board of an aircraft,”…
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What an extraordinary launch we had three weeks ago. Nestled in the soft red interiors of the Toff in Town on a Sunday evening, the entertainment kicked off with a ceremonial opening by none other than GDS regular and commanding…
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Here’s an exciting opportunity for adventurous writers. The record label Elefant Traks is a great Australian institution, founded by The Herd over a decade ago and supporting top-class Australian music and writing ever since. A few months ago GDS editor…
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And here it is… the cover for thew new Going Down Swinging #33, by stellar design duo Santangelo + Hall. The cover features a pantone-colorised image based on a solar system map from a 1961 atlas – the very same book…
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