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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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Roald Dahl, Ugliness and Morality

Marta Skrabacz examines Roald Dahl's ideas of beauty and morality on his 100th birthday.
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Poesis Ex Machina: Non-Human Language and Mechanic Poetry
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You’re ‘Literally’ a Grammar Nazi
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Dark Tunnels

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Working, Thinking

I’m at that point where even though I work and things get drawn and it’s evolving – I feel like it isn’t going anywhere.
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Crossing the Nullarbor: Part Three

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David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

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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...
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Wardrobe
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He Carried Oranges
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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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The Bedroom Philosopher Tour Diary #2

2. Excerpt from The Bedroom Philosopher Diaries — the new book from Justin Heazlewood Saturday August 14. Hobart. Brisbane Hotel. All Ages. Gig Vibe: 4.5 Venue treatment: 6 Band...
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Excerpt from 'Atlas Dharma'

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Neil Boyack: Storytelling and Self Help

Photo / Steffen Pedersen From storytelling to social work, rural Victorian writer Neil Boyack is a man with a fair bit to talk about. He’s also just released his...
On Writing

The Meditations Part VI: Daniel East on 'I Used to be a Young Poet'
On Writing

Locked in Limbo: What Paid Parental Leave Means for Freelancers
On Writing

Why Do You Write Poetry? – Stu Hatton

On Writing

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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The Meditations: Amaryllis Gacioppo on 'Interstate 15'

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