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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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Tessa Toumbourou's grandfather migrated to Melbourne in the 1950s – and built a clothing empire.
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A Freelancer's Guide to Europe: True Stories from Edinburgh Share Houses
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Matilda Dixon-Smith reviews and regrets Will Gluck’s remake of Annie.
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One Hundred Random Cows

1.  Start They came to him at night to begin with and that’s how it started. That’s how the whole cow thing started.   2. Dreams Occupying the road...
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Library of Congress
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Dark Matter

A few years ago my good friends and colleagues Alicia Sometimes, Sean M Whelan and Paul Mitchell formed Science in The Dark a collaborative directed by Alicia Sometimes to put on...
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The Bedroom Philosopher Tour Diary #3

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Teaching Poetry under Bunjil

Paul Mitchell reflects on his experience running Australian Poetry-sponsored workshops with the Aboriginal community at Lake Tyers, Victoria. I’m standing on the balcony of the Lake Tyers Indigenous Training...
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PRISM International: Al Purdy Versus Earle Birney (Letter Excerpts)
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On Rejection

I once thought there was only one kind of rejection slip/email: a bad one. Dear Fool, we’ve had a record number of submissions by so many amazingly talented writers...
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Sender Beware: Editorial Bias in Australian Poetry

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