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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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The Sensitive Artist's Guide to the World Cup

What is one to do about the World Cup?
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Review: 'Disturbance' by Ivy Alvarez
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You Are You Speaking for When You Speak Not-Man?
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Interview with Bruce Pascoe, 1987

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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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Roald Dahl, Ugliness and Morality

The Latest from The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge:

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Stories and Poems:

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Notes from the Desperate Capitol of Somnopolis

It reeked of sleep. Somnopolis. It reeked of insomniac worry and disquiet, and thwarted escape. Because we are all poets or babies in the middle of the night, struggling...
Stories & Poems

Braille
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Other Adventures...
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Excerpt from 'Little Monsters'

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PRISM International: Excerpt from 'This is How I Remember You'

Once a month we’re swapping articles with Canadian literary mag PRISM to share our writers with a wider international audience.
Stories & Poems

Irish Orphan Immigration

On Writing:

On Writing

The Meditations: Chloe Wilson on 'Lyudmila Pavlichenko, From the Orchard’

The Meditations is a curated series of reflections on writing and storytelling from contributors to Going Down Swinging No. 35. This reflection comes from Chloe Wilson on her poem ‘Lyudmila...
On Writing

The Importance of Writing It Down
On Writing

How to Get Teenagers Interested in Poetry
On Writing

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

Articles, On Writing

Catholicism Can Be Sexy: Finding Poetry In the Pews

It was the Church that taught me first about the body.
On Writing

All Aboard the Poetry Bus

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