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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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Hettie Jones: Writing Behind Beats & Bars

Megan Anderson chats to Beat legend Hettie Jones.
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Talking in Dead Tongues
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Top Surgery: a Gift from My Dead Brother
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The Crushed Pineapple

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One she spoke of...

Black Stacey by Saul Williams.  
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Talking to a Terror Way Beyond Falling

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David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

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Sometimes Poems...

Cold Was the Ground dark was the night Blind Willie Johnson huffs in my ears weeping into God. How easy to loop the past into a soundtrack, light digestion...
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Eviction
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Excerpts from: A Guide for the Practical Abductee
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Braille

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The Bedroom Philosopher Tour Diary #3

3. Excerpt from The Bedroom Philosopher Diaries — the new book from Justin Heazlewood Saturday 14th. Hobart. Brisbane Hotel. All-Ages Gig vibe: 8 Venue treatment: 1 Band morale: Good....
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Wit-Bix Psychological Analysis

On Writing:

On Writing

Truth or Myth: 'A Writer Writes, Always'

It should be obvious that a quote about writing that has its origin in a comedy movie starring Billy Crystal wasn’t meant to be taken seriously.
On Writing

A Spare Room of One’s Own. Sort of.
On Writing

My First Orgy
On Writing

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

On Writing

Rob McGere Bogs It In

Rob McGere, alias Paul Mitchell, ponders poetry from the construction site ahead of his Melbourne Fringe performance, Being a Wheel Family. This is one of them Bogs, isn’t it?...
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A Freelancer’s Guide to Europe: Paris

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