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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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Articles, On Writing

Catholicism Can Be Sexy: Finding Poetry In the Pews

It was the Church that taught me first about the body.
Articles

Psychological Shopping: Room 4 Pets
Articles

When Your Limbs Are No Longer Ghosts
Articles

Talking in Dead Tongues

Articles

Lingua Fracas

What happens to language in wartime? Rafael S. W. looks at the implications of regulated speech.
Articles

Voices from the Edinburgh Fringe

The Latest from The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge:

The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown

Stories and Poems:

Stories & Poems

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 II

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Oliver Mol and Katia Pase revive the epistolary form by writing to each other – across continents.
Stories & Poems

29-Hour Bus Ride
Stories & Poems

Election
Stories & Poems

Excerpt from 'Atlas Dharma'

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Stories & Poems

Crowdsourcing Stories with Amazon's Mechanical Turk

Entrepreneur of absurdities Adam Grant (Jafflechutes) shares a time-travelling story from his curiously curated blog, Eggs on Toast with Thyme. When we heard there was a blog of time...
Stories & Poems

Sarah White Says Thanks

On Writing:

On Writing

The Art of Rejection

Former GDS editor Adam Ford on the art of the rejection letter.
On Writing

Rob McGere Bogs It In
On Writing

A Freelancer's Guide to Europe: London
On Writing

A Small Boy

On Writing

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...
On Writing

PRISM International: Al Purdy Versus Earle Birney (Letter Excerpts)

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