SUBMISSIONS OPEN
  gds_read_icon_dark

READ

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.

 
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.
  gds_listen_icon_dark

LISTEN

Everything from sound projects to spoken word, from past editions and new content commissioned for online publication.

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.
gds_read_icon_dark

READ

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.

gds_listen_icon_dark

LISTEN

Everything from sound projects to spoken word, from past editions and new content commissioned for online publication.

Latest News:

Return Flight: MEL>CHC

Articles:

Articles

Video: Knitting & Short Film

Anyone that watches Zero can't help but be entranced.
Articles

Nostalgia with a Price Tag
Articles

An Unexpected Reunion: Sam Wareing
Articles

Department 9800

Articles

Food for Thought: The Birth of the SecondBite Poetry Prize

Anne M. Carson looks at some of the grassroots efforts being made to tackle social issues of food waste and hunger, and her journey towards the creation of the...
Articles

One she spoke of...

The Latest from The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge:

The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown

Stories and Poems:

GDS#38, Sadvertising

Sadvertising, Part One

On Friday, we announced we were all poets.
Stories & Poems

Election
Stories & Poems

Excerpts from: A Guide for the Practical Abductee
From the archives

Bananas

GDS#38, Stories & Poems

Memphis

An excerpt from Emma O'Neill-Sandham's short story, featured in Going Down Swinging #38.
Stories & Poems

Beards of Australia

On Writing:

On Writing

The Meditations Part II: Valery Petrovskiy on 'Sharm el-Sheikh'

The Meditations is a curated series of reflections on writing and storytelling from contributors to the thirty-third issue of Going Down Swinging. This reflection comes from Valery Petrovskiy on his story...
On Writing

Rob McGere Bogs It In
On Writing

Pitch Perfect: Or, How to Make Your Manuscript Shine
On Writing

Finding the Will

On Writing

Mental Health and Memoir

The challenges of mixing memories with mental health. By Katerina Bryant.
On Writing

A Writer’s Silence

Copyright 2018 - Going Down Swinging