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Continue readingWe’re offering two distinct opportunities to make your mark on one of the longest-running literary publications in the country.
Continue readingTouching down at Paddington’s Berkelouw Books this Thursday April 19.
Continue readingWe’re going on the grid.
Continue readingYou’ve never zine anything like it.
Continue readingThe final piece of the puzzle of authors performing at the #38 launch.
Continue readingPart two of our three-part series profiling the authors performing at the #38 launch.
Continue readingPart one of our three-part series profiling the authors performing at the #38 launch.
Continue readingPack up the car, it’s time for a road trip.
Continue readingFormer Going Down Swinging editor Bhakthi Puvanenthiran has her finger on the Melbourne Writers Festival pulse.
Continue readingA new filmmaking initiative that’s anything but a raw deal.
Continue readingFilm buffs, you have some serious scheduling to do.
Continue readingApplications are now open to join our team as an Editorial or Online Intern.
Continue readingOne Night Wonders is back with three new shows in 2015.
Continue readingFor those who missed it, the big multi-format issue we call Longbox launched in Sydney a week or so ago. In a Marickville warehouse, under the rumble of low-flying planes, we heard from Luke Johnson, Bridget Lutherborrow and Andrew Denton,…
Continue readingFor writers and illustrators. But read up, because this time it’s different. Our next collection will be made up of long pieces. Properly long, from around 10,000 words up to the length of a short book. Each will be paired with an illustrator and published as part of…
Continue readingWhat a difference some love makes. A month ago, GDS was looking down the barrel. Our main funding was gone, our last two editions hadn’t made back enough of their costs, and if our next one went the same way…
Continue readingBefore Derrick Brown took to the One Night Wonders stage back in May, the night was opened by Anthony O’Sullivan and Jessica Alice, whose sets will be made available progressively over coming weeks. Jessica’s inquisitive ‘I’ve Been Wondering About How Dinosaurs…
Continue readingAfter 35 years, GDS needs your help to stay alive. Our Survival Drive has raised $16,312 on Pozible and through our online shop. No charity: every supporter gets back well over the dollar value they put in. More than cash though, we need to…
Continue readingCancer isn’t funny, but it’s definitely good for a laugh. Anyone who’s heard Tig Notaro’s famous comedy set performed in shock just after her diagnosis will know there’s no reason that the subject can’t handle comedy. It’s actually most likely the best way to handle…
Continue readingThis open letter lays out a case against proposed government cuts to Australian arts organisations, and is signed by an extensive list of eminent writers and publishers. It was published in a range of locations online, and on May 23…
Continue readingTen dates in four cities for a writer with one of the world’s most bullshit-exciting CVs. He’s performed at Glastonbury Festival and La Sorbonne, got picked by the Flaming Lips for All Tomorrow’s Parties in New York, did The Tonight…
Continue readingGoing Down Swinging is Breakfast-Club-air-punch happy to announce One Night Wonders, a series of top-class spoken word shows to run throughout 2014. “What if he goes under a bus or something?” was the question that kicked it off. When playwright and performer Felix Nobis…
Continue readingAcclaimed US writer Derrick Brown will visit Australia for the first time in late May, on a live tour supported by Going Down Swinging. Derrick Brown reckons poets should tour like rock bands. He’s played thousands of shows, collaborating with…
Continue readingAs we prepare for Going Down Swinging’s first-ever WA launch, our Perth-based deputy ed Simon Cox reflects on the Perth literary scene and what to expect from tonight’s event. Going Down Swinging No. 35 launches in Perth tonight with an…
Continue readingParty with us in Fitzroy next Friday as we celebrate the launch of Going Down Swinging No. 35: a very special book full of new writing and art, with an audio anthology of stories, music and spoken word. To do…
Continue readingWe’ve hunted far and wide, and we’re extremely happy to announce that Zoe Norton Lodge will be joining Going Down Swinging as our new co-editor. Zoe replaces Bhakthi Puvanenthiran, who departs to our farewelling handkerchief-waves as she takes on regional Victoria,…
Continue readingSo… last Friday. You sailed into Brunswick’s Dawson St Studios on a lake of Bulmers cider, and what a night it was. Props to Zoe Norton Lodge for her hypnotic words; Florelie Escano for sending us into a swoon; and…
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