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We’re launching our very special thirty-ninth edition, and we’re celebrating at Grub Street Bookshop.
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We’re launching our very special thirty-ninth edition, and we’re celebrating at Grub Street Bookshop.
Continue readingBot-tober draws to a close with two new poems from Raelee Lancaster and Sean M Whelan.
Continue readingBot-tober rolls on with two new poems from Emilie Zoey Baker and Adam Ford.
Continue readingIs being born a prerequisite for being a writer? Can a robot write poetry?
Continue readingGoing Down Swinging is looking for a Co-Editor and a Marketing Manager.
Continue readingFasten your seatbelts! Return Flight is landing.
Continue readingWe’re offering two distinct opportunities to make your mark on one of the longest-running literary publications in the country.
Continue readingGoing Down Swinging has partnered with Melbourne artist Emma Jensen to bring you Millennial Pink.
Continue readingTouching down at Paddington’s Berkelouw Books this Thursday April 19.
Continue readingEdited by Megan Anderson, Matthew Harnett, 2017
Continue readingApplications are now open to join our team as an Editorial or Online Intern.
Continue readingA new creative exchange between artists and writers in Melbourne and Edinburgh.
Continue readingPresenting the winners for the XYZ Prize for Innovation in Spoken Word, in partnership with Queensland Poetry Festival.
Continue readingRemember when Scott Wings convinced an entire audience they were dinosaurs?
Continue readingCanadian word-wizard Tom Joyce captivated audiences at the Lithuanian Club in 2015.
Continue readingWe’re honoured to have captured Australian poetry stalwart Judith Rodriguez.
Continue readingJoin the party as we launch our fiesty new print edition, Going Down Swinging 37.
Continue readingEdited by Katia Pase, Matthew Harnett, Rhys Tate, 2016
Continue readingAndrew Denton’s first cartoon collection. Bridget Lutherborrow’s first book of short stories. First novellas from Luke Johnson, Libbie Chellew and Katherine Kruimink. Pat Grant’s graphic novella reimagined as a fold-out poster book with DVD extras.
Continue readingI reckon that people who write are really the crucible, or the cradle of all culture, because most things come out of writing.
Continue readingWe found this explosion of an interview – A Brilliant Fantastic Great Interview with Pi O – in the sixth issue of Going Down Swinging, published in Spring 1984.
Continue readingFree, downloadable and totally portable ebook of the best essays, travel stories and musings from our online history.
Continue readingRecordings from Derrick Brown, Eleanor Jackson, Felix Nobis, and Sean M Whelan and the Mime Set
Continue readingEdited by Geoff Lemon, Zoe Norton Lodge, Rhys Tate, Katia Pase and Simon Cox, 2014
Continue readingAvailable as a tablet app or a desktop download.
Continue readingEditors: Bhakthi Puvanenthiran, Geoff Lemon, 2013
Continue readingEditors: Geoff Lemon and Jessica Friedmann, 2011
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