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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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Like Rooney Mara, Only Darker

What happens to your identity once you alter the shape of your face? Creative non-fiction by Madison Griffiths.
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Rafael S. W.
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Going With Fergus

Z. P. Heller
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The Families Behind Autism Spectrum Disorder

Cherie Green
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Our Programmability

Paul Adkin
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Psychological Shopping: Room 4 Pets

Oliver Mol

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Una Cruickshank
The two of you will be in love forever. Many other couples have got it wrong, but not you. You are dynamic creatures in a world filled with weakness...
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Nadia Coreno
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On Writing:

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Writers have changed. No more are they sitting pretty in brothels and brocade drawing rooms diligently scribbling into their goat paper. No more are they sipping absinthe in bohemian...
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Daniel East
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Amaryllis Gacioppo
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How to Make a Buck in the Henhouse

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

Prism International
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