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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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On Acronyms

Rafael S. W.
Rafael S. W. delivers the first in a series of monthly insights into the bewildering, fascinating and maddening evolution of language.
Articles

Dirty Laundry

Lur Alghurabi
Articles

More Dark Matter
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City of the Future: Getroit

Rafael S. W.
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What Does a Frog’s Scream Sound Like? Some Thoughts on Animal Bodies in Contemporary Art

Kali Myers on the use of animals in Australian art.
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Nostalgia with a Price Tag

Matilda Dixon-Smith

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Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Tales and Poems

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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

Oliver Mol, Katia Pase
Oliver Mol and Katia Pase revive the epistolary form by writing to each other – across continents.
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The Bedroom Philosopher Tour Diary #1

Justin Heazlewood
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'Warren' by Trisha Cull

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Cathy Kozak
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Pelican

New fiction from PRISM international's Andrew F. Sullivan.
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Horses

Andrew Slattery

On Writing:

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Reconciling Creativity with Copy

Paul Mitchell
It was the late ‘90s and I found myself riffing poetry for a then start-up company calling itself ‘Crumpler’. These bike couriers had realised the bags they’d sewn for...
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A Freelancer's Guide to Europe: Provence

Megan Anderson
On Writing

A Freelancer's Guide to Europe: London

Megan Anderson
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PRISM International: Tweeting Stories

Clara Kumagai
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Why Do You Write Poetry? – John Tranter

Adam Ford
Adam Ford tracks down poets and asks them the most difficult of questions: 'Why do you write poetry?'
On Writing

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

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