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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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Taipei Run, Run, Run

Orienteering, bush bashing and beer: Nick Fogarty discovers the social running club.
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The Stratified Stare

Tessa Toumbourou
Articles

Between a Father and a Son
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Working, Thinking

Lily Mae Martin
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A Brilliant Fantastic Great Interview with Pi O

We 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.
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Counterfeited Tongues

Devana Senanayake

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Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Tales and Poems

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Una Cruickshank
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Crowdsourcing Stories with Amazon's Mechanical Turk

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Excerpt from 'Badass'

Michael Trudeau
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Sarah White Says Thanks

Z. P. Heller
Stories & Poems

Glorious Kingdom

He’s waiting for me. He’s just sitting there, in his car in the parking lot outside the store, biding his time.
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Beards of Australia

Michael Baylis

On Writing:

On Writing

From Poet to Playwright

Sean M. Whelan
After a triumphant Melbourne Fringe run, Sean M. Whelan reflects on the process behind writing his first full-length play, Everything All the Time. What do I know about writing...
On Writing

Why Do You Write Poetry? – John Tranter

Adam Ford
On Writing

My First Orgy

Megan Anderson
On Writing

How to Get Teenagers Interested in Poetry

Emilie Zoey Baker
On Writing

Truth or Myth: 'A Writer Writes, Always'

Paul Mitchell
It should be obvious that a quote about writing that has its origin in a comedy movie starring Billy Crystal wasn’t meant to be taken seriously.
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People Are Reading your Stuff on the Internet

Sandra Hajda
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