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.
The Going Down Swinging team works on the stolen lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation, whose sovereignty has never been ceded. Our writers and artists work on stolen lands across all of so-called Australia. We acknowledge and pay our deepest respects to all Elders, past and present.
This always was and always will be Aboriginal land.
From the archives
This land knows more than I could ever understand.
— Aiva Avene, Lighthouses, September 17, 2026No one else seems to know or care that it is the seventh lunar month, or that we are all already ghosts.
— Eileen Chong, Dirge, October 20, 2022
— Aiva Avene, Lighthouses, September 17, 2026No one else seems to know or care that it is the seventh lunar month, or that we are all already ghosts.
— Eileen Chong, Dirge, October 20, 2022
