Farewelling the deft creative hand of Klare Lanson this year, we are very happy to be able to announce to you now, that Melbourne poets, editors, producers, all-round creative and delightful souls Nathan Curnow and Ella Holcombe are joining Lisa Greenaway at the Going Down Swinging editorial hub!

Team 2010 also welcomes some illustrious GDS alumni back to the editing coal face. We are honoured to have co-founders Myron Lysenko and Kevin Brophy editing haiku and short stories respectively, as well as Adam Ford editing comic art, and Grant Caldwell editing the poetry. We will also be featuring editorial from the extensive family that has guided GDS through the years, in this very special edition celebrating three decades of dedication to new writing, comic art and spoken word.

And that's not all. We've invited friends from GDS' global community to select their favourite works from their area, for the two spoken word CDs in this issue. Please be upstanding for Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz (USA), David Prater (Europe), Ian Daley (UK), Sally Ann McIntyre (NZ/Asia Pacific) and Ian Ferrier (Canada).

Many more treats are in store for GDS No.30 - not least, your work! Submissions are open now, until 31st March 2010. Be heading to our Submissions page to download the Cover Sheet and send us your poetry, short stories, comic art, and spoken word recordings, to be a part of this historic issue.

In other news, William Yeoman enjoys a stroll through Going Down Swinging No.29, in The West Australian ...
"Working through the short fiction, poetry and graphic art of Australian journal Going Down Swinging stimulates the imagination like nothing else, thanks not only to the quality of the contributions and the inclusion of a spoken word CD but also to the total absence of essays. In other words, one can inhabit an alternative reality, unfettered by the prosaic. From the Arabic haiku of Ateif Khieri and the concept-map poetry of James Sanders to Melbourne comic artist Oslo Davis’ graphic novella Where the Wild Things Aren’t and short fiction by Carol Chandler, Ken Smeaton and Anne Hillesland, this latest volume of GDS proves to be no exception."

If you haven't got your copy yet, you can pick one up from us now at our Shop. While you're there, subscribe to ensure that you're one of the first to get your hands on No.30, and to keep GDS swinging for another 30 years!