Submissions for Going Down Swinging No.34 have now closed.

Selections are currently underway. Contributors can expect to hear back by February 2013.

No. 34 will be a digital edition, following on from our inaugural digital edition, No 31, in 2011.
We are looking for all manner of writing for the 34th edition of Going Down Swinging, be it poetry, fiction, non-fiction, spoken word, sound and music projects, videos, animations, illustrations, even apps and interactive pieces. The form that the digital edition takes depends entirely on you.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

SUBMISSIONS CLOSE 21 DECEMBER 2012, MIDNIGHT AEST

  • This is a digital edition, which will be available via website and mobile devices.
  • We encourage submissions of multimedia work, including sound and music projects, videos, animations, illustrations, even apps and interactive pieces. We will continue to accept our regular narrative forms of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, spoken word.
  • What can you submit?
    The form the edition takes will be built around the successful submissions. This means that project formats are fairly open.
    As a guide, we are looking for the following:

  • Aural projects (Such as experimental audio, narrative and short story, radio play)
  • Spoken word
  • Aural recordings of your written works
  • Short films
  • Animation
  • Live Action
  • Experimental/Hybrid video
  • Interactive media projects (such as online documentaries or touch-screen fictional works)
  • Games / mobile device-ready interactive projects, including locative works
  • Episodic works – this means fragmenting your work throughout the edition, rather than presenting one whole piece
  • Photography
  • Static Visual Art

Video Specs

  • Please keep video files less than 1GB
  • Formats accepted: .mov, .mp4, .H264, .avi

Audio Specs

  • Please keep audio files less than 500MB
  • Formats accepted: .mp3, .aiff, .flac, .m4a

Apps / Interactive Works

  • If building your work within interactive frameworks such as HTML (or other web framework), Android or iOS, please contact info@goingdownswinging.org.au if you ave any questions about submissions.

  • Submitting Digital Files
    • If your file size is too big for email, please link to a dropsite (YouSendIt, your own FTP or similar) where we can download your submission.
    • We will need high quality media in order to publish submitted works. Should your submission be successful, we will require the uncompressed version of your work.
  • Media submissions do not have to be broadcast quality, or include video/sound production. We can assist you in a proper record/edit of your work should your submission be successful.
  • All submissions must be emailed. Postal submissions will not be accepted.
    • For filing purposes, submissions MUST have the subject line as follows to be accepted. List the category/ies of work you are submitting, followed by the number of pieces in brackets, followed by your publication name. Categories are non-fiction, fiction, poetry, image, multimedia.Thus your subject line might read: “Fiction (2), image (1). Arty McArtface.”
    • All submissions must include the GDS cover sheet attached to your email. Download it on the right and fill it in. Other cover letters or introductory emails are not necessary.
    • Text submissions must come as separate attachments, or they will not be considered. One piece of writing per attachment. They should be saved in .doc or .docx format only. They should be 12 point font, with the lines spaced at 1.5 or 2.
    • If you can, buy and read GDS first. This will make you more likely to submit the right kind of work.
    • You may submit up to two pieces of prose, or up to three poems/images/flash fiction pieces. If submitting across both categories, you may send two prose pieces and one from another category, or one prose piece with two from other categories. If you submit more than this, none of your work will be considered. (Genuine flash fiction is usually no more than 600 words.)
    • Simultaneous submissions are fine, just let us know if your work is accepted elsewhere. Previously published work is negotiable. Drop us a line.
    • We have no restrictions on form, length, or genre, as long as the work is first-rate. Don’t send your middle range.
    • Contributors are paid whenever possible, in Australian dollars and a copy of the journal. Rates are nominal and dependent on funding.
    • Submissions close strictly and finally on 21 December, at midnight AEST.

    Downloads

    • Download the digital cover sheet here.
      • Having trouble with that? Download the RTF version here.
    • Download the print cover sheet here.
      • Having trouble with that? Download the RTF version here.

    Not sure what to submit?
    Check out our previous editions – including inaugural digital edition No 31…

    Not Sure?