41 artist feature: Mandy Ord
January 15, 2021
We chat to GDS#41 contributor Mandy Ord about working digitally and the inspiration behind her COVID-themed piece.
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We chat to GDS#41 contributor Mandy Ord about working digitally and the inspiration behind her COVID-themed piece.
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Applications are now open for our 2020 internship program.
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Times are tough. We’ve compiled some ways to look after yourself and our community.
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Our third and final GDS#40 performer revealed to get you well and truly in the mood for Saturday.
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Edition #40 is almost here. We’re introducing you to the next performer in our stellar lineup.
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Edition #40 is almost here. Get in the mood as we reveal our lineup of incredible performers.
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A taste of what to expect from our very first poetry game show.
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This is a rare opportunity to play a key role in managing one of Australia’s longest-running literary publications.
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We’re offering two distinct opportunities to make your mark on a very special edition of Going Down Swinging.
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Eileen Chong tells the story behind her poem ‘Singapore Koel’, featured in Pigeonholed.
Continue readingAnother edition, another launch party, another stellar line-up. In the weeks leading up to our Pigeonholed launch we’re showcasing the outstanding performers who’ll be swinging by on Friday November 16 at Grub Street Bookshop. Last, but never least, is Scott Wings. Scott Wings…
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In the weeks leading up to our Pigeonholed launch we’re showcasing the outstanding performers who’ll be swinging by on Friday November 16 at Grub Street Bookshop.
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In the weeks leading up to our Pigeonholed launch we’re showcasing the outstanding performers who’ll be swinging by on Friday November 16 at Grub Street Bookshop.
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“I, too, want to cry all over Western civilisation. Then burn it the ground.”
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The final piece of the puzzle of authors performing at the #38 launch.
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Part two of our three-part series profiling the authors performing at the #38 launch.
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Part one of our three-part series profiling the authors performing at the #38 launch.
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What responsibilities do we have when publishing works that come from places of pain?
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Free, downloadable and totally portable ebook of the best essays, travel stories and musings from our online history.
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We catch up with ‘Essays, Letters, Reflections’ illustrator Genna Campton ahead of this Thursday’s Melbourne launch.
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In a few dozen pages, Luke Johnson demolishes the romantic Australian idea of the shearing shed. A former shearer, Luke describes a bleak, harsh world with glorious poetic certainty. Caroline Hunter’s cover is fitting complement. Here’s a small taste from the opening chapter of ‘Ringbark’,…
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It’s intriguing when a person noted for particular skills tries something altogether different. Some attempts end better than others. Andrew Denton was the first to claim he couldn’t draw, but for a love of cartoons he was willing to chance…
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Longbox: the thirty-sixth edition of Going Down Swing. Six extended works by eleven artists
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A week on from the launch of Going Down Swinging No. 35, Program Coordinator Ali Macalister-Bills sums up the night that was. It’s at about this time, when unexplained bruises darken and spread, that I look back on the launch…
Continue readingWhat goes into a GDS launch party? General manager Em Andersen reflects on the madness of party prep time as we ready ourselves for the launch of No. 35 tonight in Fitzroy. “Have we got all the tubs for drinks…
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Sydney co-editor Zoe Norton Lodge reveals what makes editing Going Down Swinging so special: arguing. It has been a seriously excellent experience to join the editing team of GDS. In the past I have dabbled in editing, including a brief…
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The 35th issue of Going Down Swinging is almost here (it’s so close!). A chockers print and audio anthology that will take you to the wrong parts of Baltimore; drag you across the silk route; breathe cured meats in your face…
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After many months of gestating, the new cover design for the new Going Down Swinging No. 35 is here. The anthology – a book and a spoken word album – will be launched in Melbourne on November 29. In the meantime,…
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Editor Katia Pase looks back on a year of Going Down Swinging and the process of fitting together an edition.
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DJ Sean M. Whelan’s notes from the launch of our digital edition, Going Down Swinging #34.
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