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The top ten most clicked pieces of 2020.
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The top ten most clicked pieces of 2020.
Continue readingOn taking a long-running festival online and all the possibilities that opens up.
Continue readingOur top ten writing & comics of the year.
Continue readingFasten your seatbelts as we prepare to land for the final time.
Continue readingWe share our picks for this year’s festival.
Continue readingWithout a doubt, this is a group of writers to watch.
Continue readingWe’re talking about some of the most unconventional events at MWF18.
Continue readingGoing Down Swinging is looking for a Co-Editor and a Marketing Manager.
Continue readingFasten your seatbelts! Return Flight is landing.
Continue readingWe’re offering two distinct opportunities to make your mark on one of the longest-running literary publications in the country.
Continue readingWe’re going on the grid.
Continue readingYou’ve never zine anything like it.
Continue readingThe final piece of the puzzle of authors performing at the #38 launch.
Continue readingPart two of our three-part series profiling the authors performing at the #38 launch.
Continue readingPart one of our three-part series profiling the authors performing at the #38 launch.
Continue readingPack up the car, it’s time for a road trip.
Continue readingFormer Going Down Swinging editor Bhakthi Puvanenthiran has her finger on the Melbourne Writers Festival pulse.
Continue readingA new filmmaking initiative that’s anything but a raw deal.
Continue readingFilm buffs, you have some serious scheduling to do.
Continue readingApplications are now open to join our team as an Editorial or Online Intern.
Continue readingOne Night Wonders is back with three new shows in 2015.
Continue readingFor those who missed it, the big multi-format issue we call Longbox launched in Sydney a week or so ago. In a Marickville warehouse, under the rumble of low-flying planes, we heard from Luke Johnson, Bridget Lutherborrow and Andrew Denton,…
Continue readingFor writers and illustrators. But read up, because this time it’s different. Our next collection will be made up of long pieces. Properly long, from around 10,000 words up to the length of a short book. Each will be paired with an illustrator and published as part of…
Continue readingWhat a difference some love makes. A month ago, GDS was looking down the barrel. Our main funding was gone, our last two editions hadn’t made back enough of their costs, and if our next one went the same way…
Continue readingBefore Derrick Brown took to the One Night Wonders stage back in May, the night was opened by Anthony O’Sullivan and Jessica Alice, whose sets will be made available progressively over coming weeks. Jessica’s inquisitive ‘I’ve Been Wondering About How Dinosaurs…
Continue readingAfter 35 years, GDS needs your help to stay alive. Our Survival Drive has raised $16,312 on Pozible and through our online shop. No charity: every supporter gets back well over the dollar value they put in. More than cash though, we need to…
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