A Spare Room of One’s Own. Sort of.
If you can get over the economic challenges inherent to being a writer, which I’ve raved on about in other blogs, and if you can actually find some time to put into your creative writing after you’ve...
View ArticleThe Meditations: Chloe Wilson on ‘Lyudmila Pavlichenko, From the Orchard’
The Meditations is a curated series of reflections on writing and storytelling from contributors to Going Down Swinging No. 35. This reflection comes from Chloe Wilson on her poem ‘Lyudmila...
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Two People Write Letters to each Other about Things That Happen While They...
Buddies Oliver Mol and GDS deputy ed Katia Pase revive the epistolary form by writing to each other – across continents. Dear Oliver, Here I am in Bogota, at the beginning, before I’d learnt anything....
View ArticleSpoken Wordsters: Candy Royalle
Alicia Sometimes chats to performance poet and recent Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship recipient Candy Royalle. The Official Bio Candy Royalle is a performance artist and poet who fuses cinematic...
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A Freelancer’s Guide to Europe: London
Online editor Megan Anderson gives up a roof, friends and financial stability to write around Europe. Apparently when you tire of London you tire of life. Samuel Johnson’s iconic aphorism is plastered...
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Longbox – the New Multiformat Collection from Going Down Swinging
Andrew Denton’s first cartoon collection. Bridget Lutherborrow’s first book of short stories. First novellas from Luke Johnson, Libbie Chellew and Katherine Kruimink. Pat Grant’s graphic novella...
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Sean M. Whelan & the Mime Set – Live Album Released
“This Friday night something very special is happening and it will never happen again.” That’s how the frontman put it. Through the mid-2000s, Sean Whelan & The Mime Set made a collaborative sound...
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Longbox Launched
For 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,...
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The Psychopath in Our Every Word
Every time I tell someone I’m a storyteller they immediately equate me with a liar. Somewhere down the line, invention became inextricably tied up with lying, and – in more radical cases – deception....
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Get Inside Longbox: ‘Looking a Little Drawn’ by Andrew Denton
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...
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