Going Down Swinging is one of Australia’s longest-running and most respected literary journals: publishing digital as well as print and audio anthologies since 1979.
The Going Down Swinging team works on the stolen lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation, whose sovereignty has never been ceded. Our writers and artists work on stolen lands across all of so-called Australia. We acknowledge and pay our deepest respects to all Elders, past and present.
This always was and always will be Aboriginal land.
From the archives
How can performing bodies be archives of past traumas, sites of reclamation, sites of collective and reconstructed histories?... What happens when these performing bodies join arms not in battle, but in friendship?
— Lucia Tường Vy Nguyễn, Reina Brigette Takeuchi, Not Your Miss or Madame: A Three-Act Meditation on Love, Opera and Friendship, December 15, 2021
— Lucia Tường Vy Nguyễn, Reina Brigette Takeuchi, Not Your Miss or Madame: A Three-Act Meditation on Love, Opera and Friendship, December 15, 2021