NEWS!
Submissions have now closed for No.29 - due for release November. Our Current Issue: GDS No. 28 (June 2009) Featuring poetry, fiction, comic art, a spoken word CD, plus a graphic novella by Jo Waite. Cover art by Stephen Ives.
Go listen to a couple of tracks and check out some of the comic art and poetry works at our website proper: goingdownswinging.org.au
Our Previous Issue: GDS No.27 published in December 2008 features poetry, fiction, comic art, spoken word CD and graphic novella by Picknick, with cover art by Tom Civil.
++ Our very special, 25th issue celebrated a quarter of a century of swinging with a double CD of spoken word from around the world. GDS No. 25 was featured in About.com's Poetry Picks: The Best CDs of 2007 ! Selector Bob Holman says: "Well, here’s the extraordinary 25th compilation of Australia’s classic aural lit zine, still championing the underdog ... [it's] the closest we’ve got to a global poetry CD sampler..." No.25 is still available at our website: www.goingdownswinging.org.au
. You can tune in to a couple of tracks above ...
Here are the last few GDS covers, fashioned by some of our favourite artists ...
Taking the virtual launch thing one extra cross-continental step, in February 2009 Ian Ferrier and the Festival Voix d’Amériques launched No.27 at the Casa del Popolo in Montreal:
Out of Australia, a literary journal publishing short fiction, poetry, comic art, and spoken word from around the world.
Every issue of Going Down Swinging (GDS) features a book plus a CD of spoken word. When the mood strikes and the funding allows, special issues feature double CDs, hard covers, colour comics sections, and other printable delights.
GDS publishes two issues a year - in Spring/Summer and in Autumn/Winter.
> www.goingdownswinging.org.au is where it's at in terms of submitting, buying, subscribing, listening, reading, and finding out more.
>>> Oh, and if you can't get enough of the [anti]social web, we have a Facebook Page too - that's here“Going Down Swinging is a mindbomb that reverberates with distinctive Aussie spirit. Better than a double macchiato.”
Kalle Lasn, Editor of Adbusters and author of Culture Jam and Design Anarchy
"Reminds me of a volcano with a stopwatch, ready to bust down walls, laws, and definitions til you can see clearly a Future laid out for you. Natural as dancing to a heart-beat. Urgent as a dictionary searching for its alphabet."
Bob Holman, (USOP)
"It's a hope machine."
Sarah Fillery Coles, (Voiceworks)
Entries are open for the QPF Filmmakers Challenge, 2009!
The Queensland Poetry Festival challenges Australian filmmakers, video artists and other multimedia practitioners to produce a short work (5 minutes max) which explores the possibilities of poetic expression via audio visual technology.
Poetry is defined broadly as memorable language. Your work might be a record of a poetry performance, a video text manipulation or something entirely different. We are looking for work that displays creativity, originality and an understanding of possibilities of language.
A prize of $500 is up for grabs and the winner will be announced at the 2008 Queensland Poetry Festival (21-23 August, 2009). A selection of entries will be screened at the Poetry on the Big Screen session at QPF 2009.
The deadline for entries is Friday 17 July 2009. Download the entry form in the Competitions section of www.queenslandpoetryfestival.com
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