Mother Salad by Helena Pantsis - ISBN: 9781760803261
Paperback
Womanhood unravels in strange, uncanny stories of mothers and children.

Mother Salad

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  • Paperback

    160 pages

  • Release Date

    31 March 2026

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Summary

They say you can tell the gender of your unborn baby from the way your stomach sits, how your body changes, how big your nose grows. I found out I was carrying an adult woman when the interior decor of my uterus became comprised of orange linoleum tiling and ineffectual fans, velvet upholstered three-seaters and marble countertops.

Helena Pantsis’ surreal short story collection explores the plights of womanhood through the lens of mothers and the children of mothers. In 21 stories of …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781760803261
ISBN-10:176080326X
Author:Helena Pantsis
Publisher:UWA Publishing
Imprint:UWA Publishing
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:160
Release Date:31 March 2026
Dimensions:210mm x 135mm
About The Author

Helena Pantsis

Helena Pantsis (she/they) is an editor, writer and artist from Naarm, Australia with a fond appreciation for the weird, the dark, and the experimental. Her works have been published in Overland, Island, Meanjin, and Cordite, among others. She has won Going Down Swinging’s micro-microfiction challenge in 2021, has been shortlisted in WigLeaf’s top 50, nominated for Best American Short Stories and Best Short Fictions, and was the 2022 recipient of the H B Higgins Scholarship. In 2024, her debut short story collection GLUTT was published by Grattan Street Press.

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