796. Dani Vee and Helena Pantsis - Mother Salad and the female experience

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New Episode #796 Dani Vee and Helena Pantsis discuss her unique and dark collection of short stories Mother Salad. They talk about the chaos and complexity of being a woman, the fact that women should not comply to society’s expectations and the challenging the perceptions of women. They talk about vibes, how to write short stories and the path to publication. Mother Salad unravels the image of the woman in shambles, identity fractured and exploring a world which has long abandoned the creature it so carefully constructed. Helena Pantsis is an editor, writer and artist with a fond appreciation for the weird, the dark, and the experimental. Helena 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. Today we chat about her surreal collection of short stories, Mother Salad. Listen now!

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