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Publications

Writing

Fiction

Poetry

Fiction

Counting Stairs
Longleaf Review
(nominated for Best American Short Stories)

Non-Fiction

Fiction

Artificial Autonomy
Wyldblood Press
(winner of Best Microfiction 2023)

Poetry

Australian Birds
Australian Poetry Journal

Fiction

If I Were a Black Widow This Would Be Fine
Voiceworks & Sans. Press

Fiction

Bird House
Jet Fuel Review
(nominated for Best Small Fictions 2023)

Fiction

Swimmer
Aniko Press

Non-Fiction

Fiction

Cottonmouth
Riverstone Literary Journal

Poetry

thermodynamics
The Victorian Writer

Art

Comic

Water Weight with Zoë Meager
The Offing

Art

Be The Cowboy
Farrago
(front and back covers)

Comic

Heart Lands
Emerging Writer's Festival

Art

Move With Me
Metro Tunnel Project

Comic

BITE THE TONGUE THAT FEEDS YOU
Stone Pacific Zine
(nominated for Best of the Net)

Art

Surfaced / Submerged
Above Water 2022
(Surfaced received Highly Commended)

Comic

Swimming Lessons
Voiceworks

Comic

Puddles
TOWER

Comic

The heart of a blue whale weighs 400 pounds with Sylvia Santiago
Heavy Feather Review

Books

Poetry Pamphlet

RATTUS RATTUS
Bullshit Lit

Poetry Pamphlet



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Helena Pantsis (she/they) is a writer, editor, and aspiring artist living and working on unceded Wurundjeri Country.Her work attempts to break boundaries and cross genres, leaning towards the weird, the strange, and the unexpected.They are also an editor at esteemed Naarm literary journal Going Down Swinging.

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