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1 Pretty Pussy Mira Schlosberg , 2021 single work graphic novel
— Appears in: Going Down Swinging , January no. 42 2021; (p. 30-35)
1 Bloodthirst Mira Schlosberg , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow , June no. 42 2019; (p. 42)

'In February of 1985, ecofeminist philosopher Val Plumwood was attacked by a saltwater crocodile. She was in a red plastic canoe, in the part of the river she was told not to go to. She tried to jump from the canoe into a tree to escape the crocodile, but the crocodile jumped too. It death-rolled her three times in the water before she managed to escape and crawl to a place where a ranger found her.' (Publication abstract)
1 Fig Wasp Mira Schlosberg , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2018;
1 Gender Is a Drag but This Magazine Is Not Mira Schlosberg , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: Voiceworks , Winter no. 112 2018; (p. 4-5) 'At the start of this print cycle, being both queer and newly-appointed as Editor of Voiceworks, I was excited for the possibilities that the selection of Drag as the theme for this issue would bring, but I also felt a certain level of anxiety about all the potential things that might go wrong. Bringing queerness into the spotlight is all too often a double-edged sword. (Of course, there are several definitions of the word drag that have nothing to do with queerness, but I’m gay so I only think about gay things). Personally I worried about having to read submissions treating gender defiance as a joke, and professionally I worried about the responsibility of producing an issue with a theme that has several very complex connotations. What would happen if all the submissions we received were problematic, transphobic, totally uncritical of RuPaul? We would have nothing to print and the entire publication would fall to pieces!! (Did you know queer people are more likely to suffer from anxiety than our straight peers?) As it turns out, my fears went totally unrealised. Instead, the issue you now have before you contains some of the most raw and powerful work we have published in a long time.' 

 (Introduction)
1 Kelp Body Mira Schlosberg , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: Going Down Swinging , no. 39 2018; (p. 293-295) Going Down Swinging Online 2020;
1 Photograph of the Parts of Your Chest That They Removed in the Surgery i "In the picture there was some sort of blue medical cloth and on it two round pink handfuls of", Mira Schlosberg , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Tell Me Like You Mean It 2 2017; (p. 24)
1 Everything Is Really Big Mira Schlosberg , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Voiceworks , Spring no. 109 2017; (p. 6-7) 'Recently I was interviewing a rabbi for part of my master’s thesis. I asked her how she imagined God, and she provided me with a list of concepts from different theologians. The one that stood out to me most was the idea of God as a vessel that catches overflowing emotion. When you feel so overcome with joy or sadness that you can’t contain it in your body, it flows out and God is there to hold it. She also talked about the body as ‘the house of the soul’. The combination of these two concepts was immediately soothing for me, not just because they imagine God as tender and caring, but also because they imagine the body and the self as something porous, not a finite, closed-of thing. Too many feelings? You don’t actually need to hold onto them all at once. Too many conflicting facets of identity? No worries. Just put some of them outside for a bit.'  (Introduction) 
1 Afikoman i "Who left my body so long to rise? It's not kosher this time of year. Should have been", Mira Schlosberg , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Rabbit , no. 23 2017; (p. 38-39)
1 Bug Story Mira Schlosberg , 2017 single work prose
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow , March no. 33 2017; (p. 32)

'I n the eighties Dani used to date this girl called Vera, and Vera was seeing this guy called Adam. Not like a secret lesbian thing, but like an everyone was sleeping with everyone else kind of thing. Adam was a handsome guy, but he thought a little too highly of himself for not minding that the women he slept with slept with other women. Other than that he was ok. The worst thing about him was that he collected bugs' (Introduction)
1 Weird Dog Friend Visits the Moon Mira Schlosberg , 2015 single work short story
— Appears in: Voiceworks , Summer no. 102 2015-2016; (p. 11-14)

'There is a weird dog that I love that lives around the corner. Actually there are two, but I feel closer to the smaller one, mostly because it sleeps near the end of the driveway behind the gate, and the bigger one sleeps back towards the house. They are both really old, and sleep on little carpet squares that the people move out into the sun when it's sunny and then back into the shade when it gets too hot. The weird dog that I love is the small one. It has blonde fur and the kind of ears that are pointy but then flop over There is some kind of problem with its tiny, skinny legs, so they get all shaky when it tries to stand up, and when it walks, it lifts them straight up without bending its knees...' (Publication abstract)
1 25 y separately published work icon Voiceworks Kat Muscat (editor), Elizabeth Flux (editor), Lucy Adams (editor), Mira Schlosberg (editor), Adalya Nash Hussein (editor), Zowie Douglas-Kinghorn (editor), 1988 East Melbourne : Express Media , 1988- Z1321288 1988 periodical (53 issues) A periodical featuring the work of young Australians in the 14-24 age group. Includes short stories, articles, poetry, artwork, comics and photography. Editors serve for a period of two years.
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