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About Threasa Meads

September 17, 2016 by Threasa

Threasa Meads is a neurodivergent writer, artist and academic. She is the author of two liminal autobiographies, Nobody and Mothsong (Rare Bird Books). Nobody was shortlisted for The Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award in 2008, and awarded a Varuna Fellowship in 2009. In 2012 she was emerging writer in residence at the KSP Writers’ Centre. Her writing crosses genres and has also been published in national and international journals including Cordite, Still Point Arts Quarterly, LiNQ, Double Dialogues, and TEXT. She is […]

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Nobody

September 17, 2016 by Threasa

Nobody is a highly stylized memoir that employs the choose-your-own-adventure structure to illustrate the complexity of navigating trauma for both author and reader. Nobody invites you to closely share a young girl’s brave journey of growing up in Australia in the eighties in a violent and abusive world. It transgresses the boundaries of literary traumatic representation to weave moments of sweetness and humor through a narrative where unexpected threads of beauty and darkness intersect, emphasizing the horrors of her environment. In conflating the […]

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Mothsong

September 17, 2016 by Threasa

A spiral, a magical realist labyrinth, a lyric essay, a mirror-maze, and a mandala, Mothsong celebrates art’s capacity to facilitate and map posttraumatic growth. It is a testimony of healing from child abuse that peers into the chrysalis. Through poetic prose, visual image, ekphrasis, and intuitive enquiry, the author carries the lamp of art into the magical realist labyrinth of the wounded soul to unveil the terrifying and the sacred. In the spaces between a heartbeat, the stories of Lolah—who represents the […]

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Artworks in Mothsong

September 17, 2016 by Threasa

 

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Other Artworks

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Other Selected Writing

September 17, 2016 by Threasa

Net Carries Water — Cordite Poetry Review Liminal interventions in the regional creative writing classroom — TEXT We might as well call it a boat — TEXT Being Brave As A Writer — Writers in the Attic Bright Orange Cowboy Boots — apt Tink Wildly — apt When One Cries, The Other Tastes Salt– AntipodeanSF Bad Fruit — LiNQ Intersections of Therapy and Aesthetics: Ekphrasis, Magic Realism, and Healing Child Abuse in Contemporary Autobiography — Double Dialogues In/Stead  

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