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About Threasa Meads

September 17, 2016 by Threasa

Based in Gippsland, Victoria, Threasa Meads lectures in creative writing at Federation University. She is the author of two liminal autobiographies, Nobody and Mothsong (Rare Bird Books, 2016). Nobody was shortlisted for The Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award in 2008 and awarded a Varuna Fellowship in 2009. In 2012 Threasa was emerging writer in residence at the KSP Writers’ Centre. Her writing crosses genres and has been published in local and international journals including, apt, Still Point Arts Quarterly, LiNQ, Double Dialogues, […]

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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

September 17, 2016 by Threasa

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Other Writing

September 17, 2016 by Threasa

Bright Orange Cowboy Boots — apt Tink Wildly — apt When One Cries, The Other Tastes Salt– AntipodeanSF Bad Fruit — LINQ    

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