Sian Prior Sian Prior i(A13860 works by)
Gender: Female
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Writer, broadcaster, and musician.

Prior's short fiction has appeared in Australian periodicals and anthologies. In 2014, she released Shy: A Memoir through Text Publishing: drawing from the contradiction between her professional position in the public eye and her personal experience of shyness, it explored the science of social anxiety.

Prior has worked as a journalist and broadcaster in radio, television, print and online, specialising in reporting on the arts and popular culture: her journalism includes travel, opinion, and theatre, opera, and book criticism.

She has a second career as a musician and recording artist (singer, clarinettist and choral conductor) and a producer of concerts.

Source: Author's website; Mildura Writers' Festival.

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y separately published work icon Childless : A Story of Freedom and Longing Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2022 23602549 2022 single work autobiography

'I always wanted to have children. The earth might be in trouble—overpopulated, descending into ecological crisis—but I was always sure my kids would help make the world a better place. I would be a green-feminist supermum, having it all. Nothing turned out the way I expected.

'Like many women, Sian Prior arrived at the point where she was ready to start having babies—and found they were not hers to have. Three miscarriages with a supportive partner; a new partner who already had all the children he wanted; step-children; step-grandchildren; the decision to parent solo, followed by many rounds of fertility treatments.

'After all this Sian found herself, at fifty, childless and coming to terms. Weighing up the freedoms against the losses. Dealing with the unacknowledged legacy of her own lost father. Observing parenthood itself—how we succeed at it and how we fail—from a perspective outside the trenches.

'Compelling, moving, beautifully written and unexpectedly uplifting, Childless is her story.' (Publication summary)

2022 shortlisted The Age Book of the Year Award Non-Fiction Prize
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