Sian has been working as a freelance writer for over a decade. She contributed a weekly column to The Age newspaper for three years and writes opinion pieces, travel features, theatre, opera and book reviews for various Fairfax publications. She has written feature articles for Limelight, Rolling Stone, The Bulletin, A2, Good Weekend, The Big Issue, Habitat and The Australian Way magazines.

Sian’s short fiction has been published in Contemporary Soul (Visible Ink anthology 2005), XXI Visible Inks (2009), Tattle Tales (Visible Ink anthology 2006), Normal Service Will Resume (Cardigan Press 2004) and the Sleepers Almanac Edition 7 (2011). Her essays have been published in Meanjin literary magazine and in 2010 she was awarded a Glenfern Writers Studio Readings Fellowship.

Sian recently contributed a chapter to the Penguin anthology Women Of Letters, and she is working on her first non fiction book as part of a PhD in Creative Writing at RMIT University. She has been a guest of the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, the Byron Bay Writers Festival and the Melbourne Writers Festival.

In May 2011 The Age newspaper described sianprior.com as ‘one of the most popular academic blogs’.

HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF SIAN’S PUBLISHED NON FICTION WRITING:

In the Fairfax Traveller: an article about mountain-climbing as a cure for a broken heart; March 2012.

In The Readings magazine: a profile of Australian novelist Deborah Robertson; March 2012.

For the Meanjin literary magazine website: reviews of two novels by Australian writers Thea Astley and Kate Grenville; October 2011

In the Fairfax Traveller: a travel article about Mission Beach in far north QLD recovering from Cyclone Yasi; August 2011.

In the Sunday Age: an opinion piece about Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s confession that she’s a ‘shy girl’; July 2011.

In the Fairfax ‘Traveller’: a travel article about the fishing village of Aas Beach in Amed, Bali; February 2011.

In The Drum (ABC opinion website): an opinion piece about the idiocy of the latest pro-nuclear push within the ALP; February 2011

In The National Times (Fairfax opinion online): an opinion piece about the taboo surrounding the declaration of voting intentions; November 2010.

In the Walkley Magazine (Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance): a column about the ‘10 Things you Need to Know about Reporting the Arts’; October 2010.

Travel article published in the Fairfax ‘Traveller’ about indigenous tourism ventures on the Dampier Peninsula in WA; August 2010.

Travel article published in The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald about south west Western Australia; May 2010.

Column about grappling with food intolerances, published in The National Times; April 2010.

Review of David Carlin’s memoir Our Father Who Wasn’t There, published in The Age; February 2010

Opinion piece about how our communal anxiety about children is being expressed in Australian film and theatre, published in The Age; December 2009.

Review of Opera Australia’s production of A Streetcar Named Desire for The Age: December 2009.

Essay about the Balibo Five, ‘Remembering Balibo’, published in Meanjin literary magazine; 2009.

Essay called ‘Shy Young Thing’, published in Meanjin literary magazine; 2009.

Sydney Morning Herald travel article about Australians working in the arts in Manhattan; 2008.

An essay on ‘sustainable activism’ published in the Insight section of The Age; 2007.