Sian Prior
@sian-prior.bsky.social
Author (‘Shy: a memoir’, ‘Childless: a story of freedom and longing’), journo, uni lecturer, singer, reader, campervanner, earth-lover 🌏 ❤️
Discovered Scott’s Head, NSW yesterday. AND ran into a Prior cousin!
June 21, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Discovered Scott’s Head, NSW yesterday. AND ran into a Prior cousin!
Been driving the campervan from Melbourne to the Gold Coast this week. Fleeing the cold, as usual. Few highlights here (more to come in a second post) 😊
June 21, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Been driving the campervan from Melbourne to the Gold Coast this week. Fleeing the cold, as usual. Few highlights here (more to come in a second post) 😊
Smiling pic from a library workshop I ran recently. 😊
June 12, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Smiling pic from a library workshop I ran recently. 😊
Creative Non Fiction has opened so many new doors for me over the past two decades. I love sharing this writing form with aspiring story-tellers. Why don't you join us for my next six week online short course? Begins April 28th - all welcome. www.sianprior.com/creative-non...
February 17, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Creative Non Fiction has opened so many new doors for me over the past two decades. I love sharing this writing form with aspiring story-tellers. Why don't you join us for my next six week online short course? Begins April 28th - all welcome. www.sianprior.com/creative-non...
Not celebrating Australia Day today. Not dancing on the graves of First Nations people. Baffled that so many fail to empathize with the pain that a ‘celebration’ on this particular date can cause.
January 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Not celebrating Australia Day today. Not dancing on the graves of First Nations people. Baffled that so many fail to empathize with the pain that a ‘celebration’ on this particular date can cause.
Meet Rosie. My second oldest friend’s new second dog. Practically edible. ❤️
January 22, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Meet Rosie. My second oldest friend’s new second dog. Practically edible. ❤️
How lovely. Stopped outside a bookshop in Cowes, Phillip Island - and there was my second memoir #Childless ! Popped in to sign it. 😊🙏❤️ www.turnthepagebookshop.com.au
January 18, 2025 at 3:26 AM
How lovely. Stopped outside a bookshop in Cowes, Phillip Island - and there was my second memoir #Childless ! Popped in to sign it. 😊🙏❤️ www.turnthepagebookshop.com.au
Noodling around Phillip Island in the van. So many birds and wallabies. And the quietly roaring ocean ❤️
January 17, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Noodling around Phillip Island in the van. So many birds and wallabies. And the quietly roaring ocean ❤️
This book. It is just what the world needs right now. Love. Community. Forgiveness. Truth. Empathy. Finished today and I’m missing it. ❤️
January 5, 2025 at 10:52 AM
This book. It is just what the world needs right now. Love. Community. Forgiveness. Truth. Empathy. Finished today and I’m missing it. ❤️
Took some effort but they did. On shore again, I thought perhaps that man maybe wasn’t okay.
Our father drowned saving two young lives.
Always, always for me, that crazy mix of joy and terror in the pulsing ocean.
Our father drowned saving two young lives.
Always, always for me, that crazy mix of joy and terror in the pulsing ocean.
January 5, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Took some effort but they did. On shore again, I thought perhaps that man maybe wasn’t okay.
Our father drowned saving two young lives.
Always, always for me, that crazy mix of joy and terror in the pulsing ocean.
Our father drowned saving two young lives.
Always, always for me, that crazy mix of joy and terror in the pulsing ocean.
This afternoon the tide was in. The waves were huge and exploding onto the shore. I tried to get out beyond the breakers but one broke over me, pushing me under for longer than I expected. ‘Get me out of here’ I told my legs, out loud.
January 5, 2025 at 9:24 AM
This afternoon the tide was in. The waves were huge and exploding onto the shore. I tried to get out beyond the breakers but one broke over me, pushing me under for longer than I expected. ‘Get me out of here’ I told my legs, out loud.
I told a perfect stranger, standing and staring next to me, that my father had drowned 60 years ago. In surf. I wanted to stay. I wanted to go. We left. But I woke up wondering. This morning, at the same beach, I swam safely, rapturously, in the gentle surf. ‘He’s probably okay’ I told myself. 2/
January 5, 2025 at 9:23 AM
I told a perfect stranger, standing and staring next to me, that my father had drowned 60 years ago. In surf. I wanted to stay. I wanted to go. We left. But I woke up wondering. This morning, at the same beach, I swam safely, rapturously, in the gentle surf. ‘He’s probably okay’ I told myself. 2/
Yesterday, looking down over this beach, we saw paramedics leaning over a prone man on the beach, by the water’s edge. Ambulance and two police cars in attendance. The man wasn’t moving. I stared and stared, wanting to leave, wanting to stay. Had he drowned? Or would he be okay? 1/
January 5, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Yesterday, looking down over this beach, we saw paramedics leaning over a prone man on the beach, by the water’s edge. Ambulance and two police cars in attendance. The man wasn’t moving. I stared and stared, wanting to leave, wanting to stay. Had he drowned? Or would he be okay? 1/
Christmas sibs ❤️❤️❤️😊
December 22, 2024 at 12:48 AM
Christmas sibs ❤️❤️❤️😊
Yayoi Kusama exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria today was so very moving
December 20, 2024 at 12:11 PM
Yayoi Kusama exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria today was so very moving
At Separation Creek where blue rocks are separated from mustard rocks and the result is abstract art. Love the Surf Coast of Victoria more than I can say.
December 17, 2024 at 7:08 AM
At Separation Creek where blue rocks are separated from mustard rocks and the result is abstract art. Love the Surf Coast of Victoria more than I can say.
Know anyone who'd like to to be gifted a non fiction online writing course? Like to do one yourself? Dust off some of those true stories you've always thought would be worth writing down. Scoop up a few new writing skills in the company of other interesting folk. www.sianprior.com/advanced-cre...
December 10, 2024 at 3:22 AM
Know anyone who'd like to to be gifted a non fiction online writing course? Like to do one yourself? Dust off some of those true stories you've always thought would be worth writing down. Scoop up a few new writing skills in the company of other interesting folk. www.sianprior.com/advanced-cre...
Nine pages in and I was gasping - with shock and recognition and shame - and admiration.
December 6, 2024 at 8:38 AM
Nine pages in and I was gasping - with shock and recognition and shame - and admiration.
Eight years since I visited Iceland. Every time one of these photos pops up on my phone I have to remind myself that this place is real. Saw it with my own lucky eyes. Real and astonishingly beautiful. ❤️🇮🇸
December 1, 2024 at 2:32 AM
Eight years since I visited Iceland. Every time one of these photos pops up on my phone I have to remind myself that this place is real. Saw it with my own lucky eyes. Real and astonishingly beautiful. ❤️🇮🇸
‘including children…’ History will remember these anti-coal
protesters in Newcastle as heroes. Shame on the leaders and police who are locking them up instead of locking up the merchants of global doom 😡
protesters in Newcastle as heroes. Shame on the leaders and police who are locking them up instead of locking up the merchants of global doom 😡
November 24, 2024 at 7:49 AM
‘including children…’ History will remember these anti-coal
protesters in Newcastle as heroes. Shame on the leaders and police who are locking them up instead of locking up the merchants of global doom 😡
protesters in Newcastle as heroes. Shame on the leaders and police who are locking them up instead of locking up the merchants of global doom 😡
Oh this exquisite book. It’s called a novel but really it’s a hymn of praise. To the earth. I am reading it (singing along to it) verse by verse, lento. ❤️🌏
November 22, 2024 at 11:25 PM
Oh this exquisite book. It’s called a novel but really it’s a hymn of praise. To the earth. I am reading it (singing along to it) verse by verse, lento. ❤️🌏
First post here. I read. I write. I sing. I bodysurf. I’m a very lucky human.
November 22, 2024 at 11:02 PM
First post here. I read. I write. I sing. I bodysurf. I’m a very lucky human.