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Wednesday 11 June
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
As a journalist, musician and broadcaster, Sian Prior has spent the past two decades firmly in the public eye. During that time, she tried not to betray a characteristic she’s carried with her since childhood – her debilitating shyness.
Shy: A Memoir chronicles Sian’s investigation into a condition that has always troubled her, exploring its impact on her family, friendships and self-perception. She tries to discover exactly what shyness is, where hers came from and how to manage the constant urge to withdraw from social situations.
Sian contributed a weekly column to the Age for three years, and her work has featured in Rolling Stone, The Big Issue, Women of Letters and other publications. She’ll be in conversation with Francesca Rendle-Short, author of the novel/memoir Bite Your Tongue.
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Francesca Rendle-Short
Francesca Rendle-Short is an award-winning novelist, memoirist and essayist. She is a writer and researcher interested in experimental thinking, ethical enquiry, the value of collaboration and community building, and trans-national literatures and literary practices. Her creative and scholarly writing is idiosyncratic and playful in nature, attentive to whimsy and transgression. Her five books include two anthologies of Asia-Pacific and Australian writing The Near and the Far (Vol I and II; Scribe Publications) and the acclaimed novel-cum-memoir Bite Your Tongue (Spinifex Press). She is co-editor of A-Z of Creative Writing Methods (Bloomsbury) and is Professor of Creative Writing in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, co-founder of the non/fictionLab research group and WrICE (Writers Immersion and Cultural Exchange).
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Sian Prior
Sian Prior has had a multi-faceted career in the arts, education and media, as a writer, broadcaster, teacher and singer. She is best known as a former presenter on ABC RN, ABC Classic and ABC Melbourne, and a columnist ...