 He first published "Leo da Vinci Vs.The Ice-Cream Domination League" in 2015, then three other books for children up to the present, with "Gap Year in Ghost Town" being nominated for the Aurealis Award for best fantasy novel in 2017.Pryor has been nominated for an Aurealis Award a total of nine occasions with the most recent being in 2018 for his short story "First Casualty".