Revisit the 2023 Festival
We had some of our most popular events recorded as video and audio so if you missed these sessions or want to rewatch them, you can purchase them below.
The Sorrento Writers Festival program is now available. To book tickets, just follow the prompts.
If you bought tickets online last year, please note: we now have a new system and your email and log-in details are no longer valid. Please set up your new account.
Our program starts at 1pm Thursday April 25. Because of Anzac Day events, we will not be offering a day pass on Thursday but festival-goers are welcome to buy single session tickets for Thursday afternoon. We also have a few special Anzac-inspired events on Wednesday April 24 if you’d like to attend.
For Friday 26, Saturday 27 and Sunday April 28 you can now buy up to 4 x Day Passes. These Day Passes will be under the person’s name who booked and paid for the passes. You can see different sessions, but we can’t separate out the Day Passes once bought.
Please note: all memberships and passes exclude our Special Events.
Happy browsing everyone, and sincere thanks from our team.
We can’t wait to welcome you at this year’s Festival.
Please keep an eye on our Instagram @sorrentowritersfestival and if you haven’t already done so, sign up to our e-newsletter for updates and much more.
We had some of our most popular events recorded as video and audio so if you missed these sessions or want to rewatch them, you can purchase them below.
The 2023 Sorrento Writers Festival was a resounding success. In our first year, the Sorrento Writers Festival established itself as one of Victoria’s most exciting literary events. Feedback from presenters and the public was incredible.
The local community embraced the idea of a new cultural event on the Mornington Peninsula’s southern tip, while first-time visitors to the area were delighted by the region’s natural beauty, the shopping, cafes and bars, and the warm and inclusive welcome they received.
The Sorrento Writers Festival would not have been possible without the support of our fabulous donors.
We thank those who donated to our 2024 and 2023 Festival. And if you’d like to contribute financially as we plan 2024, please click the Show Your Support button above – and thank you.
Welcome to The Sorrento Writers Festival, a new not-for-profit cultural and community organisation that will bring year-round literary events, discussions and talks to Sorrento and the wider Mornington Peninsula community.
Our inaugural four-day Festival runs April Thursday 27 to Sunday 30 and we hope you’ll join us.
This seaside gathering of great ideas brings together some of Australia’s finest minds and deepest thinkers. In April we welcome more than 100 writers, journalists, academics, commentators, illustrators, and musicians to our beautiful part of the Peninsula. And we can’t wait.
The Sorrento Writers Festival acknowledges the Bunurong people of the great Kulin Nation, the traditional owners of the land on which our Festival takes place. We celebrate our region’s deep First Nations history, its European settler influence, and its contemporary role as one of Victoria’s most beautiful coastal villages.
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The Sorrento Writers Festival is an opportunity for writers, readers and the wider Sorrento community to come together to celebrate the power of storytelling.
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