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.
Sorrento Writers Festival
April 25 - 28, 2024​
A word of thanks from our Director
Dear Festival friends,
Thank you for coming to Sorrento and being a part of our inaugural writers festival. It was a remarkable four days – more than 90 events across a range of local venues, with hundreds of tickets sold, a great buzz in the town, and an enormous injection into the local economy.
Our visiting writers and speakers – what an amazing bunch of Australians! – shared their stories, called us to action, fuelled our imaginations, ruffled our feathers, warmed our hearts and prompted us to reflect. Our community is a better place and we thank you for attending.
And to the Sorrento community – from our amazing volunteer army to the Continental Hotel staff, our friends at the bowls club, the golf club, the Portsea Surf Life Saving Club, the RSL, the community centre, the Aegean Gallery, the Portsea Camp and the Sorrento Museum –Â we thank you for getting behind our inaugural writers festival with such joy and enthusiasm.
Onward to 2024!
Corrie Perkin
Sorrento Writers Festival
What People Said About The 2023 Festival
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.
Hi Corrie, I wish to thank you and your army of volunteers who stood by the festival and believed its success would catapult it for an annual event marked on the calendar. Thank you bringing communities, visitors and writing enthusiasts together - believers of the art.
Debra Mar
Mornington Peninsula Deputy Mayor
Hi Corrie, I wish to thank you and your army of volunteers who stood by the festival and believed its success would catapult it for an annual event marked on the calendar. Thank you bringing communities, visitors and writing enthusiasts together - believers of the art.
Chris Hammer
Author
There was so much to love about the Sorrento Writers Festival, but here’s what matters: I spoke with several audience members who’d never been to a writer’s festival before. And they loved it. They each left the session excited by books, and ideas, and stories. For me, introducing the most democratic of art forms to regional Victorians was the best part of the weekend.
Toni Jordan
Writer
What a fabulous, inspiring, thought provoking festival you hosted.
It was such a lovely environment to immerse oneself in - everyone was friendly, inclusive and genuinely thrilled to be there.
I was particularly delighted with the way the Voice was received. Thomas Mayo is a star.
As is Corrie. Actually she is an entire galaxy.
Belinda B
2023 Festival in Pictures
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.
Supporters of Sorrento Writers Festival
The Sorrento Writers Festival would not have been possible without the support of our fabulous donors and sponsors including:
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We thank those who donated to our 2023 Festival. And if you’d like to contribute financially as we plan 2024, please click below – and thank you.
If you came to a session and didn’t have a chance to pay, please click below to make your $25 per ticket payment.
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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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Craig Silvey
Professor Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Sofie Laguna
Jane Harper
Professor Marcia Langton
