2026 Festival
Speaker Profile
Corrie Perkin
Award-winning journalist Corrie Perkin is also an editor, writer, MC, podcaster and Founder and Director of the Sorrento Writers Festival.
Meet The Food Writers
Wednesday April 22
Sorrento Portsea RSL
12.00pm
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60 mins
Julia Busuttill Nishmura and Virginia Trioli with Corrie Perkin
We bring together two of Melbourne’s great food/creative communicators - cookbook author Julia Busuttil Nishimura and ABC arts presenter and author Virginia Trioli.
Special Event
Don’t Shoot The Messenger: Live Podcast
Wednesday April 22
Sorrento Portsea RSL
4.30pm
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90 mins
Corrie Perkin and Caroline Wilson with special Festival Guests: Rebecca Armitage and Julia Busuttil Nishimura
This is a Special Event
100 Days After Bondi: Where to from here?
Thursday April 23
Halcyon Hall, The Continental
3.00pm
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60 mins
Linda Dessau, Lee Kofman, Paul Kelly with Corrie Perkin
How To Dress For Old Age: And other perplexing issues
Friday April 24
Hotel Sorrento (Cooper Room)
10.30am
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60 mins
David Carlin, Rosalie Ham and Peta Murray with Corrie Perkin
This session is supported by Village Glen
In Conversation: Samah Sabawi
Sunday April 26
Hotel Sorrento (Cooper Room)
12.00pm
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60 mins
Samah Sabawi with Corrie Perkin