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Sorrento on Tour

The Sorrento Writers Festival stages events throughout the year. Our mission – to bring writers and readers together – continues in various locations around the Mornington Peninsula, Melbourne and regional Victoria. Wherever you are, we hope you’ll join Sorrento  On Tour for more gatherings of great ideas.

Sorrento Writers Festival Annual Trivia Night

Saturday October 31
Portsea Surf Life Saving Club
4.5hrs
$150 // $1200 // $1500

Join the Sorrento Writers Festival's Annual Trivia Night at the Portsea Surf Lifesaving Club, hosted once again by the brilliant Brian Nankervis as MC and Quiz Master. Tables book out fast, so get in early. The night includes dinner and a drink on arrival.

In Conversation Kate Grenville

Wednesday November 4
Gasworks Creative Precinct
6pm / 60 mins
$25

Multi award-winning author Kate Grenville joins journalist and Sorrento Writers Festival Director Corrie Perkin for a discussion about The Country School Master: A Mystery in 88 Letters’

In Conversation: Peter FitzSimons

Wednesday November 11
South Yarra Toorak Library
6pm / 60 mins
$25

The epic true story of George Mallory and Edmund Hillary and the quest to be the first to conquer Everest is the topic of Peter FitzSimons’ new history book. We are delighted Peter is joining us as part of his national book launch tour.

Lunch with Paul Bangay

Friday December 4
Sorrento Sailing Couta Boat Club
12pm / 180 mins
$110

Sorrento Writers Festival invites you to a special early Summer lunch with Australia’s best-known garden designer and author Paul Bangay. Our event will celebrate Paul’s new book Diary of an English Garden, which has just arrived in bookshops. Over lunch, Paul will discuss with Festival Director Corrie Perkin his journey with an old Cotswold property and the garden he built from scratch. We hope you can join us.

Festival 2027 Launch Drinks

Thursday January 7
The Continental Sorrento
5pm / 90 mins
$110

The Board and Staff of Sorrento Writers Festival invite you to join us for Summer drinks on The Conti’s Sunset Terrace to launch our 2027 Season