Support us to make the 2025 Sorrento Writers Festival ambitious, exciting and successful
The Sorrento Writers Festival is Victoria’s biggest literary festival. In 2024, more than 5000 visitors heard 190 speakers tackle a raft of issues – from democracy to leadership and partisan politics, to cookbooks, gardening, sport, and understanding the creative writing process.
In 2025 we will present again an exciting and bold program featuring some of Australia’s most respected writers, community leaders, academics and journalists. None of this can be achieved without the support and encouragement of the community we serve. Please support us through donating and partnering to support our mission to bring writers and readers together in a safe and respectful space in which to have meaningful conversations, exchange ideas and spark important conversations
The Sorrento Writers Festival is one of Victora’s newest and most successful cultural and community events. More than 5000 people visited our four-day Festival last year. In 2025 we hope more people will join us in our mission to bring Australian writers and their readers together in a warm, welcoming and mutually-respectful environment, in the beautiful coastal town of Sorrento.
Our Festival:
- Provides spaces where writers and readers can come together to listen to one another, share ideas, be inspired and be uplifted
- Supports writers by promoting their work, discussions, selling their books and supporting their literary ambition
- Enhances learning and understanding
- Embraces diverse voices
- Shares widely via 140+ sessions a vibrant schools program, partner events, media channels and podcasts
- Contributes to Victoria’s regional economy by encouraging visitors to the Mornington Peninsula region for day trips, overnight and weekend stays
- Contributes to literacy and education programs on the Mornington Peninsula. With young people in particular, the promotion of reading, writing and creative interaction with books contributes to their sense of self, their classroom engagement, their curiosity about the world around them, and their interaction with others
How to Give:
You can donate to the Sorrento Writers Festival via our general operations fund, or you can identify a particular programming stream that connects with your own advocacy and interests.
By donating to the Sorrento Writers Festival general fund you will support writers and speakers travel and fees, venue hire costs x 10+ Sorrento sites, and general operations costs
Or you can donate to one particular Festival program stream – or more – that best reflect your interests:
- Primary Schools Program: Prep to Yr 6 for Sorrento Primary School /St Josephs Primary School. More than 12 sessions across two days featuring guest writers, illustrators and creatives who engage the children with their books and reading generally
- Secondary School Program: Two free Shakespeare sessions featuring actors and directors, offered to Rosebud Secondary College and Dromana Secondary College students
- Free access for full-time students under 25 (we have an allocation of 50 subsidised ticket passes @ $50 for 10 sessions
- Free access for all. These free sessions include Writers on Writing (specifically geared toward fiction and non-fiction writers, authors-in-waiting, and anyone interested in writing; The Morning Feed, a daily morning overview of the overnight news headlines featuring some of Australia’s most respected journalists and commentators
- Environment, Mother Nature and global warming sessions
- First Nations programming stream featuring some of Australia’s finest Indigenous writers, commentators, academics and community leaders
- Public journalism, and its role in a vibrant democracy
- Governance, accountability, equality, understanding and good leadership in the workplace, and in government
Please contact [email protected] for further information
How you will be acknowledged
We are grateful to all our donors for investing in us, and for supporting us to sustain and grow our Festival and its programs. Your generosity will underpin our long-term commitment to encourage literacy and learning in our community. You will spark important conversations. You may wish to remain anonymous, or we would be delighted to highlight your names/your family or trust name on our dedicated donor page.
Donors will be acknowledged across our marketing platforms including our website, in our printed and online programs, and on our donor boards to be displayed at the Festival.
Our Donor Categories are:
- Principal: A one-off donation of $25,000+
- Cornerstone: Multi year pledge of $5,000 +pa for 3 years or $15,000 + one off
- Champion: $5,000 – $14,999
- Supporter: $1,000 – $4,999
- Friend: $100 – $999
How to donate
The Sorrento Writers Festival has DGR status, and is registered with the ACNC (Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission). Donations can be made directly and securely to us, through our CRM platform ArtFuel:
Or for other donation options please don’t hesitate to contact us via
[email protected]
All donations over $2 are tax deductable. Please note, all donors will be acknowledged across our marketing platforms including the website. You may remain anonymous, or we would be delighted to highlight your name/your family or trust name on our dedicated donor page.
The Sorrento Festival Committee of Management thanks all our donors for their generous support of our Festival. We welcome discussions with those who would like to financially support as an individual donor, family or via a Private Ancillary Fund or Family Foundation.
Visit sorrentowritersfestival.com.au/support-us/ to learn more or if you would like to discuss your donation or other options please don’t hesitate to contact:
Fiona Poletti
Partnerships and Stakeholders
Sorrento Writers Festival
Partner
By partnering with Sorrento Writers Festival you can benefit your business through a range of bespoke and curated offerings including:
- brand alignment – story telling, advertising, promotion
- new experiences, events and activities for your leadership team, staff and clients
- networking opportunities with like-minded people
- participating in our volunteer program
- giving back to the community
How To Partner
Our team will collaborate with your team to tailor a partnership that meets your business needs and values, while also supporting our goals.
To discuss how you to partner with the Sorrento Writers Festival please contact: [email protected] and one of our team will be in touch.
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How To Volunteer
Thank you for your interest in our Festival Volunteers program. Our applications open in November. Please keep an eye on our e-newsletters and our Instagram account @sorrentowritersfestival, check in with us again in November via this website for volunteers news and updates.
Register To Volunteer
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