Join our donors and partners circle
Thank you to those private donors, charitable foundations and commercial partners who have supported the Sorrento Writers Festival. Our 2025 four-day program from April 24-27 was big, bold and ambitious. Without your help, we would never have been able to:
- stage more than 170 events, including a schools and family afternoon program
- host 220 writers, community leaders, journalists, commentators and academics and fly them in from around Australia
- bring to Sorrento some of the nation’s finest speakers, including a former prime minister, a former federal treasurer, Walkley and Quill Award-winning journalists, Miles Franklin and Stella Prize winners and shortlisters, plus actors, musicians, radio hosts, editors, directors, illustrators, photographers and artists
- allocate 22,742 tickets
- sell nearly 5000 books
- enable so many local businesses to achieve a 30-60% increase in trade over the Festival weekend
- show support for Australian writers and the wider publishing industry
- strengthen our year-round not-for-profit cultural and community organisation
Please consider donating to the Sorrento Writers Festival. The Festival is the biggest in Victoria and one of the nation’s exciting cultural newcomers. Your generosity will help us cement and build on our reputation. It will allow us to plan the 2026 program with assuredness. And from those four days, we can continue to build exciting year-round program of author events, literary lunches and dinners, schools visits and literacy projects, and finding new opportunities to bring writers and readers together.
The Sorrento Writers Festival has Federal Government DGR status and your financial gift is tax deductable. Just visit https://sorrentowritersfestival.com.au/support-us/ to make your donation and we will issue a tax receipt asap – and with thanks from a grateful community.
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:
- Foundation: A $50,000+ donation
- 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:
Corrie Perkin
Director and CEO
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.
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