What's On

    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.

    To see what’s coming up, check this page,  sign up to our e-news and stay in touch with us via Instagram at @sorrentowritersfestival

    Don’t You Dare…
    Don’t You Dare… is a day-long series of panel discussions designed to spark ideas and to help guests imagine (or re-imagine) their businesses and working lives.
     
    Join some of Victoria’s finest creative and entrepreneurial minds as they discuss the moment when they actually dared to take a professional and/or personal leap forward that forever changed their lives.
     
    The day will finish with a live podcast recording of Don’t Shoot the Messenger with Caroline Wilson and Corrie Perkin.
     
    Thursday, September 11

    Blairgowrie Yacht Club

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    Understanding Donald Trump’s America

    The next Sorrento Writers Festival Political Lunch welcomes Dr Emma Shortis and Bruce Wolpe and we invite you to join us for what promises to be a fascinating lunch discussion
    How do Australians feel about America in 2025?

    And how does America – more precisely, Donald Trump and his administration – feel about us?

    Friday, September 12, 12pm -2.30pm
    The Baths, 3278 Point Nepean Road, Sorrento

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    Heather Rose: In Conversation

    Award-winning author Heather Rose will discuss her new novel with Festival Director Corrie Perkin. The story behind A Great Act of Love, an epic family drama that moves from the French Revolution of the late 1700s to London, New York, and then an epic voyage to Tasmania.

    Monday, October 20, 6-7pm
    Toorak/South Yarra Library
    340 Toorak Road, South Yarra

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    The Life Writing Workshop 2025

    This two-day dynamic workshop is for people who want to tell stories about their own lives, or the lives of other people…. With playwright Hannie Rayson and historian, author and director Michael Cathcart will return to Sorrento in October to run another two-day life writing workshop.

    Thursday, October 23 and Friday, October 24, 9am-4pm
     The Hotham Room, Hotel Sorrento

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