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Welcome to the Sydney Writers' Festival website! We want to make sure you have the best experience possible on our website, so we’ve made a suite of short and helpful guides in case you need help navigating it.
You can add events to your cart from many different pages on the site. Anywhere you see an “Add to cart” button, you can use that to add events into your cart.
You can find the “Add to cart” button:
On the program list view
When you roll your mouse over an event in the calendar view of the program
On an event page
To add an event to your cart, click the “Add to cart” button. The button will change to say “Added to Cart” and a tick will appear in place of the shopping trolley. In the menu side bar on the right hand side of the page, a blue number should appear corresponding to the number of events you have in your cart.
Once you’ve added all the events you want to attend into your cart, you can then build out your order by selecting which reserve you want to be in, how many tickets you want and what ticket type you’re after.
Click on the trolley in the right hand menu. It will bring up your cart.
Then, click on “Select venue section”.
Select which section you’d like tickets in, and then the number of Adult and Concession tickets you’d like.
If you have a promo code, you can add it on the right hand corner of the page that comes up once you’ve hit “Checkout”.
Your cart will automatically add up your total, applying any multipack discounts you may receive for booking tickets to 4 or more events across the Festival and adding the booking fee.
If you wish to remove tickets or events from your cart, simply click on the bin symbol.
Once you have added all your events to your cart, click “Checkout” to head into the transaction pathway and fill in your details to pay and have your tickets delivered to you.
Follow the prompts through the transaction pathway and voila! You’ve booked your tickets to the 2026 Sydney Writers’ Festival. We can’t wait to see you there.
If you’re having difficulties booking tickets or browsing the site, please contact our box office team for assistance on (02) 9256 4200 or [email protected].