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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.
If you navigate to the Program page, you will see a heading that says “Calendar”.
When you click “Calendar” you will be taken to an interactive timetable layout of our program.
You can also find this by clicking on the sandwich menu on the right hand side. This brings up a blue menu page. Under Program, you can find a link labelled “View as Calendar” which will take you to the interactive timetable.
You can scroll down the page to travel through each day’s program. During the Festival, there are many events in different venues at once, you can also drag the calendar across to the right to see more venues. To do this, left click on a blank space in the Calendar and drag your mouse to the left. The times will remain on the left hand side when you move across the calendar.
To view more details about an event from the Calendar, roll your mouse over the event block. When you do this, it will expand, giving you more information about the event, as well as the option to bookmark the event or add it to your cart to purchase.
If you select “Bookmark”, the event will be added to your bookmarks and the event block will change colour, allowing you to easily see any events you are interested in that may clash.
You can also add events to your cart from this page. Click the “Add to cart” button to add events to your cart. You can follow our How to add events to your cart article for guidance through this process.
The Calendar view appears best on desktop, as it takes up quite a wide screen. If using on mobile, please turn your phone to landscape to have the best experience. During the Festival week, you could bookmark all the events you have tickets to on your mobile device and access the calendar view. This should help you navigate your day at the Festival.
One last thing – the Calendar view does not contain all our Neighbourhood events that happen across the city during the Festival. To find a list of these, you can click the “Learn more” link at the top of the page after Looking for Neighbourhood Events?
Happy browsing!
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].