Saturday 30 May + Sunday 31 May

Now across three venues!

The Weekend Pass entitles you to 8 author talks from a choice of 24 across the Weekend Pass Program from Saturday 30 – Sunday 31 May.

How to book

Select your Weekend Pass and Create an Account to make it easier to log in and redeem your sessions later. (You can also proceed as a Guest).

Sessions can be redeemed using the Pass Code in the Invoice emailed to you upon purchase (i.e. ‘123456ABC’).

Once our Weekend Pass program is released on March 25, you will be prompted to apply your Pass Code to Redeem the sessions you’d like to attend. 

(Early Bird Pass Holders will be able to redeem their sessions one day ahead).

Wednesday 27 May

Sit in for an evening of stirring words from five of our country’s finest thinkers at the 2026 Words on the Waves Writers Festival Opening Address.

Reflecting on the 2026 festival theme Take the Time, this exciting event will be hosted by:

Former leader of the Australian Greens, trailblazing environmentalist Bob Brown;
Multi-New York Times and Amazon best-selling writer Sarah Wilson;
Booker-shortlisted author of A Fraction of the Whole, Steve Toltz;
Indigenous knowledge leader and founder of the Firesticks Alliance, Victor Steffensen, and;
Viral social media sensation, Jack Toohey.

Each will share their urgent and heartfelt messages on why it’s more important than ever to ‘take the time’; to sit with a complex truth, to consider a view not your own, to indulge in imaginative curiosity. And most importantly, we can commit the rebellious act of reading, and really thinking.

Note: Ticket sales to our Opening Address are made via The Art House Wyong.