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Volunteer applications for the 2025 Festival are open!
Thank you for your interest in joining our team of wonderful volunteers. We are now recruiting 300 volunteers to assist in various roles at the 2025 Sydney Writers’ Festival.
Please read our 2025 Volunteer Application Guide before you fill out your application. The guide explains the different types of events we have at the Festival, the roles you can take on as a volunteer, how your roster is decided based on your date, time and location availability, and what happens after you apply.
It will take about 10 minutes to complete your application online and you will need to know your availability throughout the 11-day period from Monday 19 May – Thursday 29 May 2025.
Note: The busiest days will be Thursday 22, Friday 23, Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 May. Applicants who are available on all four days will be given first preference in the roster allocation.
Volunteer applications close at midnight on Thursday 30 January.
“There is joy in seeing writers, participants and Festival-goers happy and satisfied, stimulated and excited! The range of people you meet, work with and mix with is just awesome and you learn from it every year. It’s just an all-round positive experience and there’s nothing like it!”
“I have enjoyed contributing to a cultural highlight of the city with people who are just as excited as I am about mixing with interesting thinkers, readers, and writers. The buzz of the volunteers is infectious, and I always look forward to catching up with volunteers I've worked with before and then making new friends.”