How Adelaide’s writers’ week collapse is shaping Australia’s major literary festivals

The rancour surrounding the implosion of Adelaide Writers’ Week has meant all upcoming festivals in 2026 are risk-checking ...

Adelaide Writers Week canceled as 180 speakers withdraw after the exclusion of a Palestinian writer

The event is a major draw for the state and generated millions of dollars in revenue and hundreds of jobs in 2025.

Adelaide Festival Corporation apologises to Randa Abdel-Fattah over Adelaide Writers' Week call

The Adelaide Festival Corporation, which oversees Adelaide Writers' Week, has apologised to Palestinian Australian author ...

Lessons from the wreck of Adelaide Writers Week

The recent cancellation of the Adelaide Writer’s Week (AWW), and resignation and reinstatement of its Director – Louise Adler ...

‘Masterclass in poor governance’: what was the board’s role in the end of Adelaide Writers Week?

This afternoon, Adelaide Writers Week was cancelled for 2026 – less than a week after Palestinian-Australian writer Randa ...
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Jacinda Ardern quits Adelaide Festival’s Writers’ Week in wake of growing boycott

Former New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern has quit the Adelaide Festival's Writers' Week in the wake of a boycott around the cancellation of Palestinian-Australian academic Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah.

Adelaide Festival Writers’ Week board implodes as backlash grows over dumping of Palestinian author

Australia’s largest literary talkfest is imploding with mass board resignations and speaker boycotts following the dumping of a controversial Palestinian author.
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Australian writers’ festival collapses — and apologizes — after boycott over disinvited Palestinian activist

Louis Adler, a Jewish Australian and the director of Adelaide Writers’ Week, announced her resignation in an op-ed in The ...

Call this social cohesion? The war of words that laid waste to the 2026 Adelaide writers’ festival

How a boardroom flare-up sparked an international boycott – and a looming defamation battle ...

Adelaide Festival retracts statement on Randa Abdel-Fattah, invites her to next writers' week

The Adelaide Festival has retracted a statement it made on Palestinian Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah and has invited ...

Inside the new, gagged Adelaide Festival board appointed after Writers’ Week author controversy

Four respected arts leaders appointed to lead Adelaide Festival’s new board have been barred from speaking publicly about the ...

Adelaide Writers' Week cancelled amid controversy over disinvitation of author Randa Abdel-Fattah

The remaining members of the Adelaide Festival board will step down and this year's Writers' Week event has been cancelled, ...