Louise Adler
Randa Abdel-Fattah sells out Sydney Writers’ Festival appearance
The academic was sensationally dumped from Adelaide Writers’ Week in January, sending the festival into meltdown. Her Sydney appearance has already sold out.
- John Buckley
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Randa Abdel-Fattah to feature in Australia’s biggest literary festival
The announcement comes just weeks after the Adelaide Writers’ Week event collapsed following a mass boycott when the Palestinian-Australian academic was dumped from the program.
- Linda Morris
Louise Adler and Randa Abdel-Fattah headline rebel Adelaide literary festival
A rebel literary festival created in direct response to the cancellation of Adelaide Writers’ Week will feature the two women at the centre of the major event’s implosion.
- Kerrie O'Brien
- Opinion
- Political leadership
Trump a reminder that governments should govern, not police
We expect politicians to act within the constraints imposed by that role. With Trump, we have had too much Trump, not enough president.
- Sean Kelly
How Australia’s premier books event went from peak excitement to disaster
A letter from South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas to the Adelaide Festival board detonated like a thunderclap.
- Kerrie O'Brien and Stephen Brook
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- Literature
SA premier disagrees with offer to add ousted writer to festival program
Peter Malinauskas says he does not support Adelaide Festival’s offer to add Randa Abdel-Fattah to the 2027 Adelaide Writers’ Week program a week after it controversially dumped her.
- Kerrie O'Brien
Ex-board member accuses Louise Adler of hypocrisy over NYT writer
Ex-Adelaide Writers’ Week director Louise Adler has been accused by a former Adelaide Festival board member of threatening to quit in 2024 unless the board cancelled an invitation to a New York Times journalist.
- Stephen Brook
Adelaide Writers’ Week cancelled after director quits
The event will not proceed this year following author boycotts and resignations over the decision to dump a Palestinian-Australian writer from the program.
- Kerrie O'Brien
Liberals’ ‘broad church’ has become a pervasive sect
Behind the Liberal banner, reasonableness has been steadily squeezed out and, with supreme irony, the breadth of its ranks has been shrivelled to exclude moderation, pragmatism, compromise and tolerance.
Louise Adler on fear, freedom and the appalling state of public discourse
The head of Adelaide Writers’ Week does not step back from the tough issues – and nor should we, she says.
- Kerrie O'Brien