DUBAI: The Adelaide Writers’ Week 2026, a milestone event in the Australian literary calendar, has been cancelled after more than 180 authors and speakers dropped out in protest at the decision to disinvite the Palestinian-Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah.
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The Adelaide festival board announced that the event, which was scheduled to begin on Feb. 28, would no longer go ahead.
According to The Guardian on Tuesday, all the members of the board have resigned, with the exception of the Adelaide city council representative, whose term expires in February.
The decision to cancel the AWW entirely came five days after the board announced it had dropped Abdel-Fattah, citing “cultural sensitivities” after an attack at Bondi Beach, that resulted in the death of several people, including Jews.
