Adelaide writers’ week sacrificed to save city’s prestigious arts festival, documents show

Adelaide writers’ week was sacrificed to save the 2026 Adelaide festival , an event that ploughs more than $60m into South Australia’s economy each year, documents show. After the 8 January announcement by the Adelaide festival board that controversial Palestinian Australian academic Randa Abdel-Fattah had been dumped from the AWW program, it wasn’t just fellow Australian and international guest writers and academics who began pulling out in droves . …