The crisis engulfing Adelaide Writers Week (AWW), following last week’s decision by the Adelaide Festival Board to disinvite Palestinian author and academic Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah, deepened today (13 January), with Director Louise Adler announcing her resignation in an opinion piece in The Guardian.
‘I cannot be party to silencing writers so, with a heavy heart, I am resigning from my role as the director of the AWW. Writers and writing matters, even when they are presenting ideas that discomfort and challenge us,’ she wrote.
