After collapse and controversy, Adelaide writers’ week has a new director: ‘I don’t envy anyone in this position’
disinvited the Palestinian-Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/08/adelaide-writers-week-dumps-prominent-academic-randa-abdel-fattah-over-cultural-sensitivity-concerns-after-bondi-attack-ntwnfb) over past comments she’d made about Israel and Zionism. This decision resulted not in a quieter, less-controversial