A major Australian arts festival has been cancelled after days of turmoil that began with the removal of a Palestinian-Australian author and escalated into a mass boycott and a flurry of resignations.
The organisers of the 2026 Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW) announced on Tuesday that the event – a core fixture of Australia’s cultural calendar – would not go ahead, describing the outcome as “deeply regrettable” and apologising to Randa Abdel-Fattah for how its decision to remove her had been represented.
