Louise Adler and Randa Abdel-Fattah headline rebel Adelaide literary festival

Cancelled Palestinian author to speak in Adelaide after all

Randa Abdel-Fattah will headline a “guerilla” writers’ week, in conversation with departed Writers’ Week director Louise Adler.

Louise Adler and Randa Abdel-Fattah headline rebel Adelaide literary festival

A rebel literary festival created in direct response to the cancellation of Adelaide Writers’ Week will feature the two women at the centre of the major event’s implosion.

Breaking: Randa Abdel-Fattah to appear at Adelaide literary event in March

Palestinian Australian author, lawyer and activist Randa Abdel-Fattah will be appearing at the one-off literary event organised to fill the void left by the cancellation of this year's Adelaide Writers' Week, organisers have announced.

Randa Abdel-Fattah's Discipline: Literature as Agit-Prop

A review of Discipline by Randa Abdel-Fattah, 256 pages, University of Queensland Press (September 2025).In all the millions of words written about Randa Abdel-Fattah and her wild ride at Adelaide Writers’ Week—from ex-invitee for 2026 to sole invitee for 2027—one point appears to have been overlooked. Abdel-Fattah was invited to Adelaide not as a pro-Palestinian activist, but as the author of a new novel called Discipline. In the headlong rush …