🙏🏽 to so many writers withdrawing from WritersWeek in solidarity with Dr Abdel-Fattah & against racism & discrimination. This grave error (backed by the Premier!) is 💔. It must be reversed. We need these spaces for talk like never before. First they came for the artists…
January 11, 2026 at 8:45 AM
🙏🏽 to so many writers withdrawing from WritersWeek in solidarity with Dr Abdel-Fattah & against racism & discrimination. This grave error (backed by the Premier!) is 💔. It must be reversed. We need these spaces for talk like never before. First they came for the artists…
January 11, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Peter Malinauskas needs to resign. This is unacceptable from a Premier. #auspol #SA #WritersWeek @australianlabor.bsky.social @PMalinauskasMP #SALabor
January 13, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Peter Malinauskas needs to resign. This is unacceptable from a Premier. #auspol #SA #WritersWeek @australianlabor.bsky.social @PMalinauskasMP #SALabor
New SA licence plates coming soon. Replacing ‘SA the Festival State’ will be ‘SA the Zionist Enclave’ or ‘SA the genocide apologist state’. Order now.
#auspol #Malinauskas @australianlabor.bsky.social #WritersWeek #Adelaidefestival #AdelaideWritersWeek
#auspol #Malinauskas @australianlabor.bsky.social #WritersWeek #Adelaidefestival #AdelaideWritersWeek
January 10, 2026 at 8:49 PM
New SA licence plates coming soon. Replacing ‘SA the Festival State’ will be ‘SA the Zionist Enclave’ or ‘SA the genocide apologist state’. Order now.
#auspol #Malinauskas @australianlabor.bsky.social #WritersWeek #Adelaidefestival #AdelaideWritersWeek
#auspol #Malinauskas @australianlabor.bsky.social #WritersWeek #Adelaidefestival #AdelaideWritersWeek
The right decision @australiainstitute.org.au
As a local I’ve attended #AdelaideFestival events & #WritersWeek for decades. This appalling & cowardly #censorship is untenable. Myself & my family will no longer buy tickets, attend or donate until the Board resigns
#Auspol #SAparli #Boycott
As a local I’ve attended #AdelaideFestival events & #WritersWeek for decades. This appalling & cowardly #censorship is untenable. Myself & my family will no longer buy tickets, attend or donate until the Board resigns
#Auspol #SAparli #Boycott
January 8, 2026 at 6:13 AM
The right decision @australiainstitute.org.au
As a local I’ve attended #AdelaideFestival events & #WritersWeek for decades. This appalling & cowardly #censorship is untenable. Myself & my family will no longer buy tickets, attend or donate until the Board resigns
#Auspol #SAparli #Boycott
As a local I’ve attended #AdelaideFestival events & #WritersWeek for decades. This appalling & cowardly #censorship is untenable. Myself & my family will no longer buy tickets, attend or donate until the Board resigns
#Auspol #SAparli #Boycott
Seated for the Crimes Against Hunanity talk ft. Geoffry Robertson lecture at #WritersWeek in Adelaide, should be interesting
March 2, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Seated for the Crimes Against Hunanity talk ft. Geoffry Robertson lecture at #WritersWeek in Adelaide, should be interesting
Spill over crowd at Adelaide Writers Week for Australia’s Carbon Capture: Releasing Fossil Fuels’ Grip on Our Democracy with
Ross Garnaut @sarahhansonyoung.bsky.social Polly Hemming and Royce Kurmelovs.
#writersweek #Adelaide #adlww
Ross Garnaut @sarahhansonyoung.bsky.social Polly Hemming and Royce Kurmelovs.
#writersweek #Adelaide #adlww
March 2, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Spill over crowd at Adelaide Writers Week for Australia’s Carbon Capture: Releasing Fossil Fuels’ Grip on Our Democracy with
Ross Garnaut @sarahhansonyoung.bsky.social Polly Hemming and Royce Kurmelovs.
#writersweek #Adelaide #adlww
Ross Garnaut @sarahhansonyoung.bsky.social Polly Hemming and Royce Kurmelovs.
#writersweek #Adelaide #adlww
Great talk today at Adelaide’s #WritersWeek with @barbarapocock.bsky.social and @richarddenniss.bsky.social
on Big Ideas.
Proud to support the Australia institutes work.
#kaurna
on Big Ideas.
Proud to support the Australia institutes work.
#kaurna
March 1, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Great talk today at Adelaide’s #WritersWeek with @barbarapocock.bsky.social and @richarddenniss.bsky.social
on Big Ideas.
Proud to support the Australia institutes work.
#kaurna
on Big Ideas.
Proud to support the Australia institutes work.
#kaurna
#WritersFestival #Malinauskas #AdelaideWritersWeek #WritersWeek. This is what you support. #Auspol #ZionistInfluence
January 11, 2026 at 10:46 AM
#WritersFestival #Malinauskas #AdelaideWritersWeek #WritersWeek. This is what you support. #Auspol #ZionistInfluence
Sad to see Louise Adler resign from Chair of #Adelaide #WritersWeek but given her principled position on free speech, had no other option. Expecting decision 2026 AWW will be canceled
January 13, 2026 at 12:09 AM
Sad to see Louise Adler resign from Chair of #Adelaide #WritersWeek but given her principled position on free speech, had no other option. Expecting decision 2026 AWW will be canceled
Agreed👇. Shame, shame, shame, the Board of
#AdelaideFestival #SAparli #AdelaideWritersWeek
Have attended ADL festival events & #WritersWeek for decades. This appalling & cowardly #censorship is untenable. We will not buy tickets, attend or donate until the Board resigns
#Auspol #SAparli #Boycott
#AdelaideFestival #SAparli #AdelaideWritersWeek
Have attended ADL festival events & #WritersWeek for decades. This appalling & cowardly #censorship is untenable. We will not buy tickets, attend or donate until the Board resigns
#Auspol #SAparli #Boycott
#AdelaideFestival we won’t be going to Writers Week or any Adelaide Festival event. You won’t be having any of our money if you censor speakers.
January 8, 2026 at 5:39 AM
Agreed👇. Shame, shame, shame, the Board of
#AdelaideFestival #SAparli #AdelaideWritersWeek
Have attended ADL festival events & #WritersWeek for decades. This appalling & cowardly #censorship is untenable. We will not buy tickets, attend or donate until the Board resigns
#Auspol #SAparli #Boycott
#AdelaideFestival #SAparli #AdelaideWritersWeek
Have attended ADL festival events & #WritersWeek for decades. This appalling & cowardly #censorship is untenable. We will not buy tickets, attend or donate until the Board resigns
#Auspol #SAparli #Boycott
They’ve “unpublished” the lineup, but it still says there were / are 123 speakers. #AdelaideFestival #WritersWeek #apartheid
January 9, 2026 at 5:52 AM
They’ve “unpublished” the lineup, but it still says there were / are 123 speakers. #AdelaideFestival #WritersWeek #apartheid
Super excited to announce this year’s dates for the unforgettable celebration of written word that is Listowel Writers’ Week...we’re back!!! 🙌🏻
#LWW25 #listowel #savethedate #writersweek #kerry
@stjohnstheatre.bsky.social @mairelogue.bsky.social
#LWW25 #listowel #savethedate #writersweek #kerry
@stjohnstheatre.bsky.social @mairelogue.bsky.social
March 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Super excited to announce this year’s dates for the unforgettable celebration of written word that is Listowel Writers’ Week...we’re back!!! 🙌🏻
#LWW25 #listowel #savethedate #writersweek #kerry
@stjohnstheatre.bsky.social @mairelogue.bsky.social
#LWW25 #listowel #savethedate #writersweek #kerry
@stjohnstheatre.bsky.social @mairelogue.bsky.social
Thank you so much @janecaro.bsky.social for your solidarity with Randa Abdel-Fattah.
Thank you for standing up to Islamophobia, racism and authoritarianism.
It takes guts.
But if authoritarianism is unresisted, it grows.
As an Adelaide resident I am greatful you are boycotting #WritersWeek.
Thank you for standing up to Islamophobia, racism and authoritarianism.
It takes guts.
But if authoritarianism is unresisted, it grows.
As an Adelaide resident I am greatful you are boycotting #WritersWeek.
My statement regarding my decision to withdraw from this year’s Adelaide Writers Festival.
January 8, 2026 at 11:12 AM
Thank you so much @janecaro.bsky.social for your solidarity with Randa Abdel-Fattah.
Thank you for standing up to Islamophobia, racism and authoritarianism.
It takes guts.
But if authoritarianism is unresisted, it grows.
As an Adelaide resident I am greatful you are boycotting #WritersWeek.
Thank you for standing up to Islamophobia, racism and authoritarianism.
It takes guts.
But if authoritarianism is unresisted, it grows.
As an Adelaide resident I am greatful you are boycotting #WritersWeek.
Time Peter #Malinauskus 2025 admitted that he screwed #Adelaide #WritersWeek 2026 up. Should have listened to Peter Malinauskus 2023.
Still shaking my head that Malinauskus, after pressuring the board for months to cancel Abdel-Fattah, had the effrontery to add:
“The people who run this festival, which is the board … have got this into a pretty awful situation.”
nickfeik.substack.com/p/the-implos...
“The people who run this festival, which is the board … have got this into a pretty awful situation.”
nickfeik.substack.com/p/the-implos...
The implosion of Adelaide Writers’ Week
An autopsy of a festival
nickfeik.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Time Peter #Malinauskus 2025 admitted that he screwed #Adelaide #WritersWeek 2026 up. Should have listened to Peter Malinauskus 2023.
Please join me at Noon on 29th May at writersweek for the launch of my debut novel, IN THE DESERT at Listowel library (Civic Centre V31HT92) with Noel O'Regan.
FREE
FREE
May 2, 2026 at 10:42 AM
Please join me at Noon on 29th May at writersweek for the launch of my debut novel, IN THE DESERT at Listowel library (Civic Centre V31HT92) with Noel O'Regan.
FREE
FREE
#AdelaideWritersWeek 2026 has now been cancelled, and the entire #AdelaideFestival board is resigning (other than the council’s rep whose term expires in three weeks).
#ENDZIONISM #AUSPOL #Zionism #SAParli #WritersWeek #Zionists #Israel
#ENDZIONISM #AUSPOL #Zionism #SAParli #WritersWeek #Zionists #Israel
January 13, 2026 at 4:35 AM
#AdelaideWritersWeek 2026 has now been cancelled, and the entire #AdelaideFestival board is resigning (other than the council’s rep whose term expires in three weeks).
#ENDZIONISM #AUSPOL #Zionism #SAParli #WritersWeek #Zionists #Israel
#ENDZIONISM #AUSPOL #Zionism #SAParli #WritersWeek #Zionists #Israel
Happy faces on Day 3 Listowel Literary Festival #LLF25 📚#books next up @johnboynebooks.bsky.social at 6.30pm #speirgorm #writersweek #blueskybooks @mairelogue.bsky.social @stjohnstheatre.bsky.social @writersweek.bsky.social @museumsassociation.org @kerrygroup.bsky.social #writers
May 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Happy faces on Day 3 Listowel Literary Festival #LLF25 📚#books next up @johnboynebooks.bsky.social at 6.30pm #speirgorm #writersweek #blueskybooks @mairelogue.bsky.social @stjohnstheatre.bsky.social @writersweek.bsky.social @museumsassociation.org @kerrygroup.bsky.social #writers
Waiting for analysis of writers who didn’t/hadn’t yet withdrawn from
#Adelaide #WritersWeek @instanterudite.bsky.social
#Adelaide #WritersWeek @instanterudite.bsky.social
January 14, 2026 at 6:42 AM
Waiting for analysis of writers who didn’t/hadn’t yet withdrawn from
#Adelaide #WritersWeek @instanterudite.bsky.social
#Adelaide #WritersWeek @instanterudite.bsky.social
What odds are the bookies offering on the Adelaide Festival's Writers' Week being canned completely? Genuine question. Found a few bob in an old jacket pocket. #writersweek #AdelaideFestival
January 11, 2026 at 5:17 AM
What odds are the bookies offering on the Adelaide Festival's Writers' Week being canned completely? Genuine question. Found a few bob in an old jacket pocket. #writersweek #AdelaideFestival
…aaand again, #Malinauskas demonstrates his supreme belief in Malinauskas. At least more see him for what many SA folk already knew. Sadly though, little #SAvotes opposition. I’ll still vote @greens.org.au & non-bigot Indies first #SAparli #Auspol #AdelaideArtsFestival #WritersWeek
SA Premier Malinauskas, reflecting on the Adelaide Writers' Festival debacle:
"I just hope in future everyone might take stock, assess [sic] themselves of the facts before jumping to conclusions"
He wasn't referring to himself - "I would do it again".
"I just hope in future everyone might take stock, assess [sic] themselves of the facts before jumping to conclusions"
He wasn't referring to himself - "I would do it again".
January 28, 2026 at 1:17 AM
…aaand again, #Malinauskas demonstrates his supreme belief in Malinauskas. At least more see him for what many SA folk already knew. Sadly though, little #SAvotes opposition. I’ll still vote @greens.org.au & non-bigot Indies first #SAparli #Auspol #AdelaideArtsFestival #WritersWeek
Great IV, demonstrates once again why politics should stay the hell out of arts. Using coercive power to sway an “independent” board always, always ends in tears. #Auspol #writersweek
January 12, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Great IV, demonstrates once again why politics should stay the hell out of arts. Using coercive power to sway an “independent” board always, always ends in tears. #Auspol #writersweek
WritersWeek in Listowel for 24 hours
May 31, 2025 at 4:08 PM
WritersWeek in Listowel for 24 hours