The Adelaide Festival has appointed a new Writers' Week director after the implosion of this year's event. Rosemarie Milsom founded the Newcastle Writers' Festival and will take over from the former Adelaide event's director Louise Adler. She resigned after the Adelaide Festival controversially dis-invited Palestinian-Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah from the 2026 event over past comments she'd made about Israel and Zionism. It sparked a mass boycott which forced the eventual cancellation of this year's event and the resignation and subsequent replacement of the entire Adelaide Festival board.
