{"id":1211,"date":"2026-01-13T02:21:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T02:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/louise-adler-resigns-as-director-of-adelaide-writers-week\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T02:21:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T02:21:28","slug":"louise-adler-resigns-as-director-of-adelaide-writers-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/louise-adler-resigns-as-director-of-adelaide-writers-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Louise Adler resigns as director of Adelaide writers\u2019 week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Writing for Guardian Australia, Adler says she \u2018cannot be party to silencing writers\u2019 after Adelaide festival board cancelled Randa Abdel-Fattah\u2019s invitation to appearLouise Adler: I cannot be party to silencing writers, which is why I am resigning as director of Adelaide writers\u2019 weekPeter Greste: If we silence voices we don\u2019t agree with, we\u2019re doing the work of extremists for themFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe director of Adelaide writers\u2019 week, Louise Adler, has resigned after the board of the Adelaide festival announced it had dumped the Palestinian Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah from the literary event.\u201cI cannot be party to silencing writers, so with a heavy heart I am resigning from my role as the director of the AWW,\u201d said Adler, one of Australia\u2019s most influential literary figures. Continue reading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Writing for Guardian Australia, Adler says she \u2018cannot be party to silencing writers\u2019 after Adelaide festival board cancelled Randa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}