Sydney Writers Festival Archives – J-Wire https://www.jwire.com.au/tag/sydney-writers-festival/ Australia, NZ and worldwide Jewish news that matters Wed, 18 Feb 2026 11:02:10 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 6446428 Author Randa Abdel-Fattah to appear at Sydney Writers Festival https://www.jwire.com.au/author-randa-abdel-fattah-to-appear-at-sydney-writers-festival/ https://www.jwire.com.au/author-randa-abdel-fattah-to-appear-at-sydney-writers-festival/#comments Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:48:58 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=177767 Palestinian-Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah will appear at the Sydney Writers’ Festival, Australia’s largest writers’ event. Her removal from Adelaide Writers’ Week sparked a major controversy, prompting organisers to defend their commitment to free expression and leading to the withdrawal of numerous authors and the eventual cancellation of the festival. Sydney Writers’ Festival confirmed today that […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/author-randa-abdel-fattah-to-appear-at-sydney-writers-festival/feed/ 1 177767 Sydney Writers’ Festival faces backlash over Israel-Palestine programming https://www.jwire.com.au/sydney-writers-festival-faces-backlash-over-israel-palestine-programming/ https://www.jwire.com.au/sydney-writers-festival-faces-backlash-over-israel-palestine-programming/#comments Sun, 16 Mar 2025 13:27:48 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=167278 Despite festival organisers insisting that their programming is not politically motivated, the programme for this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) is overwhelmingly dominated by anti-Israel speakers. Festival artistic director Ann Mossop claims the event is not a “political festival” and that speakers were not chosen “based on political beliefs, but on their work,” however the […]

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