428 – Adelaide Writers’ Week in Absentia
In the wake of Adelaide Writers’ Week’s cancellation, Steve Davis revisits two beloved archive episodes, celebrating the craft and commerce of storytelling through the voices of South Australian authors, publishers, and romance writers, closing with an original song written for this particular moment in our cultural life. The white marquees are not going up in the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden this year. Adelaide Writers’ Week, a festival that has graced this city since 1960, was cancelled following a sequence of events set in motion by a disinvitation that drew international condemnation, triggered the resignation of director Louise Adler and nearly the entire board, and ultimately prompted an unreserved apology from a newly constituted board. Community alternatives, including Constellations at the Adelaide Town Hall, have stepped forward to keep the spirit of the festival alive. The Adelaide Show is doing the same, in its own way. There is no SA Drink
