I have never met Craig Silvey and can't recall ever having spotted him at anything and it occurs to me that in itself is interesting and perhaps a red flag. He seems, to me, to have never been part of the literature scene and I have heard he never really engaged with or hung out with other authors.

If you have been reading Craig Silvey's children's books to your kids here's how to talk to your kids about the allegations he is facing.

Here's some proof that Zionism is a political movement if you needed some.

And Blakfullas led the way, Aboriginally, over the last 2 to 3 weeks in making sure this came to light while most other folks saw an ochre painted fulla in the bush as "oh yeah, that's Aboriginal" 😵‍💫 Mob smelt that goona a mile away. #Mobsky

What, and I can't say this emphatically enough, the fuck?

Adelaide Festival board has retracted their statement of 8 January and have an extended an invite to Randa Abdel-Fattah for the 2027 Writers' Week

"We commit to the curatorial independence of the Director of Adelaide Writers’ Week while noting the Board’s overarching responsibility for a well-delivered event of the highest quality." Let's hope this is a genuine change upon reflection on their mistakes. glamadelaide.com.au/adelaide-fes...

Every day is indeed Transphobes Are Trash Day. Trans people are just trying to live their lives like anyone else and, frankly, it's fucking WEIRD how obsessed some people are considering the existence of trans people has exactly zero impact on their hate-filled lives.

If you wanted to read something by Craig Silvey but can't get it from the bookshop because they have been pulled from the shelves there are many books out there by actual Indigenous authors to replace Jasper Jones and plenty by actual trans authors to replace Honeybee.

I am so very tired. Here’s more on the debacle that tanked Adelaide Writers Week, and the staggering racism involved. sakr.substack.com/p/resignatio...

Yeah. And now Twitter fascists are successfully making this something “the trans community” did because Silvey wrote a book with a trans protagonist

If you wanted to read something by Craig Silvey but can't get it from the bookshop because they have been pulled from the shelves there are many books out there by actual Indigenous authors to replace Jasper Jones and plenty by actual trans authors to replace Honeybee.

Right, @albomp.bsky.social? #auspol #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust

It's really hard to concentrate on my novel when the world is going to shit and Australia has overlapping literary scandals.

Bookstores pull Craig Silvey's work in response to child exploitation material charges: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-14/fallout-author-craig-silvey-child-exploitation-material-charges/106226632

Burn

WE HAVEN'T EVEN HAD TIME TO RESET THE "DAYS SINCE AN AUSTRALIAN LITERARY SCANDAL" COUNTER YET

This.

The thing about Craig Silvey is that he made his career in Morrisons Australia, he was repeatedly told by the community, don't write stories that use Aboriginal, Trans, Viet characters in a way that wasn't authentic, in a way that centred and benefited himself as a white male straight author.

Great to see the Streisand Effect doing good in the world

Maybe Jasper Jones will finally be replaced on WA school curricula by a book by an Aboriginal author.

If he is guilty this is horrific. www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

8/ Haaretz [Reuters]: 'Inspired' by the SA Premier/Adelaide Festival Board's statement, 'Abdel-Fattah wrote on social media that she did not accept the apology, saying she had nothing to do with the Bondi attack, "nor did any Palestinian."' www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Adelaide Writers Festival deep in the ‘find out’ phase of ‘Fuck around’.

The Adelaide Festival board PR release paraphrased: We don't understand -writers -books -festivals -the arts -audience -what our job is -how to resist interference -the gravity of our mistake -how to apologise. So we've obliterated Writers' Week & left the whole Adelaide Festival boardless, byeeee.

What I want to know is this: If a white christian committed a "terrorist" attack would there be calls to ban all white christians from all public discourse? Would those campaigns to cancel an entire ethnicity from society be taken seriously? Your answer to this is very important.

Adelaide Writers Week 2026 has been cancelled and the entire Adelaide Festival board has resigned. I would like to note that the board has not apologized to Dr Randa Abdel Fattah for cancelling her from the line up but only for how it was "represented". A new board has been appointed.

Oh no What a shame Anyway, what were we talking about?

I mean lol

Sure, be vegan if you want to but stop pushing it on other people. Eating a balanced diet that includes meat is healthier and I choose to eat healthy. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Few words. My @smh @theage cartoon

This here is truth

This is pretty good not gonna lie.

I was not invited to Adelaide Writers Week this year or I would have joined the boycott. Please support the writers who have taken a stand and boycotted AWW. Buy their books, platform their voices. Taking a stand against bigotry is risky and the careers of writers are always precarious.

There's something deeply unedifying and hypocritical about a government that's just banned kids from social media choosing to maintain a presence on the social media platform whose AI churns out sexualised images of children. #auspol

The vanadlism of AWW (and AF) shows why creative festival boards MUST have creatives as board members. Politicians and airport managers don't understand why these festivals are so important, and why people queue to hear an author talk about a beloved book. They've shown no respect 🤬 #auspol

I can scarcely believe the mask has already fallen off Musk. His white nationalism is out there for the world to see yet people still support Xitter and buy Teslas. Is it too hard for you to fight white nationalism when capitalism and your convenience is on the line? Is that it?

“AWW is the canary in the coalmine. Friends and colleagues in the arts, beware of the future. They are coming for you.”

🙌 Thank you, Louise Adler. I hate that the bullies were successful, but once the fix was in, I suppose it was always going to end this way. Time for some quality alone time with a pile of good books #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Louise is fierce and I support her entirely

'But, let’s be quite clear, the routine invocation of “safety” is code for “I don’t want to hear your opinion”. In this instance, it appears to apply only to a Palestinian invitee.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Sublime.

I don't hate anybody. I am political but far from being an extremist. If you harm our cultural institutions or try and restrict the freedoms of artists to say what we need to say and make the art we need to make you have made me your fucking enemy.

I hope the WOMADelaide musicians have as much courage and conviction as Adelaide Writers Week authors.

This

"You tried to stop this catastrophe back when we actually had a chance of preventing it, so I guess I'll grant that you were right, but I'll also call you hysterical and premature."

"Libs": This will be bad, Trump is a fascistic grifter MAGA: You're just being hysterical! Vote Trump "Libs": You will be so embarrassed when you find out we were right * 2 years later MAGA: The hysterical libs were right why didn't we listen?

BREAKING: Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife has made a “transformational” donation to the LGBTQ+ advocacy group. This large gift comes just months after the Trump administration shut down counseling services for queer youth. My latest for @wired.com:

It would be lovely to imagine that pressure from authors will lead to a reversal of the stupid decision by Adelaide Festival to cancel Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah's appearance and everything will be OK but it's too late for that. The reputational harm to the festival will be generational.

In case you were curious how far he’s fallen, Musk has demonitized his baby mama Ashley St Clair because she objected to Grok posting child p*rnography