Outgoing Adelaide Writers’ Week director Laura Kroetsch to take up role with Tasmania’s winter solstice festival Dark Mofo

LAURA Kroetsch, the outgoing director of Adelaide Writers’ Week, has been appointed a director of Tasmania’s Dark Mofo winter solstice festival.

Laura Kroetsch

LAURA Kroetsch, the outgoing director of Adelaide Writers’ Week, has been appointed a director of Tasmania’s Dark Mofo winter solstice festival.

As The Advertiser reported exclusively last week, Kroetsch will leave the Writers’ Festival after the 2018 event in March, after seven years as its director.

Kroetsch would not comment on her departure beyond a prepared statement approved by the Adelaide Festival Board.

On Friday it was announced she will take up the role of program director for a new literature, film and ideas event at Dark Mofo called ‘Dark and Dangerous Thoughts’.

The festival will take place next June.

Dark Mofo Director Leigh Carmichael said the festival was “delighted” Kroetsch would be joining the team.

“We’ll be asking her to draw on her wealth of experience as we program some of the more challenging and dangerous ideas being discussed in the twenty-first century,” Carmichael said.

“We’ll be looking at a broad range of issues, but it’s unlikely we’ll stray too far from the core themes of f***ing and killing.”

Kroetsch said she was "thrilled to be joining Dark Mofo, a festival that values independent thinking”.

Before taking up her role at the Adelaide Writers’ Week, Kroetsch ran the Writers & Readers festival at the New Zealand International Arts Festival.