Subhead:Festival faces backlash over its decision to feature Tame despite controversy surrounding her denial of October 7 sexual assaults and a growing public backlash.# YouTube-embed:uzJ2Y9fGar0 Grace Tame’s scheduled appearance at the Melbourne Writers Festival has sparked backlash following her denial of October 7 rape incidents and her inclusion in a panel discussing “women who win”. A program for the event scheduled from May 7 to 10 promotes “a fierce, unflinching celebration of grit, guts and glorious defiance” featuring journalist Antoinette Lattouf and Grace Tame on May 9 at the Athenaeum Theatre. The festival says: “Lattouf and Tame come together to share their experiences as women who defied expectations and shattered cultural and legal barriers”. Tame copped backlash after told the ABC: “I’m not going to sink to the level of … entertaining any kind of propaganda,” after saying claims about sexual assault during the October 7 attacks had been “debunked”.