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‘It’s not necessarily a bucket of fun’ … Torrey Peters. Photograph: Natasha Gornik The Women’s prize for fiction has issued a strongly worded statement saying that it “deplores any attempts to malign or bully” authors nominated for the prize, after trans novelist Torrey Peters was targeted in an open letter. The US writer, who is nominated for the £30,000 award for her debut novel Detransition, Baby, was t...

Industry Notes: Short Story Awards in Spain and the United Kingdom The Madrid-based Desperate Literature program and the BBC National Short Story Award open submissions and name their 2021 jurors. At Madrid’s Desperate Literature bookshop on the Calle Campomanes. Image: Desperate Literature Short Fiction Week Amid the churn of early-year publishing awards programs and their many announcements, certain swirls and eddies always turn up as various programs’ focal formats cluster together. Thi...