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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 the subject of a letter published online on Tuesday by the Wild Women Writing Club. The letter, which...

The American author has received hateful blowback since releasing her critically-acclaimed novel, Detransition, Baby. April 07 2021 5:06 PM EDT The day after a group of cisgender women authors released a transphobic open letter condemning the Women's Prize for Fiction for nominating trans female writer Torrey Peters for its annual award, the U.K. organization behind the Women's Prize responded and did not mince words. “The prize is firmly opposed to any form of discrimination on the basis of race, age, sexuality, gender identity and all other protected characteristics, and deplores any a...

Women’s Prize for Fiction: Our top 5 picks from the longlist Looking for some lockdown reading inspiration? You’re in luck; the Women’s Prize for Fiction has just revealed this year’s longlist. The judging panel includes Booker Prize winning author Bernardine Evaristo, journalist Nesrine Malik and Elizabeth Day, author of How To Fail. Evaristo said: “We’re confident that we have chosen 16 standout novels that represent a truly wide and varied range of fiction by women that reflects multiple perspectives, narrative styles and preoccupations. These novels fascinated, moved,...

Siobhan McSweeney, actress. From Aherla in Cork, living in London I am in my flat in London right now, teaching myself embroidery and eating too much. I’m trying to read but ending up watching old episodes of Miss Marple. I was last in Ireland only in January. The Olympia Theatre with Landmark Productions, funded by the Department of Arts, live-streamed Happy Days by Samuel Beckett for one night only with myself and Marty Rae. I was rehearsing in Belfast in December and it meant that I was in the extraordinarily lucky position of being able to spend Christmas Day and Stephen’s Day with m...

With six nationalities represented and six debuts this year, the Women’s Prize for Fiction plans a July winner’s announcement after a shortlist in April. The Women’s Prize for Fiction’s big longlist comprises 16 titles. Image: Women’s Prize An Award Program in Its 26th Year Overnight in London, the Women’s Prize for Fiction has announced its 2021 longlist with 16 titles to be winnowed down to six for the shortlist, to be announced April 28. The winner is expected to be named this year on July 7. The purse for that winner will be worth £30,000 (US$41,926) and is endowed by an anon...