TW nominated for the womens prize for fiction

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for fucks fucking sake!

"Peters’ longlisting comes after organisers clarified in 2020 that it was open to any “cis woman, a transgender woman or anyone who is legally defined as a woman or of the female sex”. “It’s a prize for women, and trans women are women, so …” said chair of judges and author Bernardine Evaristo."

The beauty of setting up a write prize is that you can create whatever parameters you want: women writers only, under-30s, first-time novelists, gay authors, over-60s, Commonwealth residents, Black authors. If you don’t like it, no one’s forcing you to enter. But for those authors who are shortlisted it gives a welcome boost to their career, and it helps readers find books they might be interested in.

**writing prize, not write prize.

@ThinkAboutItTomorrow Surely it's harder for a middle class white guy from the Home Counties to come up with something original with a fresh voice or perspective?

You’d have thought so, wouldn’t you? But no, these guys keep on writing tosh about middle aged blokes and their fantasy women with no personalities, and are then treated as if they’ve just produced a masterwork. See Julian Barnes.