The UK 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 April 6 by the Wild Women Writing Club. The names of several dead authors, including Daphne du Maurier and Emily Dickinson, were included among the signatories.