TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Azya Thornton on Jun 6, 2025

Second-year Belmont University College of Law student Gabrielle Armer was awarded the school's Best Story Award for her short story "What He Left Behind," which explores a prosecutor’s emotional reckoning with second chances during Christmastime. The story was selected through an anonymous review process by novelist and Belmont Law alumnus Brandon Dragan, who praised its narrative tension and exploration of grief, addiction and generational trauma. Armer’s work, developed through Belmont’s Legal Fiction Workshop, is also under consideration for the American Bar Association’s Ross Writing Contest for Legal Short Fiction. Read more in a press release from the law school.