TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on May 18, 2022

Belmont University College of Law has announced the winner of its third annual Legal Fiction Workshop. This year’s winning entry is “An Uncomfortable Familiarity” written by Ally Hicks, a 3L student at the school. The piece follows an attorney as she navigates a complicated case that brings up traumatic memories. The winning entry was selected by an outside community reader, Nashville lawyer Wendy Harkness, through an anonymized review process. Harkness said that “from the first sentence, the imagery grabbed the reader’s attention and held it through the tale's satisfying end” and that the story “adeptly captured the very real compromising situations in which attorneys occasionally find themselves.” The writing workshop is conducted over the spring semester as an extracurricular activity for a limited number of 2L and 3L students, and is taught by Professor Kristi Arth.