Heather Bell Adams is the winner of the 2021 Doris Betts Fiction Prize for her story, “The Virgin of Guadalupe’s Moon.” Adams will receive a prize of $250 from the North Carolina Writers’ Network, and her story will be published in the North Carolina Literary Review’s 2022 issue.
Submissions are open for the 2021 Doris Betts Fiction Prize, which awards $250 and publication in the North Carolina Literary Review to a short story under 6,000 words.The deadline is October 31. Find the full submission guidelines, and submit, here. The final judge for this year’s Doris Betts Fiction Prize is Monique Truong.
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