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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Aug 13, 2021

Brandon Dragan, a third year student at Belmont University College of Law, is the winner of the 2021 ABA Journal/Ross Writing Contest for Legal Short Fiction. He will receive a $3,000 prize for his short story, “Advokat,” about a lawyer who decides to help a Russian man seeking to flee persecution. Dragan, who is of Russian and Ukrainian descent, got the idea for his short story after seeing a documentary about Chechnya, the ABA Journal reports. He originally wrote the story as part of Belmont’s Legal Fiction Workshop. The story will be published on ABAJournal.com during Thanksgiving week. Dragan moved to Nashville to pursue a songwriting career and later turned to writing fiction.