We are excited to announce the winner and finalists of the 2021 Don Belton Fiction Reading Period, judged by Anjali Sachdeva. Thank you to everyone who submitted their work!

2021 DON BELTON PRIZE WINNER

In This World of Ultraviolet Light by Raul Palma

Raul Palma is an assistant professor of writing at Ithaca College. His work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Chattahoochee Review, Greensboro Review, and the Best Small Fiction 2018. His fiction has been supported with fellowships from the CubaOne Foundation, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, the Santa Fe Writer’s Conference, the Sewanee Writer’s Conference, and the Sundress Academy for the Arts. He is, presently, at work on a novel titled A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens.

FINALISTS

A Wild Region by Robin Lovelace

Unmanned Systems by Matt Broaddus