Leah Hampton, associate director of the Writing and Learning Commons at Western Carolina University, is the winner of the 2012 Doris Betts Fiction Prize competition for her story “The Saint.” Hampton will receive a cash prize from the North Carolina Writers Network and her story will be published in the North Carolina Literary Review’s 2013 issue. Sponsored by the North Carolina Writers Network, the competition is named for a preeminent North Carolina writer, the late Doris Betts.