The Southern Review, Summer 2018 — August giveaway

*** Winner selected! Congratulations to Lauren in Los Angeles! ***

This month’s giveaway is a little different! Instead of a novel, I’m giving away a copy of the latest issue of The Southern Review — a fantastic literary journal that just happens to have a short story of mine in it.

It’s called “Alone or Someone Else,” and is about a girl who gets pregnant after a one-night stand with an action film star. Here is what one person on Twitter said about it:

Can’t stop thinking about @sielju‘s story “Alone or Someone Else” in @southern_review. Also, Owen McLeod’s poem, “The Saddest Poem in Pennsylvania.” #amreading

— Minyoung Lee (@minyoungleeis) August 12, 2018

If you were at the Hot Dish reading in Echo Park earlier this month, you heard me read the beginning of the story. This is what my poet friend Lauren tweeted after the reading.

.@sielju‘s fiction is really incredible, make a good decision and buy her book

— Lauren Eggert-Crowe (@LaurEggertCrowe) August 12, 2018

Thanks Lauren! But you don’t even have to buy my book to read this story; you can just hope to win! All my current email subscribers will be automatically entered to win the copy of the journal. Subscribe now if you’re not yet getting my occasional newsletters.

For a second chance to win, comment on this post below, recommending a favorite short story you think I should read. The giveaway closes August 31, 2018 at 11:59 pm PST. US addresses only.