DESIGNER
Sarp Sozdinler has worked as a designer at Wieden+Kennedy, Base Design, and Ogilvy. He produced campaigns for a wide client base including Nike, Facebook, Ray Ban, Uber, MIT Technology Review, Istanbul Modern, and Ministry of Sound London. His work has been exhibited worldwide, including the London Design Week and Milano Design Week, and featured on It’s Nice That, Etapés, Novum, Eye, among other journals. He held workshops and talks in Milano, Beirut, Moscow, and taught Typography as a visiting professor upon completing his studies in Vienna and Istanbul.
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3rd Istanbul Design Biennial: Are We Human?
identity, catalog design, exhibition graphics, 2018
Deadwood
poster design, newsletter, 2012
Les Glaneurs er Les Glaneuses
editorial & exhibition design
Archive: Selim Sume
editorial design
Mamut Art Project
identity design, exgibition design, editorial design, 2011—2014
Near East
editorial design
Deixis Journal, #1-6
editorial design
Miscellaneous Publications
2009—2018
On the Radar | Nike
editorial design
Book As It Stands
editorial design
Miscellaneous Posters
2009—2018
Speak to the Eyes
poster design, exhibiton identity, 2018
Grafist 21 | Poster & identity, 2017
Smol | Poster & identity design
MIT Technology Review | Pattern design
SALT | Typeface design
WRITER
Sarp Sozdinler is a writer of stories, poems, essays, and comics based in Philadelphia and Amsterdam. His work has been published in Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, Shenandoah, Masters Review, Fractured Lit, Flash Frog, Pithead Chapel, Hobart, and Maudlin House, among other journals. His stories have been selected or nominated for anthologies (Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, Best of the Net, Wigleaf Top 50) and awarded various recognitions at literary contests judged by authors such as Jonathan Escoffery, Laura van den Berg, Paul Yoon, and Allegra Hyde. He’s currently at work on his first novel.
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Mina Hamedi / Janklow & Nesbit New York
mhamedi@janklow.com
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literary agent
Mina Hamedi / Janklow & Nesbit New York
mhamedi@janklow.com
literary honors
Disquiet International | Regression (novel excerpt)
100 Word Story | Belongings
nominated to best microfiction anthology 2026
Your Impossible Voice | Ash Wednesday
nominated to best microfiction anthology 2026
American Short Fiction | Slot-Machine Gods
american short(er) fiction prize, semi-finalist, 2025
Disquiet International | Potatoes Are Just Apples That Lost Their Way
disquiet literary award, longlisted, 2025
Atlas+Alice | Pebbles
best small fictions anthology 2025
Disquiet International | Regression (novel excerpt)
disquiet literary award, longlisted, 2024
Barnstorm Journal | Synonyms & Antonyms (comics)
experı-may-ntal contest, 2nd place, 2024
American Literary Review | Baba
flash flood winner, 2022
wigleaf top-50, 2023
Electric Literature | Hyperboles
los angeles review flash fiction award, runner-up, 2023
The Lumiere Review | Primaries
selected for the best small fictions 2023 anthology
Cease, Cows | Windblown
nominated to the best small fictions 2024 anthology
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selected work
The Kenyon Review | Ladybird
Electric Literature | Hyperboles
Shenandoah | Waking in Istanbul
Maudlin House | Reversion
Fractured Lit | The Migration of Dead Birds
Flash Frog | After the Flood
The Masters Review | Houses Acting Like Cars
BULL | Deeply Personal Vending Machine
100 Word Story | Belongings
Pithead Chapel | The Hanged Man
Vestal Review | Smaller Coffins
Your Impossible Voice | Ash Wednesday
The Offing | Rain God
Bottle Rocket | Stage Zero
JMWW | Truffles
HAD | Western
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2026
fiction
Columbia Journal | The House of Popes Matchbook | A Million Demented Cicadas
Milk Candy Review | Golden Hour
The Bookends Review | Leviathan
Moon City Press | Wholery
Mystery Tribune | A Woman Under the Influence
poetry
Prose Poem | Gift EconomyWilderness House | Fossils and Footprints
Wilderness House | The Communion of Small Birds
Wilderness House | Ice Machine, Albuquerque
The Lindenwood Review | At Mile 144, I Tried to Fight a Seagull Over a Half-Eaten Stromboli
Wishbone Words Magazine | Palimpsest
Wishbone Words Magazine | Quiet Persistence
turkish-language essays
K24 | The Overstory / Her Şeyin HikayesiManifold | Ousmane Sembène’in Kısa Filmleri: İki Şehir Arasında Yük Hattı
Manifold | Black Hole
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2025
fiction
100 Word Story | Belongings
100 Word Story | New Orbit
50-Word Stories | Remembrance
50-Word Stories | Imposters
Gooseberry Pie | Daddy
Pacifica Literary Review | A Hole is Just a Vacant Dot
SAND Journal | The Dispatch
Bottle Rocket | Stage Zero
House of Arcanum | What Grows Here
Gooseberry Pie | Memory Foam
Sybil | Dreaming About Fish
Scaffold | L’America
Scaffold | Protest Pollens
Scaffold | A Day of Knowing Nothing Your Impossible Voice | The Carnival of Accidental Heroes Your Impossible Voice | Ash Wednesday
HAD | Western
HAD | My Girlfriend and I Opened a Petting Cafe Inside an Abandoned WalgreensHAD | World’s Okayest Boss
HAD | Three Troubles
Boudin | Walrus
2025 Micro Madness | Chef’s Kiss
Don’t Submit | The lettuce in my BigMac
New Pop Lit | Tupac Shares Nachos, Tells a Fable in Denver Terminal TGI Friday’s
The Ekphrastic Review | Five Paintings by Osman Hamdi Bey Ghost Parachute | The Haunting and Other Shared Leases
Friday Flash Fiction | When the Blood Has Gone Blue
Friday Flash Fiction | Ascending
Friday Flash Fiction | Corrections
Friday Flash Fiction | Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Friday Flash Fiction | Nature Girl
Friday Flash Fiction | The Last Summer
Friday Flash Fiction | Souvenirs
Centaur | Lifetimes (recording)
Tiny Molecules | Monsoon
JAKE | Pointgod
Gambling the Aisle | Closure
The Cove | Shahmaran
manywor(l)ds | Of Apples & Men The Ilanot Review | Monsoon
The Ilanot Review | Sleepovers
The Disappointed Housewife | Abandonware
Gone Lawn | Year of the Mole People
Vol.1 Brooklyn | Wheels in the Age of Stones
Emerge Literary Journal | Twister
Bruiser | The Making of Kubrick’s 2001, by Jerome Agel
Citywide Lunch | Sentinels
Citywide Lunch | My Cosplay as a World-Renowned Saxophonist at Family Function
A Thin Slice of Anxiety | Downwinder
A Thin Slice of Anxiety | Minute Man A Thin Slice of Anxiety | Grand Theft Hamlet
Gambling the Aisle | Everything I’ve Scavenged in My BackyardShoegaze | Alphabetical
Gutter | The Monster of Bethlehem
Heavy Feather Review | The Pit
MacQueen’s Quinterly | The Eighth Continent
The Hoolet’s Nook | A Day in December Bath Flash Fiction Anthology | ‘Naders
BULL | Verminette
BULL | Moonrakers
Ergot | Riddles
Flash Frog | After the Flood
Short Story, Long | The People Who Live Inside
Molecule | Unalived
Molecule | Julius Caesar Walking into the Senate
Complete Sentence | Deathselves
Five Minutes Lit | Tremors
Does It Have Pockets? | Primaries
The Spotlong Review | Emergencies
EastOver Press | Houses Acting Like Cars
Does It Have Pockets? | Primaries
The Journal | Free Shit
The Hooghly Review | The Gospel According to Chuck Norris
The Metaworker | Falling in Love Inside a Stray Hot Sauce Packet
Burningwood | Carcinisation
mnemotope 008 | Smyrna
Bulb Culture Collective | The Tail of a Gypsy Moth
NUNUM | My Girlfriend and I [...]
Bone Parade | Time is a Shared Resource
Bright Flash Literary Review | Parade Weather
The Citron Review | The Party People
Peach Fuzz | Fingers
nonfiction
Major 7th | “Linoleum” by NoFX
The Palisades Review | Confessional
Little Old Lady | A Pre-Emptive Apology for All My Houseplants
The Gorko Gazette | 50 Probable Celebrity Rumors
poetry
Shenandoah | Waking in IstanbulWildscape | Rotation
Unbroken | Emergency Contact
Right Hand Pointing | Broke n
Right Hand Pointing | Famous for Dinner Parties
Bending Genres | Suggested Edits
Trampset | Behind the Siren
Bluebird’s Scribe Review | Desert Override South Florida Poetry Journal | At 2:47 A.M. in a Sheetz Parking Lot off I-81, I Realized I Hadn’t Spoken to Anyone in Three Days
In Parentheses | Stardust Elegy
West Trade Review | Transubstantiation
Tiny Wren Lit | My Tamagotchi
Hooligan | Emergency Contact
Jersey Devil Press | Sleep Training the Minotaur
The Bookends Review | A Man is a Baby is a Wound
Stone Circle Review | Queen of the Salt Plains
Y2K Quarterly | Cookies
Pine Hills Review | Mallrats and Minor Chords
Pine Hills Review | Gary
Pithead Chapel | The Hanged Man
Tint | False Positives
Molecule | I Fell in Love with a Librarian Once
Katabatic Circus | Origami Gods
fifth wheel press | Self-Portrait as Stolen Fruit
fifth wheel press | Coke Drip Prayer
fifth wheel press | Men Explain to Me
Alocasia | Wetlands
Alocasia | Shape of Things Left Unpromised
Neologism | Mapfinding for the Lighthouse
The Big Window Review | Ben & Jerry’s
California Quarterly | Acreage
California Quarterly | Rarely Echoism
California Quarterly | Footprints
Marrow | Inheritance
Marrow | After the Fire
Marrow | Field Notes, Early Spring
Flights | Corners | Legumes | Christ
The Serendipity Archives | Corners
Arcturus | Mercy Anatomy
Healthline | Nerve Ends
Foglifter | Diasplus
turkish-language essays
Bantmag | Land of MirrorsK24 | Topeka Okulu’nun Akustik Etiği K24 | Parçaların Görkemli Komplosu: Nocilla ÜçlemesiManifold | Peter Milligan’ın Enigma’sı: Kahraman mı, Kurban Mı?
theMagger | Miroirs No.3: Havadaki HayaletlerArtful Living | Kahramanlık Masalının Çöküşü: The Mastermind Artful Living | Kaygının Barometresi: Jenny Offill ve “Hava Durumu”
forthcoming
Animal Blood | The Living Daylights
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2024
World Hunger | Slap
Vestal Review | Smaller Coffins
Anomaly | Erasmus Park
Fractured Lit | The Migration of Dead Birds
Five on the Fifth | A Drowning
JMWW | Truffles
Twin Bird Review | Vibrations (w/Matt Rowan)
Gambling the Aisle | Nerf
Occulum | Seedling
Trampset | The Alphabet Soup
Atlas+Alice | Pebbles
Adult Groceries | Reversion
ScribesMICRO | Mayhem
Flash Boulevard | Nosebleeds
Flash Boulevard | Firetrap
X-R-A-Y | Butthole Problems + Other Micros
The Argyle | Eating Flowers
Lost Balloon | Cléo from 5 to 7
Maudlin House | Places
Heavy Feather Review | Goatee
Ghost Parachute | Sideways
Roi Fainéant Press | Signseers
Stanchion | A Woman Under the Influence
Gooseberry Pie | Inertia (Lake Homeros, 1998)
The Pinnacle | The Tail of a Gypsy Moth Fast Flesh | In Which Michael Myers' Remains are Distributed Across the U.S. in Neatly Wrapped Parcels of Ground Meat
Defenestration | The Common Features of Other People’s Houses
Scavengers | Everything I Have Scavenged in My Backyard
Bullshit Lit | Two Stories
Ink, Sweat & Tears | Dreamspinning
Five Minutes Lit | Covenant
LIGEIA | Wise Men Fish Here
Querencia Press | Twice
Where Meadows Reside | Honeycomb
101 Words | Vines
Don’t Submit | Closure
MacQueen’s Quinterly | Pink Pyramids
MacQueen’s Quinterly | Within An Inch Of Flash Fiction Magazine | In Seven Morphines
Talk Vomit | Drugstore Dionysus
Panoplyzine | Should Could Would Barnstorm Journal | Synonyms & Antonyms (comics)
Stone of Madness Press | Hostages of Eternity
Your Impossible Voice | Bark
The Temz Review | The Archipelago of DistancesThe Temz Review | Angels of Conoco
ShortStories.co | Smarts
The Crawfish | The Ministry of Deep Conversations
The Hooghly Review | Anyone Who Has or Has HadDiarrhea in the Past Two Weeks Shall Not Use the Pool
The Couch | Full Nine Seconds
The Heimat Review | Scallops
The Literary Hatchet | Those Pixels
Literally Stories | March
Abobo Zine | God’s Plan
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2023
The Kenyon Review | Ladybird
Electric Literature | Hyperboles
BULL | Deeply Personal Vending Machine
The Pinch | Driftwater
Across the Margin | August
Necessary Fiction | Alphabet Tree
Bending Genres | A Machine-Learning Guide to Playing Dead
Pidgeonholes | Pronouns
Saranac Review | Postmortem Pride
HAD | Smarts
Five South | Bent From the Edges
Driftwood Press | Little Egypt
DIAGRAM | Shahmaran
HAD | Reversion II
LEON Literary Review | Nanna | The Unbearable Lightness Being
Cease, Cows | Windblown
The Eunoia Review | Seedling | Bananas | Year of the Clown
Belletrist | Covenant
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Previously
The Offing | Rain God
The Normal School | Ghosting
The Masters Review | Houses Acting Like Cars
No Contact | Eating Flowers
Maudlin House | Reversion
Moonpark Review | Southward
Hobart | Slap
HAD | Ruminations
American Literary Review | Baba
The Bureau Dispatch | Confessions
Complete Sentence | Dear Mr. Fassbender
Cheap Pop | Monsoon
The Racket | White Iverson
X-R-A-Y | Angry Gnomes
Bureau of Complaint | D*ck
FEED | Closure
Cagibi | The United Saguaros
The Museum of Americana | Fistlike Mouth and Rotating Thoughts
The Daily Drunk | No Country for Fake Men
Epiphany | Scallops
Little Somethings Press | A Knot of Limbs
Decomp | Civilized Societies
Sip Cup | A Game With Its Own Rules
Riverbed Review | A Ghost in the Quicksand
Pigeon Review | The Tail of a Gypsy Moth
Solstice | Twice
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for commıssıons and collaboratıons
info@sarpsozdinler.com