DESIGNER


Sarp Sozdinler has worked at Wieden+Kennedy, Base Design Brussels, Ogilvy Amsterdam, and VtwoB Modena as a Senior Designer. From 2013 to 2019, he mainly freelanced for a client base within the cultural field, including Istanbul Design Biennial and Ministry of Sound London. He produced campaigns for such clients as Nike, Facebook, and Ray Ban. His work has been exhibited worldwide, and his profiles were featured on It’s Nice That, Etapés, Novum, Eye, among others. He held workshops and talks in Milano, Beirut, Moscow, and taught Typography as a visiting professor upon completing his studies in Vienna and Istanbul.






Deadwood | Poster & newsletter, 2012








3rd Istanbul Design Biennial: Are We Human? | Mark design, catalog design, exhibition graphics, 2018






Speak to the Eyes | Poster design, exhibiton identity, 2018




Grafist 21 | Poster & identity, 2017

WRITER


Sarp Sozdinler is a writer based in Philadelphia and Amsterdam. His work has been published in Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, Masters Review, Normal School, DIAGRAM, Trampset, Hobart, American Literary Review, HAD, Maudlin House, Vestal Review, and elsewhere. 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 and portfolios by such authors as Jonathan Escoffery, Laura van den Berg, Paul Yoon, and Allegra Hyde. Starting in 2024, he’ll serve as the editor-in-chief at The Harlem Review. He’s currently at work on his first novel.


literary agent
Mina Hamedi / Janklow & Nesbit New York
mhamedi@janklow.com
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literary honors

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, first runner-up, 2023 

Maudlin House | Reversion
smokelong quarterly grand micro prize, longlisted, 2023
The Lumiere Review | Primaries
selected for the best small fictions anthology, 2023
Cease, Cows | Windblown
nominated to the best small fictions anthology, 2024
The Bureau Dispatch | Confessions
nominated to best small fictions anthology, 2023

Complete Sentence | Dear Mr. Fassbender
nominated for pushcart prize, 2023

Driftwood Press | Little Egypt
RUNNER-UP, ADRIFT SHORT STORY CONTEST, 2022

Cheap Pop | Monsoon
FINALIST, RETREAT WEST: THEMED FLASH COMPETITION, 2022

The Offing | Rain God
NOMINATED TO BEST MICROFICTION ANTHOLOGY, 2021
WIGLEAF TOP-FIFTY LONGLIST, 2022

Bureau of Complaint | D*ck
NOMINATED TO BEST OF THE NET, 2022


Passages North | An Aftermath in Gold and Red
FINALIST, THE WAASNODE SHORT FICTION PRIZE, 2020


Solstice | Twice
FINALIST, THE WRITER’S DIGEST’S SHORT SHORT STORY AWARD, 2019



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2025


Scaffold | L’America (forthcoming)
SAND Journal | The Dispatch (forthcoming)
The Ilanot Review | Sleepovers (forthcoming)
The Ilanot Review | Monsoon (forthcoming)
Soft Union | Jellyfish in the Earthquake (forthcoming)
Gooseberry Pie | Daddy (forthcoming)
manywor(l)ds | Of Apples & Men (forthcoming)
Gambling the Aisle | Closure (forthcoming)
Gambling the Aisle | Everything I Have Scavenged in My Backyard (forthcoming)
Fractured Lit | The Migration of Dead Birds (forthcoming)
Centaur | Lifetimes (forthcoming)



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2024

World Hunger | Slap  
Vestal Review | Smaller Coffins
Anomaly | Erasmus Park
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
Bath Flash Fiction Award | ‘Naders (forthcoming)
Abobo Zine | God’s Plan (forthcoming)
Occulum | Seedling (forthcoming)
JMWW | Truffles (forthcoming)
Five on the Fifth | A Drowning (forthcoming)
The Cove | Shahmaran (forthcoming)
Gambling the Aisle | Nerf (forthcoming)



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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
Samfiftyfour | Brownblack
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 Lumiere Review | Primaries
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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