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, American Literary Review, Maudlin House, 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. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief at The Harlem Review. He’s currently at work on his first novel.

info@sarpsozdinler.com | @sarpsozdinler

American Literary Review | Baba _{FLASH FLOOD WINNER, 2022}
_{WIGLEAF TOP-FIFTY LONGLIST, 2023}

Electric Literature | Hyperboles _{FIRST RUNNER-UP, THE LOS ANGELES REVIEW FLASH FICTION AWARD, 2023}Maudlin House | Reversion_{SMOKELONG QUARTERLY GRAND MICRO PRIZE, LONGLISTED, 2023} The Lumiere Review | Primaries_{SELECTED TO BEST SMALL FICTIONS ANTHOLOGY, 2023}

Cease, Cows | Windblown_{SELECTED TO BEST SMALL FICTIONS ANTHOLOGY, 2024}

The Bureau Dispatch | Confessions
_{NOMINATED TO BEST SMALL FICTIONS ANTHOLOGY, 2023}Complete Sentence | Dear Mr. Fassbender_{NOMINATED TO 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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2024
Vestal Review | Smaller Coffins
Stanchion | A Woman Under the Influence

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2023
The Kenyon Review | Ladybird
Electric Literature | Hyperboles
Across the Margin | August
Necessary Fiction | Alphabet Tree
Bending Genres | A Machine-Learning Guide to Playing Dead
The Pinch | Driftwater
Pidgeonholes | Pronouns
Saranac Review | Postmortem Pride
HAD | Smarts
Five South | Bent From the Edges (Crawlies)
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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