DESIGNER
Sarp Sozdinler has worked as a Senior Designer at Ogilvy Social.Lab, Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam, Base Design Brussels, and VtwoB; he ran his own studio between 2013 and 2019. He has produced for a wide client base including Nike, Facebook, Ray Ban, and Uber, and his work got featured on It’s Nice That, Etapés, Novum, Eye, among others. He ran workshops and taught Typography as a visiting professor upon completing his studies at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and the Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts in 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
A YW fellow, Sarp Sozdinler is a writer based in Philadelphia and Amsterdam. His work has been published in the Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, Masters Review, Normal School, American Literary Review, HAD, Hobart, X-R-A-Y, No Contact, Maudlin House, Passages North, Offing, Moonpark Review, and elsewhere. Some of his pieces have been anthologized and awarded various recognitions in literary contests and portfolios by Jonathan Escoffery, Laura van den Berg, Paul Yoon, and Allegra Hyde. He is at work on his first novel.
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American Literary Review | Baba
FLASH FLOOD WINNER, 2022
The Los Angeles Review | Hyperboles
FIRST RUNNER-UP, THE L.A.R. FLASH FICTION AWARD, 2022
The Bureau Dispatch | Confessions
NOMINATED TO BEST SMALL FICTIONS, 2023
The Lumiere Review | Primaries
NOMINATED TO BEST SMALL FICTIONS, 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
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
2023
The Kenyon Review | Ladybird
Electric Literature | Hyperboles (2023)
Bending Genres | A Machine-Learning Guide to Playing Dead
The Pinch | Driftwater
Pidgeonholes | Pronouns
HAD | Reversion II
LEON Literary Review | Nanna | The Unbearable Lightness Being
Cease, Cows | Windblown
DIAGRAM | Shahmaran (2023)
Necessary Fiction | Alphabet Tree (2023)
Belletrist | Covenant (2023)
Saranac Review | Postmortem Pride (2023)
Samfiftyfour | Brownblack (2023)
The Eunoia Review | Seedling | Bananas | Year of the Clown (2023)
Previously
The Normal School | Ghosting
The Masters Review | Houses Acting Like Cars
No Contact | Eating Flowers
Moonpark Review | Southward
Hobart | Slap
HAD | Ruminations
The Racket | White Iverson
X-R-A-Y | Angry Gnomes
Maudlin House | Reversion
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