DESIGNER
Sarp Sozdinler has worked as a Senior 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, at such events as 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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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, Fractured Lit, Normal School, Trampset, HAD, Hobart, Lost Balloon, 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 such authors 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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literary agent
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)
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
Gooseberry Pie | Daddy
The Palisades Review | Confessional
50-Word Stories | Remembrance Pacifica Literary Review | A Hole is Just a Vacant Dot (new prose)SAND Journal | The Dispatch (new prose)
Friday Flash Fiction | Ascending (new prose) Bluebird’s Scribe Review | Desert Override (new poetry)Citywide Lunch | My Cosplay as a World-Renowned Saxophonist at the Family Function (new prose)Bottle Rocket | Stage Zero (new prose) Don’t Submit | The lettuce in my BigMac (new prose) Little Old Lady | A Pre-Emptive Apology for All My Houseplants (new prose)
Scaffold | L’America
Centaur | Lifetimes (recording)
Tiny Molecules | Monsoon
JAKE | Pointgod
Gambling the Aisle | Closure
The Cove | Shahmaran
manywor(l)ds | Of Apples & Men
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
Friday Flash Fiction | When the Blood Has Gone Blue
A Thin Slice of Anxiety | Downwinder A Thin Slice of Anxiety | Minute Man A Thin Slice of Anxiety | Grand Theft Hamlet Friday Flash Fiction | Nature Girl
Gambling the Aisle | Everything I’ve Scavenged in My Backyard
Bath Flash Fiction Award | ‘Naders (forthcoming)
Scaffold | A Day of Knowing Nothing (forthcoming)
Columbia Journal | The House of Popes (forthcoming)
Sybil | Dreaming About Fish (forthcoming)
EastOver Press | Houses Acting Like Cars (forthcoming)
100 Word Story | Belongings (forthcoming)
The Journal | Free Shit (forthcoming)
The Hooghly Review | The Gospel According to Chuck Norris (forthcoming)
Gooseberry Pie | Memory Foam (forthcoming)
Does It Have Pockets? | Primaries (forthcoming)
Scaffold | Protest Pollens (forthcoming)
BULL | Verminette (forthcoming)
BULL | Moonrakers (forthcoming)
The Ekphrastic Review | Five Paintings by Osman Hamdi Bey (forthcoming)
Shoegaze | Alphabetical (forthcoming)
NUNUM | My Girlfriend and I Opened a Petting Cafe Inside an Abandoned Walgreens (forthcoming)
The Bookends Review | A Man is a Baby is a Wound (forthcoming)
The Bookends Review | Leviathan (forthcoming)
Ghost Parachute | The Haunting and Other Shared Leases (forthcoming)
Trampset | Behind the Siren (forthcoming)
Bulb Culture Collective | The Tail of a Gypsy Moth (forthcoming)
House of Arcanum | What Grows Here (forthcoming)
West Trade Review | Transubstantiation (forthcoming)
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 (forthcoming)
Y2K Quarterly | Cookies (forthcoming)
Major 7th | “Linoleum” by NoFX (forthcoming)
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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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