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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, Best Small Fictions, Normal School, DIAGRAM, American Literary Review, Hobart, Maudlin House, Passages North, Offing, Moonpark Review, and elsewhere. Some of his pieces have been anthologized and awarded various recognitions at literary contests and portfolios by Jonathan Escoffery, Laura van den Berg, Paul Yoon, and Allegra Hyde. 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}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 ANTHOLOGY, 2023}The Lumiere Review | Primaries_{SELECTED 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, 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}

2023
The Kenyon Review | Ladybird
Electric Literature | Hyperboles
Necessary Fiction | Alphabet Tree
Bending Genres | A Machine-Learning Guide to Playing Dead
The Pinch | Driftwater
Pidgeonholes | Pronouns
Saranac Review | Postmortem Pride
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
Five South | Crawlies (2023)
Belletrist | Covenant (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

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