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}❊
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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