DESIGNER
Sarp Sozdinler has worked as a 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, including the 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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3rd Istanbul Design Biennial: Are We Human? | Mark design, catalog design, exhibition graphics, 2018
Speak to the Eyes | Poster design, exhibiton identity, 2018
Deadwood | Poster & newsletter, 2012
Grafist 21 | Poster & identity, 2017
Les Glaneurs er Les Glaneuses | Editorial & exhibition
Archive: Selim Sume | Editorial design
FOL Sinema | Poster & identity design
Near East | Editorial design
Miscellaneous posters | Poster design
Smol | Poster & identity design
MIT Technology Review | Pattern design
SALT | Typeface design
WRITER
Sarp Sozdinler is a writer of short stories, essays, and comics based in Philadelphia and Amsterdam. His work has been published in Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, Masters Review, Fractured Lit, Flash Frog, Hobart, 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 authors such 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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Mina Hamedi / Janklow & Nesbit New York
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literary agent
Mina Hamedi / Janklow & Nesbit New York
mhamedi@janklow.com
literary honors
Disquiet International | Regression (novel excerpt)
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
fiction
100 Word Story | Belongings
50-Word Stories | Remembrance
Gooseberry Pie | Daddy
Pacifica Literary Review | A Hole is Just a Vacant Dot SAND Journal | The Dispatch
Bottle Rocket | Stage Zero
House of Arcanum | What Grows Here
Gooseberry Pie | Memory Foam
Sybil | Dreaming About Fish
Scaffold | L’America
Scaffold | Protest Pollens
Scaffold | A Day of Knowing Nothing Your Impossible Voice | The Carnival of Accidental Heroes -Your Impossible Voice | Ash Wednesday HAD | My Girlfriend and I Opened a Petting Cafe Inside an Abandoned Walgreens
Boudin | Walrus
2025 Micro Madness | Chef’s Kiss
Don’t Submit | The lettuce in my BigMac
New Pop Lit | Tupac Shares Nachos, Tells a Fable in Denver Terminal TGI Friday’s
The Ekphrastic Review | Five Paintings by Osman Hamdi Bey Ghost Parachute | The Haunting and Other Shared Leases
Friday Flash Fiction | When the Blood Has Gone Blue
Friday Flash Fiction | Ascending
Friday Flash Fiction | Corrections
Friday Flash Fiction | Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Friday Flash Fiction | Nature Girl
Friday Flash Fiction | The Last Summer
Friday Flash Fiction | Souvenirs
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
Citywide Lunch | My Cosplay as a World-Renowned Saxophonist at Family Function
A Thin Slice of Anxiety | Downwinder
A Thin Slice of Anxiety | Minute Man A Thin Slice of Anxiety | Grand Theft Hamlet
Gambling the Aisle | Everything I’ve Scavenged in My BackyardShoegaze | Alphabetical
BULL | Verminette
BULL | Moonrakers
nonfiction
Major 7th | “Linoleum” by NoFX
The Palisades Review | Confessional
Little Old Lady | A Pre-Emptive Apology for All My Houseplants
The Gorko Gazette | 50 Probable Celebrity Rumors
Chouette | A Love Letter to My Body Hair
poetry
Wildscape | Rotation Unbroken | Emergency Contact
Right Hand Pointing | Broke n Right Hand Pointing | Famous for Dinner Parties
Bending Genres | Suggested Edits
Trampset | Behind the Siren
Bluebird’s Scribe Review | Desert Override 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
In Parentheses | Stardust Elegy
West Trade Review | Transubstantiation
Tiny Wren Lit | My Tamagotchi
Hooligan | Emergency Contact
Jersey Devil Press | Sleep Training the Minotaur
The Bookends Review | A Man is a Baby is a Wound
Stone Circle Review | Queen of the Salt Plains
Y2K Quarterly | Cookies
The Serendipity Archives | Corners
Wishbone Words Magazine | Palimpsest
Wishbone Words Magazine | Quiet Persistence
Tint | False Positives
The Big Window Review | Ben & Jerry’s
Alocasia | Wetlands
Alocasia | Shape of Things Left Unpromised Pine Hills Review | Mallrats and Minor Chords
Pine Hills Review | Gary
Flights | Corners | Legumes | Christ
Healthline | Nerve Ends
Foglifter | Diasplus
Prose Poem | Gift Economy
Wilderness House | Fossils and Footprints
Wilderness House | The Communion of Small Birds
Wilderness House | Ice Machine, Albuquerque
California Quarterly | Acreage
California Quarterly | Rarely Echoism
California Quarterly | Footprints
forthcoming
Bath Flash Fiction Award | ‘Naders Columbia Journal | The House of Popes
EastOver Press | Houses Acting Like Cars
The Journal | Free Shit
The Hooghly Review | The Gospel According to Chuck Norris
Does It Have Pockets? | Primaries
NUNUM | My Girlfriend and I Opened a Petting Cafe Inside an Abandoned Walgreens
The Bookends Review | Leviathan
Bulb Culture Collective | The Tail of a Gypsy Moth
Animal Blood | The Living Daylights
MacQueen’s Quinterly | The Eighth Continent
Gutter | The Monster of Bethlehem
The Hoolet’s Nook | A Day in December
Flash Frog | After the Flood
Heavy Feather Review | The Pit
Moon City Press | Wholery
100 Word Story | New Orbit
Complete Sentence | Deathselves
Five Minutes | Tremors
Bright Flash Literary Review | Parade Weather
Molecule | I Fell in Love with a Librarian Once
Molecule | Unalived
Molecule | Julius Caesar Walking into the Senate Neologism | Mapfinding for the Lighthouse
Bog Bodies Press | Smyrna
Ergot | Riddles
HAD | Western
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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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