Founded in 2026, The Harlem Review is an online literary journal that aims to connect with writers from all backgrounds. Though we gravitate toward the short format, we are open to publish a variety of content ranging from poems and creative nonfiction to comic strips.
The Harlem Review is determined to promote the work of LGBTQIA+, ethnically diverse, neurodivergent, disabled, migrant, immigrant, refugee, low income writers; writers whose voices have historically been excluded or marginalised by the literary world or the wider culture.
We at The Harlem Review don’t make a distinction between an emerging writer and an established writer. As long as you know how to tell a good story or push the boundaries of what is possible in short-form writing today, you can make your home here.
As a recent startup, we are on the lookout for new team members. If you are an editor or a reader looking for your next literary home, we would love to hear from you (the.harlemreview@gmail.com). A short introduction about yourself and your editorial stance would be much appreciated in your application.
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ABOUT THE EDITOR
Sarp Sozdinler is a writer, editor, and poet based in Philadelphia and Amsterdam. His work has been published in Electric Literature, Kenyon Review, Shenandoah, Masters Review, Pithead Chapel, Hobart, HAD, The Offing, X-R-A-Y, Flash Frog, Vestal Review, Fractured Lit, and Maudlin House, among other journals. Some of his fiction pieces have been selected or nominated for various anthologies including the Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, Best of the Net, and Wigleaf Top 50; he’s been awarded a finalist or runner-up status at such literary contests as the 2022 Los Angeles Review Flash Fiction Award and the Passages North Waasnode Short Fiction Prize. He’s currently at work on his first novel.
Aside from The Harlem Review, he edits the comic-book review platform The Panelist.
www.sarpsozdinler.com | @sarpsozdinler
The Harlem Review is determined to promote the work of LGBTQIA+, ethnically diverse, neurodivergent, disabled, migrant, immigrant, refugee, low income writers; writers whose voices have historically been excluded or marginalised by the literary world or the wider culture.
We at The Harlem Review don’t make a distinction between an emerging writer and an established writer. As long as you know how to tell a good story or push the boundaries of what is possible in short-form writing today, you can make your home here.
As a recent startup, we are on the lookout for new team members. If you are an editor or a reader looking for your next literary home, we would love to hear from you (the.harlemreview@gmail.com). A short introduction about yourself and your editorial stance would be much appreciated in your application.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Sarp Sozdinler is a writer, editor, and poet based in Philadelphia and Amsterdam. His work has been published in Electric Literature, Kenyon Review, Shenandoah, Masters Review, Pithead Chapel, Hobart, HAD, The Offing, X-R-A-Y, Flash Frog, Vestal Review, Fractured Lit, and Maudlin House, among other journals. Some of his fiction pieces have been selected or nominated for various anthologies including the Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, Best of the Net, and Wigleaf Top 50; he’s been awarded a finalist or runner-up status at such literary contests as the 2022 Los Angeles Review Flash Fiction Award and the Passages North Waasnode Short Fiction Prize. He’s currently at work on his first novel.
Aside from The Harlem Review, he edits the comic-book review platform The Panelist.
www.sarpsozdinler.com | @sarpsozdinler