The Bulb Region is a literary journal aiming to connect with writers from all backgrounds. Gravitating toward the short format, we publish fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, hybrid, comics, and everything that falls in-between.
The Bulb Region 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 Bulb Region 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.
While you’re here, make sure to follow us on Instagram, Twitter, Bluesky, and please consider donating to our journal here: Support The Bulb Region on Ko-fi.
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ABOUT THE EDITOR
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Sarp Sozdinler is a writer, editor, and designer based in Philadelphia and Amsterdam. His writing 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.
Apart from The Bulb Region, he edits the upcoming film & comic-book review platform Panexis.
sarpsozdinler.com | @sarpsozdinler
The Bulb Region 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 Bulb Region 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.
While you’re here, make sure to follow us on Instagram, Twitter, Bluesky, and please consider donating to our journal here: Support The Bulb Region on Ko-fi.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Sarp Sozdinler is a writer, editor, and designer based in Philadelphia and Amsterdam. His writing 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.
Apart from The Bulb Region, he edits the upcoming film & comic-book review platform Panexis.
sarpsozdinler.com | @sarpsozdinler