Zeynep Özakat

Fiction

• "What Happens After" in MQR. SUMMER 2022.

• "Aviculture" in Spring/Summer Edition (Volume 43.2) of Black Warrior Review. FEBRUARY 2017. (BWR Contest finalist, Pushcart 2019 ‘Special Mention’)

• "Fish were Drowning" in Summer 2016 Online Exclusives of Gulf Coast. JUNE 2016.

• "Moving from Istanbul" in Issue #96 of Glimmer Train Stories. (Winner of the December 2014 Fiction Open Contest) APRIL 2016.

Essays

• Contribution forthcoming in NAUSIKÂE Chapter III.

• "It's High School Biology Class All Over Again and Here's Your Frog. His Name Is Kafka" in Glimmer Train Bulletin. MARCH 2015.

Interviews

• 43.2 Feature: An Interview with Zeynep Özakat in Black Warrior Review. MARCH 2017

Awards & Honors

• 2021 - 2022 Fiction Writing Fellowship at The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.

• ”What Happens After” received The Leonard Brown Prize in Poetry, given each year by The Creative Writing Department at Syracuse University to an outstanding group of poems written by a graduate student. (2020)

• One of the eight students in Syracuse University to receive a Graduate Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Work. (2020)

• Received a Katharine Bakeless Nason Scholarship to attend The Bread Loaf Environmental Writing Conference. (2020)

• Received a scholarship to attend The Juniper Summer Writing Institute. (2020)

• Received a scholarship to attend The Disquiet Conference in Lisbon. (2020)

• “What Happens After” was short-listed for the 2020 Disquiet Prize. (2020)

• Received a scholarship from The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown to attend a Summer Workshop. (2019)

• ”Turkish Story for American Audience” received The Shirley Jackson Prize in Fiction, given each year by The Creative Writing Department at Syracuse University to an outstanding story written by a graduate student. (2019)

• “Aviculture” received a ‘Special Mention” in the 2019 Pushcart Prize Anthology. (2018)

• ”Aviculture” was a finalist in Black Warrior Review’s Prose Contest. (2016)

• ”Moving From Istanbul” won Glimmer Train’s Fiction Open Contest. (2014)