IHRAM Publishes

Important update!

IHRAM Publishes is moving to a quarterly, themed literary edition!

AND: we are now accepting visual artwork for inclusion in the journal!

We will be focusing on the following concerns:

• First and Fourth Quarter:  Voice of a Refugee: Resilience Amidst Displacement. According to the UNHCR, 117.2 million people will be forcibly displaced or stateless in 2023 — this is up nearly 100% in the past decade, and the most in recorded history.  This issue will drive our literary magazine, bookending our publication year.
  We are eager to publish firsthand experiences and factual, sensitive retellings of refugee experiences. We are not looking to publish fictional interpretations of the refugee experience at this time.

  Themes: Journey, survival, identity, belonging, loss and resilience, hope, community, solidarity, cultural preservation, chosen family and blood relation, integration into new cultures, intersectionality, and global perspective.
  

• Second Quarter: Feminine Empowerment. Though women comprise more than 50% of the world's population, they only own 1% of the world's wealth. In some places, women still lack rights to own land or to inherit property, obtain access to credit, earn income, or to move up in their workplace, free from job discrimination. In legislatures around the world, women are outnumbered 4 to 1.
  We are eager to publish firsthand experiences by women, factual retellings of stories told by women in the author's life, and reflections of the writer's personal experience with gendered inequality. We encourage submissions from, regardless of gender identity!

  Themes: Economic empowerment, workplace equality, legal rights, women in leadership roles, educational opportunities, violence against women, health and wellbeing, comparison of historical and contemporary women's voices, solidarity, femininity, gender expression.

• Third Quarter: Childhood Reflections and Youth Empowerment. Blown away by IHRAM''s you contributors of 2023, we are dedicating the third quarter of the IHRAM literary magazine to the global youth.  In your submission, please reflect upon the IHRAM's values (Beauty as a fundamental creative principle; Sincerity and Vulnerability of presentation; Celebrating Diversity and opening doorways of Engagement) and themes listed below.

  We are eager to publish firsthand accounts from youth writers, reflections by adult writers on their youth experiences, and firsthand accounts from childhood educators.

  Themes: Access to education, early childhood development, childhood dreams and aspirations, value of the youth voice, role models, challenges faced by teachers, childhood experiences which shaped the writer's adulthood.
  

Of course, we will continue to look, to listen and to learn about issues of concern for creators from Algeria to Zimbabwe, and everywhere in between! Up to 50% of each issue will be reserved for pieces that expand our understanding of human rights and social justice concerns not covered by the quarterly theme.

Submission Guidelines:

Please submit your poem, short story, essay (2500 words or less), or artwork to submit@humanrightsartmovement.org, along with the following information:

• Your full name and/or pen name.

• Your country of residence.

• A photograph of you (high-resolution with no filters) should you wish to provide one.*

• A brief third-person bio (2-5 sentences). If your bio includes references of your past work, feel free to provide links!

• A brief foreword to your piece, explaining your inspiration for creating it, background information, explanation of key characters, and any other key insight for the reader.

  *If your piece is accepted, we will request a high-resolution author photograph. However, auhors are not required to provide photographs of themselves and are always welcome to decline, should they wish to remain anonymous.

IHRAM Publishes pays $50 per accepted written piece.

IHRAM Publishes pays $25 per accepted artist.

SUBMISSIONS ARE LIMITED TO ONE WRITTEN PIECE PER WRITER FROM NOW THROUGH JANUARY 2024.

SUBMISSIONS OF ARTWORK ARE UNLIMITED.

IHRAM Translates submissions remain open. Please send a poem in both the original language, and translated into English. Visit this page for more information: IHRAM TRANSLATES (paying $25 for the writer and $25 for the translator)

We publish an ever-expanding collection of original works from lesser known and up-and-coming writers who seek to bring attention to urgent social justice issues around the world. We base our work on the values of beauty, sincerity, vulnerability, engagement and celebration of diversity.

IHRAM Publishes has presented work from 50 countries and 30 U.S. States.

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IHRAM Publishes is a Pushcart-Prize, Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays nominating literary journal.

Pushcart Prize nominees in 2023: Edward Edmond Eduful, Ariana Lee, Mackenzie Duan, Alyza Taguilaso,Marcus Ugboduma and Simon Thaddeus Tsaga
Best American Short Stories nominees in 2023: Tyler Hein, Hec Lampert-Bates, Lena Petrović, Kashvi Ramani
Best American Essays nominee in 2023: Ian Stewart

Pushcart Prize nominees in 2022: Joanna Cockerline, Alex Stein, AlfredoSalvatore Arcilesi, Luiza Louback, Joshua Effiong, Kristin W. Davis

Pushcart Prize nominees in 2021: Laneikka Denne, Kalpna Singh-Chitnis, Sunday Obiageli, Esther Iyanuoluwa, Dean Gessie, Ashley Sophia 

PUBLISHED WORKS UNDER FIRST WORLD RIGHTS.  ALL RIGHTS REVERT TO THE WRITER UPON PUBLICATION