IHRAM QUARTERLY LITERARY MAGAZINE RESILIENCE AMIDST DISPLACEMENT
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Home is a privilege so many of us take for granted. Whether it’s a simple roof over our heads, enclosed walls to shelter our loved ones, or the luxury of a locked door. The authors and artists featured in Resilience Amidst Displacement: Voice of a Refugee bravely share their stories and reflect upon the experiences of others; tales of being torn from home, watching their cities destroyed from afar, navigating unfamiliar cultures, and reconstructing their understanding of home within themselves.
The IHRAM magazine was created with a simple goal: to celebrate and uplift up-and-coming authors from all over the world; each of the authors in this anthology contend with their identities in the context of their environments, providing their unique perspectives on issues of human rights.
Thank you for being part of a greater cause.
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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.
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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
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Literary Magazine 2023
IHRAM LITERARY MAGAZINE 2023 COLLECTED WORKS
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If art is a window, consider this magazine a direct line — a can and string mechanism — to a fellow human, a world away. The beauty of the International Human Rights Art Movement is that we are not just another soldier in the fight for global human equality; we are a peaceful space for human connection and reflection. We envision a world where artist activism is honored as a human right, and a source of social change.
The IHRAM magazine was created with a simple goal: to celebrate and uplift up-and-coming authors from all over the world; each of the authors in this anthology contend with their identities in the context of their environments, providing their unique perspectives on issues of human rights
Find your home country below and purchase a copy of the 2023 Literary Magazine. If your home base is not listed, don’t worry! CLICK HERE OR THE COVER IMAGE TO VIEW ONLINE.
“When You Ask Me for Levity” by Tania Chen
I pray they'll take my soul with them. Virgencita, Virgen de Guadalupe or, if she fails me, Santa Muerte ven por mí, no me dejes morir sola aquí
“Self-portrait with Xylem” by Joshua Effiong
What do you make of a boy whose / framework was fashioned by all the / women in him?
“An Orphaned Clothesline” by Debasish Mishra
The clothesline admits the secrets / and resets to a tabula rasa / the dance of democracy / to the tunes of the breeze / where every cloth gets / an equal share of the sun
“White Card” by Mira Mookerjee
In Farhad’s dream, he was back with his mother, his head in her lap, hearing her sing his favorite lullaby
“PORTRAIT IN WATERCOLOR / the inhabitants of houses” by Ave Jeanne Ventresca
like large buffalo, we tend to together stand, / in graveyards where silence is the home. / now, relying on weeds and thick roots / to support our heavy skulls.
“I Met America” by Uzomah Ugwu
I met America and she said I didn’t / Look American to her. So I should leave.
“Kindergarten in Russia” by Robert Pettus
The walls were paper-thin. The parents kept their ears perked; they listened to the entirety of every lesson... It’s a bizarre atmosphere, teaching Kindergarten in Russia
“Cacti Left to Bloom” by Purabi Bhattacharya
“I was scared all the time. They said drop the case. I did not relent,” / read a headline of a newspaper. / You read the story to the final line. Full stop.
“A Mother’s Oath” by Tasneem Hossain
She smiles; the smile of a determined soul. / The mother in her knows it all.
“Please Leave On” by Dawn Macdonald
We got in trouble for looking / out the window and for reading / unassigned texts. We said, / “You’ll get the strap
“E. Palestine Ohio” by Arya F. Jenkins
This is what happened / This is what we should not have done / This is what we will no longer do / This is what we can do now
“Purple Blouse” by Uzomah Ugwu
A purple blouse caught in between wires / A girl once wore while escaping a part of life / That froze in the heat
“Hail & Brimstones in Sudan” by Adesina Ajala
Dark clouds gather & hail & brimstones fall in Sudan. Come, / come & see everyone running into things tender & haunting
“Eucharist I & II” by Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan
“Loss is a burnt thumb that tricks our skin into cenotaphs”
“A Familiar Sound” by Sabahat Ali Wani
“The smell of rotten meat was normal. The smell of mud was safe. The persistence of cowardly silence was home.”
“Five Horses” by Tyler Hein
Most everyone I know is stuck in this limbo, of working double to go half. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, having a whole generation realize en masse that we’re dogs stuck chasing a ball that was never thrown.
“Meditations in A Fractured Archipelago” by Alyza Taguilaso
Here is a broken bone. If you stop moving, / it might heal. / Otherwise, it remains / fractured like the earth.
“Inverted Triangle Body” by Arina Alam
I am an inverted triangle Body / Not an hourglass, not even a pear / I don't even fit in the square.
Losing It by Cyndy Muscatel
“I admit I’m a bit scatterbrained. My brain is like a fast-moving freeway lane crowded with bumper-to-bumper thoughts running through it…”