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IHRAM Blog
Why do you create art?
Meet Ernest and Luis, who are some of the artists part of this issue: for them, art is about human experience and resistance.
What makes you write? Part 2
What makes them write? The writers part of our latest magazine issue, STORIES ON THE MOVE, have responded. Inside the Writing Process is an on-going series dedicated to revealing what inspires/influences their writing and beliefs because the IHRAM Literary Magazine is about diversity, community, and representation. Meet Annastatia, Matthew, Annemarie, and the other writers: for them, writing is about conversation and resistance; stories that refuse to stay silent.
What makes you write? Part 1
What makes them write? The writers part of our latest magazine issue, STORIES ON THE MOVE, have responded. Inside the Writing Process is an on-going series dedicated to revealing what inspires/influences their writing and beliefs because the IHRAM Literary Magazine is about diversity, community, and representation. Meet Foster, Eve, Gloria, and the other writers: for them, writing is about conversation and resistance; stories that refuse to stay silent.
Meet the Poets: Inside the Collective
Meet the poets shaping the visual voice of our latest Literary Magazine, “Stories on the Move: Voices of the Unhoused.”
For them, writing is about conversation and resistance; stories that refuse to stay silent.
This is the first chapter in our on-going series, pulling back the curtain behind the creatives that made this magazine happen.
Meet the Poets: Inside the Collective
Meet the poets shaping the visual voice of our latest Literary Magazine, “Stories on the Move: Voices of the Unhoused.”
For them, writing is about conversation and resistance; stories that refuse to stay silent.
This is the first chapter in our on-going series, pulling back the curtain behind the creatives that made this magazine happen.
Meet the Artists: Inside the Collective
Meet the artists shaping the visual voice of our latest Literary Magazine, “Stories on the Move: Voices of the Unhoused.”
Meet Luis and Ernest: for them, art is about conversation and resistance; stories that refuse to stay silent.
This is the first chapter in our on-going series, pulling back the curtain behind the creatives that made this magazine happen.
Award Nominees
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2025
“The Right to Sit Crooked” by Đặng Thân, Vietnam;
“The Weight of Inheritance” by Irene W. Collins, Nigeria;
“On Walking a Crosscut From Girlhood to Womanhood” by Bella Victor Nigeria;
“The Homeless” by Mohsen Hosseinkhani (translated by Tahereh Safaei), Iran;
“The Ones Who Stayed Behind” by Amal Hasan, Jordan;
“Feathers” by Jess A, United States.
2024
“Instruction Manual: Sheets of Desire” by Miriam Calleja, Malta;
“The Hollow” by Pacella Chukwuma-Eke, Nigeria;
“To Bury A Curious Girl” by Amirah Al Wassif, Egypt;
“Savio” by Rigel Portales, Philippines;
“Nani’s Chai” by Navin Desai, United States;
“Fifteen” by Ana Reisens, Spain
2023
Edward Edmond Eduful, Ariana Lee, Mackenzie Duan, Alyza Taguilaso, Marcus Ugboduma and Simon Thaddeus Tsaga
2022
Joanna Cockerline, Alex Stein, AlfredoSalvatore Arcilesi, Luiza Louback, Joshua Effiong, Kristin W. Davis
2021
Laneikka Denne, Kalpna Singh-Chitnis, Sunday Obiageli, Esther Iyanuoluwa, Dean Gessie, Ashley Sophia
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2025
“Should You Trust a Fish” by Wyley Fröhlich Jungerman
“These Dark Summer Days” by Julio Puente García
“Men Who Are Strong” by Jon Negroni
2024
“Chamelemom” by Nathaniel Spencer-Cross;
“Green Door” by Kathleen Hellen;
“Quaking” by Kimberly W. Heiman
2023
Tyler Hein, Hec Lampert-Bates, Lena Petrović, Kashvi Ramani
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2025
“The Dead Frog in My Garden” by Twisha Patel
“Between Onlys and Somewheres” by Jozsef Cariste
2024
“Red Red Roses” by Jadi Campbell, Germany and United States;
“Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is Terrorism Against Women’s Bodies” by Nagasha Martina, Uganda
2023
Ian Stewart
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2025
“Mother of the Nation,” by Rebecca Threewit.
“Diving in the Canal,” by Celine W.
“Feathers” by Jess A.
“Our Reflections” by Safiya Lunat.