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IHRAM Blog
Writer Feature: Annie Wesley
The Writer’s Notebook: featuring Annie Wesley. Annie is a Muskego Cree from Northern Ontario. She is one of IHRAM Press’s treasured writers. In this interview, she shares her musings, inspiration, and honest thoughts on her experience with us as an author and activist.
Writer Feature: Nathaniel Spencer-Cross
The Writer’s Notebook: featuring Nathaniel Spencer-Cross, an author from Canada. He shares his musings and aspirations.
Writer Feature: Jordan Redekop-Jones
The Writer’s Notebook: featuring Jordan Redekop-Jones. Jordan is a Canadian, Mixed-Indigenous winner of the 2024 Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence for Poetry and the 2024 Indigenous Voices Award in the unpublished poetry category. She shares her musings, inspiration, and honest thoughts on her experience with us as an author and activist.
Artist Feature: Luis Pedro Picasso
The Artist’s Notebook: featuring Luis Pedro Picasso. Luis is a graphic designer and illustrator from Uruguay. He is one of IHRAM’s treasured artists. In this interview, he shares his musings, inspiration, and honest thoughts on his experience with us as an artist and activist.
Writer Feature: Raymond Sewell
The Writer’s Notebook: featuring Raymond Sewell. Raymond is one of IHRAM Press’s treasured writers. In this interview, they share their musings, inspiration, and honest thoughts on their experience with us as an author and activist.
Reclaiming our voice through art.
FEN HSU, IHRAM Press artist, speaks about the relationship between Indigenous culture & disability awareness through art.
Writer Feature: Jadi Campbell
The Writer’s Notebook: featuring Jadi Campbell. Jadi Campbell is from Germany / Upstate New York. Jadi is one of IHRAM Press’s treasured writers. In this interview, she shares her musings, inspiration, and honest thoughts on her experience with us as an author and activist.
Artist Feature: Avis Blackbird
The Artist’s Notebook: featuring Avis Blackbird. Avis is an Indigenous writer from Vancouver, Canada. She is also one of IHRAM’s treasured artists. In this interview, she shares her musings, inspiration, and honest thoughts on her experience with us as an artist and activist.
Writer Feature: Emma Goldman-Sherman
The Writer’s Notebook: featuring Emma Goldman-Sherman. She’s from the United States and is one of IHRAM Press’s treasured writers. In this interview, she shares their musings, inspiration, and honest thoughts on their experience with us as an author and activist.
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.