Awards

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

Author Award Nominees

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 2025

    “Mother of the Nation,” by Rebecca Threewit.

    “Diving in the Canal,” by Celine W.

    “Feathers” by Jess A.

    “Our Reflections” by Safiya Lunat.

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