IHRAM Press serves as a bridge for up-and-coming authors from over 90 countries, providing a global stage for work that centers on social justice, human rights, and the indomitable human spirit.

IHRAM Press is a small charity press, using creativity to spur positive social change and publishing up-and-coming writers and artists from around the world.  Our Literary Journal provides the platform for creative activists at risk to speak up about urgent social-justice issues in their environments, providing readers with their unique perspectives on issues of human rights.

We are a Pushcart-Prize, Best American Short Stories, Best American Essays, and PEN nominating literary journal. 

Our values are based on the beauty as a fundamental creative principle; sincerity and vulnerability of presentation; celebrating diversity; and opening doorways of engagement with international writers and artists.

We are currently reviewing submissions for our upcoming Literary Magazine: Quarter One, Language, Censorship, and Translation. The IHRAM Press pays $50 per accepted piece and $25 per accepted artist. 

International Human Rights Art Movement Press Literary Magazine

We are opening submissions for an issue dedicated to amplifying the voices of women of colour, including transgender women and women living across cultures as expats, migrants, or in diasporic communities.<div><br></div><div>This issue will explore stories of hope, resistance, and resilience—shining a light on the struggles, strengths, and creativity of women of colour worldwide.</div>

IHRAM Literary Magazine: Stories of Women of Colour, Culture & Becoming

WHAT ARE WE SEEKING TO DO?<div><br></div><div>We are seeking firsthand experiences, factual retellings of stories from the author’s life, and personal reflections exploring the relationship between language, identity, expression, and power. We welcome submissions from writers around the world, regardless of gender, identity, nationality, or background. We are particularly interested in work that considers how language shapes the way we understand ourselves and others, and what happens when people are denied, constrained, misunderstood, or unable to use their own voice.</div><div><br></div><div>WHAT ARE WE LOOKING TO PUBLISH (AND NOT LIMITED TO):</div><div><br></div><div>-How language shapes identity and belonging</div><div>-Language as a form of personal expression</div><div>-Language and social status</div><div>-Multilingual and cross-cultural experiences</div><div>-Preserving meaning, voice, and cultural context across languages</div><div>-Finding the language to speak out</div><div>-The limitations of mother language vs translated language</div><div>-Silence, censorship, and self-censorship</div><div>-The relationship between language, culture, and political power</div><div>-How language can reinforce or challenge systems of power</div><div><br></div><div>TRANSLATION:</div><div>We welcome translated work and writing about the experience of translation as a way to fight censorship and speak about change.</div><div><br></div><div>If you are submitting a translated piece, you must provide your own translator. Please note that we do not accept AI-assisted or written translations. While we aim to publish work written or translated into English; however, submissions originally written in other languages are welcome if they accompany an English translation.  </div><div><br></div><div>What happens to meaning, voice, tone, identity, and cultural context when a story moves from one language to another? What can be preserved, and what inevitably changes? Language can mean spoken or written words, translation, silence, gesture, accent, dialect, mother tongue, inherited language, lost language, forbidden language, or any other form through which people communicate, express themselves, or are denied expression.</div><div><br></div><div>Please visit our website for more details on submission guidelines, themes, and how to submit: https://humanrightsartmovement.org/ihram-submissions</div><div><br></div><div>IHRAM Press pays $50 per accepted written piece and $25 per accepted artist. </div>

Magazine edition Quarter One 2027: Language, Censorship, and Translation

<div>WHAT ARE WE SEEKING TO DO?</div><div><br></div><div>We are seeking firsthand experiences from original thinkers and land stewards, factual retellings, and personal reflections that shaped the writer’s adulthood, valuing the native voice and Indigenous history. This magazine will also explore the relationship between spirituality, myth, dreams, memory, culture, identity, resistance, and Indigenous voices. We welcome submissions from writers around the world, regardless of gender or identity.</div><div><br></div><div>We are particularly interested in how creativity becomes a form of resistance and generational memory. How can storytelling preserve what has been suppressed? How do myths and inherited stories reflect the way we understand ourselves and the world? What does it mean to reclaim a tradition, history, or narrative that has been marginalised or erased?</div><div><br></div><div>We encourage writers to approach these questions through their own lived experiences and perspectives.</div><div><br></div><div>We especially welcome submissions from Indigenous writers and communities whose histories, traditions, or cultural identities have experienced marginalisation, suppression, or erasure. We also welcome anyone with a meaningful personal connection to the themes of myth, cultural memory, storytelling, identity, and resistance.</div><div><br></div><div>WHAT ARE WE LOOKING TO PUBLISH (AND NOT LIMITED TO):</div><div><br></div><div>-Indigenous communities and cultural traditions</div><div>- Traditions that have been suppressed or threatened with erasure</div><div>- Myths, histories, and ideologies that have been marginalised or erased</div><div>- Cultural identity and its preservation through art and literature</div><div>- Myths and stories that form the basis of traditions, beliefs, and worldviews</div><div>- How myths shape cultural identity and collective memory</div><div>- The influence of myths on contemporary perceptions</div><div>- Oral traditions and the transmission of cultural knowledge</div><div>- Storytelling, art, and literature as forms of resistance and reclamation</div><div>- The loss, preservation, or rediscovery of cultural stories</div><div><br></div>Please visit our website for more details on submission guidelines, themes, and how to submit: https://humanrightsartmovement.org/ihram-submissions<div><br></div><div>IHRAM Press pays $50 per accepted written piece and $25 per accepted artist. </div>

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Magazine edition Quarter One 2027: Language, Censorship, and Translation