IHRAF Youth Anthology - Creative Writing and Art Contests

IHRAF 2022 Youth Fellow Mahbubat Salahudeen is creating the anthology of youth voices.  This call is for young activists, creatives and advocates for human rights to exhibit the human rights issues that are most important to them in form of art, essays, short stories, poems etc., specifically in reference to the right to defend human rights and not incite hate or bigotry.

Youth Creativity on Human Rights and Social Justice/Change

The Power of Storytelling and The Uniqueness of Art

Submission window now open!

Artists and storytellers 21 years and younger are eligible to submit

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS APRIL 30, 2022

Email submissions to salahudeenmahbubat@gmail.com 

Submission Guidelines

Images and literary works must be in line with the themes of human rights and social justice and should explore the human rights issues that are most important to applicants.  They must reflect the IHRAF values of beauty, sincerity, vulnerability, engagement and celebrating diversity.

All artistic mediums (paintings, photographs etc) should be submitted as high resolution JPEG images, low quality or scans are not permitted

All literary and artistic pieces must be original and previously unpublished.  

Applicants may submit a maximum of two pieces of literary works and a maximum of two artworks

Literary works should be submitted in Doc or Docx format, no PDFs allowed

Storytellers may submit essays, short stories, poems etc of up to 2000 words

Applicants may submit to both categories through separate emails

Each attachment should be titled : Full name of applicant _ Category_ Name of Piece eg: Raven McAndrews_ Storytelling_ Century XXI.

Email submissions to salahudeenmahbubat@gmail.com with the subject line "Youth Creativity on Human Rights and Social Justice/Change: The Power of Storytelling and The Uniqueness of Art"

In the body of the email, please include:

1. Full name

2. Age

3. Country of residence

4. Email address

5. Title of the Art or literary work

6. A brief biography

7. An explanation of the "Art" work (s)