Sharpen your quills, courageous souls. The spirits of well being care payments previous, current, and future are calling … and so they demand haikus.
Submissions at the moment are open for KFF Well being Information’ seventh annual Halloween haiku competitors. KFF Well being Information has been publishing reader-submitted well being care haikus for years and is dying to learn your frightful inspirations.
We would like your eeriest well being care or well being coverage haiku. Submissions will likely be judged by a physique of consultants from our newsroom.
We’ll share favorites on our social media channels, and our newsroom ghouls will decide the winners, introduced on Friday, Oct. 31. So collect your braveness (and your syllables) and hang-out us together with your finest.
Guidelines:
- Submit your haiku to https://kffhealthnews.org/contact-haiku/ with the hyperlink to the associated KFF Well being Information article.
- “Like” KFF Well being Information on Fb, and observe @KFFHealthNews on X, @kffhealthnews.bsky.social on Bluesky, and @KFFHealthNews on Instagram.
- (Non-compulsory) Embrace your X, Bluesky, or Instagram deal with within the submission and tell us if it’s OK to present you a shoutout on social media.
- Submit your haiku by the witching hour, 11:59 p.m. ET, on Sunday, Oct. 19.
- To win, the haiku ought to meet the next standards:
- Comply with the format of a haiku (a three-line poem with 17 syllables, written in a 5/7/5 syllable depend).
- Include data associated to well being care and/or well being coverage that follows the scary/Halloween theme.
- Reference a KFF Well being Information story within the haiku — as a bonus.
- No use of synthetic intelligence is allowed. Entries created or modified by AI is not going to be thought-about.
Submissions could also be calmly edited for fashion and readability earlier than publication.
Prizes:
The highest three haikus will rise once more with a customized comedian illustration drawn by workers illustrator Oona Zenda. The grand-prize winner can have their haiku featured within the KFF Well being Information Morning Briefing on Oct. 31, and we will provide you with a shoutout ― or hair-raising scream ― on our social media pages, with the hashtag #HealthCareScare.
