Boo! We frightened you. Now it’s your turn to offer our newsroom a scare. Submissions are now open for KFF Health News’ 6th yearly Halloween haiku competitors. KFF Health News has actually been releasing reader-submitted healthcare haikus for several years and is on pins and needles to check out how this creepy season motivates you. We desire your finest frightening healthcare or health policy haiku. We’ll share favorites on our social networks channels, and members of our personnel will choose the winners, revealed on Thursday, Oct. 31.
Guidelines:
- Send your haiku to https://kffhealthnews.org/contact-haiku/ with the link to the associated KFF Health News short article.
- “Like” KFF Health News and California Healthline on Facebook, and follow @KFFHealthNews on the social platforms X, Instagram, and TikTok.
- (Optional) Include your X or Instagram deal with in the submission and let us understand if it’s okay to provide you a shout-out on social networks.
- Send your haiku by 5 p.m. ET on Friday, Oct. 18.
- To win, the haiku needs to fulfill the following requirements:
- Follow the format of a haiku (a three-line poem with 17 syllables, composed in a 5/7/5-syllable count).
- Consist of details associated to healthcare and/or health policy that follows the scary/Halloween style.
- Recommendation a KFF Health News story in the haiku– as a benefit.
Prizes:
The leading 3 haikus will be revealed with a custom-made comic illustration drawn by personnel illustrator Oona Zenda and included in the KFF Health News Morning Briefing. Chief Washington reporter Julie Rovner will check out the grand-prize winner on KFF Health News’ “What the Health?” podcast on Oct. 31, and we will offer you a shout-out– or hair-raising scream– on our social networks pages, with the hashtag #HealthCareScare.
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