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Sharpen your quills, brave souls. The spirits of health care bills past, present, and future are calling 鈥� and they demand haikus.

Submissions are now open for 黑料吃瓜网 News鈥� seventh annual Halloween haiku competition. 黑料吃瓜网 News has been publishing reader-submitted health care haikus for years and is dying to read your frightful inspirations.

We want your eeriest health care or health policy haiku. Submissions will be judged by a body of experts from our newsroom.

We鈥檒l share favorites on our social media channels, and our newsroom ghouls will pick the winners, announced on Friday, Oct. 31. So gather your courage (and your syllables) and haunt us with your best.

Rules:

• Submit your haiku to /contact-haiku/ with the link to the related 黑料吃瓜网 News article.
• 鈥淟颈办别鈥� on Facebook, and follow on X, on Bluesky, and on Instagram.
• (Optional) Include your X, Bluesky, or Instagram handle in the submission and let us know if it鈥檚 OK to give 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 should meet the following criteria:
  • Follow the format of a haiku (a three-line poem with 17 syllables, written in a 5/7/5 syllable count).
  • Contain information related to health care and/or health policy that follows the scary/Halloween theme.
  • Reference a 黑料吃瓜网 News story in the haiku 鈥� as a bonus.
  • No use of artificial intelligence is allowed. Entries created or modified by AI will not be considered.

Submissions may be lightly edited for style and clarity before publication.

Prizes:

The top three haikus will rise again with a custom comic illustration drawn by staff illustrator Oona Zenda. The grand-prize winner will have their haiku featured in the 黑料吃瓜网 News Morning Briefing on Oct. 31, and we will give you a shoutout 鈥� or hair-raising scream 鈥� on our social media pages, with the hashtag #HealthCareScare.