Welcome!
CHC is a cross between a writers’ workshop and a poetry anthology to keep us sane while society is on Coronal hold.Each day of the traditional work week, a poetry prompt will be posted on our Instagram story and in its feed.
Anyone out in the wide Instagram world can write a poem that somehow interacts with that prompt! Bring it to our attention by tagging CHC through a photo of the poem in your story or a post, we’ll share as many of the resulting pieces as we can manage to.
All rights will defer to you/the account holder(s) attached to each shared piece.
Anyone out in the wide Instagram world can write a poem that somehow interacts with that prompt! Bring it to our attention by tagging CHC through a photo of the poem in your story or a post, we’ll share as many of the resulting pieces as we can manage to.
All rights will defer to you/the account holder(s) attached to each shared piece.
How do I do it?-
To submit, post a poem in your Instagram story or feed (handwritten/typed/gothic lettering with a stencil/get wild while staying legible) and tag us in it!
We post a new prompt every weekday, generally in the morning. Keep an eye out! We also welcome special guest prompt-contributors, new work to read, and new peers to meet.
Each day a prompt is posted, we’ll read every submission and post the results that night!
We post a new prompt every weekday, generally in the morning. Keep an eye out! We also welcome special guest prompt-contributors, new work to read, and new peers to meet.
Each day a prompt is posted, we’ll read every submission and post the results that night!
Why Should I?
If you, like us, are a creative trying to recalibrate your maker brain as COVID-19 upends the world as we know it, having a free prompt to jumpstart your practice can make all the difference.
Or, perhaps you’ve never actually thought of yourself as a creative, but you’d sure like to try something new right now. We would benefit from that, anyway.
This is most likely a self-serving life preserver situation. Come swim with us. (Well, maybe don’t, because social distancing is important. But let your brain swim, and send us the results!)
Or, perhaps you’ve never actually thought of yourself as a creative, but you’d sure like to try something new right now. We would benefit from that, anyway.
This is most likely a self-serving life preserver situation. Come swim with us. (Well, maybe don’t, because social distancing is important. But let your brain swim, and send us the results!)
What are the Rules?
No hate speech (Hate speech is any form of expression through which speakers intend to vilify, humiliate, or incite hatred against a group or a class of persons [or an individual]. (ALA)
In tagging us, we have the right to share your work on our account
All rights defer to each poem’s account/account-owners
CHC reserves the right to remove content that violates the hate speech guideline.
Submissions must be in response to the prompt we posted on the day of submission
No hate speech. The world is on many different kinds of fire right now. Stop it.
Again, no hate speech
One poem at a time- just as we’re taking it one day at a time with the quarantine and impending doom, take your poetry one day at a time! If you miss a prompt, don’t worry! Tomorrow is another day.
In tagging us, we have the right to share your work on our account
All rights defer to each poem’s account/account-owners
CHC reserves the right to remove content that violates the hate speech guideline.
Submissions must be in response to the prompt we posted on the day of submission
No hate speech. The world is on many different kinds of fire right now. Stop it.
Again, no hate speech
One poem at a time- just as we’re taking it one day at a time with the quarantine and impending doom, take your poetry one day at a time! If you miss a prompt, don’t worry! Tomorrow is another day.
Clean Hands Collective is brought to you by poets Abigail Kirby Conklin and Noah David Roberts, the triple-name-duo. Our goal is to provide you with an activity during your quarantine (something AKC and NDR desperately need, as they are both slowly descending into derangement).