CONTEST ANNOUNCEMENT – FAG/HAG SERIES

by Bryan Borland

In celebration of the upcoming release of my book, My Life as Adam, I thought it would be fun to have a little poetry contest.  My idea is to invite you, Dear Readers, to write the next poem in the Fag/Hag or Hag/Fag (or hell, Fag/Stag – Google the term “Fag Stag” if you are a straight man) series.    No limit on lines, form, structure, subject matter, etc.,  just a poem that would fit, in your perception, under the title, “Fag/Hag (or Hag/Fag or Fag/Stag) Series: [Your Poem's Title]. Entries will be blindly judged by one of my oldest and dearest friends and the star of this series, the always opinionated MedicatedLady, who still holds a grudge against me because I won the coveted “Creative Writing” award in our senior year of high school and wants you to know that she is not, indeed, a Fag Hag.

To enter the contest, send a poem that you perceive qualifies as “fitting within this series” to my email address: PoeticGrin@aol.com

Don’t post your poem here – that will come later.  I’ll collect the entries, remove the poets’ names, and present them to MedicatedLady to select a winner. Your perception of what fits into this series is completely up to you.  It does NOT have to be about MedicatedLady and myself. Be creative and invent characters. Be revealing about a friendship (or more) from your past.  Write a poem about the guy you knew was gay in school. Flip the script and write a poem that’s anti terms like Fag Hag.  It’s all good.

The winner will receive the very first autographed copy of My Life as Adam, as well as a random object from the home of MedicatedLady.

The deadline for entry is Sunday, February 14th.  I’ll post the entries on the blog after the winner has been announced, and let readers vote on a “crowd favorite” who will receive the second autographed copy of My Life as Adam and another random object from the home of MedicatedLady.  (So yes, there will be two winners!)

Several examples of poems from the “Fag/Hag” series can be found by clicking the drop-down menu on the right side your screen.  Other examples can be found at MedicatedLady’s website. However, entries do not have to emulate the style of poems we’ve written.

Good luck, and remember, you don’t have to be gay or a straight woman with gay friends to enter the contest!  You don’t even have to be a poet! You just have to be, um, willing to experiment.  Like we all did in college.  Or that summer no one discusses.

Email your entries to PoeticGrin@aol.com, especially if you were going to buy Adam anyway.  What do you have to lose?

- Bryan