How do we work?

Once every few weeks a new topic will be displayed on the blog. Young people, ages 5 - 96, will submit their responses. Student writing will be posted as it is received. Know someone that would love to contribute? Pass the word.

Blog #14 Topic Choices:
Write about a place or an aspect of New Orleans that has influenced you OR use the words "Escaping the heat/to get out of the heat..." of New Orleans.

Submission Logistics: Submissions should be in response to the blog topic. Poetry and prose, up to 500 words in length, should be emailed as a Microsoft Word attachment. Emails should include author’s first name, age, and School.

Submissions can be sent to: youngneworleanswritingtogether@gmail.com
Submission due date: May 31st, 2012 @ 5pm

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Amy - Characters

A little place called New Orleans; where the
Best of
Characters come out when least expected.
Down in the markets, on the streets,
Everywhere you would least expect it.
For these such people we are
Given the title "Southern
Hospitality."
It's not something you can
Just learn. It’s a way of life, a special
Kind of people who are bonded together and have
Lived together through the thick and thin, hurricanes,
May floods, and much worse. The best people in
New
Orleans would never desert their home without
Putting up
Quite the fight.
Relocate? We'd tell the haters we would rather
Swim home
Than give up our home.
Until that time again, we
Voluntarily put up all the hassle of evacuation
Which makes us all into the unique
X-static people that the rest of the world should
Zealously long to be. 

Amy, age 16