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

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Lucy - NOLA Myths

Overall, I feel like a lot of people in general think our city is well, bad. I think New Orleans
is commonly pegged as the place where people get drunk or shot. After calling this my home
for sixteen years, I can proudly say that New Orleans is none of the above. Yes, we know how
to have fun and yes, we’re culturally diverse. Do you have a problem with that? I guess most
tourists don’t understand why we take so much pride in this city, and it is okay…you won’t
after your first time down. New Orleans is a complicated, misunderstood place, but that is all
explicable since there is, in fact, no other place in the United States quite like it. I think myths of
drinking 24/7 or horrible crime rates arise by out-of-towners because really they are just jealous
of what New Orleans has to offer: A fun, diversified time.

Lucy, age 17
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