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

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Megan - NOLA Myths

New Orleans is the murder capital of the country. I have lived in this city for sixteen years and
until recently would say that this was a myth. I have never witnessed a murder. I have never been scared
to walk around my city or drive around it, but now the media and headlines like “Monday Murders”
have me agreeing with people around the country. This is no longer just a myth. Us New Orleanians live
for our misconceptions. I love the tourists who come in for Mardi Gras thinking that we all get drunk all
the time going to Bourbon and then to the swamp for some Gumbo. We rise above our reputation, and
are better than the myths that surround the city, but when a myth becomes a reality, it starts to concern
me. I hope someday that instead of “Monday Murders” we could just have “Monthly Murders,” but
either way New Orleans will make the best out of it. The party never stops in the Big Easy.

Megan, age 16




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