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

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Ruthie - NOLA Myths

It would be very easy to dispel myths about New Orleans (no, we don’t go to Bourbon on school nights, sorry, I don’t eat king cake in July, nope, Mardi Gras beads are just for Mardi Gras, not everyone has an accent, for God’s sake my house isn’t still flooded, I’ve never seen a voodoo ritual, I don’t believe the Jackson Square fortune tellers, I have not and will never see a ghost, and yes, there is more to New Orleans than the French Quarter) but there would be no fun in that, right?

Ruthie, age 16
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