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, February 28, 2012

Grace - Mardi Gras

It is the joy and spirit that lighten the streets of New Orleans.
The blaring music from Superior Grill that makes everyone dance,
Bands with a variety instruments cover the pavement as they create cheerful music,
The rumbling of tractors that pull the flimsy floats for miles,
And lastly, children and adults scream for useless and plastic beads that in reality mean nothing
However, these are the sounds that “laissez les bon temps roulez.”

Grace, age 17
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