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 28, 2012

Chelsea - NOLA Greetings

Y’all come back now, can be heard from many New Orleans places.

It is a sign of community

It is a sign family.

It shows that a patron is simply not another check in just another restaurant, but a member of a family
bigger than themselves.

To a New Orleanian, this is a fixture of home.

On any street corner at any given time of the day, a “new Orleans saying can be heard” and received
with a smiling face.

Here, there is no awkward small talk with the stranger on the corner, but a welcome into greater
community.

New Orleans would not be New Orleans if there were not hey m’a baby, nice to see y’all to today, or
y’all come back now.

These sayings make New Orleans such unique place.

Chelsea, age 15
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