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

Monday, April 30, 2012

Katie - Home

When you look around, you can see that New Orleans has many homes.

The iron balcony apartments, St. Charles mansions, shotgun houses, the
street that houses every person in a family, the Iberville projects,
and the middle class suburbs. Each with a different style- French,
Spanish, or just plain "run down". But you can find these anywhere in
the world really.

These homes are not what home means in NOLA. The people living in them
are home.

Home means never apologizing for talking with improper grammar, for
eating way too much seafood, or for missing a day of school or work
for jazz fest. Home means saying hello or smiling to someone you pass
in the street. People who call this place Home let that New Orleans
culture live in them body and soul. This is why New Orleans is not
defined by the buildings or the houses, but by the people and their
background. The people of NOLA are home.

Katie, age 16
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