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

Friday, February 4, 2011

Hannah - I am New Orleans

“Hannah, I have something important to tell you.”

…I’m getting a car? We’re going on a trip? My cousins are coming in town?... Thing after thing ran through my mind. I just couldn’t figure out what was so important! No, I wasn’t getting car and we weren't going on a trip. My cousins weren’t coming in town, but they would be for whatever this surprise was. My dad had me on this one. I had absolutely no idea what it could be.

“Hannah, you are going to be queen of Thoth.”

I don’t think that hearing any other nine words could have made me any happier than these nine words did. My favorite Mardi Gras parade, the one that I had been a part of for my entire life, had chosen me, Hannah McIntyre, to be their queen when I was born. Mardi Gras is New Orleans. So being a part of Mardi Gras in this way, made me New Orleans. Since Thoth has always been a part of my family, my family was New Orleans. Since my sister has been born, at every Thoth function we attend we are introduced as “the queen in 2012 and the queen of 2028.” Because I am Mardi Gras, I am New Orleans.

Hannah, age 17
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