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, May 3, 2011

Lizzie - Message to young NOLA

Our City

New Orleans

French Quarter, streetcars, Mardi Gras, and snowballs,

The people of New Orleans seem to really have it all,

Beignets, the Saints, The Mississippi, and more,

Visitors and tourists don’t even know what’s in store,

Jazz Fest, Gumbo, and music from the soul

New Orleanians love their city, true and whole

Nothing will stop us, we are proud to swim home,

Not even with water surrounding the Dome,

There are many different meanings of the Who Dat Nation, or NOLA, too

What does New Orleans mean to you?

Lizzie, age 16
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