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

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Jackie - Winter in NOLA


Have you gone to summer camp?

I have so often

Therefore I should know

What its like to have a Christmas in July.

Its warm, its joyful, and its unique

But, its what exactly describes

New Orleans in the Holiday Season

Although, the cold weather

Does seem to seep through the warm weather

But the lights are hung on roofs,

Bushes, trees, windows.

The smiles emerge

The stores are packed

And the surprises are occurring everywhere

Its one of the happiest times

Its one of the favorite emotions that fill the air.

Jackie, age 16
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