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

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Jade - NOLA Myths

New Orleans isn't what everyone thinks it's out to be.
Partying every night? We actually go to school and learn.
Bourbon every night? I've been on Bourbon with my mom twice.
Being on the roofs fighting for our lives during Katrina? I left before.
VooDoo? I've never even been to a fortune teller.
Sleeping outside in tents for Mardi Gras? Never done that either.

There's more to New Orleans than the spooky fortune tellers and the
crazy parties.

Jade, age 15
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