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

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Anonymous - Home

Hope can be found even when all is lost.
Opulence is also in the Muddy Mississippi.
Magnificence ties people together creating a bond stronger than steel.
Excitement is every day in our home, New Orleans.
New Orleans will always be my home, and my home will always be New Orleans.

Anonymous, age 15