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, May 24, 2012

Brittany - Heat


Eating Plum Street snowballs is a method of escaping heat that cannot be beat
Next up is swimming in various, then portable fans that spray water
Although miserable, the heat is an irreplaceable and inevitable aspect of summer in New Orleans
If it were cold, there would be no need for the constant consumption of snowballs
The locals, who know their way around, would be hesitant to go pool hopping around the city
Embrace the heat 

Brittany, age 16
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