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

Friday, May 18, 2012

Haley - Heat


Escaping the heat…
One may think that escaping the heat of New Orleans is well, impossible.
They are wrong.
The heat is pretty much unbearable most of the year, but it has a personality of its own.
New Orleans weather is bipolar.
There is no telling what the weather will be like.
It will go from storming, to sunny.
From 60 degrees to 102 degrees.
Although the weather is unpredictable, the culture is not.
The weather is one of the many aspects that shape a New Orleanian.
Haley, age 16