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

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Liz - Heat

Walking in a winter wonder land, the ground rich with a fresh layer of newly fallen soft white snow that blanketing the hard ground,
The air crisp and cool,
The sky gleaming brightly with the falling of tiny white specs that softly land upon my tongue with a delightful light touch of cool wetness.
As I lean forward to catch that tiny white angel from above, I am so close yet so far away, never able to reach it
Things that only happen in my dreams.
Opening my eyes, returning me back to my reality of constant heat and endless humidity, my hot sauna weather reality.

Liz, age 17