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

Sarah - NOLA Influences


French Quarter
Each house is a different color.
Each wrought iron grate and fence has a different design.
Each window is a door into another story.
The French Quarter’s cobbled streets and brick buildings
Hold every kind of story imaginable
From waves to beads this quarter
It has been at the heart of everything in the city
And despite the currents, pain and rain
The French Quarter is still there.

Sarah, age 17