Empowered Writers Enriching Community: From the Class of 2021, Collinwood High School
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During the winter and spring of 2021, two small classes of twelfth graders at Collinwood High
School worked with Lake Erie Ink teaching artist Michelle R. Smith on creative writing. The
students selected, from among the impressive array of essays, poems, and vignettes they
wrote, the special pieces presented here in this anthology. They worked very hard to channel
their creativity while enduring the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic and attending class
online, and for that and the quality of their work, they deserve so much credit.
We want to thank their teacher, Violet Taylor, for her unstinting belief in the value of letting
students develop and raise their voices through creative writing and her heartfelt support of her
students, to whose success she was deeply devoted.
We also want to congratulate the student writers that contributed to this anthology for going
outside of their comfort zones and doing a new thing. We hope that you take those rich
imaginations and novel ideas you have about the world and use them to not only produce more
great writing, but to make the world better through your creativity and hard work.