Lake Erie Ink In The News

  • Cle Ink – Teens Speak Out

    Empathy in Action: Student Voices Take the Mic This spring, Lake Erie Ink partnered with three Cleveland high schools—East Tech, John Adams, and Collinwood—for a powerful series of creative writing residencies. With support from the Bruening Foundation and other generous funders, students explored identity, empathy, and self-expression through poetry and personal storytelling. From writing to…

  • Teen authors play ‘Hide & Seek’ with latest Lake Erie Ink anthology of nearly 80 stories, poems and artworks

    “Hide & Seek” weaves together dozens of stories, poems and artworks created by local teens to explore nostalgia, wonder and uncertainty. Signal Cleveland May 30, 2025 “The booming applause seemed endless as young authors from all over Greater Cleveland read their work to a packed house at Loganberry Books on Larchmere on Thursday.  Although the…

  • As Coventry PEACE Tenants Move Out, Some Are Finding Space While Others Are in Limbo

    Cleveland Heights-University Heights public library gave only a six-month notice that tenants have to move Cleveland Scene 12/10/2024 “After she lost her lease at the Coventry PEACE Campus in Cleveland Heights earlier this year, Amy Rosenbluth of the nonprofit youth writing center Lake Erie Ink looked from east to west to find another venue. It…

  • National writing directors visit Cleveland’s Lake Erie Ink, build community around elevating youth voices

    National writing directors visit Cleveland’s Lake Erie Ink, build community around elevating youth voices The Land 9/6/23 “Olga Tokarczuk describes writing a novel as “one of the worst ways of occupying oneself.” George Orwell once described it as “a horrible, exhausting struggle.” Not even writers, it seems, like writing.  Yet an array of organizations across…

  • Teen Podcasts

    Check out the podcasts from the Have You Heard? Teen Podcasting workshop from Summer 2024 and Summer 2025. Listen now on Spotify!