“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 teen writers and artists come from different cities and schools in Akron and Cleveland, their stories, poems and artworks live together in a new book: Hide & Seek, published by Lake Erie Ink. Lake Erie Ink is a local organization that offers a host of writing programs for young people in the Cleveland area. Hide & Seek is the latest iteration of the organization’s teen anthology series.
The annual anthology series compiles all kinds of artworks created by students in sixth grade through high school. It’s free to submit, and every submission gets into the book.
“There’s just a huge range of voices and experiences in the way that teens show up in the world,” said Amy Hughes, a teaching artist with Lake Erie Ink who helped lead the teen anthology project this year. “I think it’s a really powerful thing to give them a professional place to present their work and to have their voices be heard.””
