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Latria Graham

@latriagraham.bsky.social

✍🏽: Afar Magazine's Unpacked column, Garden+Gun's This Land column. Words in OutsideMagazine, Smithsonian &others

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The New York Times@nytimes.com · last wk.

The New York Times and @postandcourier.bsky.social are examining the business of short-term lending in South Carolina. If you or someone you know is a borrower who has taken out installment, payday or title loans, or you work for a company that offers them, please fill out the form in this article.

South Carolinians: Do You Have a Short-Term, High-Interest Personal Loan? Share Your Bills.

We want to hear from borrowers who have taken out installment, payday or title loans, and those who work for companies that offer them.

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Maggie Mertens@maggiemertens.bsky.social · 2w ago

Also! If you have a question about writing, publishing, or media that Scratch could help answer send it in! @rahawahaile.bsky.social @latriagraham.bsky.social and I are waiting by the mailbox like cute little puppies. www.talkscratch.com/contact/

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General Inquiries: hi@talkscratch.com Publishing Folks: books@talkscratch.com Media/Press: media@talkscratch.com Subscriber Help: newsletter@talkscratch.com Mailbag: Got questions about writing, p...

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Latria Graham@latriagraham.bsky.social · 2w ago

We started a mailbag where readers can ask writing (and industry) related questions and I'm very excited about it all. This was our first one!

Maggie Mertens@maggiemertens.bsky.social · 2w ago

Is there anything better than MAIL!??!?! Go check out the first @talkscratch.bsky.social MAILBAG! in inboxes now. We delved into the secret (?!?) world of Literary Scouts, and the age-old question of how to craft writing that *satisfies* www.talkscratch.com/scratch-read...

Rahawa Haile@rahawahaile.bsky.social · 4w ago

I’m proud of the work Scratch is doing, but the candor and generosity with which our interviewees have spoken might be the thing that’s moved me most these last six months. www.talkscratch.com/the-scratch-...

A screenshot from the link in the quoted post that reads: “Something I want to make sure I say is part of how we artists survive this is being in community, helping each other out. There was a time for almost a year where another artist friend of mine paid my rent. And I had no idea how long she would be able to do that or whatever, but it certainly helped with the transition to leaving that corporate job. There were times when…I remember I had to buy some bread and all I had was nickels. I made a note to myself to remember that there's going to come a time where it's not going to be like this, that it hasn't always been like this, but this moment matters because this too is part of the sacrifice and the uncertainty of choosing this particular profession. There's highs and lows.”
Rahawa Haile@rahawahaile.bsky.social · 4w ago

You won't find a more honest conversation about money, publishing, and race this week than the one between Deesha Philyaw and Latria Graham that went up on Scratch today. Also, we are a worker-owned collective, and we would love your support. talkscratch.com

Latria Graham@latriagraham.bsky.social · 4w ago

Part II is up this morning! Deesha was generous with her time and candid with her answers, and as I mentioned in our conversation, I think she's saved so many writers from that "what is wrong with me/my work" doom spiral we're often caught up in. www.talkscratch.com/the-scratch-...

The Scratch Interview #8: Deesha Philyaw on Literary Community, Part II

“The last thing we need when we're trying to make art is to feel ashamed by what we don't have, and yet here we are.”

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Latria Graham@latriagraham.bsky.social · 4w ago

This is Part I of one of the best interviews I've ever done. :-)

The Rumpus@therumpus.net · 4w ago

"This intensity, this ability to find stories where others refuse to look, is the basis of Garvey’s project, taking place down winding country roads in a blood-red Cadillac." From "A Pair of Death Trips," new criticism by Narciso Novogratz. ➡️ buff.ly/TB3oi1d

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The Rumpus@therumpus.net · 2mo ago

⚡️ COMING SOON! ⚡️ The Rumpus is pleased to announce a new category for submissions, Flash Fridays. We will be accepting fiction and nonfiction, up to 1,000 words, to be included in our weekly newsletter on Fridays. Payment for this work is $200. Keep an eye our for when subs open: buff.ly/l4g69vI

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The Rumpus@therumpus.net · 2mo ago

"No era apenas que ella estuviese perdiendo de vista a las personas y las cosas. Más bien parecía como si todo se estuviera disolviendo. Incluso las memorias estaban perdiendo sus contornos." From "Amelia" by Andrea Villa Franco for our new column el Alboroto. ➡️ buff.ly/uinEqHA

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Rahawa Haile@rahawahaile.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Did I sneak in the tag "Kidney Almost Have It All?" into this piece about bean club divorces? You better believe I did.

COYOTE@coyotemedia.org · 2mo ago

Cole Harry found himself in the midst of a sudden divorce. His ex took the apartment, the furniture — and his Rancho Gordo Bean Club subscription. When heirloom beans are caught in the middle of a messy divorce, who should get custody? @soleilho.com asks Bay Area food club leaders to chime in.

Maggie Mertens@maggiemertens.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If you know Kim Cross, you know this is a must-read @talkscratch.bsky.social interview by @latriagraham.bsky.social Kim is generous and vulnerable. Go learn how to trade your work for passage on a Nat Geo cruise ship and why it's OK to cry among the peonies. www.talkscratch.com/the-scratch-...

The Scratch Interview: Kim Cross

“Freelance rates, by the way, haven't gone up since 1985. That's when magazines started paying $2 a word.”

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s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · 3mo ago

I’ve spent six years working on it, and next week, my book on grief, American culture, who is allowed to mourn and how, and whether we can take up grief as a collective project will be unleashed on the world! Do yourself (and me) a favor and preorder now.

All My Dead Cats and Other Losses: Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning

"Both a grief book that doesn't read like a clinician's notes and a memoir wrapped around a bigger subject, All My Dead Cats takes grief from the taboo to the universal." — BooklistHave you suffered a...

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Reo Eveleth@reveleth.com · 3mo ago

Hey Bay Area folks, just a reminder that I curate the @coyotemedia.org calendar and am always looking for interesting stuff. What are you all up to this week? Do you know of cool things going on? Send them my way! calendar@coyotemedia.org <3

Rahawa Haile@rahawahaile.bsky.social · 4mo ago

My long interview with @coletteshade.bsky.social is up at Scratch this week, in which we discuss writing vs. writing careers, making ends meet under capitalism, and long-term planning from within short-sighted industries. It is an extremely candid conversation about art and money and aging.

Colette Shade on Y2K and the Limits of a Millennial Writing Career: The Scratch Interview

“In order to have a society — frankly, a democracy — we have to have these areas that are protected from the market.”

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