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Scratch Team

Scratch Team

Posts collectively written by Manjula Martin, Latria Graham, Rahawa Haile, and Maggie Mertens.
Jul 22
A collage of covers to the books mentioned in the post below, hovering around a star that reads "Scratch Summer Reading Recs."

What We're Reading This Season

Or whatever else you want, really. No judgement from us.
9 min read
Jul 08
Scrabble game tiles that spell out the word "S-U-M-M-E-R" set against a wooden background

Summer State of Mind

Scratch’s summer vacation (kind of)
8 min read
May 27
F stand in front of a mural of a fox and bird in purples, pinks and blues.

The Devil Wears Prada 2 Triggered Our Media Trauma

Spoiler: Mackenzie Scott is not saving our magazine careers
19 min read
Apr 14
a photograph of earth from the Artemis mission, black background adn a crescent of earth: blue, green and white clouds are visible.

Links We Shared When We Thought the World Was Ending

Taking the temperature of the literary internet.
7 min read
Apr 07
An outdoor group photo of four people standing in front of a mural with exasperated thought/speech bubbles above their heads. The bottom left reads "The Scratch Group Chat"

Should We All Be Working Retail?

And could we even get hired?
16 min read
Mar 10
An outdoor group photo of four people standing in front of a mural with exasperated thought/speech bubbles above their heads. The bottom left reads "The Scratch Group Chat"

How We Get By

In which we say the money part out loud.
16 min read
Mar 03
A photo of bookshelves inside Green Apple Books. A sign on top reads "Poetry" and "Business," and has the arrows pointing in different directions.

The New Scratch

How is anyone who writes making any money right now?
5 min read