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Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖

@selenamercuri.bsky.social
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Wrote a novel about family, revenge, lemon meringue pie, & smooth jazz. Reviews Editor @thenewquarterly & @havanatimesorg. Rep’d @k2literary. University of Guelph MFA. 💞 🇨🇺🇮🇹🇨🇦

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Registration is now open. www.yorku.ca/laps/the-alc...
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The Alchemy Lecture
The Alchemy Lecture is a multi-vocal model that brings together a constellation of three to four thinkers and practitioners from different disciplines and geographies annually to think together and in...
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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
“Creating and sustaining spaces for literary conversations takes an enormous amount of work, but those spaces matter.” —Selena Mercuri Read the full interview about state of reviewing in Canada: the-wood-lot.ca/2026/08/11/t... @selenamercuri.bsky.social @chrisbanks6625.bsky.social #poetry
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A. F. Moritz @afmoritz.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Read @selenamercuri.bsky.social new review of Eternities on the Havana Times! havanatimes.org/features/ete...
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“Eternidades” a Classic of Spanish Literature Now in English - Havana Times
Written in 1916 and 1917 and published in 1918, Eternidades arrives in English as “Eternities” at a significant remove from its origin...
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@bookhugpress @bookhugpress.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
"The book explores female sexual desire, current heterosexual dynamics, exposes the harms of misogyny & male entitlement and critiques these patriarchal systems." @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social goes on a coffee date with @selenamercuri.bsky.social to discuss The Tinder Sonnets. tinyurl.com/yjcrt6cc
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A Coffee Date with Jennifer LoveGrove
Author of THE TINDER SONNETS
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@bookhugpress @bookhugpress.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
"Approaches to narrative are more complicated than a plotter-pantser binary, but for brevity’s sake, I’ll call myself a pantser." @selenamercuri.bsky.social goes on a coffee date with @lizjohnston.bsky.social, author of The Fall-Down Effect. coffeedateswithauthors.substack.com/p/a-coffee-d...
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A Coffee Date with Liz Johnston
Author of THE FALL-DOWN EFFECT
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Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖 @selenamercuri.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
A LITTLE FERAL by Maria Giesbrecht is heading on tour this May. A current MFA candidate in the program, Maria’s debut poetry collection traces a path through faith, family, and rupture.
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A book tour poster for A Little Feral by Maria Giesbrecht. On the left is a portrait of the author, smiling, with long light brown hair and bangs, set against a brick background. The center and right sections list tour dates and locations in a two-column layout. Cities include Guelph, Toronto, Queens (NYC), Minneapolis, Chicago, Seattle, Victoria, and Calgary, each paired with venues and guest readers. A small image of the book cover appears at the top right, showing a living room scene with birds throughout.]
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Wild Roof Journal @wildroofjournal.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Today we're highlighting a new novel! Liz Johnston's The Fall-Down Effect is an expansive and moving story about family, environmental activism, climate change, secrets, and loss, set in a small mountain town. Read an excerpt from the book here: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/the-fall-d...
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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Read @amandaearl.bsky.social's review of Muttertongue, by Lillian Allen, @garybarwin.bsky.social & @whatisapoem.bsky.social (pub. Exile), in Issue 33! From the first glimpse of the book cover, it’s clear I’m in for a lot of play ... www.thetemzreview.com/earl-muttert...
The cover of Muttertongue, by Lillian Allen, Gary Barwin and Gregory Betts. The background is lighter and darker shades of cyan/turquoise. The title is in black, with dots separating most of the syllables. There are grey and green circles and typography floating around the cover. In the centre of the black title there is the following phrase in white: "what is a word in utter space"
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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Read @amandaearl.bsky.social's review of Steffi Tad-y's Notes from the Ward (pub. Gordon Hill Press) in Issue 33! ​These minimalist poems are powerful expressions of vulnerability and intense articulations of dreams... www.thetemzreview.com/earl-tad-y-3...
The cover of Notes from the Ward, by Steffi Tad-y. The cover is horizontally-arranged, long blocks of red and green. Peeking out underneath in a few places is white paper with pen scribbles on it
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River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
“The Book of Interruptions resists continuity… what emerges is poetry that begins and breaks, self-dissects, and starts again, offering up language attuned to the ruptures we inhabit, those that insist on remaining open.” —Selena Mercuri, The Literary Review of Canada @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social
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All Lit Up @alllitupcanada.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Looking for books to gift (or to read)? Writer and reviewer @selenamercuri.bsky.social has you covered with six fantastic book recommendations in this year's #ALUGiftGuide. alllitup.ca/gift-guide-w...
A graphic reading "Gift Guide Week with Selena Mercuri" There is an inset photo of Selena and her six book picks: There Is No Blue by Martha Baillie; Starry Starry Night by Shani Mootoo; Speech Dries Here on the Tongue by Hollay Ghadery, Resiqra Revulva, & Amanda Shankland; from time to new by Lydia Kwa; Skin by Catherine Bush, and This Report Is Strictly Confidential by Elizabeth Ruth.
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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
It was an honour to get to review @sadiqademeijer.bsky.social beautiful and evocative new book, In The Field. @palimpsestpress.bsky.social Every essay is a work of art. Thank you so much to @selenamercuri.bsky.social @thenewquarterly.bsky.social tnq.ca/under-review... 💗📚
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Under Review: In the Field by Sadiqa de Meijer - The New Quarterly Digital Edition
Danila Botha Reviews Sadiqa de Meijer's In the Field, touching on form, authenticity, experiences, and more. Read now!
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Vancouver Manuscript Intensive @vmiprogram.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
As we prepare to open submissions for the #WarlandAward on Nov 1, we extend our deepest gratitude to #AlisonBraid for her wonderful work and wish her all the best in her next chapter. We're delighted to welcome @selenamercuri.bsky.social to the team as the new coordinator for the Warland Award.
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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
"I listen to my circadian rhythm on repeat to drown out the laments of the harsh winds." #TodaysPoem #poetry Seasonal Affective Disorder by @SelenaMercuri.bsky.social (2023 The Innis Herald)
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Seasonal Affective Disorder | The Innis Herald
Snow tires trudge through grey slush as headlights  interrogate the blizzard that has murdered the warmth of the sun and my shadow  melts through the
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@bookhugpress @bookhugpress.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
“Worldly Girls unfolds like a series of controlled explosions, each essay detonating just enough certainty to reveal what lies beneath...” @selenamercuri.bsky.social reviews the debut memoir from @bokchoygurltjong.bsky.social for @thenewquarterly.bsky.social tnq.ca/under-review...
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Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖 @selenamercuri.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
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Heather J. Witchy🧙 Wood @rollwithheather.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Tuesday September 23, 6pm at the Caledonian! @emilyweedon.bsky.social's launches her new detective/vampire novel Hemo Sapiens. Q&A with @hvonpalleske.bsky.social. Readings by @mattcahill.bsky.social @selenamercuri.bsky.social @andrewawesome.bsky.social & Brooke Lockyer #CanLit
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The Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · 14/09/2025
We're getting closer to 500 subscribers (free & paid)! Join us! www.theseaboardreview.ca
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University of Guelph Creative Writing MFA @uguelphcwmfa.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Exciting news! Our program coordinator and plenary class instructor #CanisiaLubrin is the Guest Curator for the 38th annual @writersfest.bc.ca, taking place October 20-26, 2025. See the full schedule and get your tickets here: writersfest.bc.ca/2025-festiva...
[Image description: A promotional graphic for Vancouver Writers Fest 2025 featuring a headshot of Canisia Lubrin labelled as Guest Curator. The graphic also includes green design accents and the covers of two books by Canisia Lubrin—THE WORLD AFTER RAIN and CODE NOIR.]
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Paul Vermeersch @paulvermeersch.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Greatl day at the Mississauga Literary Festival! I did a talk on reading poetry and helped with the launch of Issue No. 8 of the @theampersandreview.bsky.social. Great people, great venue, great sense of community, all sorely needed in these brutish times. Thank you, @mississaugalib.bsky.social !!!
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Paul Vermeersch @paulvermeersch.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
There's an excerpt from Canisia Lubrin's new book, The World After Rain, in the @yalereview.bsky.social. Check it out! yalereview.org/article/cani...
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Canisia Lubrin: “From ‘The World After Rain,’ II: Twice Awake“
A poem by Canisia Lubrin: “the hour is thick, our tables full, our fields long again with cane”
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University of Guelph Creative Writing MFA @uguelphcwmfa.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Our MFA students had a lovely time reading at the Eden Mills Writers’ Festival yesterday alongside the Read at the Fringe winners!
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betsywarland.bsky.social @betsywarland.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
As writers, one of the greatest challenges is sustaining ourselves over the long journey of creation and publication. Not just perseverance, but an irreducible devotion to the act of writing itself. #breathingthepage #writingcommunity #amwri̇ti̇ng #authorcommunity #writers #betsywarland #onwriting
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Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖 @selenamercuri.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
I’m so excited to be joining the wonderful TNQ team!
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Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖 @selenamercuri.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Check out these Toronto literary events happening in August! #bookevent #booklaunch #toronto #torontoevents #authorcommunity #authorgram #writers
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Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖 @selenamercuri.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Hi everyone! I thought I would introduce myself now that I’m planning to post on here a bit more frequently. I’m Selena, a #writer, recovering #barista, and #booklover working in the #literaryindustry. 📚
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thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Read @selenamercuri.bsky.social's review of Myna Wallin's The Suicide Tourist (pub. Ekstasis Editions) in Issue 31! ...Rather than writing about survival as a triumph, Wallin describes it as a process that is gritty, repetitive, and nonlinear... www.thetemzreview.com/mercuri-31.h...
A photo of Myna Wallin's collection The Suicide Tourist, standing up on a park bench outside on a sunny day. The cover is white, with an abstract drawing of a woman in blue tones in the middle
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The Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · 30/05/2025
"Your Presence is Mandatory centres around several false narratives..." The debut review by Olga Stein is up at TSR! Graphic by @selenamercuri.bsky.social www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/your-prese...
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@bookhugpress @bookhugpress.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Re: Wild Her is "an intimate, itinerant work of lyric poetry that blends the celestial with the sorrowful, the bodily with the political, & the personal with the planetary." @selenamercuri.bsky.social on the latest collection from Shannon Webb-Campbell for @theseaboardreview.ca. tinyurl.com/32e9vd49
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Re: Wild Her by Shannon Webb-Campbell
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Terese Mason Pierre @teresempierre.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
All my thanks to @selenamercuri.bsky.social for this gorgeous and careful review of Myth! 🥹❤️🙏🏾 www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/myth-by-te...
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Myth by Terese Mason Pierre
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The Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · 31/03/2025
WHITE by @avivarubin-author.bsky.social has been reviewed by @selenamercuri.bsky.social for TSR. www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/white-by-a... #canlit
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The Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · 28/03/2025
"antibody" by Rebecca Salazar is reviewed by @selenamercuri.bsky.social (who also designs our social media graphics). #poetry #canlit www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/antibody-p...
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Rebecca Salazar Leon @rsalazar.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
tomorrow ✨️ feat. the first review of antibody by @selenamercuri.bsky.social in @theseaboardreview.ca , with many thanks for such a thoughtful read 💜
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Heather J. Witchy🧙 Wood @rollwithheather.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Review of J.M. Frey's Time and Tide by @selenamercuri.bsky.social @theseaboardreview.ca #CanLit www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/time-and-t...
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james-lindsay.bsky.social @james-lindsay.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Thank you @selenamercuri.bsky.social for this very fine review of Only Insistence for @theseaboardreview.ca! Flattered that the book is still getting some attention! www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/only-insis...
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Only Insistence by James Lindsay
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The Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · 12/03/2025
April will mark our ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY and we have some giveaways in the making. (Hint: April will also be a great time to become a PAID supporter of TSR. More to come!) #CanLit #giveaway #poetrymonth
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The Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · 08/03/2025
The four latest reviews at The Seaboard Review. Graphics by @selenamercuri.bsky.social www.theseaboardreview.ca
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The Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · 05/03/2025
Congratulations to TSR contributor @selenamercuri.bsky.social for getting accepted into Guelph's Creative Writing MFA Program! This one's going places!
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Elizabeth Murphy @ospreysview.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Grateful for this review by @selenamercuri.bsky.social
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The Weather Diviner by Elizabeth Murphy
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The Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · 16/02/2025
Tomorrow is a "Family Day" in Canada and a new issue is in the works, featuring a fiction reviews by @selenamercuri.bsky.social and Emily Weedon, a Michael Greenstein review, another "In Conversation" and (finally!) a review of the new novella from @lukefrancisbeirne.bsky.social. Free to subscribe!
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Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖 @selenamercuri.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Hi friends! I’m looking for work in the literary industry now that I’ve graduated from the University of Toronto and am close to completing my certificate in publishing. I have management experience, learn quickly, and am open to various roles. Please share and let me know if you have any leads!
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Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖 @selenamercuri.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
I received some epic bookmail from @gooselane.bsky.social today! I will be reviewing these four titles for @theseaboardreview.ca ✨📚 #bookmail #bookreview #amreading
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Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖 @selenamercuri.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Just a few of the awesome authors I met/caught up with yesterday (Bluesky only lets me add four photos to a post).
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Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖 @selenamercuri.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
My book haul from the OLA Super Conference yesterday! I’ll be reviewing many of these titles over the next few months. And yes, my desk is very pink.
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Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖 @selenamercuri.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Thanks to @spaikin.bsky.social for signing my copy of his latest title!
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The Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · 06/01/2025
The first newsletter of 2025 is out! It has Cats & Books & Reviews, and even a dog! Also, we are happy to introduce @selenamercuri.bsky.social and her initial review of Ian William's "What I Mean to Say". #CanLit #NB #Booksky www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/tsr-newsle...
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Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖 @selenamercuri.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Some of my 2024 favourites brought to you by two guilty-looking clowns trying to pretend they didn’t just mess up my stack of books. #newyear #amreading #canlit #writers
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Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖 @selenamercuri.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
I’m excited to be joining the TSR team as a review contributor!
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Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖 @selenamercuri.bsky.social · 05/02/2024
First publication of the year! Thanks to the Trinity Review team for publishing my poem, “The Difference Between n and ñ,” in their winter journal ❄️✨
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Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖 @selenamercuri.bsky.social · 24/12/2023
Literary cats. #books #cats #writers #amwriting #amreading
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