Reposted by Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Registration is now open. www.yorku.ca/laps/the-alc...yorku.caThe Alchemy LectureThe 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... 25834
Reposted by Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖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 164
Reposted by Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖A. F. Moritz @afmoritz.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Read @selenamercuri.bsky.social new review of Eternities on the Havana Times! havanatimes.org/features/ete...havanatimes.org“Eternidades” a Classic of Spanish Literature Now in English - Havana TimesWritten in 1916 and 1917 and published in 1918, Eternidades arrives in English as “Eternities” at a significant remove from its origin... 021
Reposted by Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖@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/yjcrt6cctinyurl.comA Coffee Date with Jennifer LoveGroveAuthor of THE TINDER SONNETS 041
Reposted by Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖@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...coffeedateswithauthors.substack.comA Coffee Date with Liz JohnstonAuthor of THE FALL-DOWN EFFECT 052
Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖 @selenamercuri.bsky.social · 08/04/2026A 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. 050
Reposted by Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖Wild Roof Journal @wildroofjournal.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Today 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... 295
Reposted by Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Read @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... 052
Reposted by Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Read @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... 042
Reposted by Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖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 074
Reposted by Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖All Lit Up @alllitupcanada.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Looking 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... 0103
Reposted by Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social · 29/10/2025It 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... 💗📚tnq.caUnder Review: In the Field by Sadiqa de Meijer - The New Quarterly Digital EditionDanila Botha Reviews Sadiqa de Meijer's In the Field, touching on form, authenticity, experiences, and more. Read now! 087
Reposted by Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖Vancouver Manuscript Intensive @vmiprogram.bsky.social · 22/10/2025As 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. 032
Reposted by Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖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)theinnisherald.comSeasonal Affective Disorder | The Innis HeraldSnow tires trudge through grey slush as headlights interrogate the blizzard that has murdered the warmth of the sun and my shadow melts through the 161
Reposted by Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖@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... 054
Reposted by Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖Heather J. Witchy🧙 Wood @rollwithheather.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Tuesday 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 153
Reposted by Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖The Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · 14/09/2025We're getting closer to 500 subscribers (free & paid)! Join us! www.theseaboardreview.ca 032
Reposted by Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖University of Guelph Creative Writing MFA @uguelphcwmfa.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Exciting 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... 031
Reposted by Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖Paul Vermeersch @paulvermeersch.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Greatl 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 !!! 093
Reposted by Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖Paul Vermeersch @paulvermeersch.bsky.social · 09/09/2025There'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...yalereview.orgCanisia 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” 043
Reposted by Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖University of Guelph Creative Writing MFA @uguelphcwmfa.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Our MFA students had a lovely time reading at the Eden Mills Writers’ Festival yesterday alongside the Read at the Fringe winners! 041
Reposted by Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖betsywarland.bsky.social @betsywarland.bsky.social · 20/08/2025As 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 031
Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖 @selenamercuri.bsky.social · 20/08/2025I’m so excited to be joining the wonderful TNQ team! 080
Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖 @selenamercuri.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Check out these Toronto literary events happening in August! #bookevent #booklaunch #toronto #torontoevents #authorcommunity #authorgram #writers 022
Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖 @selenamercuri.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Hi 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. 📚 050
Reposted by Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Read @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... 031
Reposted by Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖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... 042
Reposted by Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖@bookhugpress @bookhugpress.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Re: 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/32e9vd49theseaboardreview.caRe: Wild Her by Shannon Webb-CampbellReviewed by Selena Mercuri 092
Reposted by Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖Terese Mason Pierre @teresempierre.bsky.social · 07/04/2025All my thanks to @selenamercuri.bsky.social for this gorgeous and careful review of Myth! 🥹❤️🙏🏾 www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/myth-by-te...theseaboardreview.caMyth by Terese Mason PierreReviewed by Selena Mercuri 1195
Reposted by Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖The Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · 31/03/2025WHITE by @avivarubin-author.bsky.social has been reviewed by @selenamercuri.bsky.social for TSR. www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/white-by-a... #canlit 185
Reposted by Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖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... 042
Reposted by Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖Rebecca Salazar Leon @rsalazar.bsky.social · 24/03/2025tomorrow ✨️ feat. the first review of antibody by @selenamercuri.bsky.social in @theseaboardreview.ca , with many thanks for such a thoughtful read 💜 041
Reposted by Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖Heather J. Witchy🧙 Wood @rollwithheather.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Review of J.M. Frey's Time and Tide by @selenamercuri.bsky.social @theseaboardreview.ca #CanLit www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/time-and-t...theseaboardreview.ca 111
Reposted by Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖james-lindsay.bsky.social @james-lindsay.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Thank 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...theseaboardreview.caOnly Insistence by James LindsayReviewed by Selena Mercuri 063
Reposted by Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖The Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · 12/03/2025April 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 032
Reposted by Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖The Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · 08/03/2025The four latest reviews at The Seaboard Review. Graphics by @selenamercuri.bsky.social www.theseaboardreview.ca 162
Reposted by Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖The Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · 05/03/2025Congratulations to TSR contributor @selenamercuri.bsky.social for getting accepted into Guelph's Creative Writing MFA Program! This one's going places! 091
Reposted by Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖Elizabeth Murphy @ospreysview.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Grateful for this review by @selenamercuri.bsky.socialtheseaboardreview.caThe Weather Diviner by Elizabeth MurphyReviewed by Selena Mercuri 051
Reposted by Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖The Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · 16/02/2025Tomorrow 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! 052
Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖 @selenamercuri.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Hi 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! 031
Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖 @selenamercuri.bsky.social · 08/02/2025I received some epic bookmail from @gooselane.bsky.social today! I will be reviewing these four titles for @theseaboardreview.ca ✨📚 #bookmail #bookreview #amreading 190
Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖 @selenamercuri.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Just a few of the awesome authors I met/caught up with yesterday (Bluesky only lets me add four photos to a post). 030
Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖 @selenamercuri.bsky.social · 31/01/2025My 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. 000
Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖 @selenamercuri.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Thanks to @spaikin.bsky.social for signing my copy of his latest title! 030
Reposted by Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖The Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚 @theseaboardreview.ca · 06/01/2025The 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... 0147
Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖 @selenamercuri.bsky.social · 01/01/2025Some 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 030
Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖 @selenamercuri.bsky.social · 29/12/2024I’m excited to be joining the TSR team as a review contributor! 010
Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖 @selenamercuri.bsky.social · 05/02/2024First publication of the year! Thanks to the Trinity Review team for publishing my poem, “The Difference Between n and ñ,” in their winter journal ❄️✨ 010
Selena Mercuri | Writer 🖊️💖 @selenamercuri.bsky.social · 24/12/2023Literary cats. #books #cats #writers #amwriting #amreading 160