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Toby
@tesharpe.bsky.social
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fire princess with a UBC MFA and a weird evil heart. 🌈 writer. find my stuff in Geist, Hey Alma, The Chestnut Review, The Ex-Puritan, etc. Here's a linky-link.
https://ex-puritan.ca/for-my-next-trick/
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tesharpe.bsky.social
I remain shockingly talented. Wrote this before I even did my postgrad CRWR vibe, and it's one of the only things from the Before-Times I still enjoy. Do enjoy, alongside me.
#substack #poetry

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émigré
this is an older poem from my workz, initially published in a magazine which now seems to have been wiped clean from the internet? so here it is, immortaliszszed until this website also collapses
tobysharpe.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
tesharpe.bsky.social
promoting my own work? chic!

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#substack #poetry
November 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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junoryleejournalism.com
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
tesharpe.bsky.social
Some of y'all might also be losing your minds. Some of you thus might like this poem.

tobysharpe.substack.com/p/cope

#poetry #substack
October 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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elliemaeohagan.bsky.social
Men would rather read Lee Child on the tube than go to therapy
September 5, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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annamerlan.bsky.social
You don’t win an award for being the most not-surprised, is the thing
August 18, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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kasulke.co
WOMEN WANT ME. FISH WANT ME. WE ARE A THROUPLE
July 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
tesharpe.bsky.social
wrote a poem about fooling around with hot bears? big slay

tobysharpe.substack.com/p/gone-fishi...

#poetry #substack #heckindelicious
gone fishin’!
a poem about reawakening, looking back and forward
tobysharpe.substack.com
August 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
tesharpe.bsky.social
Made up this writing prompt at @ubccrwr.bsky.social and still think it's one of my favourites. Check out some more at my substack if you'd like! 😎

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#poetry
August 12, 2025 at 10:21 AM
tesharpe.bsky.social
it's causing me a major existential crisis tbh: do I quote MUNA or Britney or the Torah??
jooordan.bsky.social Jordan @jooordan.bsky.social · Aug 5
Selecting the quotes at the beginning of a book to set the stage probably feels soooo good as an author
August 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
tesharpe.bsky.social
I wrote a cento #poem on #substack which is one of my favourites ever, drawing in lines from Mary Oliver, Sappho, Stephen Spender, and more...

Cheeky photo of Vancouver attached to it too, because I can't let go of my UBC-MFA past.
All - for you (A Cento)
Another cento: a poem made up of lines from other works, all cited. Thank you to Tash for giving me the courage to post this one.
tobysharpe.substack.com
July 29, 2025 at 8:02 AM
tesharpe.bsky.social
love poetry swarming outta me, hellishly happy with this one

tobysharpe.substack.com/p/the-almana...

#substack #poetry
the almanac of need
let me shazamabam ye with how much i love my man
tobysharpe.substack.com
July 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
tesharpe.bsky.social
I wrote about the end of days. Maybe you can relate. #horror #substack
Apocalypso Extraordinaire
Armageddon whomst?
open.substack.com
July 2, 2025 at 11:14 AM
tesharpe.bsky.social
Some lines from a new piece of vulnerable hecking poetry from me. The piece is called The Flop's Song. xo

tobysharpe.substack.com/p/the-flops-...

#substack #poetry
May 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
tesharpe.bsky.social
Incredibly proud of @tanvibhatia.bsky.social -- she's killing it ALL the time, but I feel like every time I open social media lately I see her doing something else cool! Appreciation and adoration post.
February 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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midge.bsky.social
told my friend she was drawing her eyebrows too high and then she looked at me all surprised
February 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
tesharpe.bsky.social
Wrote a love story. A love story with zero demonic presences or poltergeists, so I'm really challenging myself here. Check out the #substack post here.

tobysharpe.substack.com/p/you-have-t...
February 7, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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dollbunyan.bsky.social
if I think about elephants for too long I start crying
February 3, 2025 at 5:13 AM
tesharpe.bsky.social
sharing snippets from my own work? because I'm a poet? wow...

tobysharpe.substack.com/p/write-back...

#substack #poetry #lmao!!
February 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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anthonyhurd.bsky.social
Continued work in progress on this one but nearly completed. 24x30” acrylic on canvas.
February 3, 2025 at 9:29 PM
tesharpe.bsky.social
A vision of total neediness from one side of a Facebook chat. New #poetry on my #substack.
Write Back When You Can?
please
tobysharpe.substack.com
February 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM
tesharpe.bsky.social
listening to Denial is a River like it will give me clues to salvation (and it definitely will)
February 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
tesharpe.bsky.social
Depressed in a public place? Me too. #substack #poetry

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a dissertation on being a flop
flopatron flopiana flopalop
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January 31, 2025 at 2:20 PM
tesharpe.bsky.social
absolutely thrilled to be represented, gonna be obnoxious about this for the next 36 hours in the private quiet of my brain

www.transatlanticagency.com/2024/12/09/t...
Transatlantic welcomes new client Toby Sharpe!
Toby Sharpe (he/they) is a novelist and poet from London, UK. Toby graduated from the University of British Columbia's MFA course in Creative Writing and has been published in magazines such as Geist,...
www.transatlanticagency.com
December 10, 2024 at 2:17 PM
tesharpe.bsky.social
me when other queer people exist in this cold world
The Pokémon Gengar is smiling surrounded by other happy Pokémon
November 28, 2024 at 3:34 PM