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WhatThePoetsAreDoing

@dantamblyn.bsky.social

Retired from 48 years of character development to start writing. Writer of words. Reader of books. Huge fan of the Hip. More cowbell.

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WhatThePoetsAreDoing @dantamblyn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Great news ! I'm a finalist this year !!

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WhatThePoetsAreDoing @dantamblyn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

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Announcing the 2026 Penguin Random House Canada Student Award for Fiction Finalists

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WhatThePoetsAreDoing @dantamblyn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Source: School of Continuing Studies - University of Toronto Good news ! I’m a finalist for the Penguin Random House Canada 2026 Student fiction award ! Very happy to be selected !

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WhatThePoetsAreDoing @dantamblyn.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

More green shoots from Publishing. Many thanks to Wicked Shadow Press who are publishing one of my short stories "Bobby Taylor" in October in their Pocket Full of Posies: Shadow Children Anthology. I will post details of how to order the collection when they are available.

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WhatThePoetsAreDoing @dantamblyn.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

So, good news. More green shoots. Editors do read their slush piles! My story “ We are not Coastal Elites” is up now on The Spadina Literary Review : www.spadinaliteraryreview.com/issues/44

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Issue No. 44

Published on Mar 20, 2025

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WhatThePoetsAreDoing @dantamblyn.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

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We’re using the Family Picture from 2002 on the Christmas Newsletter Again This Year. Get over it.

Merry Christmas and Season’s Greetings from the Sutherland Family!

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WhatThePoetsAreDoing @dantamblyn.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Word of the Day: Beshat Defn: to soil The country was beshat with the prospect of four more years. See also : trumptastic, vanceiferous, muskastrophy Because the day needs more words.

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WhatThePoetsAreDoing @dantamblyn.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Cover of the Day: Paramore - Burning down the house Because the world needs more covers. search.app/ZnEVR7yQEzhK...

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Paramore - Burning Down The House (Talking Heads Cover)(Edinburgh 1 2024)

Paramore performs their cover of Talking Heads’ Burning Down The House live in concert opening for Taylor Swift on Night 1 at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburg...

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WhatThePoetsAreDoing @dantamblyn.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Word of the Day: Flâneur A wanderer , raconteur or idler. Walt Whitman was a music critic and a flâneur who enjoyed strolls into Manhattan. Because the day needs more words.

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WhatThePoetsAreDoing @dantamblyn.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

So I have been in this new place 30 minutes. So far, no invitations to join a militia in the woods, viscous personal attacks or poorly spelled death threats. And I know how to spell vicious. Is this thing turned on?

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