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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. ex-puritan.ca/for-my-next-trick

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Toby @tesharpe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Wrote about growing up in London and falling into the world of outpatient mental health care. Adolescent mental worlds were a damn trip. Glad to live happier now. tobysharpe.substack.com/p/liquid-was... #substack #mentalhealth
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Liquid Wasps [memoir]
brief notes on the madness of youth
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Toby @tesharpe.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
sometimes you have to use the voice of a staffie to praise a jack russell? my life is not necessarily going to plan www.instagram.com/p/Db3266Xo8v... #dogsofbluesky #dogsky
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Toby @tesharpe.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
wrote about my past. it was hard and it was a journey and it was easy. if you like weird allusions to meals and gay sex and other nonsense, check it out. #memoir #substack #gay hehe
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[Memoir] North America, 2015
Food and sex. I was a wanderer once. It didn't end that well.
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Toby @tesharpe.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Felt deeply stressed by the Guardian list of best books so I had a crack at making my own. Don't roast me, I'm so tiny and weak. tobysharpe.substack.com/p/the-10-bes... #substack #guardian
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The 10 Best Books
The Guardian List attacked my sense of self.
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Toby @tesharpe.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
A book recommendation post in which I even shout out my beloved @bobthebookerer.bsky.social?! What a blessing. If you're into knowing what cute they/he-s are reading, check this out. xo #substack #bookreviews
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4 Books (recently read by moi!)
Shall we chat about LITERATURE?!
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Toby @tesharpe.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Made this gay'n'tiny comic at @ubccrwr.bsky.social and am going to make and post more in 2026: a tiny'n'gay resolution! tobysharpe.substack.com/p/small-comi... #substack #comics
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sleeping with men
tee heckin' hee
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Toby @tesharpe.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Sometimes you gotta be very angry with what's happened in your personal life, and you gotta write a poem about it years later! tobysharpe.substack.com/p/poem-the-f... #substack #poetry
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[POEM] The Friends to Lovers Trope
Everything's auto-fiction, auto-poetry, until it isn't.
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Toby @tesharpe.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
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 tobysharpe.substack.com/p/emigre?r=2...
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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
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Toby @tesharpe.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
promoting my own work? chic! tobysharpe.substack.com/p/on-the-pla... #substack #poetry
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Toby @tesharpe.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
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
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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Men would rather read Lee Child on the tube than go to therapy
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
You don’t win an award for being the most not-surprised, is the thing
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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 26/07/2025
WOMEN WANT ME. FISH WANT ME. WE ARE A THROUPLE
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Toby @tesharpe.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
wrote a poem about fooling around with hot bears? big slay tobysharpe.substack.com/p/gone-fishi... #poetry #substack #heckindelicious
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gone fishin’!
a poem about reawakening, looking back and forward
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Toby @tesharpe.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
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! 😎 open.substack.com/pub/tobyshar... #poetry
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Toby @tesharpe.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
it's causing me a major existential crisis tbh: do I quote MUNA or Britney or the Torah??
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Toby @tesharpe.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
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.
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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.
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Toby @tesharpe.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
love poetry swarming outta me, hellishly happy with this one tobysharpe.substack.com/p/the-almana... #substack #poetry
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the almanac of need
let me shazamabam ye with how much i love my man
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Toby @tesharpe.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
I wrote about the end of days. Maybe you can relate. #horror #substack
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Apocalypso Extraordinaire
Armageddon whomst?
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Toby @tesharpe.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
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
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Toby @tesharpe.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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.
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Midge @midge.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
told my friend she was drawing her eyebrows too high and then she looked at me all surprised
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Toby @tesharpe.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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...
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little special @dollbunyan.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
if I think about elephants for too long I start crying
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Toby @tesharpe.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
sharing snippets from my own work? because I'm a poet? wow... tobysharpe.substack.com/p/write-back... #substack #poetry #lmao!!
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Anthony Hurd @anthonyhurd.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Continued work in progress on this one but nearly completed. 24x30” acrylic on canvas.
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Toby @tesharpe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
A vision of total neediness from one side of a Facebook chat. New #poetry on my #substack.
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Write Back When You Can?
please
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Toby @tesharpe.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
listening to Denial is a River like it will give me clues to salvation (and it definitely will)
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Toby @tesharpe.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Depressed in a public place? Me too. #substack #poetry open.substack.com/pub/tobyshar...
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a dissertation on being a flop
flopatron flopiana flopalop
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Toby @tesharpe.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
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...
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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,...
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Toby @tesharpe.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
me when other queer people exist in this cold world
The Pokémon Gengar is smiling surrounded by other happy Pokémon
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Toby @tesharpe.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Wrote a story about growth, change and being gay (and how it can really suck when you're a kid). And how you can want to be different, how that can all go wrong. It's NSFW, so don't open it on your work laptop, maybe. You do you. Thank u 4 being here with us. tobysharpe.substack.com/p/heat-disto...
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Heat Distortion
A short story about growth and change which is actually backwards, which is actually bad? Let's worry about that together. It's a longer one. NSFW.
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Toby @tesharpe.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
Eileen Myles is good at poem
A poem called At A Waterfall, Reykjavik

"I still feel like
the world
is a piece
of bread

I'm holding 
out half
to you."
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Toby @tesharpe.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
just thinkin about young Keanu, obvi
A photo of Keanu Reeves from decades ago.
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Toby @tesharpe.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
the London rental market is doing me a panic-y panic
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Calvin Kasulke @kasulke.co · 16/10/2023
THIS IS VERY MUCH A PLACE OF HONOR WHAT IS HERE WAS VERY COOL AND RADICAL TO US EVERYTHING HERE IS OF GREAT VALUE THIS MESSAGE IS AN INVITATION TO HAVE A FUN TIME
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Toby @tesharpe.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
too busy daydreamin' and disassociatin'' guvna!
In one panel, Kim Kardashian says "I'm like dropping hints that I didn't process this entire conversation". In the next panel she's just saying "haha yeah".
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Toby @tesharpe.bsky.social · 24/09/2023
i really relate to doja cat saying it's so lonely in her mansion because i'm so well known in this hospital that the receptionists now all know my name and greet me as an old friend
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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
jump scare
three panel comic titled Jump Scare
Panel 1: empty
Panel 2: empty
Panel 3: in the lower left hand corner, a tiny ghost says “boo”
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Toby @tesharpe.bsky.social · 12/09/2023
this was a big, major, huge moment for me
A man in a blue jacket and white mask has a huge pink paper necklace with a cardboard picture of Jigglypuff on it.
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barista.NPC @sleepynaga.bsky.social · 07/09/2023
i hit the hay all day mother fucker. 24 hour sleep cycle. if you awake you a fake. its bed time bitch
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Toby @tesharpe.bsky.social · 11/09/2023
just turned my enemies into tins of baked beans. never challenge me again!!!!!
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Toby @tesharpe.bsky.social · 10/09/2023
Past Lives is so good that I want to scream-vomit on random members of the public.
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Toby @tesharpe.bsky.social · 09/09/2023
me, clinging to your foot as you try to do literally anything: at least I'm not needy!
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Toby @tesharpe.bsky.social · 08/09/2023
them: we're sorry, the MRI is actually broken today and we'll have to rebook you me: this is all because i forgot to cancel my world of warcraft subscription when i was 12 and got billed for an extra month. or because i'm evil. it's probably that.
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geekysteven @geekysteven.com · 04/09/2023
[me trying to do stand up] Marriage, am I right? My wife is my partner in everything and together we're greater than the sum of our parts
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Toby @tesharpe.bsky.social · 31/08/2023
me: this is hell! hell! them: so... do you want a receipt or
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