
Desert Pets at MEET THE PRESSES 2016!
We had an amazing time at Meet the Presses this year. The event always brings out so many incredible people doing such wonderful work. It's hard to believe that last year was DP's first Meet the Presses ever, and we only had 2 books!! What a fantastic year! Thank you to everyone who stopped by! #Fall2016 #Publishing #Community #Toronto #Shop #JessieJones #VincentPage #StevieHowell #Bookstore #MeetthePresses #SmallPress #BookFair #Chapbooks #MichelleBrown #BrookeLockyer

Fall 2016 season is now AVAILABLE IN OUR ONLINE SHOP!!
Come and get 'em! Actually, stay on the couch, we'll send 'em to you! #Etsy #Shop #Fall2016 #StevieHowell #VincentPage #JessieJones #Chapbooks #Broadsides

Triple Chapbook Magic!!
A gigantic thank you to The Emergency Response Unit, bird, buried press, to all the incredible readers: Jeremy Hanson-Finger, Spencer Gordon, Pete Gibbon, Jessie Jones, Vincent Page and Stevie Howell, to Reunion Island Coffee Bar for hosting us, and to all the wonderful humans that came out to the event! What a great night! Thank you thank you thank you!! #Chapbooks #Broadsides #Fall2016 #Launch #VincentPage #StevieHowell #JessieJones #TheEmergencyResponseUnit #birdburiedpres

Desert Pets is proud to announce our FALL 2016 AUTHORS!!
STEVIE HOWELL is an Irish-Canadian writer & worker. A first collection of poetry, Sharps, was released fall 2014, and was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. A second collection of poetry is forthcoming from Penguin Random House Canada. Stevie's poetry has appeared in The Best Canadian Poetry (2014 and 2015 anthologies), Hazlitt, The Walrus, Prelude, and on the Best American Poetry blog. Critical writing has appeared in The National Post, The Globe and Mail, Pl

INTERVIEW: DP Editor Catriona Wright chats with rob mclennan
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Desert Pets in TYPE BOOKS!
Desert Pets are now available at Type Books! Get 'em while they're hot! :) #TypeBooks #BrookeLockyer #MichelleBrown #Bookstore #Toronto #Chapbooks #Spring2016

Oh, What a Night!
Desert Pets celebrated our second season with the launch of Brooke Lockyer's Moon Bones/Silver Tooth and Michelle Brown's Foreign Experts Building. The night was a tremendous success! Thank you to The Emergency Response Unit and Phoebe Wang for sharing the evening with us, Reunion Island Coffee Bar for hosting us, and everyone for coming out! #Launch #SmallPress #Publishing #Poets #Spring2016 #MichelleBrown #TheEmergencyResponseUnit #Reading #Toronto #Chapbooks #BrookeLockyer

Desert Pets is proud to announce our SPRING 2016 AUTHORS!!
MICHELLE BROWN is a writer from Vancouver Island, currently living in Toronto and working as a copywriter. She's had work published in The Puritan, Prism, CV2, Arc, and The Malahat Review, amongst others. Recently shortlisted for CV2's Young Buck poetry prize and longlisted for the CBC poetry prize, she's excitedly awaiting her first chapbook (with Desert Pets Press) in May, and her first full-length collection (with Palimpsest Press) in 2018. BROOKE LOCKYER's short stories,

INTERVIEW: Desert Pets chats with Jess Taylor, writer in residence at Open Book TO! Check it out!!
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JUST IN TIME FOR THE HOLIDAYS!!
Desert Pets make GREAT stocking stuffers! Now available at POPUP 1090! #Bookstore #Shop #Community #Chapbooks #Toronto #POPUP1090