
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