Writer

Pat Dobie is the author of The Tenants (Anvil Press) the novella Pawn to Queen (Arsenal Pulp Press) and Fiction Editing: A Writer’s Roadmap (Lucid Editions).

The Tenants
is now available!

Order from your local bookstore or online from Anvil Press.

In the city of Vancouver, even dirt costs. In The Tenants three of its residents are struggling with their homes — whether that’s grappling with real estate prices, simmering resentments, or an uneasy co-living arrangement with the local wildlife.

Stark, observational, darkly comic, and deeply human, The Tenants is a view inside the homes of some of Vancouver’s most vulnerable inhabitants as their lives intersect and diverge atop its shifting soil.


Watch the virtual launch party for The Tenants here! Hosted by award-winning novelist and playwright Pam Bustin, who talks with Pat about The Tenants and all kinds of fun to do with the International 3-Day Novel contest. Enjoy readings by Pat and a lively Q&A to wrap it up!