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Norm Blain wrote fiction as a teenager which later led in to a 25-year Public Relations career. Having worked as a business writer, newspaper columnist and CEO, Norm’s retirement goal is to be a published fiction writer and entertain readers in an imaginary world of make believe.
Martin Crosbie is writing his first novel.  But For The Morning is an adventure/romance set in Kilmarnock, Scotland as well as various parts of Canada. 
Claire De Boer is an honours graduate of the University of Northumbria in England in Languages (French and Spanish) and International Marketing who is currently working on her first novel.


Ed Griffin teaches creative writing in prison. He has written three novels: Prisoners of the Williwaw, Beyond the Vows, and Veto. Ed and a friend, Mike Oulton, each tell their prison stories in  Dystopia, the story of prison. Ed is passionate about prison reform and is writing a novel about what a prison might look like in the future. He has a themed autobiography, Once a Priest, that he is marketing now.
Carol Johnson developed a love of writing as a child. She believes that everyone has a story to tell and that deep inside all of us is a voice yearning to be heard. Carol’s first love is poetry and she is currently working on a collection of poems titled In My Father’s House. She is also working on a young adult novel that explores the thin space between the secular and the supernatural.
Loreena Lee is an artist/illustrator who has published tutorial textbooks on drawing and composition, a biography of her ancestors, and has written a young adult novel. She is currently working on an adult novel based on her mother’s early life.
Robert W Mackay writes historical novels. His first is due out early in 2011 and deals with the Canadian cavalry in the trenches and in the saddle during the brutal days of the Great War.


Former Rainwriters:
Anna Barcos was born in Winnipeg, Canada with a yearning to travel. She lived thirty years of family life between Los Angeles, California and Bogot, Colombia, the familiar landscapes of her novels. While her affection for latin culture is obvious in her writing, Anna is not shy to point out what she perceives to be fundamental inequities or social injustices.