The Kootenay School of Writing

In January 2008 KSW was awarded $50,000 from Arts Partners in Creative Development (an arts investment partnership of the Province of British Columbia, Canada Council for the Arts, City of Vancouver, Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) and 2010 Legacies Now) to commission 18 Canadian and US poets to create new works for a colloquium entitled "What Is To Be Undone? Positions and Poetics in the 21st Century" to be held in August 2008 in Vancouver. ==Members==

Current members include Donato Mancini, Danielle LaFrance, Tomasz Michalak, Nancy Gillespie, Kim Duff, Jeff Derksen, Michael Barnholden, Jordan Scott, Dorothy Trujillo Lusk, and Reg Johanson. Past members include Aaron Vidaver, Andrew Klobucar, Craig MacKie, Sachiko Murakami, Fred Wah, Andrea Actis, Lary Bremner (Timewell), Margot Butler, Colin Browne, Suzanne Buffam, Ted Byrne, Susan Clark, Maureen Colclough, Victor Coleman, Emily Fedoruk, Stephen Collis, Peter Conlin, Peter Cummings, Dennis Denisoff, Jeff Derksen, Roger Farr, Soma Feldmar, Kirsten Forkert, Steven Forth, Robyn Laba, Kathryn MacLeod, Rob Manery, Nicholas Perrin, Alicia Priest, Meredith Quartermain, Nikki Reimer, Lisa Robertson, Tony Ruzza, Pauline Butling, Nancy Shaw, Cris Costa, Colin Smith, Tom Snyders, Catriona Strang, Jacqueline Turner, Tom Wayman, Calvin Wharton, Gary Whitehead, and Jonathon Wilcke. ==See also==