March 12, 2010

Contributors: Jonathon Wilcke, Nikki Reimer, Tony Power, Tomasz Michalak, Donato Mancini, Heather McDonald, Tiziana La Melia, Reg Johanson, Scott Inniss, Ray Hsu, Emily Fedoruk, Kim Duff, Cris Costa, Stephen Collis, Edward Byrne, Michael Barnholden, Anne Ahmad, and Sonnet L'Abbé

edited by Anne Ahmad, Stephen Collis, Kim Duff, Emily Fedoruk, Tomasz Michalak, Donato Mancini and Tony Power for the KSW Collective

W 2010 announces a new formation—both for the magazine and the Kootenay School of Writing. KSW, the more venerable of the two, is 25 years; W is ten. A new collective structure is in place for the School: a cluster of semi-autonomous yet intersecting “pods” (or “cells” if you prefer a more radical conception), each with its own projects or “areas of influence” (readings / pedagogy / publication, etc). W 2010 begins a new conception of the magazine as an annual: this first issue gathers work from the present collective (or perhaps we should now say collectives); future annual issues will be announced with a themed call, for which work will be gathered and published on-line over the course of the year. We hope work will be written dialogically as an issue accumulates: an initial selection of material will be posted, and then responses / extensions / contestations / emendations, etc, as they come; at the close of a year/issue, a print run of at least a “selection” of the year’s material will ideally then be issued.