 The organisation is incorporated as a not-for-profit society and is operated by a volunteer collective of practising writers, without an administrative director.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.