The first KSW brochure, published before the school had its own address, offered a variety of courses and workshops in various locations around Vancouver, as well as listing readings and talks upcoming.
At DTUC, the Writing Program offered a broad interdisciplinary spectrum of courses, providing students with the usual seminars in prose, poetry and scriptwriting, as well as instruction in manuscript preparation, copyediting, book and magazine production, layout, design, typesetting, word processing, marketing, journalism, and interaction with artists in many other disciplines.
To this end, the School represents a new hybrid: a form of parallel gallery and centre of scholarship, open to the needs of its own constituency and alert to the possibilities of all disciplines that involve language.
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,[1] 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.