No doubt you are aware of the decision made at Wordstorm’s 2025 AGM to dissolve the organization’s status as a non-profit society. Over the past months board directors have taken the necessary steps to implement that decision, and so, after 19 years, Wordstorm’s story has come to a close. 

 

Following through on the membership vote in favour of the resolution to dissolve the society at the June 2025 AGM, the board of directors has followed the necessary steps outlined in the Societies Act to dissolve a non-profit society in the province of British Columbia. A dissolution by request application was submitted to BC Societies and a certificate of dissolution was issued on Dec. 2, 2025. 

 

In compliance with the Societies Act regulations, after payment of any existing liabilities, Wordstorm donated its remaining cash assets to the Vancouver Island Regional Library Foundation, a registered charity, The funds were specifically designated to support publication of Sea & Cedar Magazine.

 

As part of the dissolution, Counterflow magazine has also ended any future publishing activity. An archive of the four issues, published from 2021 to 2025, will be preserved.

 

This website will remain available as an archive through spring, 2026. Please feel free to access any material on the site up until that time. We hope you will carry good memories of Wordstorm’s role in developing and supporting the literary arts on Vancouver Island and in the Salish Sea Basin. 

 

Records of the society will be kept for a period of three years as per the requirements of the Societies Act of British Columbia.​