He proposed in a launch press release that the magazine's distribution method "would bring serious creative fiction and poetry to a much larger and more varied audience than usual".
Fiction published included work by Jeff Nuttall, M. S. Winecoff, Roger Howard, Frances McNeil[5] David Brett and Trevor Hoyle[6] Poetry contributors included I. P. Taylor, Ian McMillan,[7] Paul Roche,[8] Anna Adams,[9] Michael Horovitz, Pete Morgan, Patrick Bew, Nick Toczek, Geraldine Monk,[10] Heathcote Williams and (posthumously) Bill Butler.
Interviews with writers, including several carried out by William Bedford,[11] featured Angela Carter, James Kirkup[12] (in the midst of the Gay News blasphemy trial and appeal), Piers Paul Read and C. H. Sisson.
The magazine came to a close partially owing to a controversy arising from the publication in issue 6 of a short story by Jeff Nuttall titled "Dream Piece".
Nuttall was a cult writer, artist, actor and one of the founders of theatre company, The People Show,[2] although best known for writing the book Bomb Culture, an analysis of the 60s generation alternative society.
In the same article the playwright and former literary panel member Barry Collins said that political interference from the local councils that dominated the association executive had been increasing over the recent months.
The following week it was reported in the Yorkshire Post that Collins (who had been the previous year's recipient) had also resigned as a judge for the annual YAA Literature Prize.
New Yorkshire Writing continued for two further issues but one of these included the first publication of Heathcote Williams' poem, "The People Who Run Tesco's Must be Buddhists" (retitled "Advertisement").