It featured series of short stories within its pages, one per issue, with authors such as Walter de la Mare and Algernon Blackwood.
Under the editorship of Bruce Ingram, it was also the first magazine to publish short stories by Agatha Christie, starting with "The Affair at the Victory Ball" in issue 1571 on 7 March 1923.
The Sketch printed photographs by Howard Coster,[4] and illustrations by H. M. Bateman, Max Beerbohm, Edmund Blampied, Percy Venner Bradshaw (1877–1965), Thomas Arthur Browne, Hilda Cowham, Annie Fish, John Hargrave, John Hassall, Phil May, Bernard Partridge, Melton Prior, W. Heath Robinson, Josep Segrelles, Sidney Sime, Olive Snell, Bert Thomas, and Thomas Downey.
Writers included Carleton Allen, Lucie Armstrong, Nora Hopper, William Robertson Nicoll and John Courtenay Trewin.
[3] Keble Howard, editor until 1905, continued to contribute a column titled Motley Notes until two-weeks prior to his death, his final piece appearing on 14 March 1928.