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New Yorkshire Writing was a British literary quarterly which briefly gained one of the largest circulations of what is commonly called a ` little magazine ' , distributed as a supplement in 13,000 copies of The Month In Yorkshire , the arts listings magazine then published by the Yorkshire Arts Association -LRB- YAA -RRB- .. little magazine. little magazine. It had an estimated readership of 45,000 according to an announcement by YAA 's Director Michael Dawson .. 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 '' .. All contributors were to be paid , something that only a handful of British literary magazines were able to do .