Writing Magazine Issue 1
July 1980

Editor: David McFadden.
Production Manager: Fred Wah.
Business Manager: Julian Ross.

extracts from novels by: George Bowering and John Doyle.
stories by David Young, Ken Mitchell, Fielding Dawson, Sarah Sheard, Robert Fones, G.B. Sinclair, Stan Dragland, Martin Avery, and Oleste Weston.
poetry by: Margaret Atwood, Daphne Marlatt, Gerry Gilbert, Lionel Kearns, Endre Farkas, and Ken Norris.

The very first issue of Writing. Typeset and produced by the editorial team in Nelson. The cover shows a photo of Oleste Weston taken by Sally Ann Kopecky.