Report on the competition

Monday 6 August 2007

Report on the competition

Deborah Mulhearn, Mersey Minis series editor, has written a comprehensive report on the new writing competition for Volume 3 (out on 28 August). Scroll down to find MORE MERSEY MINIS PAGES, click on the link for WRITING COMPETITION REPORT, which will take you to the main website, then click on NEWS.

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Writers in LONGING

Nicholas ALLT • Will ALSOP • Tayo ALUKO • William BACKSHALL • Angela BARLOW • David BATEMAN • Stephen BAYLEY • Jane BELLIS • Joanne BENFORD • Lewis BIGGS • Jane BRADLEY • Mary BRAITHWAITE • Shirley BUCKLEY • Clare BUNTING • Dave CALDER • Ramsay CAMPBELL • Mathew CAPPER • Liam Patrick COÀN • Gladys Mary COLES • Frank COTTRELL-BOYCE • Terence DAVIES • Wendy DAVIES • Bronwyn DAVIS • David DOWLING • Francis DUFFY • Philip FERGUSON • Ranulph FIENNES • Karoline FRITZSCH • Christopher GEORGE • Helen GLASSPOOLE • Peter GOLDSMITH • Niall GRIFFITHS • Loyd GROSSMAN • sue HAASLER • Brean HAMMOND • Chris HIGH • Anita HOLMES • Mike HYDE • Ted JONES • Linda KETTLE • Karen LAMB • Tony LANE • Kenneth LOCKETT • Nigel MALPASS • Leto Martinou KYRITSI • Margo McDONOUGH • Gill McEVOY • Roger McGOUGH • Michele McGRATH • Stephen McKAY • Walter MENZIES • Jan MINTING • Jennifer MOORE • Phil MORRIS • David MORRISSEY • Brenda MULLER • Margaret MURPHY • Betty NORTON • Gill NORTON • Thomas NORTON • Yoko ONO LENNON • Szilvia OPAVSZKI • Dea PARKIN • David PEARCE • Catherine PETERS • Roger PHILLIPS • David RAINBIRD • Lorna READ • Gillian REYNOLDS • Tom RILEY • Kevin SAMPSON • Diane SAMUELS • Matt SIMPSON • Deborah SINGMASTER • Jeanette SMITH • Catherine SPARKS • Gillian STONE • David SWIFT • Edward Mark TAYLOR • John THACKRAY • Gill TORRES • Mhairi TYNAN • Dave WARD • Christine WEBB • Alan WILLIAMS • Matthew WILLIAMS • Jeff YOUNG

The illustrations

The striking illustrations were commissioned for Mersey Minis from artist Clare Curtis, and present her unique visual response to Liverpool. Clare follows a long tradition of British printmakers with her distinctive linocuts, which are imbued with a bold, contemporary feel. Felixstowe-based Clare demonstrates her empathy with the sea with maritime patterns and motifs appearing throughout her work. These specially commissioned icons have been chosen for their multi-layered local references.

Check on the Mersey Minis homepage for news of an exhibition of the illustrations, and for details of how to get your own set of limited edition prints.

A note on the text

The extracts in Mersey Minis are reproduced from original sources, many of which are historic and therefore sometimes using styles and language unfamiliar to modern readers. I have, however, in most cases retained the original spellings, punctuation and sometimes the grammatical mistakes so as not to impede the energy and flow of the writer, and to reflect the uniqueness and idioisyncracy of his or her account. The date given at the start of each extract is the date the writing refers to, and not necessarily when it was written or published.

Mersey Minis Volume 3 - LONGING

Monday 6 August 2007