Mace & Jones Short Story Competition

To celebrate Liverpool European Capital of Culture, Mace & Jones ran a short story competition encouraging both published authors and beginners to participate.

We have long-standing literary connections. Two previous senior partners, Brian Fraser Harrison and Barrie Marsh, published books, and in more recent times Martin Edwards has published both non-fiction books and novels. Various other members of the firm have publications to their name.

Because justice is central to what we as a firm do, the theme of the story was 'justice.'

The competition was officially launched at the newly opened Hard Day's Night Hotel on the evening of 4 June, together with an official launch of Martin Edwards' latest novel, Waterloo Sunset, which is set in Liverpool in the run-up to Capital of Culture Year.

The standard of entries as a whole was extremely high and we are most grateful to everyone who submitted a story. We had an excellent response and entries came in from as far a field as Spain, New Zealand and India.

As a result, we have made a substantial donation, of £1000 including all the entry fees, to Local Solutions, a social enterprise based on Merseyside that aims to improve the quality of life by delivering services to the people of Merseyside and the North West.

The prize winners were announced on 25^th November at St George's Hall and we were joined by Prof Phil Redmond CBE.

Highly commended:

Helen Drew - The Last Night of the Condemned

Anne Atkins - Home

Mary Sweeney - A Trying Life

If you have any queries, email samantha.kinnear@maceandjones.co.uk