The final winning design in the Liverpool Echo’s Open Culture Benchmark competition is to stand outside the new Museum of Liverpool, down at the Pier head. Designer Ilsa Parry, who recently won the Philippe Starck BBC2 Design for Life competition, is now asking the people of Merseyside to help to complete her Storyteller bench.

Ilsa’s winning design, which she also used as part of her submission to enter the Design for Life, is set to be turned into reality.  And she’s asking Merseysiders to contribute their words, phrases, poems, song lyrics, stories, amusing anecdotes and snippets of letters or other text. A selection will then be engraved on the finished bench.

Ilsa’s bench was one of three winners chosen by a public vote in the Open Culture backed competition during 2008. The others, Colin Parry’s All Together Now and schoolgirl Lauren Lawler’s Secrets bench, have already been created and installed across Liverpool.

How to submit:

Write about what means something to you - it could be a short story, poem, experience, snippet of conversation, words to a song you have written or something you have overheard which makes you proud to be Liverpudlian.

Send it along with your name and contact details to either:

By Post - Storyteller, Open Culture, Liverpool Innovation Park, 360 Edge Lane, Liverpool L7 9NJ

By Email - storyteller@culture.org.uk

The closing date is Friday November 27. All entries will be read but only parts of submissions may be used.