The shortlist for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2022 has been announced today by the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre and includes Penned in the Margins author Gail McConnell for The Sun is Open.

Like a cross between the Guardian’s Writers’ rooms and MTV Cribs, our ‘Where I write’ series brings you up close and personal with the furniture of our authors’ lives to discover where – and how – the magic happens. In this episode, poet John McCullough takes us freewriting in his cheerfully designed notebooks and comes to terms with lost fragments.