Creative Conversations: Jen Stout

Name: Creative Conversations: Jen Stout
Start: 2024-11-04T13:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-11-04T14:00:00+00:00
Location: University Chapel

Schedule

Mon Nov 04 2024 at 01:00 pm to 02:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

University Chapel | Glasgow, SC

A Special Creative Conversations in Collaboration with Strathclyde University's Creative Writing Programme with Jen Stout
About this Event
<h4>Jen Stout is a Scottish freelance journalist who has covered the war in Ukraine for major outlets including BBC radio, London Review of Books, Prospect, and the Sunday Post. Previously she had jobs in TV and radio with the BBC, and was a local newspaper reporter. Jen specialises in long-form and investigative reporting, and is a regular public speaker and host of debates on topics around politics and journalism.
Her work in Ukraine has been shortlisted for prizes by Amnesty International, the Foreign Press Association and the Scottish Press Awards, among others. In 2023 she won a Travelling Scholarship from the Society of Authors, and a Rory Peck Trust bursary in 2022. Jen's book about covering the war in Ukraine, Night Train to Odesa, was published on 2nd May 2024 with Polygon.</h4><h4>
</h4><h4>Jen Stout will be in conversation with Rodge Glass.</h4>

This event is live, in-person in the university chapel. It is also watchable online. A zoom link for online attendance will be emailed to those who book a ticket.