Creative Conversations: Jem Stout
Monday 4 November, 2024 1 p.m. – 2 p.m.
University of Glasgow, Memorial Chapel, Glasgow University Memorial Chapel University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ
A Special Creative Conversations in Collaboration with Strathclyde University’s Creative Writing Programme with Jen Stout. Jen will be in conversation with Rodge Glass.
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.
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.
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