17 Ticket £18. Concession £16 (schoolchildren, full time students, registered unemployed).
17 - Night Train to Odesa - Literary Hour : Jen Stout
June 23, 2025 at 5:30pm. Duration: 60 MINUTES
Kirkwall Baptist Church, 86 Victoria Street, Kirkwall KW15 1DQ
Jen Stout Writer
(in conversation with Alasdair Nicolson)
Book all four Literary Series events (Events 6, 17, 23, and 28) to receive a 15% discount, automatically applied at checkout.
Jen Stout is a journalist, writer, and radio producer from Scotland, frequently working in Ukraine. Originally from Shetland she has lived in Germany and Russia. Her empathetic and vivid coverage on the deportations in Kharkiv region was shortlisted for an Amnesty Media Award. Her first book, Night Train to Odesa, was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, and won the Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award.
As war began, Jen Stout left Moscow abruptly, ending up on a border post in southeast Romania, from where she began to cover the human cost of Russian aggression. Her first-hand, vivid reporting brought the war home to readers in Scotland as she reported from front lines and cities across Ukraine.
Stories from the night trains, birthday parties, military hospitals and bunkers: stories from the ground, from a writer with a deep sense of empathy, always seeking to understand the bigger picture, the big questions of identity, history, hopes and fears in this war in Europe.
