🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Author of NIGHT TRAIN TO ODESA (2024, Polygon). Winner 'First Book', Saltire Society Literary Awards 2024. Journalist, photographer. Ex-BBC. www.jenstout.net https://bsky.app/profile/jenstout.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/jenstout.bsky.social/post/3lz43xxt64s2fA long-read for Prospect magazine: reporting from SE Ukraine on demining & conversely, on the scramble to leave the Mine Ban Treaty by countries threatened by Russia. Blog & extra pics: https://www.jenstout.net/post/demining-on-the-steppe-and-the-thorny-issue-of-the-landmine-ban Article w/Julia Kochetova (!) pics: https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe/ukraine/70892/ukrainians-clearing-russian-mines18 Sep 2025 10:04 +0000at://did:plc:ymhlhdodclsubcmbarcyhbuf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz43xxt64s2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/jenstout.bsky.social/post/3lyhszlsw5c24The American Monument, mull of Oa, Islay. Commemorates the hundreds who died when troops ships sank off these cliffs in 1918.10 Sep 2025 08:31 +0000at://did:plc:ymhlhdodclsubcmbarcyhbuf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyhszlsw5c24https://bsky.app/profile/jenstout.bsky.social/post/3lumxmirvg22eSome very exciting news yesterday - Night Train to Odesa won the Highland Book Prize! https://www.shetnews.co.uk/2025/07/22/stout-astounded-win-highland-book/23 Jul 2025 11:56 +0000at://did:plc:ymhlhdodclsubcmbarcyhbuf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lumxmirvg22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/jenstout.bsky.social/post/3ltti7gn7ds2gNever thought I'd see this in my life: the rare 'Fata Morgana' mirage. The coast of Fife, shot from NE Edinburgh, stretched into huge, inverted, towering optical illusions. Caused by weather conditions. Absolutely surreal.13 Jul 2025 08:43 +0000at://did:plc:ymhlhdodclsubcmbarcyhbuf/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltti7gn7ds2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/jenstout.bsky.social/post/3ltsde4t4v22eNE Edinburgh, the view to Fife, and just round that headland, the sewage works. Bonny light nights at 11pm still...12 Jul 2025 21:44 +0000at://did:plc:ymhlhdodclsubcmbarcyhbuf/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltsde4t4v22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/jenstout.bsky.social/post/3lmhe27oios22Dreamed of seeing this city all my life10 Apr 2025 11:01 +0000at://did:plc:ymhlhdodclsubcmbarcyhbuf/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmhe27oios22https://bsky.app/profile/jenstout.bsky.social/post/3llt2fznyws27Off to St Andrews this evening to give the Sanctuary lecture - registration is free and it will be livestreamed via Teams. Join here: https://events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/annual-sanctuary-lecture-jen-stout/02 Apr 2025 09:15 +0000at://did:plc:ymhlhdodclsubcmbarcyhbuf/app.bsky.feed.post/3llt2fznyws27https://bsky.app/profile/jenstout.bsky.social/post/3ll4r6yh5d22cMany of my written articles now available to read on my site: jenstout.net/articles Kharkiv architecture, frontline dispatches, language politics, tall ships festivities, it's all there... More to come, and more radio work, when I find time! 📸 Photography portfolio also on the site https://jenstout.net/articles24 Mar 2025 12:31 +0000at://did:plc:ymhlhdodclsubcmbarcyhbuf/app.bsky.feed.post/3ll4r6yh5d22c