Jen Stout

Very occasionally you see a reference to Kherson on the news. A mention of 'human safari' taking place there. But not often. Kherson, a...

Brief note which I'll expand on when I've time I get lots of emails from student/young/wannabe journalists, asking for help & advice...

Behind the scenes on the long-read for Prospect magazine about demining, landmine ban treaties, and the war in Ukraine

Hello. Some absolutely huge news this morning: Night Train to Odesa has won the Highland Book Prize. The shortlist was incredible (Ali...

If you'd told me a year ago, just as Night Train to Odesa was first hitting the shelves, that'd I'd go on a book tour all over the US, I'd have laughed at you. So I'm still blinking in surprise now, a couple of weeks after getting home. It started with an invitation from the Ukrainian Institute of America, asking whether I'd give a talk about my book, in their remarkable building - a 19th-century mansion on Fifth Avenue. My publisher was keen, and the plan was that I'd appl

Remembering the Ukrainian journalist and novelist.

BBC Radio Scotland, 1st Feb 2025 - listen here 55 mins in Full text: They do Christmas lights better than we do, in Kharkiv,...

There is such a vast gulf between Shetland and Donbas, such a lot of sea and different realities, but these are the two places that stick...

Lots of people in the UK asking me how best to help Ukrainians. So here's an initial list. Please comment/write to me to add to it, it...

This was written during the first lockdown, in 2020. An abridged version was read on Radio Scotland, on 7 June that year. The reaction to...

A story from 2019 in Prague, reported with Niels Bula for Germany's Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, broadcast on TV and radio. Long-read text below. For decades the land at the northern wall of Prague’s vast Dablice cemetery was a rubbish dump, overgrown and neglected. Few knew the significance of this spot, or were willing to talk about it. But after the Velvet Revolution in 1989, it became a site of quiet political activism. Volunteers began clearing the bushes and scrap away - a

To avoid fuel poverty, residents of the ‘energy isles’ would need salaries of £104,000. Almost nobody here earns that

Writing against Kremlin propaganda about Ukraine.

Dispatch from Kyiv

A day on the road with Ukrainian specialist drone unit near Russian border

With the frontline medics as Russians advance

Interview with Nikolai and Lyubov, Kharkiv pensioners

Life is lived one day at a time as many islanders shiver and wait.

Ukraine war reporter remembers courageous chemistry student, 28, turned army volunteer after death on the frontline.

How one building symbolises Kharkiv’s defiance...