Kirsty Logan, Len Pennie & Jen Stout (15:30 BST)

Len Pennie's first book Poyums shows a formidable new talent. She is joined by award-winning novelist Kirsty Logan and intrepid journalist Jen Stout

The art of biographical writing as defined by its rising stars. Three young emerging non-fiction writers discuss writing their own lives alongside the lives of others.

Kirsty Logan is an award-winning novelist whose memoir The Unfamiliar focuses on her motherhood and on her family around her, challenging our assumptions about pregnancy, gender roles, queer identity and what it means to be a parent.

Len Pennie draws on her life in her bold, unashamedly frank debut collection of poems Poyums. Moving deftly between English and Scots, she writes letters to her younger self, advocates for women's rights and adapts fairy tales to process an abusive relationship.

Jen Stout is a journalist, writer, and radio producer from Shetland, frequently working in Ukraine. Her first book Night Train to Odesa: Covering the Human Cost of Russia’s War is a highly personal journal of one young Scot’s experience of war and of the Ukrainians.

Chaired by biographer Rodge Glass

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