• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Main navigation

  • Home
  • About me
  • Contact

Indigo Reeve

  • Twitter
  • Instagram

EdBookFest Story Shop: Olga Wojtas

August 30, 2015 By ip4r Leave a Comment

OlgaStoryShop

Photograph by © Antonia Reeve

Edinburgh was Unesco’s first City of Literature and the Edinburgh City of Literature Trust works with the Book Festival to celebrate this status. One of the ways they do this is through the Story Shop, a daily reading at 4pm by an emerging writer from Edinburgh.

On Friday that writer was Olga Wojtas, a freelance journalist who was one of the winners of this year’s Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awards. She read an enchanting and amusing piece called The Study of Philosophy. It followed a student who was leaving Moscow to go and study Philosophy in Paris, only to find himself accosted by a Countess begging him to help her run away from her husband. He was entranced, she was wonderfully dramatic, and after her husband had chased the train down and burst into the compartment brandishing a gun the piece ended with an entertaining summary of the situation from the train conductor.

You can read her short story here.

Tweet
Share
Pin
Share
0 Shares

Related

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Primary Sidebar

Social media

Recent Posts

The Politics of Kindness

EdBookFest 2018: Doctors of Philosophy and Girls of Slender Means

EdBookFest 2018: Maria Popova and Tania Kovats on Rachel Carson

EdBookFest 2018: Dr Michael Brooks and Rick Edwards

Categories

Archives

Subscribe

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

FOLLOW ON INSTAGRAM

© Indigo Reeve · Theme by Brian Gardner

Footer Logo

Instagram /Twitter/Contact