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The Saltire Sessions: Zoe Venditozzi

A sit-down with writer and campaigner Zoe Venditozzi

About the Saltire Sessions

The Saltire Sessions are free-to-access online discussions with the creators and thinkers shaping the cultural landscape of Scotland today. We hope these conversations will offer you food for thought, signpost you to new and thought-provoking books, events and other cultural activity, and perhaps inspire you in your own creative pursuits. Each is designed to slot into a lunchbreak or similar time in your day.

In this Session, we sit down with writer Zoe Venditozzi, one half of the campaigning duo Witches of Scotland to talk creativity, cultural confidence, and why it matters that we tackle historic injustice today.

we were starting off from a position where Claire knew a bit and I knew nothing, and that means that we, like the listener of the podcast, are able to ask just normal questions that normal people would ask, people that are not academics that know about these things.

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