Jessica Streeting

About

Jess is a published, prizewinning, poet and author. She lives for part of the week in a tall blue house in a North Norfolk seaside town, where she writes.For the rest of the week she lives on a canal boat in London surrounded by moorhens, swans and foxes, cycling into Soho to work as an award winning community nurse and teacher.Trains between London and Norfolk can also be productive writing offices.

Writing

Last Summer In SohoA novel transports us into the life of Sylvie, a community school nurse working in contemporary Soho, London.The story offers an authentic and rare insight into the lives of London children today and illustrates the enormous importance of school nurses.Sea-ChangeA long-form narrative, poetic memoir and a beautiful depiction of her childhood, the Norfolk countryside and above all her relationship with her extraordinary father.In his foreword to Sea-Change Stephen Fry writes:The poem reads with novelistic, almost cinematic narrative drive and clarity. It is beautifully written, beautifully sad, beautifully rueful, beautifully insightful and beautifully strong.Winner of The Ellingworth Prize
Shortlisted for The East Anglian Book AwardsThe Sea The Sea
A portrait of the Norfolk and Suffolk Coast
Jess contributed a dozen poems to this 2026 collection, published by Waterland Books, alongside (amongst others) D J Taylor, George Szirtes and Andrew Motion.

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