BBC Slam Champion, Jess Green is an award-winning performance poet and writer of scripts for audio, stage and screen. She was part of BBC Writers’ Academy and has written for Eastenders, Casualty, Holby City and Paramount+ dystopian drama, Curfew as well as multiple series for Wondery podcast, British Scandal. Her series on disgraced MP, Jonathan Aitken was chosen as The Guardian’s podcast of the week. She has a poem on permanent display in Leicester Museum and in 2023 was commissioned by the BBC to write the Liverpool Eurovision spoken word piece on behalf of Ukraine, performed by Luke Evans.
Jess began to garner a following in 2013 with her viral poem, Dear Mr Gove and since then has performed at Glastonbury, Latitude, Bestival and BBC 6 Music Festival as well as poetry events around the UK. She has featured on BBC 6 Music, E4, BBC5Live, ITV and BBC Breakfast as well as in The Guardian, Huffington Post, The Independent and The Spectator.
Jess has three poetry collections published by Burning Eye Books - Burning Books (2015 -shortlisted for the East Midlands Book Award), A Self Help Guide To Being In Love With Jeremy Corbyn (2018) and Dressed As Love (2023). She developed the first two into live shows which received 5* at the Edinburgh Fringe and on their national tours. She then adapted Burning Books into a stage play which was longlisted for The Papatango Prize and toured the UK in 2018 including a performance at NUT National Conference.
Jess is a workshop facilitator with 15 years experience teaching writing and performance in schools, prisons, care homes, universities, youth centres and corporate events. She’s also available for one to one mentoring. For more information, you can contact Jess through the contact page.
‘Amazing to watch’ - Scroobius Pip
‘A sensation’ - The Independent
‘Brilliant’ - The Huffington Post