Jess has been writing fiction and creative non-fiction for many years,  and recently signed a publishing deal for her debut novel, a psychological thriller, entitled  ROOFBOY, which can be pre-ordered from February 2026, published by Cranthorpe Millner.​

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​​Alongside her novel writing, Jess has written competition-winning short stories and flash fiction, as well as being short and long listed for prestigious international literary awards.

In 2024 Jess was short listed for the Bridport Prize for Flash Fiction, and 2025 long listed for Bath Short Stories Award.  She has twice been a winner at Stroud Short Stories and her stories VARIETY and THE YEAR OF MUD AND LIQUIDS will be featured in the anthology to be released in 2026. Jess's story TUBE was highly commended by judge, Jamila Gavin, at the GWN short story competition in 2025, who described it as "a perfect piece of writing". TUBE is published in the GWN anthology 'Edges' (Purchase anthology here) . Jess's story DISTURBING PERFUME was highly commended by  WriteTime Literary competition in 2025. 

Her short fiction has been published in WestWord Literary Journal,  Peace Girl - by Amanda Saint - WestWord  , Fictive Dream Magazine  MicroMonday #36 – Fictive Dream  The Phare Literary Magazine, The Testimony of Clodagh's Shoes which can be read online following the links.​​

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