She writes poetry.
Jessica Horn won the Sojourner Poetry Prize judged by June Jordan in 2001 for her poem Dis U.N: For Rwanda and the IRN Fanny Ann Eddy Poetry Prize in 2009 for her poem They have killed Sizakele. Her prose-poem Dreamings was profiled in the International Museum of Women’s online exhibition Imagining Ourselves. Jessica’s first poetry collection Speaking in Toungues (2006) is featured in the Mouthmark Book of Poetry alongside Warsan Shire, Malika Booker and Inua Ellams.
Feature on Badilisha Poetry Exchange- the world's largest audio archive of African poetry.
...and muses with other writers.
Hosting 'Our bodies speak poetry', Africa Writes, London, 2019. (Click the image to listen to the session)
African Book Festival: Writing in Migration, inaugural African literature festival in Berlin, 2018. L-R: Jessica Horn, Jude Dibia, Chris Abani, Abdilatif Abdalla, Olumide Popoola, A. Igoni Barrett.
Reclaiming the Feminine Voice- Africa Writes panel and reading with Jessica Horn, Warsan Shire , Belinda Zhawi, Ribkha Sibatu and Chinwe Azubike, London 2014.
The Love Mic, 2015, Poetry Cafe London. L-R; Fatimah Kelleher, Amaal Said, Jessica Horn, Rich Blk, Leeto Thale