27 February 2026

Shouting or Whispering?

J.S. will be performing some of her poetry at Shout or Whisper in the Barn at The Vic, Ickleford Road, Hitchin at 7.30pm next Thursday, 5th March. Further details can be found on the Events Page of this website or via the Shout or Whisper website.

It's the International Women's Day edition, so you don't want to miss it.


26 February 2026

Standing Up for Clockwise Cat

At the beginning of February, Clockwise Cat published J.S. Watts' prose poem "Standing Up" in its Dadaesque 46th issue.

Now you can hear J.S. read the self-same poem on Clockwise Cat's YouTube channel 


25 February 2026

A New Spring. A New High Window

There's a new Spring Issue of The High Window out, and if you go to the reviews section you'll find a review of the poetry collection "leaves borrowed from human flesh" by Abigail Ardelle Zammit  as written by J.S.Watts. It's fourth from the bottom, so you'll have to scroll a fair bit.

16 February 2026

Sundown's A Little Later This Year

J.S.'s poetry performance at the Sundown Sessions in Ely has been rescheduled. She'll now be performing on Sunday 10th May, and not in April as originally advertised. See the updated  Events Page for further details.

11 February 2026

ICE in Dada

J.S. has a new prose-poem in issue 46 of the Clockwise Cat - The Dada verse issue, also known as the FUK ICE Edition. The piece is called "Standing Up" and you can read it for free online or purchase a print copy by clicking here