Bio

Colin Bell was born in a Franciscan convent in Surrey but grew up in Sussex, UK. Everything he's done; he did for the first time in Brighton.

His debut poetry collection Remembering Blue was published in 2019 by Ward Wood Publishing. His two novels are set in Brighton: Stephen Dearsley's Summer of Love (Ward Wood Publishing, 2013) long-listed for the Polari Prize 2014. Blue Notes, Still Frames, (Ward Wood Publishing, 2016). His third novel, Over the Hills is a Long Way Off, also set in Brighton, will be published by Ward Wood in 2020.

Formerly a producer-director of arts documentaries and then Executive Producer, Music and Arts, he made programmes for ITV, BBC, Channel Four, and for broadcasters in the USA (WNET and Disney), in Japan (NHK) and Germany (WDR). His television credits include Celebration, God Bless America, My Generation, Menuhin's Children and It Was Twenty Years Ago Today. He has been nominated for two Royal Television Society awards,

His poetry has been published in the UK and the USA by Cinnamon Press, Soaring Penguin Press, Muse-Pie Press, Bittersweet, Kind of A Hurricane Press and The Blotter. He has been nominated in the USA for the 2016 and 2019 Pushcart Prize. Musepie Press features him as its new Featured International Poet in 2020. Many of his Fibonacci poems have been published in The Fib Review and have been set to music by American composer, Tim Risher, in a song cycle for tenor and piano, Fibonacci Poems (2017).