Bio

Colin Bell was born in a Franciscan convent in Surrey but grew up in Sussex, UK.

His poetry collection Remembering Blue was published in 2019 by Ward Wood Publishing. 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. 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). His first novel, Stephen Dearsley's Summer of Love (Ward Wood Publishing, 2013) is set in Brighton in the summer of 1967. It was longlisted for the Polari Prize 2014. His second novel Blue Notes, Still Frames, (Ward Wood Publishing, 2016), also set in Brighton, brings together an aspiring group of photographers and musicians in the year 1994.

Formerly a producer-director of arts documentaries and then Executive Producer, Music and Arts, he made arts 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.