About Me

I am Colin Bell, a novelist and poet, previously a TV producer-director of arts programmes, also known as the blogger Wolfie Wolfgang. My two novels are  Stephen Dearsley’s Summer Of Love (Ward Wood Publishing,  2013) and Blue Notes, Still Frames  (Ward Wood Publishing, 2017). My first poetry collection is Remembering Blue (Ward Wood Publishing, 2019)

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Biography

Colin Bell was born in a Franciscan convent in Surrey but grew up in Sussex, UK – almost everything he’s done, he did for the first time in Brighton.

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His debut poetry collection, Remembering Blue, was published in 2019 (Ward Wood Publishing). Buy the paperback edition here for free world-wide postage: https://wordery.com/search?term=Remembering+blue+cOLIN+bELL

The Kindle edition is available from Amazon.

His latest novel, Blue Notes, Still Frames, was published in January 2017 (Ward Wood Publishing). Buy the paperback edition here for free world-wide postage: https://www.bookdepository.com/Blue-Notes–Still-Frames/9781908742629

The Kindle edition available from Amazon.

His first novel, Stephen Dearsley’s Summer Of Love, was published in October 2013 (Ward Wood Publishing) and long-listed for the 2014 Polari Prize. Buy the paperback edition here for free world-wide postage:  https://www.bookdepository.com/Stephen-Dearsley-s-Summer-of-Love/9781908742070

His poetry has been published in the UK (including Acumen, Cinnamon Press, Frogmore Press  and Soaring Penguin) and the USA (Musepie Press, The Blotter and A Kind of Hurricane Press).He has been nominated for the 2016 and the 2019 Pushcart Prize.

His Fibonacci poetry has appeared in the Fibonacci specialist online journal, The Fib Review,  from 2009 until the present:  http://www.musepiepress.com/fibreview/writers.html

The American publisher, Muse-Pie Press, made him their Featured Poet International in November 2019 and published a collection of 25 of his poems https://www.musepiepress.com/colin_bell_feature.html.

He has also published short stories (Ether Books) and children’s books (Novello).

He was a producer-director and then Executive Producer of music and arts programmes for Granada Television in Manchester and executive producer, EuroArts-Primetime. He’s made programmes for ITV, Channel Four and the BBC as well as for American, Japanese and German broadcasters.

His television credits include the Granada arts documentary series, Celebration,  the ITV series God Bless America, the Channel Four series, My Generation,  the ITV documentary Curves, Contours and Body Horns,  the BBC documentary Menuhin’s Children,  the SDR documentary Szabo Meets Solti  and the ITV documentary It Was Twenty Years Ago Today as well as international co-productions of opera galas from San Francisco and Covent Garden and the Tenth Anniversary Concert performance of Les Miserables from the Royal Albert Hall.

He is an Anglo-Irish European citizen based in the UK.. He lives in Lewes, Sussex where he also writes a daily blog – https://wolfiewolfgang.com. He is now working on a third Brighton novel.