Colin Garrow

I've been writing stories for years, but it took me a long time to be able to get down on paper the stuff that was going on in my head. In the early days, what I ended up with was absolute rubbish and it wasn't until I went to University to study Drama that I began to understand how stories are made. 

At that point, I was mainly writing stage plays. The first ones weren't great, but eventually my writing improved and my first full-length play made it onto an actual stage in 2009 (with my theatre company WACtheatre). In 1998, I started to write novels, or rather, one novel, and experimented with short stories too - my first was published in 2000 by Scribble Magazine. Several others have appeared in print and online literary mags, including SN Review, The Grind, A3 Review and Inkapture.

My published work includes: six novels for children, a murder/mystery for adults, a Sherlock Holmes spoof and two collections of short stories. I'm currently working on the fifth of my novels for children, as well as a thriller for grown-up readers.