Colin Payton is an emerging short story writer. He completed a short course on creative writing at Oxford University Department of Continuing Education in 2024, he has published one short creative non-fiction piece, “Camel” in the Open Arts Forum https://openartsforum.com/camel/. He is a member/administrator of writing groups locally in Bath and Bradford on Avon, UK & on-line. He lives with his wife in Wiltshire UK.