Carl Watson

A former educator, Carl Watson taught Language Art classes in both elementary and junior high schools. As a published author, his work has appeared in both adult and children’s magazines. He was a graduate of North Texas State University and Texas Wesleyan University (ME). After being instrumental in writing a Leadership Training manual for the Boy Scouts of America, he assisted in writing a syllabus for Social Studies in the Fort Worth Public School System. The Fort Worth National Bank awarded him a fellowship to continue his studies in creative writing. His work has appeared in several children’s magazines and in stories for the Methodist Publishing House, Child Life, and in True West Magazine.

His first novel, Kid Clay (Argus Publishing, 2017), is a historical, western, adventure novel for middle graders based on his grandfather’s experiences as a teen cowboy during the time of the National Cattle Trail from 1880 to 1887. Kid Clay was awarded Texas Authors’ First Place in YA Historical Fiction in 2018.

Watson’s latest, Silent Journey, is an inspirational, uplifting drama about a deaf fourteen-year-old boy and his dog who dreams of a day when he and his father can have a home of their own.