Lucy Rose (writer)

Lucy Rose
Born
Lucy Rose Wilson-Green

(1996-01-27) 27 January 1996
Leeds, England
Alma materNorthumbria University
Years active2017–present
Websitelucyrosecreative.co.uk

Lucy Rose is an English writer and filmmaker. She began her career making short films. Her debut novel The Lamb (2025) became a Sunday Times bestseller.

Early life and education

Rose was born in Leeds to an old working class Yorkshire family[1] and grew up in rural Cumbria.[2][3] Rose attended the William Howard School. She left home at age 15[4] and went on to graduate from Northumbria University with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Film and Television Production.[5][6]

Career

Film

Initially credited as Lucy Rose Wilson-Green, she wrote and directed the short film The Sycamore Gap during her final year of university as her graduating project.[7][8] For The Sycamore Gap, she won the Student Award – Writing at the 2019 Royal Television Society's North East and Border Awards (NETB Awards)[9] and was also shortlisted for Film Hub North's inaugural Filmmaker Award.[10]

This was followed by Rose's next short films Peak,[4] She Lives Alone,[11] and Taste.[12] She also founded the production company Cool Girl Pictures.[4]

In 2024, Rose's debut feature film A Man at the Window was selected for the UK Next Wave Genre Lab, with Patrik Andersson and Jenna Bass as mentors.[13][14]

Writing

Rose was a columnist for Mslexia. She founded the Working Class Writing Circle with Louis Glazzard.[15]

In a six-way auction in June 2023, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (W&N) won the rights to publish Rose's debut novel The Lamb in 2025.[16] She had begun writing it as a "series of what I thought were unconnected flash fictions" before "[realising] that I was actually writing about the same family".[17] Featuring cannibalism,[18][19][20][21] the novel was identified as part of a trend of "femgore" literature and "feminist body horror".[22][23] The Lamb debuted at #2 on The Sunday Times Best Seller list.[24]

Personal life

As of 2025, Rose lives in South Shields.[24] In 2022, she wrote an article on asexuality for Dread Central.[25]

Bibliography

Novels

  • The Lamb (2025), W&N ISBN 9780063374607 [26][27][20][23][28]

Select short stories and essays

  • "Fleeting Tale of Demeter" in The Selkie (2020)
  • "Damn Spot" in Analogies & Allegories Literary Magazine, Issue 2: Twisted Tales (2020)
  • "The Lady Crow" in The One That Got Away: Women of Horror, Volume 3 (2021), edited by Jill Girardi
  • in Of the Flesh (2024)

Filmography

Short films

  • The Sycamore Gap (2018)
  • Peak (2019)
  • She Lives Alone (2020)
  • Taste (2023)

References

  1. ^ "Interview with Lucy Rose: Gothic Filmmaking". C. M. Rosens. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 3 March 2025.
  2. ^ Davidson, Helena (3 December 2024). "The Lamb: Interview with Lucy Rose". New Writing North. Retrieved 3 March 2025.
  3. ^ Seidel, Matt (3 January 2025). "Writers to Watch: Spring 2025". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 3 March 2025.
  4. ^ a b c "Underwire 2019: Peak by Lucy Rose". Rianne Pictures. 6 September 2019. Retrieved 3 March 2025.
  5. ^ "Northumbria graduates celebrate success at Royal Television Society Awards". Northumbria University. 9 April 2019. Retrieved 3 March 2025.
  6. ^ "Northumbria graduates chosen for major Film and TV Development scheme". Northumbria University. 15 June 2021. Retrieved 3 March 2025.
  7. ^ Deacon, Josie (28 November 2017). "The Sycamore Gap: women filmmakers who tell their stories themselves". The F-Word. Retrieved 3 March 2025.
  8. ^ Robinson, Jennifer G (17 November 2018). "Focus On What Brings Us Together: Women Of The Lens Interviews The Sycamore Gap Film Director". Women of the Lens. Retrieved 3 March 2025.
  9. ^ "NETB Awards 2019". Royal Television Society. 23 February 2019. Retrieved 3 March 2025.
  10. ^ "Film Hub North Filmmaker Award Showcase". Home Manchester. 19 January 2019. Retrieved 3 March 2025.
  11. ^ "Interview: Lucy Rose". Film Hub North. 20 January 2021. Retrieved 8 March 2025.
  12. ^ "Taste (Directed by Lucy Rose)". Norwich Film Festival. Retrieved 6 March 2025.
  13. ^ Maria Caruana Galizia (6 September 2024). "A Man at the Window selected for UK Next Wave Genre Lab". Candle & Bell. Retrieved 4 March 2025.
  14. ^ Ritman, Alex (6 September 2024). "U.K. Next Wave Genre Lab Unveils Inaugural Selection of Project as Mike Flanagan Joins Masterclass Program (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
  15. ^ Seren Seren (16 August 2022). "Building a Community of Working Class Writers". Working Class Creatives Database. Retrieved 6 March 2025.
  16. ^ Brown, Lauren (6 June 2023). "W&N snares debut author Rose's contemporary feminist folktale in six-way auction". The Bookseller. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
  17. ^ Purchase, Kaya (29 January 2025). "A Conversation with Lucy Rose". NB Magazine. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
  18. ^ Feay, Suzi (2025-01-30). "The Lamb by Lucy Rose review – cannibalism comes to Cumbria". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2025-03-02.
  19. ^ Popescu, Lucy (2025-02-02). "The Lamb by Lucy Rose review – a hard tale to shake". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2025-03-02.
  20. ^ a b Hand, Elizabeth (2025-02-07). "Once upon a time there lived a hungry girl and a monstrous mother". Washington Post. Retrieved 2025-03-02.
  21. ^ Watt, Katalina (28 January 2025). "The Lamb by Lucy Rose: Book Review – The Skinny". The Skinny. Retrieved 2025-03-02.
  22. ^ Venn, Lydia (7 February 2025). "Inside the rise of femgore, the genre about to take over your bookshelf". Cosmopolitan. Retrieved 3 March 2025.
  23. ^ a b Hackett, Laura (2025-02-14). "Severed fingers for breakfast? The rise of feminist body horror". The Times and The Sunday Times. Retrieved 2025-03-02.
  24. ^ a b Addison-Swan, Catherine (23 February 2025). "South Shields author's debut novel becomes instant bestseller as critics brand it a 'classic'". Chronicle Live. Retrieved 3 March 2025.
  25. ^ Lucy Rose (13 June 2022). "How I Reclaimed the Final Girl as an Asexual". Dread Central. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
  26. ^ Feay, Suzi (2025-01-30). "The Lamb by Lucy Rose review – cannibalism comes to Cumbria". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2025-03-02.
  27. ^ Popescu, Lucy (2025-02-02). "The Lamb by Lucy Rose review – a hard tale to shake". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2025-03-02.
  28. ^ "The Lamb by Lucy Rose: Book Review – The Skinny". www.theskinny.co.uk. Retrieved 2025-03-02.
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