C.D. Rose

C. D. Rose is a writer of fiction. Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea is a collection of short stories (shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize in 2025), while The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure, Who’s Who When Everyone Is Someone Else and The Blind Accordionist form a loose parafictional trilogy about lost books and forgotten writers, about who is forgotten and who remembered, and how, and why.

His latest book, We Live Here Now (August 2025), is a composite novel about art and its value in uncertain times.

His work has appeared in Best British Short Stories, Gorse, Lighthouse, the Lonely Crowd, the Mechanics’ Institute Review and been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Chris has also edited Cities: Birmingham, an anthology of prose by emerging and established writers about the city, and Love Bites, a collection of stories inspired by the music of Manchester punk band Buzzcocks, and their singer Pete Shelley.

Chris is currently working on a paratopian gazetteer of the Upper Calder Valley, and a musical.

Originally from Manchester, he has worked as a teacher and writer for twenty-five years, in a number of countries. After spending a decade in Naples in the south of Italy, then shorter periods in Lebanon, Morocco, and Russia, he returned to the UK and currently lives in the north of England.