Nod Ghosh lives in Christchurch, and has completed a creative writing course at the Hagley Writers' Institute.

Nod's work has appeared in New Zealand Publications 'Landfall', 'JAAM', 'Takahē' and 'Flash Frontier', as well as in numerous overseas publications.

Short stories are featured in 'Love on the Road' (Liberties Press, 2015), 'Leaving the Red Zone' (Clerestory Press, 2016) and Bonsai (Canterbury University Press, 2018).

Nod has worked with the late Norman Bilbrough under the NZSA Mentorship acheme, and received a Manuscript Assessment from Sue Reidy for the novel 'Paper Prison'.

In September 2023, Fairlight Books releases the novella 'The Two-Tailed Snake':

‘Nod Ghosh’s compact novella is a blend of the mythic and the real. The two-tailed snake is our elusive and chimeric guide as one girl comes of age during the Partition of India and Pakistan. Through Ghosh’s deft storytelling, Joya’s resilience becomes the resilience of a country‘ —Shobha Rao, author of Girls Burn Brighter

Truth Serum Press published 'Love. Lemons and illicit Sex' in 2023, a short fiction collection that includes two series of linked flash fiction:

Thirty-two short stories driven by lust or recklessness. Raunchy, ridiculous, raving mad, and occasionally a little bit sad. Includes two threads of linked flash fiction, and LGBT+ literature that could make you laugh or cry. 

'Throw a Seven' a novella-in-flash was released by Reflex Press in 2023:

Throw a Seven follows seventeen souls as they set sail from the port of Haldia, India, in 1853, bound for a new life in a new land.They have come from Calcutta with the Nobab, a gruff but fair employer. They are leaving behind their old lives to join other settlers in New Zealand, hoping for a brighter future.

The novella-in-flash 'Toy Train' from Truth Serum Press came out in 2021:

Toy Train is brutal, compassionate, sincere, mysterious, uplifting and devastating. Nod Ghosh is a flash master. Every sentence is significant. These are stories crammed with truth told in poetic language, rife with symbolism and brimming over with emotion. Make space for yourself to read this collection — it’ll leave you breathless.

Epiphany Ferrell, winner of 2020 Flash Fiction Prize, Prime Number Magazine

A collection of three novellae-in-flash, 'Fithy Sucre' was released in February 2020 byTruth Serum Press:

From the limitless imagination of Nod Ghosh, we readers are gifted with three novellas of impressive scope and depth. These narratives, deftly distilled and interwoven. speak to the vagaries of love and loss, of betrayal and intrigue. Brilliant, dark, and riveting, Filthy Sucre is a collection by one of our best writers at the height of her powers.

 

Kathy Fish, author of Wild Life: Collected Works from 2003-2018

A novella-in-flash, 'The Crazed Wind' was published by Truth Serum Press in 2018:

A woman is reunited with her estranged father, a proud man whose outlook is shaped by one of history’s forgotten tragedies, the Partition of India in 1947.

 

 

AWARDS & COMMENDATIONS:

First prizes in the fiction and non-fiction categories of the Queer Writing Flash Fiction Competition, 2013, (New Zealand Society of Authors).

Shortlisted for Page and Blackmore short story competition 2014.

Winner, short story competition, Muscular Dystrophy Association of New Zealand.

Flash Frontier Winter Writing Award, 2014.

Shortlisted for Asia New Zealand Foundation short fiction competition 2014.

Runner up NZ National Flash Fiction Day 2016.

Runner up Bath flash fiction award 2017.

Runner up 'North & South Magazine' short short story competition, 2017 & 2018.

 

 

 

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