Nod Ghosh lives in Christchurch, New Zealand, and completed a creative writing course at the Hagley Writers' Institute.
Listen to readings of some of my stories on my YouTube channel.
Nod’s novels are represented by Nadine Rubin Nathan at High Spot Literary.
Nod's flash fiction, short stories and poems have appeared in the New Zealand publications, JAAM, Landfall, North and South Magazine, Takahē, Headland and Flash Frontier.
Nod's work also appears in London Grip, Connotation Press, Blue Fifth Review, The Citron Review, Spelk Fiction, The Airgonaut, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Fictive Dream, Peacock Journal, MiNDFOOD, Pure Slush and many other international publications.
“The Two-Tailed Snake”, a novella set in 1940s India is published by Fairlight Books, as part of their Fairlight Moderns series, 14th September 2023.
Widely available in bookshops throughout the UK.
https://www.fairlightbooks.co.uk/the-two-tailed-snake/
Available in New Zealand via PaperPlus: https://www.paperplus.co.nz/shop/books/fiction/contemporary/the-two-tailed-snake
Cover art by Sam Kalda
July 23: New from Truth Serum Press “Love. Lemons and Illicit Sex”
A racy collection of 32 stories sexy, mad, crazy, ridiculous and at times, quite sad ...
Click below for links to
• the book's webpage:
https://truthserumpress.net/.../love-lemons-and-illicit-sex/
• the paperback:
https://bit.ly/LLISpb
• the ePub eBook:
https://bit.ly/LLISePub
• the Kindle eBook:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CB1V5CCD/
Find 'tastes of Love, Lemons and Illict Sex' here:
• https://bit.ly/Lemontaste
Reflex Press (UK) have published “Throw A Seven” – a series of stories set in nineteenth century in Christchurch, New Zealand. Available to order from the publisher now.
Also available as an e-book: https://www.reflex.press/product/throw-a-seven/
The novella-in-flash “Toy Train” is available (11.10.21):
paperback - https://bit.ly/ToyTrainpb
ePub - https://bit.ly/ToyTrainePub
Kindle - https://bit.ly/ToyTrainKin
A collection of three novellae-in-flash ‘Filthy Sucre’ has been published by Truth Serum Press (27.2.20):
Click here to purchase.
Read samples from ‘Filthy Sucre’ here.
Comments about ‘Filthy Sucre’ (Truth Serum Press)
The Novella-in-Flash 'The Crazed Wind' was published by Truth Serum Press in July 2018:
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Read samples from the novella-in-flash, 'The Crazed Wind' (Truth Serum Press) here.
Comments about 'The Crazed Wind' (Truth Serum Press)
For New Zealand Flash Fiction Day in June 2020, five women from New Zealand discuss poetic narrative and story.
Here is a reading from ‘Toy Train’, a novella-in-flash. Many thanks to Meg Pokrass and Francine Witte from Flash Fiction Z. (3.8.20)
Nod's flash fiction appears in the Bath Flash Fiction Award anthology The Lobsters Run Free and the 2017 UK anthology 'Sleep is a Beautiful Colour'.
A creative non-fiction piece is featured in the anthology Love on the Road 2015 (Liberties Press, Dublin.)
The novel The Iris Tattoo was completed with support from the late Norman Bilbrough through the New Zealand Society of Authors mentorship scheme.
Paper Prison, a speculative novel was completed in 2018 The novel, and has been awarded a manuscript assessment by the NZSA (assessed by Sue Reidy).
Echo Valley, is contemporary adult fiction, and was completed in November 2018 .
Milk – a novel set in the UK in the 1980s – follows the lives of siblings Raju and Rina, in a world that isn’t ready for them. Completed July 2023.
Years ago, an aunt urged Nod to take up writing. On thanking the aunt for her perceptive insight, Nod was told, "Oh, it wasn't to do with your writing. You were born on the same date as William Shakespeare. so I felt you ought to be a writer too."
AWARDS AND 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 the 2014 Page and Blackmore short story competition (NZSA Top of the South, published in "Horizons 2" anthology, mid 2015), see link below.
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.
Nominated for Pushcart Prize by Flash Frontier, 2014.
Runner up New Zealand National Flash Fiction Day June 2016
Runner up North and South short short story competition November 2016
First Prize: Brilliant Flash Fiction Overseas Travel Writing Contest, March 2017.
Second place: Bath Flash Fiction Award, June 2017.
Runner up North and South short short story competition February 2018.
Shortlisted for the Heritage Literary Awards 2020 and 2021
SNIPPETS
Leaving the Red Zone: anthology of earthquake related stories & poems.
Nod was interviewed by Jonathan Cardew at Connotation Press. Topics covered: Leeds, flatus-filtering knickers and sea creatures that look like 'anatomically accurate representations of female genitalia'.
Interview with Bath Flash Fiction Award, December 2017.
Interview on RNZ, Frankie McMillan talks about ‘Bonsai’ - Best small stories from Aotearoa New Zealand.
Interview with Morrin Rout on ‘Plains FM’ about the novella-in-flash ‘The Crazed Wind’ from Truth Serum Press.
Thanks Rajorshi Chakraborti and Landfall Reviews for this one.
Thanks to Sophie van Llewyn and TSS for including ‘The Crazed Wind’ in this essay on researching for historical novella-in-flash.
The forthcoming anthology, “Best Small Fictions” will include a story from ‘The Crazed Wind’. Very grateful to be considered for this prestigious publication.
Very pleased to have an interview on NZ author Kim Jackways’ blog.
“Wet Paint”, guest blog on Christchurch City Council Libraries site. A perilous journey through a city full of hazards.
New Zealand National Flash Fiction Day 2022. Panel discussion on “Shaping Your Narrative”.
Thanks to Debbi Voisey for inviting me to be her featured reader, Mar 2023.
Thanks to the South Asian Flash Writers’ Group for inviting me as guest reader, April 2023.
New Zealand National Flash Fiction Day 2023. Readings from “Cluster of Lights” anthology.