Hello. I’m Niamh Calderwood. I’m a writer, narrative designer, and chronic over-thinker.
Some of you may have read my indie books and shorter work in the past. Some of you may know me from my work in games. And some of you are entirely new here. Whether it’s your first time, or you’re a returning guest, welcome.
About a year ago, I stepped back from the internet.
After appearing in a video to talk about a video game feature I’d worked on, I found myself on the receiving end of a wave of hostility. It was loud, disorienting, and to be fully transparent, it made me want to disappear for a while. So I did. I pulled down my website, made my indie work harder to find, and focused on my day job, and on writing quietly, offstage.
Some time away has restored my perspective.
Over the past year I’ve kept writing. Novels, short stories, fragments, ideas I’m not ready to talk about yet. The work hasn’t stopped. What did stop was my willingness to let it be seen. But I’ve realised that retreating entirely isn’t the same thing as protecting myself.
So this is me, returning carefully, deliberately, and on my own terms.
I’m reopening this site as a home for my fiction: novels, novellas, short stories, and the occasional essay about craft. I’ll be making my indie work available again, and I plan to write here periodically about writing, and narrative design.
I’m not planning on doing video appearances or being particularly visible in ways that don’t feel sustainable. But I am choosing not to disappear.
If you’ve been here before, thank you for finding me again. If you’re new, I hope you’ll stay a while.
Stories incoming.

Sincerely,
Niamh