Niamh Calderwood is a fiction writer whose work spans novels, novellas, and short stories. Her writing tends to find the people who exist at the edges of things; those who don’t quite fit the world they’ve been handed, who experience reality at a slight angle to everyone around them, and who build something new in the space that creates. Her stories move between the domestic and the strange, often occupying territory where neither realism nor genre fully applies.

She has been writing since she was a child, and publishing since 2010. Her debut novelette, The Alfie Gray Paradox, announced a preoccupation with interiority and estrangement that has run through everything she has written since. Her debut novel, Stranger Town, published in 2017, examined social disconnection through interwoven perspectives. Her novella Drowning by the Sea followed in 2022. She is currently at work on new long-form fiction.

Her work has appeared through Alien Buddha Press, Blooming Twig Books, and in independent zine publications, as well as in self-published form. A bibliography is listed below.

Niamh holds an MA in Creative Writing from the Open University and a BA Hons in Contemporary Directing from Leeds Beckett University. She has a background in theatre and screen, with acting credits including BBC television productions and British independent film.

In addition to her fiction, she works professionally as a narrative designer in the video game industry.

Selected bibliography:
The Alfie Gray Paradox (Novelette) – Self Published, 2010

Crowdsourcing Immortality (Collection) – Contributor. Blooming Twig Books, 2014

Compendium of Silliness (Zine) – Contributor, various issues. Barry Fox Industries, 2016

Stranger Town (Novel) – Self Published, 2017

Raging: A Collection of Essays and Poems – Self Published, 2019

Alien Buddha Zine #29 – Contributor. Alien Buddha Press, 2021

Misanthropic Tendencies in a Hostile Environment (Novel) – Alien Buddha Press, 2021

Drowning by the Sea (Novella) – Alien Buddha Press, 2022