Hi, I’m Nicki Nørmark

I write stories.

I spent about fourteen years in the Danish film and television industry, and somewhere in the middle of all that, I went to Vancouver Film School to study writing. In the last years of my time in the industry, I worked primarily as a video editor.

I left the creative industry around 2021, not because I stopped seeing myself as a creative person, but because I realised I wasn’t doing my best creative work when it was done on someone else’s behalf. So when people ask why I left, I usually explain it like this: imagine a radio DJ who only wants to play Radiohead. It might come from a place of personal passion, even well intentioned, but it does not work when your job is to reach a broad, mainstream audience. At some point, I understood that my creativity needed to exist on my own terms, and that my job could be something else entirely. The two had always felt connected to me, like a train and its carriage. For a long time, I believed I was the one being pulled along, riding behind. Only later did I understand I was the engine all along.

Today I am lucky to work in a place I genuinely like, so that allows me to focus on my writing in my spare time.

My stories draw inspiration from Scandinavian and Japanese folklore, as well as Greek mythology. I aim to create original work that feels both timeless and new.

I’d say my style sits somewhere between Hans Christian Andersen and Studio Ghibli. I don’t shy away from the darkness in original fairytales, the parts that made them unforgettable. But I also believe stories should have heart. The best tales hurt. They change you, not just entertain you. I hope my stories do that for you too.

Thanks for stopping by. 

I hope these stories find you when you need them most.