News / Funding for Tallack
SHETLAND author Malachy Tallack has received over £8,000 of funding to research and write his first novel.
The writer, who is now based in Glasgow, has been given £8,250 by Creative Scotland as part of their Open Project Fund to boost culture in the Highlands and Islands.
Tallack is releasing his first book, the travelogue Sixty Degrees North, in July. And the author and musician has already started working on his first work of fiction.
The novel will be set in Shetland and it will touch on themes of peripherality and community.
In April, Tallack was awarded the Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship by the Scottish Books Trust for the novel.
As a result, he bagged a one-month stay in a French hotel once occupied by the 19th century writer.
Creative Scotland chief executive Janet Archer said that their latest round of funding – which benefitted the likes of Wick’s Lyth Arts Centre and Stornoway artist Dalen Alba – highlights the creativity of the Highlands and Islands.
“Open Project Funding supports organisations and individuals to explore, realise and develop their creative potential, widen access to their work, and enrich Scotland’s reputation as a distinctive creative nation,” she said.
“I am delighted that nearly half of the awards made in April and May were awarded to individual artists and artists collectives, a real testimony to the wide range of talented people that live and work here.”
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