More than forty artists, musicians, dancers, festivals and companies have been given more than £900,000 in funding from Creative Scotland.
The funds, the majority of it in National Lottery Funding, includes Open Project funds for the Boswell Book Festival, the Orkney Book Festival and the Society of Authors in Scotland, which has received support towards ScotsWrite, a September conference in Glasgow for writers.
Linda Strachan, chair of Society of Authors in Scotland, said: "However you put pen to paper - as a novelist, children's writer, non-fiction author, translator, poet, playwright or screenwriter - ScotsWrite will address the challenges of breaking through your creative, financial and promotional barriers."
Architectural social enterprise The City of Play has received funding towards the design, development and creation of Pop-Up Playscapes - a portable playground to "temporarily re-purpose streets and other shared public spaces for play."
Dundee Design Festival has received an award to support this year’s programme, in May.
Glasgow Life received £40,000 to help stage the Merchant City Festival in July.
Northwords Now literary magazine has received funding towards its next two issues as well as the publication of a Gaelic supplement, Tuath.
Glasgow-based author Lisa Ballantyne, writer of The Guilty One (2012) and Redemption Road (2015), has received funding towards her third novel.
Loch Shiel Spring Festiva and Glasgow International Jazz Festival have received funding towards the development of their respective programmes.
Glasgow-based band Youth of America has received funding towards the production of a new album.
The band features members of already established Scottish bands Belle and Sebastian, Trembling Bells, Lucky Luke and Big Hogg.
Toonspeak Young People’s Theatre has received funding for its new production Ma’ Bit.
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