Featured recent writingA selection of recent articles, essays and reviews
The Diary of an Angler, Waitrose Weekend, 2022
The Faraway Gaze: resisting 'remoteness' in art, ArtUK.org, 2021 The Burial, a short story set in Shetland, Extra Teeth, 2021 What We Talk About When We Talk About Solastalgia, in Antlers of Water, ed. Kathleen Jamie (Canongate, 2020) A Brief introduction to the writing and writers of Shetland, The British Council, 2020 An essay on the marginalisation of rural communities in Imagine a Country, ed. Val McDermid and Jo Sharp (Canongate, 2020) A Song of Home, a profile of the artist Paul Bloomer, Caught by the River, 2019 The Heart of Beyond, an essay on 'remoteness' and centrality in fiction, Boundless, 2019 |
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Other recent writing
- Old Man's Hands, an essay, Scottish Book Trust, 2020
- The Back of Ronas Hill, Fly Culture, 2020 (not available online)
- Un Immense Petit Monde, GEO magazine, France, 2021 (not available online)
- A Christmas Compass: North: a short story broadcast on BBC Radio 4, Christmas Day, 2018
- The Noticing: a short story for The Simple Things magazine, 2018 (not available online)
- The Worth of Words, The Island Review, 2018
- Drive Safely!, The Island Review, 2017
- Why I Love ... Fair Isle, The Guardian, 2016
- The Nameless Loch, Fallon's Angler issue 8, 2016 (not available online).
- The Magic of an Island: for the Scottish Book Trust, 2016
- A review of Louise Gray's The Ethical Carnivore for Caught By The River, 2016
- The Fear of a Retreat: a blog about the RLS Fellowship for the Scottish Book Trust, 2016
- An introduction to Wendell Berry's The Art of the Commonplace for Caught By The River's Nature Book Reader, 2015
- The Way to My Grandparents' House, for the Scottish Book Trust's 'Journeys' project, 2015
- Tom Nairn, in Darkness and Light, for Scottish Review of Books, 2014
- First thoughts on the independence referendum result, and the way forward from here, National Collective, 2014
- Review of The Fly Trap by Fredrick Sjoberg, Caught by the River, 2014
- Northern Lights: review of The Literature of Shetland in Scottish Review of Books, 2014
- So Long As We Can Imagine Better We Can Make Better: why I am voting Yes to Scottish independence. National Collective, 2014
- True North: why there is no need for 'island referendums', Bella Caledonia, 2014
- Where I Write: a blog post for the Scottish Book Trust, 2014
- Farson's way: a profile of Negley Farson, Caught By the River, 2013
- Islands Voices: on the Our Islands, Our Future autonomy campaign. Bella Caledonia, 2013
- A comment piece for The Guardian on Shetland 'home rule', 2013
The Things Around MeThe Things Around Me was a nature writing collaboration with ornithologist and artist Will Miles. From the autumn of 2011 to the spring of 2012, Malachy wrote a series of essays about a Shetland garden – its wildlife and plants, and the experience of getting to know the place. The essays can be read here.
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New Statesman
Malachy's columns for the New Statesman, from 2007, can be read here.
Shetland Life
A selection of articles and editorials from Shetland Life magazine:
- Of Poets and Dolls: Lemn Sissay and the nature of racism in Shetland
- West, to Greenland
- What is a Community?
- Editorial: On terror and extremism in Britain and Norway
- Editorial: On Harry Patch and remembrance
- Editorial: On education and technology
- Editorial: On privacy and press freedom
- Editorial: On drugs and society
- Editorial: On technology and agriculture
The Shetland Times
A selection of Spaekalation columns: