Michael Pedersen
@michaelpedersen.bsky.social
Maker of Books / Edinburgh Makar (Poet Laureate) / Writer in Residence at Edinburgh Uni 💜📚💫 www.michaelpedersen.co.uk
https://linktr.ee/muckleflugga
https://linktr.ee/muckleflugga
Yes, me & Hollie went to the Christmas market. & yes, I was giddy to see this banner for Muckle Be The Light on 01/01 at Porty Town Hall with: Shirley Manson @garbage.com & @nicolasturgeon.bsky.social & Norman Blake + a pop up from @portybooks.bsky.social.
Come ✨ 🎟️: edwinterfest.com/hogmanay/wha...
Come ✨ 🎟️: edwinterfest.com/hogmanay/wha...
November 24, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Yes, me & Hollie went to the Christmas market. & yes, I was giddy to see this banner for Muckle Be The Light on 01/01 at Porty Town Hall with: Shirley Manson @garbage.com & @nicolasturgeon.bsky.social & Norman Blake + a pop up from @portybooks.bsky.social.
Come ✨ 🎟️: edwinterfest.com/hogmanay/wha...
Come ✨ 🎟️: edwinterfest.com/hogmanay/wha...
Words of Muckle Flugga lushness from two of the world’s foremost storytellers. I absolutely adore Ocean Vuong and Irvine Welsh’s writing, to have their glistering critiques on my novel makes the heart do-so-do 💚💖💜💛.
📚 : linktr.ee/muckleflugga
📚 : linktr.ee/muckleflugga
November 17, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Words of Muckle Flugga lushness from two of the world’s foremost storytellers. I absolutely adore Ocean Vuong and Irvine Welsh’s writing, to have their glistering critiques on my novel makes the heart do-so-do 💚💖💜💛.
📚 : linktr.ee/muckleflugga
📚 : linktr.ee/muckleflugga
It’s Robert Louis Stevenson Day (this being his birthday). Here’s a wee snippet of the sublime Jack Lowden voicing the ghost of RLS in my novel Muckle Flugga. RLS serves as a life coach & confidant to the lighthouse keeper’s otherworldly son, Ouse.
MF by JL audiobook available everywhere 🎧 📚💛💜
MF by JL audiobook available everywhere 🎧 📚💛💜
November 13, 2025 at 1:22 PM
It’s Robert Louis Stevenson Day (this being his birthday). Here’s a wee snippet of the sublime Jack Lowden voicing the ghost of RLS in my novel Muckle Flugga. RLS serves as a life coach & confidant to the lighthouse keeper’s otherworldly son, Ouse.
MF by JL audiobook available everywhere 🎧 📚💛💜
MF by JL audiobook available everywhere 🎧 📚💛💜
Cold Turkey’s Honey Roast Hope has less than 20 tickets left as we announce the sensational @mhairiblack.bsky.social as our special guest. She joins me, @holliemcnish.bsky.social, Withered Hand, & Gemma Cairney for the festive fandango 💖💜💛.
Edinburgh, 05/12, 🎫 : www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cold-turke...
Edinburgh, 05/12, 🎫 : www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cold-turke...
November 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Cold Turkey’s Honey Roast Hope has less than 20 tickets left as we announce the sensational @mhairiblack.bsky.social as our special guest. She joins me, @holliemcnish.bsky.social, Withered Hand, & Gemma Cairney for the festive fandango 💖💜💛.
Edinburgh, 05/12, 🎫 : www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cold-turke...
Edinburgh, 05/12, 🎫 : www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cold-turke...
01/01: Edinburgh! Let’s start the year with splendour. Me & the wonder Shirley Manson @garbage.com are taking over Porty Town Hall for Edinburgh Hogmanay. Our special guests are glorious: @nicolasturgeon.bsky.social & Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub) 💖
Come be & beam: edwinterfest.com/hogmanay/wha...
Come be & beam: edwinterfest.com/hogmanay/wha...
November 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
01/01: Edinburgh! Let’s start the year with splendour. Me & the wonder Shirley Manson @garbage.com are taking over Porty Town Hall for Edinburgh Hogmanay. Our special guests are glorious: @nicolasturgeon.bsky.social & Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub) 💖
Come be & beam: edwinterfest.com/hogmanay/wha...
Come be & beam: edwinterfest.com/hogmanay/wha...
💜 Lush London Lovers 💜
Me & the glorious @damianbarr.bsky.social are appearing together on 29/11 at @standrewsbookfest.bsky.social. It’s a zesty Saturday afternoon show at 15:30. Come join the coddle 💘💚💘💚💘
🎫: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/lon...
Me & the glorious @damianbarr.bsky.social are appearing together on 29/11 at @standrewsbookfest.bsky.social. It’s a zesty Saturday afternoon show at 15:30. Come join the coddle 💘💚💘💚💘
🎫: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/lon...
November 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
💜 Lush London Lovers 💜
Me & the glorious @damianbarr.bsky.social are appearing together on 29/11 at @standrewsbookfest.bsky.social. It’s a zesty Saturday afternoon show at 15:30. Come join the coddle 💘💚💘💚💘
🎫: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/lon...
Me & the glorious @damianbarr.bsky.social are appearing together on 29/11 at @standrewsbookfest.bsky.social. It’s a zesty Saturday afternoon show at 15:30. Come join the coddle 💘💚💘💚💘
🎫: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/lon...
Glasgow you glorious beings. Catch me & Gordon Buchanan (nature’s heartthrob) at Aye Write Festival at The Mitchell Library come 13/11 at 19:45. And we’ll be chatting with the fantabulous @nicolameighan.bsky.social 💛💜🩵.
🎫 : www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/muck...
🎫 : www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/muck...
November 4, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Glasgow you glorious beings. Catch me & Gordon Buchanan (nature’s heartthrob) at Aye Write Festival at The Mitchell Library come 13/11 at 19:45. And we’ll be chatting with the fantabulous @nicolameighan.bsky.social 💛💜🩵.
🎫 : www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/muck...
🎫 : www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/muck...
Wow, @waterstones.bsky.social have put their special edition of Boy Friends into their clearance for £2 ! ! !
It’s the *generally sold out* hardback edition & has exclusive content ft me & Shirley Manson chatting about friendship 💛💚🩵
📚: www.waterstones.com/book/boy-fri...
It’s the *generally sold out* hardback edition & has exclusive content ft me & Shirley Manson chatting about friendship 💛💚🩵
📚: www.waterstones.com/book/boy-fri...
November 1, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Wow, @waterstones.bsky.social have put their special edition of Boy Friends into their clearance for £2 ! ! !
It’s the *generally sold out* hardback edition & has exclusive content ft me & Shirley Manson chatting about friendship 💛💚🩵
📚: www.waterstones.com/book/boy-fri...
It’s the *generally sold out* hardback edition & has exclusive content ft me & Shirley Manson chatting about friendship 💛💚🩵
📚: www.waterstones.com/book/boy-fri...
The more wee Jessie Lee encounters the better – one of life’s true joy merchants. This is my amazing granny. I’ve tried to get her to do a silly book advert for each of my last few tomes and it never goes according to plan – far from it 😹 and aw the more brilliant for it 💓💜
📚 linktr.ee/muckleflugga
📚 linktr.ee/muckleflugga
October 28, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The more wee Jessie Lee encounters the better – one of life’s true joy merchants. This is my amazing granny. I’ve tried to get her to do a silly book advert for each of my last few tomes and it never goes according to plan – far from it 😹 and aw the more brilliant for it 💓💜
📚 linktr.ee/muckleflugga
📚 linktr.ee/muckleflugga
SWOONS GALORE – Muckle Flugga has been shortlisted for Fiction Book of the Year at the @saltirebookawards 😭. Such splendiferous news plays me like a flute. Here’s me & my granny about to mambo in jubilation. It’s a gorgeous coddle of a shortlist / I adore it & the Saltires 💜💛 @faberbooks.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 7:49 AM
SWOONS GALORE – Muckle Flugga has been shortlisted for Fiction Book of the Year at the @saltirebookawards 😭. Such splendiferous news plays me like a flute. Here’s me & my granny about to mambo in jubilation. It’s a gorgeous coddle of a shortlist / I adore it & the Saltires 💜💛 @faberbooks.bsky.social
The rest of the show year is looking gorgeous as a gambol of grapefruit. A treble Edinburgh dollop, Glasgow, Oxford, London, Norwich, Birnam & beyond. Heaps with Hollie McNish plus Damian Barr, Gordon Buchanan, & other heartthrobs.
🎟️: www.michaelpedersen.co.uk/events
🎟️: www.michaelpedersen.co.uk/events
October 13, 2025 at 10:38 AM
The rest of the show year is looking gorgeous as a gambol of grapefruit. A treble Edinburgh dollop, Glasgow, Oxford, London, Norwich, Birnam & beyond. Heaps with Hollie McNish plus Damian Barr, Gordon Buchanan, & other heartthrobs.
🎟️: www.michaelpedersen.co.uk/events
🎟️: www.michaelpedersen.co.uk/events
Edinburgh you swank beauties. Here’s two me & @holliemcnish.bsky.social event doublers. One on 23/10 at Porty Town Hall for Hollie’s book launch (we’ll be over 500 strong on the night). The other, lushly intimate, on 08/11 on the stunning Fingal Boat for PTBO.
🎟️: www.michaelpedersen.co.uk/events
🎟️: www.michaelpedersen.co.uk/events
October 8, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Edinburgh you swank beauties. Here’s two me & @holliemcnish.bsky.social event doublers. One on 23/10 at Porty Town Hall for Hollie’s book launch (we’ll be over 500 strong on the night). The other, lushly intimate, on 08/11 on the stunning Fingal Boat for PTBO.
🎟️: www.michaelpedersen.co.uk/events
🎟️: www.michaelpedersen.co.uk/events
Aberdeen you beauties – today at 14:30 I’m talking Muckle Flugga at Wayward Festival. I’m alongside Chris McQueer and chaired by the wonder Nicola Sturgeon. Tickets are pay what you can (including free). ‘Mon let’s do the book boogie.
🎟️ : www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/abe...
🎟️ : www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/abe...
October 4, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Aberdeen you beauties – today at 14:30 I’m talking Muckle Flugga at Wayward Festival. I’m alongside Chris McQueer and chaired by the wonder Nicola Sturgeon. Tickets are pay what you can (including free). ‘Mon let’s do the book boogie.
🎟️ : www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/abe...
🎟️ : www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/abe...
Braemar Literary Festival – you’re next – Sunday 28th Sept 11:30. That’s me & Peter Mackay & Gemma Cairney. Edinburgh Makar x Scottish Makar x Arts Supremo. 💛💚💖🖤
🎫: www.tickettailor.com/events/thefi...
🎫: www.tickettailor.com/events/thefi...
September 27, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Braemar Literary Festival – you’re next – Sunday 28th Sept 11:30. That’s me & Peter Mackay & Gemma Cairney. Edinburgh Makar x Scottish Makar x Arts Supremo. 💛💚💖🖤
🎫: www.tickettailor.com/events/thefi...
🎫: www.tickettailor.com/events/thefi...
Cold Turkey’s Honey Roast Hope is in the oven. That’s @holliemcnish.bsky.social, Withered Hand, Gemma Cairney, me & a super special guest TBA. 05/12 in Edinburgh. That’s unfiltered soppiness & joy with a dose of aw that glisters. Early Bird Tickets out now.
🎫: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cold-turke...
🎫: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cold-turke...
September 24, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Cold Turkey’s Honey Roast Hope is in the oven. That’s @holliemcnish.bsky.social, Withered Hand, Gemma Cairney, me & a super special guest TBA. 05/12 in Edinburgh. That’s unfiltered soppiness & joy with a dose of aw that glisters. Early Bird Tickets out now.
🎫: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cold-turke...
🎫: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cold-turke...
Sublime to have Muckle Flugga included in this Shortlist Magazine guide to essential new fiction alongside the likes of Sarah Hall, Ian McEwan, RF Kuang, Annie Ernaux, and dear Damian Barr.
🗞️ : www.shortlist.com/health-and-f...
📚: linktr.ee/muckleflugga
🗞️ : www.shortlist.com/health-and-f...
📚: linktr.ee/muckleflugga
September 21, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Sublime to have Muckle Flugga included in this Shortlist Magazine guide to essential new fiction alongside the likes of Sarah Hall, Ian McEwan, RF Kuang, Annie Ernaux, and dear Damian Barr.
🗞️ : www.shortlist.com/health-and-f...
📚: linktr.ee/muckleflugga
🗞️ : www.shortlist.com/health-and-f...
📚: linktr.ee/muckleflugga
Glorious beings of Fife – tomorrow (18/09) I’m in St Andrews for a Muckle Flugga bash. That’s at the lush Topping & Co and chaired by the literary Liger @holliemcnish.bsky.social. Come zest our way 💘💐🍓
🎫: www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/st-an...
🎫: www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/st-an...
September 17, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Glorious beings of Fife – tomorrow (18/09) I’m in St Andrews for a Muckle Flugga bash. That’s at the lush Topping & Co and chaired by the literary Liger @holliemcnish.bsky.social. Come zest our way 💘💐🍓
🎫: www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/st-an...
🎫: www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/st-an...
Tonight on @bbcradio4
Catch me & @holliemcnish.bsky.social & Jackie Kay on The Verb with Ian McMillan – recorded live at @ledburypoetry – live at 9pm & then on @bbcsounds 💚💜💚
📻: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Catch me & @holliemcnish.bsky.social & Jackie Kay on The Verb with Ian McMillan – recorded live at @ledburypoetry – live at 9pm & then on @bbcsounds 💚💜💚
📻: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
September 12, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Tonight on @bbcradio4
Catch me & @holliemcnish.bsky.social & Jackie Kay on The Verb with Ian McMillan – recorded live at @ledburypoetry – live at 9pm & then on @bbcsounds 💚💜💚
📻: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Catch me & @holliemcnish.bsky.social & Jackie Kay on The Verb with Ian McMillan – recorded live at @ledburypoetry – live at 9pm & then on @bbcsounds 💚💜💚
📻: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Swoon to a croon! Muckle Flugga has been longlisted for the Saltire National Book Awards – Best Fiction – alongside some of the best word-jumblers in the book world’s ballpit.
Long live love & Scottish literature – you find it in fecund & fabulous form 💛🧡🩵💚🩷 @faberbooks.bsky.social
Long live love & Scottish literature – you find it in fecund & fabulous form 💛🧡🩵💚🩷 @faberbooks.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Swoon to a croon! Muckle Flugga has been longlisted for the Saltire National Book Awards – Best Fiction – alongside some of the best word-jumblers in the book world’s ballpit.
Long live love & Scottish literature – you find it in fecund & fabulous form 💛🧡🩵💚🩷 @faberbooks.bsky.social
Long live love & Scottish literature – you find it in fecund & fabulous form 💛🧡🩵💚🩷 @faberbooks.bsky.social
I got to chair one of my favourite writers last night, Ocean Vuong, and it was glorious. Two images that capture the soppy lustre / soft sapience of the night captured by @shaunmurawski.bsky.social ✨. Gooey thanks to the bookish brilliance of @portybooks.bsky.social for producing this splendour 📚.
September 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
I got to chair one of my favourite writers last night, Ocean Vuong, and it was glorious. Two images that capture the soppy lustre / soft sapience of the night captured by @shaunmurawski.bsky.social ✨. Gooey thanks to the bookish brilliance of @portybooks.bsky.social for producing this splendour 📚.
Edinburgh, darling, tonight Ocean Vuong is holding a Scottish launch for his extraordinary new novel and I’m in-conversation with him. It’s for Porty Books at Assembly Rooms and there’s a tiny toaty spit of tickets left. Swoon.
🎫: www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/ocean...
🎫: www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/ocean...
September 8, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Edinburgh, darling, tonight Ocean Vuong is holding a Scottish launch for his extraordinary new novel and I’m in-conversation with him. It’s for Porty Books at Assembly Rooms and there’s a tiny toaty spit of tickets left. Swoon.
🎫: www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/ocean...
🎫: www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/ocean...
Me & Jack Lowden are on the cover of today’s Scotsman Mag talking about the Muckle Flugga audiobook. My Ma & Granny already huv their copies. The audiobook has been out less than a month and already a phenomenal number of you have quested in. Stunners y’all 🙏 🥰 💜.
🎧: books.apple.com/gb/audiobook...
🎧: books.apple.com/gb/audiobook...
August 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Me & Jack Lowden are on the cover of today’s Scotsman Mag talking about the Muckle Flugga audiobook. My Ma & Granny already huv their copies. The audiobook has been out less than a month and already a phenomenal number of you have quested in. Stunners y’all 🙏 🥰 💜.
🎧: books.apple.com/gb/audiobook...
🎧: books.apple.com/gb/audiobook...
Me & Brian Cox have formed a poetry boy band and our first single is out now. What I mean to say is, as Edinburgh Makar, I wrote a poem about my love of festivals that we’ve jointly narrated. It's available via the link below in aw its cinematic splendour.
www.edfringe.com/about-us/new...
www.edfringe.com/about-us/new...
August 28, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Me & Brian Cox have formed a poetry boy band and our first single is out now. What I mean to say is, as Edinburgh Makar, I wrote a poem about my love of festivals that we’ve jointly narrated. It's available via the link below in aw its cinematic splendour.
www.edfringe.com/about-us/new...
www.edfringe.com/about-us/new...
Glasgow you glorious beings. Here’s a FREE EVENT with me and Belle & Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch. Not only that, it’s hosted by the ace @nicolameighan.bsky.social at Hillhead Library for Byres Road Book Festival on 25/09 💚🩵 Muckle Empire 💜💛.
🎫 : www.eventbrite.com/e/muckle-emp...
🎫 : www.eventbrite.com/e/muckle-emp...
August 27, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Glasgow you glorious beings. Here’s a FREE EVENT with me and Belle & Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch. Not only that, it’s hosted by the ace @nicolameighan.bsky.social at Hillhead Library for Byres Road Book Festival on 25/09 💚🩵 Muckle Empire 💜💛.
🎫 : www.eventbrite.com/e/muckle-emp...
🎫 : www.eventbrite.com/e/muckle-emp...
TONIGHT it’s me & Russell Tovey & Reuben Kaye at the glorious @edbookfest.bsky.social. We’re in the main theatre at 20:30. It’s closing weekend you gorgeous beings 🩵💚💜💛. Muckle Flugga lustre loaded @faberbooks.bsky.social ✨✨
🎟️: www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
🎟️: www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
August 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
TONIGHT it’s me & Russell Tovey & Reuben Kaye at the glorious @edbookfest.bsky.social. We’re in the main theatre at 20:30. It’s closing weekend you gorgeous beings 🩵💚💜💛. Muckle Flugga lustre loaded @faberbooks.bsky.social ✨✨
🎟️: www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
🎟️: www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...