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Michael Pedersen
@michaelpedersen.bsky.social
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Maker of Books / Edinburgh Makar (Poet Laureate) / Writer in Residence at Edinburgh Uni 💜📚💫 www.michaelpedersen.co.uk https://linktr.ee/muckleflugga
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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · May 22
It’s the official publication date of MUCKLE FLUUGA. I would adore it if you lassoed a copy / shared / recommended. It truly means the world 🥲 🌍.
📚 linktr.ee/muckleflugga

💛 ’Extraordinary’ The Scotsman
💖 ‘A dream’ My Weekly
💛 ‘A thing of magic’ The Skinny
💖 ‘Book of The Month’ Gutter
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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 19h
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
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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 4d
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...
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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 5d
Och, lush thanks. And love & lustre to you in the quest ahead ❤️‍🔥💛❤️‍🔥
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Eleanor Fuller @eleanorfuller.bsky.social · 6d
Just started. Outstanding opening. Irresistible language. Can't wait to see where this one goes.
Book Cover: Muckle Flugga by Michael Pedersen. Features a lighthouse, in front of which two figures (in silhouette) stand. Yellow streak of colour on top of white lighthouse. Muckle Flugga is a pink rock, surrounded by blue, black, white symbols of waves/water.
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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 11d
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...
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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 11d
Glorious. My sublime thanks / what a quest 💖💛💙🖤
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Rebooca 👻 @rebeccas09.bsky.social · 13d
Took Muckle Flugga for some photos too!
I did my thumb nails Muckle Flugga inspired tartan 💅🏽 @michaelpedersen.bsky.social
Left photo: Description of meadow. Right photo: Muckle Flugga book in front of meadow! Muckle Flugga book in front of scarf and jumper in shop at V&A Dundee.
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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 14d
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...
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 16d
@michaelpedersen.bsky.social & Peter Mackay in conversation with Gemma Cairney about their work, their love of language, & the inspiration they draw from Scotland’s landscapes, contemporary culture & ways of living

28 Sept, Braemar. Tickets £10
www.tickettailor.com/events/thefi...
Buy tickets – Michael Pedersen and Peter Mackay in conversation with Gemma Cairney – St Margaret's
Michael Pedersen and Peter Mackay in conversation with Gemma Cairney – St Margaret's, Sun 28 Sep 2025 - Join us for what promises to be an extraordinary event with award-winning poet, author, and curr...
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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 17d
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...
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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 19d
Lush you came. Thank you. And the nails 💫 loved them 💚💙💜💛💘
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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 21d
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...
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 23d
Currently on BBC Sounds, recorded at the Ledbury Poetry Festival: Ian McMillan presents poetry in performance with Jackie Kay, @holliemcnish.bsky.social & @michaelpedersen.bsky.social, sharing poems of friendship, childhood, & of love in its many forms
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The Verb - The Adverb from the Ledbury Poetry Festival - BBC Sounds
Ian McMillan, Jackie Kay, Hollie McNish & Michael Pedersen at the Ledbury Poetry Festival
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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 25d
Och, that’s such a glorious write up. Great gusts of gooey thanks / keep coruscating 💛✨❤️‍🔥
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Annabookbel @annabookbel.bsky.social · 25d
Best book I've read so far this year - Muckle Flugga by @michaelpedersen.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social annabookbel.net/muckle-flugg...
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Sometimes a book cover calls to you – as this one did – gorgeous colours with the lighthouse’s blazing beacon, silver foam in the waves crashing against the rocks, with the added …
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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 26d
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...
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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 26d
❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥
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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 27d
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
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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · 29d
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 📚.
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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · Sep 8
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...
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Mike @thefourthcraw.bsky.social · Aug 24
Loved seeing Russell Tovey interviewing the fab Michael Pedersen yesterday at the Book Festival

(Plus bonus appearance from Reuben Kaye for extra queer chaos 🤣)

Can't recommend Pedersen's writing enough, Boyfriends and Muckle Flugga are both outstanding
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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · Aug 30
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...
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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · Aug 28
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...
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Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social · Aug 27
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...
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Maisie Chan 💥NATE YU'S BLAST FROM THE PAST - Out now! @maisiechanwrites.bsky.social · Aug 24
I rarely have photoshoots but I had three in August and this was one of them! I am the excitable face of the BYRES ROAD BOOK FESTIVAL 2025 along with the very cool Muckler @michaelpedersen.bsky.social - Byres Road Book Festival will be 25-28th Sept 2025. Programme incoming! byresroadbookfestival.com
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