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
Lovers! Both the Edinburgh (23/03) and Glasgow (25/03) launches for the Muckle Flugga paperback are fast filling. One under a starry planetarium, one in Scotland’s biggest bookshop. Fern Brady to Rachel Sermanni & lightbeams beyond. ‘Mon zest our way. 💛
🎟️: www.michaelpedersen.co.uk/events
🎟️: www.michaelpedersen.co.uk/events
January 20, 2026 at 8:46 AM
Lovers! Both the Edinburgh (23/03) and Glasgow (25/03) launches for the Muckle Flugga paperback are fast filling. One under a starry planetarium, one in Scotland’s biggest bookshop. Fern Brady to Rachel Sermanni & lightbeams beyond. ‘Mon zest our way. 💛
🎟️: www.michaelpedersen.co.uk/events
🎟️: www.michaelpedersen.co.uk/events
Yikes & swoon! I’m on one of my very favourite podcasts: The Weirdos Bookclub with supreme beings / literary dreamboats Sara Pascoe & Cariad Lloyd.
The full flourishing episode can be listened to in all your podcasts places now: www.plosive.co.uk/podcasts/wei...
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The full flourishing episode can be listened to in all your podcasts places now: www.plosive.co.uk/podcasts/wei...
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January 8, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Yikes & swoon! I’m on one of my very favourite podcasts: The Weirdos Bookclub with supreme beings / literary dreamboats Sara Pascoe & Cariad Lloyd.
The full flourishing episode can be listened to in all your podcasts places now: www.plosive.co.uk/podcasts/wei...
💜💚💛🩵
The full flourishing episode can be listened to in all your podcasts places now: www.plosive.co.uk/podcasts/wei...
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On 01/01, me & Shirley Manson @garbage.com unfurled our cultural salon Muckle Be The Light. We were joined by @nicolasturgeon.bsky.social & Norman Blake to kick start the year. The whole event rang with notions of courage & joy – what a thrill to start the year surrounded by these gallant humans 💘🔥.
January 3, 2026 at 12:07 PM
On 01/01, me & Shirley Manson @garbage.com unfurled our cultural salon Muckle Be The Light. We were joined by @nicolasturgeon.bsky.social & Norman Blake to kick start the year. The whole event rang with notions of courage & joy – what a thrill to start the year surrounded by these gallant humans 💘🔥.
Come kick start 2026 with swoon and tenderness at Portobello Town Hall. That’s for Edinburgh Hogmanay’s First Footin’ this January 1st. It’s nearly sold out / last tickets remaining. What a glorious coddle of wonder churners 💛💚🩵💖
🎟️: edwinterfest.com/hogmanay/wha...
🎟️: edwinterfest.com/hogmanay/wha...
December 29, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Come kick start 2026 with swoon and tenderness at Portobello Town Hall. That’s for Edinburgh Hogmanay’s First Footin’ this January 1st. It’s nearly sold out / last tickets remaining. What a glorious coddle of wonder churners 💛💚🩵💖
🎟️: edwinterfest.com/hogmanay/wha...
🎟️: edwinterfest.com/hogmanay/wha...
I finally saw The Importance of Being Earnest & saw Stephen Fry (the great human lighthouse) soar. If yer near London catch this show before it’s dreamdust & legend. It’ll play your heart like a flute.
Stephen has been so generous with me & my novel this year and my gratitude is gigantic 💜💛💚.
Stephen has been so generous with me & my novel this year and my gratitude is gigantic 💜💛💚.
December 28, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I finally saw The Importance of Being Earnest & saw Stephen Fry (the great human lighthouse) soar. If yer near London catch this show before it’s dreamdust & legend. It’ll play your heart like a flute.
Stephen has been so generous with me & my novel this year and my gratitude is gigantic 💜💛💚.
Stephen has been so generous with me & my novel this year and my gratitude is gigantic 💜💛💚.
Chuffed to see Muckle Flugga as one of the glorious Matt Haig’s Books of the Year. Matt’s a sublime human & his writing gives people courage & hope. He was one of the first to read my novel and has been supremely championing ever since 💚🧡💚🧡.
Paperback preorders open now: linktr.ee/michaelpeder...
Paperback preorders open now: linktr.ee/michaelpeder...
December 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Chuffed to see Muckle Flugga as one of the glorious Matt Haig’s Books of the Year. Matt’s a sublime human & his writing gives people courage & hope. He was one of the first to read my novel and has been supremely championing ever since 💚🧡💚🧡.
Paperback preorders open now: linktr.ee/michaelpeder...
Paperback preorders open now: linktr.ee/michaelpeder...
Behold my buttery lovers – the 𝑴𝒖𝒄𝒌𝒍𝒆 𝑭𝒍𝒖𝒈𝒈𝒂 𝒑𝒂𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌. It arrives in March 2026 but you can preorder it now (as say, a Christmas gift) 💚🧡. & remember, every time you preorder a book a baby lighthouse is born (and my heart does seven somersaults 🥰)
📚 : linktr.ee/michaelpeder...
📚 : linktr.ee/michaelpeder...
December 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Behold my buttery lovers – the 𝑴𝒖𝒄𝒌𝒍𝒆 𝑭𝒍𝒖𝒈𝒈𝒂 𝒑𝒂𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌. It arrives in March 2026 but you can preorder it now (as say, a Christmas gift) 💚🧡. & remember, every time you preorder a book a baby lighthouse is born (and my heart does seven somersaults 🥰)
📚 : linktr.ee/michaelpeder...
📚 : linktr.ee/michaelpeder...
💛 Glasgow you gallus lovers 💜 The Muckle Flugga paperback launch is on 25/03 with the phenomenal Fern Brady – one of my fav comedians and an extraordinary writer. Come watch us thrum and fizz together 💚💚💚💚.
🎫 : www.waterstones.com/events/micha...
🎫 : www.waterstones.com/events/micha...
December 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
💛 Glasgow you gallus lovers 💜 The Muckle Flugga paperback launch is on 25/03 with the phenomenal Fern Brady – one of my fav comedians and an extraordinary writer. Come watch us thrum and fizz together 💚💚💚💚.
🎫 : www.waterstones.com/events/micha...
🎫 : www.waterstones.com/events/micha...
Edinburgh Lovers 💫 I offer thee a one-off spectacular: the launch of the 𝐌𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐞 𝐅𝐥𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝓤𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓢𝓽𝓪𝓻𝓼 of the planetarium on 23/03. I’ll be joined by 2 sublime sound makers that truly make my heart thrum: Rachel Sermanni & Janette Ayachi.
Come soar 🎫: dynamicearth.org.uk/event/the-mu...
Come soar 🎫: dynamicearth.org.uk/event/the-mu...
December 15, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Edinburgh Lovers 💫 I offer thee a one-off spectacular: the launch of the 𝐌𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐞 𝐅𝐥𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝓤𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓢𝓽𝓪𝓻𝓼 of the planetarium on 23/03. I’ll be joined by 2 sublime sound makers that truly make my heart thrum: Rachel Sermanni & Janette Ayachi.
Come soar 🎫: dynamicearth.org.uk/event/the-mu...
Come soar 🎫: dynamicearth.org.uk/event/the-mu...
Easy on the reins of the heart – it’s National Grief Awareness Week 2025. New grief, old grief, the anticipation of grief, the shouldering or witnessing of grief, grief by proxy, by package, by post. What a thing it is is love, miss, & to mourn. Here’s a new wee piece I’ve been tinkering with 💜💛🖤.
December 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Easy on the reins of the heart – it’s National Grief Awareness Week 2025. New grief, old grief, the anticipation of grief, the shouldering or witnessing of grief, grief by proxy, by package, by post. What a thing it is is love, miss, & to mourn. Here’s a new wee piece I’ve been tinkering with 💜💛🖤.
Supremely chuffed to see Muckle Flugga named as Irvine Welsh’s Novel of 2025 in The Observer.
‘told in a poet’s lush but drum-tight voice…as arresting as an airport thriller’ 💜💚🥰💚💜.
📚: linktr.ee/muckleflugga
@faberbooks.bsky.social
‘told in a poet’s lush but drum-tight voice…as arresting as an airport thriller’ 💜💚🥰💚💜.
📚: linktr.ee/muckleflugga
@faberbooks.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Supremely chuffed to see Muckle Flugga named as Irvine Welsh’s Novel of 2025 in The Observer.
‘told in a poet’s lush but drum-tight voice…as arresting as an airport thriller’ 💜💚🥰💚💜.
📚: linktr.ee/muckleflugga
@faberbooks.bsky.social
‘told in a poet’s lush but drum-tight voice…as arresting as an airport thriller’ 💜💚🥰💚💜.
📚: linktr.ee/muckleflugga
@faberbooks.bsky.social
Lush to be included in The List’s Hot 100. Chuffed to have done a cover feature with them earlier in the year for Muckle Flugga. Scotland is such a cultural powerhouse, for a relatively wee nation we produce some of the best art in the world. I’m forever swooning at the majesty of Scottish art 💜💛💚.
November 28, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Lush to be included in The List’s Hot 100. Chuffed to have done a cover feature with them earlier in the year for Muckle Flugga. Scotland is such a cultural powerhouse, for a relatively wee nation we produce some of the best art in the world. I’m forever swooning at the majesty of Scottish art 💜💛💚.
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...