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Maker of Books / Edinburgh Makar (Poet Laureate) / Writer in Residence at Edinburgh Uni ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’ซ www.michaelpedersen.co.uk https://linktr.ee/muckleflugga

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You can get 25% off pre-orders for a range of upcoming Faber paperbacks at Waterstones until this Friday โ€“ enter code FEB26 at checkout. ๐Ÿ“š๏ธ

waterstones.com/campaign/february-pre-order-offer

17.02.2026 13:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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LOVERS. There is 25% off the Muckle Flugga paperback for a limited time only with the code: FEB26 at @waterstones.bsky.social ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’š

๐Ÿ“š: www.waterstones.com/book/muckle-...

17.02.2026 11:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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From 2027, Iโ€™ll be curating Winter Words Festival for & with Alan Cumming & Pitlochry Festival Theatre.

This yearโ€™s festival has now come to a triumphant close: Alan & the team have delivered with bravura. Having been at Winter Words in 2025 & 2026, I canโ€™t extoll this festival enough.

๐Ÿ’–๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ’š

16.02.2026 14:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐˜–๐˜ฃ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜Š๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ฃ๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜“๐˜ฐ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜—๐˜ฐ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ โ€“ one from the archives of ๐“ž๐”‚๐“ผ๐“ฝ๐“ฎ๐“ป in tribute to this day / this life of love.

This book illustrated dazzlingly by a friend I love and miss abundantly, the great Scott Hutchison. Published in 2017 itโ€™ll have a tenth anniversary next year. Yikes & slurp.

๐Ÿฆช๐Ÿฉต๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ’›

14.02.2026 10:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I am chatting to the glorious being @alancumming.bsky.social tonight at Pitlochry Festival Theatre for the opening event of Winter Word Festival 2026. What a luminary. ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿฉต๐Ÿ’–๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿ’š

All but sold out expect for a few speckled seats. Come join the thrum: www.pitlochryfestivaltheatre.com/whats-on/in-...

12.02.2026 13:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Saltire Sessions: Michael Pedersen
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Saltire Sessions: Michael Pedersen

The Saltire Society talks to author, poet, & Edinburgh Makar @michaelpedersen.bsky.social about his work, his inspirations, & the power of collaboration
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCTg...

03.02.2026 14:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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26/03: London you gallus lovers. Hereโ€™s a launch event with all the thrills. Me & Hollie McNish at Book Bar hosted by Itโ€™s Hardback Out Here. A coddle of lushes. Come zest with our gang ๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ’š

๐ŸŽซ: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ihoh-prese...

31.01.2026 06:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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WATCH: Michael Pedersen's poem to mark 300th anniversary of Edinburgh University medical school The 300th anniversary of Edinburgh Universityโ€™s medical school is an opportunity to look both backwards and forwards, writes Michael Pedersen

Edinburgh Makar @michaelpedersen.bsky.social has written a poem to mark the 300th anniversary of @edinburgh-uni.bsky.socialโ€™s medical school. A short film of the poem, animated by @edincollegeofart.bsky.social students, is available to watch via @scotsman.com
www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...

28.01.2026 16:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Happy Burns Night โœจ I got to read Burns from St Gilesโ€™ Cathedral over NY on @cnn.com with Edinburgh Hogmanay. Auld Lang Syne is primarily about friendship, rekindling, reflecting, and toasting the future. A worthy vaunt ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿฉต

25.01.2026 05:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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 Scotlandโ€™s biggest bookshop. Fern Brady to Rachel Sermanni & lightbeams beyond. โ€˜Mon zest our way. ๐Ÿ’›

๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ: www.michaelpedersen.co.uk/events

20.01.2026 08:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Yikes & swoon! Iโ€™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...

๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿฉต

08.01.2026 17:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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 โ€“ what a thrill to start the year surrounded by these gallant humans ๐Ÿ’˜๐Ÿ”ฅ.

03.01.2026 12:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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'Always, always focus on the joy and rally back towards the light' There's nothing we could say that @michaelpedersen.bsky.social couldn't say 100000x better. Our wish for you in 2026 (also, listen to the episode, it's beautiful & buy all of Michael's books because, ditto). www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk

31.12.2025 12:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Awwww, glorious to be in this lustrous coddle of tomes. Gooey thanks / love to yer lustre ๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’œ

31.12.2025 09:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The best books of 2025 We read over 110 books in 2025. Possibly too many? Hereโ€™s the top of the tops.

my list of the finest books of 2025 (Fiction, Non Fiction & Memoir) for Shortlist feat. @vincenzo.bsky.social @olgaravn.bsky.social @benpester.bsky.social @michaelpedersen.bsky.social @leaypi.bsky.social @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social @nicklowles.bsky.social

www.shortlist.com/books/the-be...

30.12.2025 23:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 35    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Come kick start 2026 with swoon and tenderness at Portobello Town Hall. Thatโ€™s for Edinburgh Hogmanayโ€™s First Footinโ€™ this January 1st. Itโ€™s nearly sold out / last tickets remaining. What a glorious coddle of wonder churners ๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿฉต๐Ÿ’–

๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ: edwinterfest.com/hogmanay/wha...

29.12.2025 10:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I finally saw The Importance of Being Earnest & saw Stephen Fry (the great human lighthouse) soar. If yer near London catch this show before itโ€™s dreamdust & legend. Itโ€™ll play your heart like a flute.

Stephen has been so generous with me & my novel this year and my gratitude is gigantic ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿ’š.

28.12.2025 13:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Chuffed to see Muckle Flugga as one of the glorious Matt Haigโ€™s Books of the Year. Mattโ€™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 ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿงก๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿงก.

Paperback preorders open now: linktr.ee/michaelpeder...

20.12.2025 11:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Behold my buttery lovers โ€“ the ๐‘ด๐’–๐’„๐’Œ๐’๐’† ๐‘ญ๐’๐’–๐’ˆ๐’ˆ๐’‚ ๐’‘๐’‚๐’‘๐’†๐’“๐’ƒ๐’‚๐’„๐’Œ. It arrives in March 2026 but you can preorder it now (as say, a Christmas gift) ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿงก. & remember, every time you preorder a book a baby lighthouse is born (and my heart does seven somersaults ๐Ÿฅฐ)

๐Ÿ“š : linktr.ee/michaelpeder...

17.12.2025 17:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐ŸŒŠ 'Scintillating.' Ocean Vuong
๐ŸŒŠ 'Compelling.' Irvine Welsh
๐ŸŒŠ 'Phenomenal.' Matt Haig
๐ŸŒŠ 'A thrill.' Financial Times

Michael Pedersen's acclaimed debut novel Muckle Flugga is out in paperback 26 March 2026. You can pre-order it now ๐Ÿ’š

faber.co.uk/product/9780571387755-muckle-flugga/

17.12.2025 15:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ’› Glasgow you gallus lovers ๐Ÿ’œ The Muckle Flugga paperback launch is on 25/03 with the phenomenal Fern Brady โ€“ one of my fav comedians and an extraordinary writer. Come watch us thrum and fizz together ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’š.

๐ŸŽซ : www.waterstones.com/events/micha...

16.12.2025 21:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Edinburgh Lovers ๐Ÿ’ซ I offer thee a one-off spectacular: the launch of the ๐Œ๐ฎ๐œ๐ค๐ฅ๐ž ๐…๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ ๐ ๐š ๐ฉ๐š๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐›๐š๐œ๐ค ๐“ค๐“ท๐“ญ๐“ฎ๐“ป ๐“ฝ๐“ฑ๐“ฎ ๐“ข๐“ฝ๐“ช๐“ป๐“ผ of the planetarium on 23/03. Iโ€™ll be joined by 2 sublime sound makers that truly make my heart thrum: Rachel Sermanni & Janette Ayachi.

Come soar ๐ŸŽซ: dynamicearth.org.uk/event/the-mu...

15.12.2025 13:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Glorious thanks for lassoing Muckle Flugga as part of this extraordinary haul ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ–ค๐Ÿ’–๐Ÿ’›

06.12.2025 21:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Easy on the reins of the heart โ€“ itโ€™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. Hereโ€™s a new wee piece Iโ€™ve been tinkering with ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿ–ค.

04.12.2025 15:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Skinny on... Michael Pedersen โ€“ The Skinny Ahead of his annual Christmas show and New Year's Day appearance with former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, the incumbent Edinburgh Makar takes on our Q&A.

"I would challenge Viggo Mortensen (dressed as Aragorn) to a fight in the hope heโ€™d take pity on me after distributing the beating"

Ahead of his annual Christmas show, Edinburgh Makar @michaelpedersen.bsky.social takes on our Q&A ๐ŸŽ„

03.12.2025 12:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ’›๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ’š

02.12.2025 22:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Need a bit of joy in your life, writers? Then join us in a backroom of the lovely @portybooks.bsky.social for an absolute delight of a natter with @michaelpedersen.bsky.social
and savour the power, beauty and effulgence of those little pieces of story, we call words.
Episode out now - bop the bio.

01.12.2025 15:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Supremely chuffed to see Muckle Flugga named as Irvine Welshโ€™s Novel of 2025 in The Observer.

โ€˜told in a poetโ€™s lush but drum-tight voiceโ€ฆas arresting as an airport thrillerโ€™ ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿฅฐ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’œ.

๐Ÿ“š: linktr.ee/muckleflugga

@faberbooks.bsky.social

01.12.2025 12:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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The fabulous @michaelpedersen.bsky.social Zine, designed by @joshmoirart.bsky.social will be on the website imminently! Our season is over so check out every episode & subscribe for more mischief to come. Sign up for free - join our community for hope & action www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk

28.11.2025 11:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿฅฐ๐Ÿซ€๐Ÿฅฐ

28.11.2025 14:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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