Michael Pedersen

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...

Och, lush thanks. And love & lustre to you in the quest ahead ❤️‍🔥💛❤️‍🔥

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.

Just started. Outstanding opening. Irresistible language. Can't wait to see where this one goes.

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...

Glorious. My sublime thanks / what a quest 💖💛💙🖤

Took Muckle Flugga for some photos too!
I did my thumb nails Muckle Flugga inspired tartan 💅🏽 @michaelpedersen.bsky.social

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...

@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...

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

Lush you came. Thank you. And the nails 💫 loved them 💚💙💜💛💘

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...

The Verb - The Adverb from the Ledbury Poetry Festival - BBC Sounds Ian McMillan, Jackie Kay, Hollie McNish & Michael Pedersen at the Ledbury Poetry Festival

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
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Och, that’s such a glorious write up. Great gusts of gooey thanks / keep coruscating 💛✨❤️‍🔥

Muckle Flugga by Michael Pedersen 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 …

Best book I've read so far this year - Muckle Flugga by @michaelpedersen.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social annabookbel.net/muckle-flugg...

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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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

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...

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

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...

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.

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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...

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

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...

Edinburgh – tonight / for one night only – Scotland & New Zealand unfurl this gooey splendour just for you. Bestsellers, ex National Poets, spoken word superstars, comedic gurus, prize winners of every lush ilk.

Send lovers, friends & floosies our way.

🎫: www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

Whizzed by the press area of @edbookfest.bsky.social today and bumped into the lovely Edinburgh Makar @michaelpedersen.bsky.social who was about to chair a session with @ivograham.bsky.social called The Glory and The Chaos

Edinburgh, for one night only, we are: Charged By Starlight. I’m chatting with (beacon of screen & being) Russell Tovey, with a closing performance by the truly luminous @reubenkaye.bsky.social 📚👩🏼‍🎤 🌠

🎟️: www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

Glorious to have comedy supremo Ivo Graham recommending Muckle Flugga on Sara Pascoe & Cariad Lloyd’s Weirdos Bookclub podcast. I love this podcast and all these lush humans.

📚: linktr.ee/muckleflugga

@faberbooks.bsky.social

Time for our weekly round-up of events with our authors, beginning with Michael Pedersen, who will be at Edinburgh International Book Festival to celebrate his debut novel, Muckle Flugga, on Saturday 23 August.

edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/whats-on/michael-pedersen-charged-by-starlight