Michael Pedersen

Glorious thanks for lassoing Muckle Flugga as part of this extraordinary haul 💙🖤💖💛

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 💜💛🖤.

The Skinny on... Michael Pedersen – 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 he’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 🎄

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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.

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

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

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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 💜💛💚.

If you were a subscriber, you'd already have the @michaelpedersen.bsky.social
Speakeasy Zine! Instead, enjoy this glorious snapshot, designed by @joshmoirart.bsky.social ...but if you subscribe this week, we'll do a special mailout of this gorgeous final zine of the season www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk

Tickets for my final event of this here year. Sharing the stage @standrewsbookfest.bsky.social in London with the lovely @michaelpedersen.bsky.social Join us this wknd! www.ticketsource.co.uk/standrewsboo...

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...

It’s a gargantuan privilege to know the book resonated with you during such a heart throbbing time. Long live love / here’s to the glimmer of those we miss 💚💫🫀

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Tickets for my final event of the year. Sharing the stage with the lovely @michaelpedersen.bsky.social @standrewsbookfest.bsky.social www.ticketsource.co.uk/standrewsboo...

'People will try to capitalise upon the..things that pull us apart rather than the many..commonhoods that draw us together. So always, always focus on the joy and rally back towards the light' @michaelpedersenoyster ends our first series with hope. Full episode here podfollow.com/shamis-speak...

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

Need a mid-week pick-me-up? Warm, witty and wonderful - Michael Pedersen is in the Speakeasy this week. Listen to the full episode podfollow.com/shamis-speak... and his beautiful first novel, Muckle Flugga, is available in all good bookshops. www.faber.co.uk/author/micha...

#ScottishFiction

"I convinced myself I was studying literature within the realms of law and it was very easy to do so because it is a celebration in almost a flamboyance of language." is there anything that @michaelpedersen.bsky.social can't make beautiful?

Listen to the full episode podfollow.com/shamis-speak...

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 🎧 📚💛💜

'I was trying to experience this grief as the last reverberation of loving someone' @michaelpedersen.bsky.social explains the process of writing the beautiful book Boy Friends in the wake of his dearest friend, Scott Hutchinson's, passing. Listen to the full episode now podfollow.com/shamis-speak...

'I was obsessed with friendship. I was obsessed with emotionally vulnerable friendships....I wanted a piece of that friendship pie' @michaelpedersen.bsky.social talks about the most delicious kind of pie, that we all deserve a generous slice of. Full episode podfollow.com/shamis-speak...

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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...

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...

💜 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...

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...

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...

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

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