@edbookfest.bsky.social is now open 🎉! Here’s the fabulous thrust of my shows. They’re on 23rd, 27th and 29th August. 💜💚👩🏼‍🎤🧑🏼‍🎤💚💜. The number of literary beacons I’m sharing stages with is feather fluttering 💫💫💫 🎫: www.michaelpedersen.co.uk/events

I’m reading at @latitudefestival.bsky.social today at 15:55 alongside the ace Jan Carson. Come all you lexical butter churners and dandelion whisperers. Then we can all go watch Self Esteem and Lewis Capaldi 💚💜💛.

‘Muckle Flugga is an anthem for the summer’ @thetimes.com. Awwww, a thrill supreme to see Muckle Flugga recommended in The Times by the truly glorious Jaffe and Neal Bookshop. Long live the indies and their brigade of brilliant booksellers. My humungous thanks! 💚💛💚💛

Aberdeenshire beauties I’m coming to Banchory on 1st August! Anyone you can send our way would be soooo lushly appreciated – friends or lovers, exes or aunties. Love rockets 🚀💖. 🎟️: thebarnarts.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

ᴛᴇɴ ᴘᴏᴇᴍs ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴇᴅɪɴʙᴜʀɢʜ has arrived – I had the supreme thrill of editing this stunning wee anthology for Candlestick Press. Ft: Norman MacCaig, Jackie Kay, Edwin Morgan, Robert Louis Stevenson, Marjorie Lotfi, Hollie McNish, Janette Ayachi, me, & more. www.candlestickpress.co.uk/pamphlet/ten...

𝘉𝘰𝘺 𝘍𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴 came out 4 years back (July 2022) and has very much changed the currents of my life. I am so grateful for aw the soppy splendour it’s brought my way. To the dreamboats who read it or gifted it to those they love, thank you – you have giving it value beyond what I thought possible 🥹

💜 29th June 2012 🐇 This was Scott Hutchison’s first performance at Neu! Reekie! (a night I used to run with chums). I loved him then and I love him still 💚.

I’m The Sunday Poem in today’s Observer New Review with a bespoke illustration by the ace Chris Riddell. You can gulp it back all inky or swatch it online: observer.co.uk/culture/book...

I’ve a new poem in Sunday’s Observer New Review with a bespoke illustration to boot. Here it is in emoji form first: 🏊‍♀️ 🦅 ✈️ 🌊 ⛰️ 🐐 🐶 🥎

London this glorious beast is tonight – The Dead Bard Supper Society. A summoning of the ghost of Robert Louis Stevenson (with readings) plus a luscious three course meal by a fancy chef. All at the sublime Bard Books. 💜 📚💚👻 🏴‍☠️ 🎟️ : www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dead-bard-...

💙🤍❤️ Voila, my very first French translation: 𝗟𝗲 𝗣𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗲 𝗹’𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 (The Impossible Lighthouse). You better believe I was summoned over to Paris to pose by the Seine. 📚 This stunning edition will be published by the sublime Buchet Chastel on 27th August. 📚 www.buchetchastel.fr/catalogue/le...

DUNBAR * LONDON * NORTH BERWICK * LATITUDE * ABERDEENSHIRE 💛 Yes, I’m supposed to be on a writing break over June & July but, you know, sometimes lush things happen and new shows spiral out / bluebells thrusting up in floral defiance of their concrete overlords. 🎫 www.michaelpedersen.co.uk/events

Yikes! 𝘔𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘭𝘦 𝘍𝘭𝘶𝘨𝘨𝘢 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳 and it’s truly changed the orbit of my being. A veritable riptide of thanks & gratitude to everyone who has read it, recommended it, shared a post or come to an event. What a gorgeous gaggle of humans I’ve got to quest with along the way. 🩵💛💙💖💜🩷💚🖤🤍❤️🧡 🌊💫✨

Hearing that Muckle Flugga has been shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards just rang my heart like a bell 🔔💖. Humungous thanks to all the brilliant booksellers and lush indies that championed Muckle Flugga and hosted me along the tour run – I will swoon your way forever. 💛💜💚🤎💙🧡🩵

I’m off to the skies for a month long tour of Australia & New Zealand. Send lovers & friends, exes & aunties my way please. Melbourne, Wellington, Auckland, Sydney, Brisbane / I’m repping all my books & tendernesses beyond 💚🩵💜. 🎟️ : www.michaelpedersen.co.uk/events

Muckle Flugga is the Scottish Book of the Month at the glorious @blackwells.bsky.social 💙🩵🤍. Look out for our zesty stacks in Edinburgh & Aberdeen (& beyond). Plus I’ve an event to celebrate at Blackwells Edinburgh come 29/04 (chaired by Gordon Buchanan). 🎟️ : www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/michael-pe...

A thrill to be on @arte.tv’s leading culture show TWIST. This has already gone out on TV in France & Germany (in French & German) and is now available to catch up on their arte player. I got to talk Muckle Flugga / Der letzte Leuchtturm and soppy male friendship. 📺 www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...

The Muckle Flugga paperback is out now. Here’s me talking to 2 resplendent humans about it: Shirley Manson & Jackie Kay 💚✨💛. + MUCKLE FLUGGA~ * an Observer Book of the Year * shortlisted for Saltire Book Awards * shortlisted for The Arthurs Club Best First Novel Award 📚: linktr.ee/michaelpeder...

Catch me talking about Muckle Flugga / Der letzte Leuchtturm on @arte.tv’s leading arts show TWIST. 📺 On TV in Germany and France tonight and on the arte.tv player now. With glances of glorious faces 💛👀: www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...

Tonight Glasgow you gallus lovers. I’m launching my paperback with the sublime Fern Brady at @waterstones.bsky.social Glasgow (Sauchiehall St). Just a speckling of tickets left 💜💚🧡 🎟️: www.waterstones.com/events/micha...

! 𝖬𝗎𝖼𝗄𝗅𝖾 𝖥𝗅𝗎𝗀𝗀𝖺 has been shortlisted for the 𝖠𝗎𝗍𝗁𝗈𝗋𝗌’ 𝖢𝗅𝗎𝖻 𝖡𝖾𝗌𝗍 𝖥𝗂𝗋𝗌𝗍 𝖭𝗈𝗏𝖾𝗅 𝖠𝗐𝖺𝗋𝖽 (alongside all these beauties) 🥳🥹💜💚🫀. @faberbooks.bsky.social 🧑🏼‍🎤 🌊✨📚 the UK’s longest running prize for debut fiction ❤️‍🔥💘

Behold! 𝗗𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘇𝘁𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝘂𝗰𝗵𝘁𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗺 – the gorgeous German translation of Muckle Flugga out today with the mighty @dumontbuchverlag.bsky.social. ‘eigenwilliges und originelles’ BERNARDINE EVARISTO ‘kaleidoskophaftes’ OCEAN VUONG 📚: www.dumont-buchverlag.de/buch/michael...

Tour poster galore 💚 come let’s cast those beams out into the darkness. The Muckle Flugga paperback tour is running over March and April. The likes of Fern Brady, Hollie McNish, Gordon Buchanan, & more, joining me along the way 💫✨. 🎟️: www.michaelpedersen.co.uk/events

LOVERS. There is 25% off the Muckle Flugga paperback for a limited time only with the code: FEB26 at @waterstones.bsky.social 💚💚💚 📚: www.waterstones.com/book/muckle-...

From 2027, I’ll be curating Winter Words Festival for & with Alan Cumming & Pitlochry Festival Theatre. This year’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 can’t extoll this festival enough. 💖💜💚

𝘖𝘣𝘴𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘊𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘗𝘰𝘦𝘮 – one from the archives of 𝓞𝔂𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓻 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 it’ll have a tenth anniversary next year. Yikes & slurp. 🦪🩵💙💚💜💛

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

26/03: London you gallus lovers. Here’s a launch event with all the thrills. Me & Hollie McNish at Book Bar hosted by It’s Hardback Out Here. A coddle of lushes. Come zest with our gang 💛💜💙💚 🎫: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ihoh-prese...

Happy Burns Night ✨ I got to read Burns from St Giles’ 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 💚🩵

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