Sharon Boyle @sharon54.bsky.social YA writer. Rep'd Alice Williams Literary. SL Bath Children's Novel 2024. SL Mslexia Children's Novel 2022. Finalist #UV20 SCBWI_BI. 
Amber Caraveo @ambercaraveo.bsky.social 😻 Literary agent at Skylark Literary - www.skylark-literary.com. Loves sunny days, folklore, children’s books, YA books, all books - and dancing! (She/her)
North West Library Lady @nwlibrarylady.bsky.social Secondary School Librarian - Sharing my love of books, genealogy, history, and cute pets - all views my own 📖 ✝️🌳
Sara Grant @authorsaragrant.bsky.social In June 2025, Bloomsbury will publish The Ultimate Guide to Editing Your Novel: A revolutionary approach to transform your writing. An editorial process I developed over my many years as an editor, author, university lecturer and mentor.
Undiscovered Voices @uvcompetition.bsky.social Undiscovered Voices is an initiative by @SCBWI_BI to help find fresh, new voices in children's literature - #UV26 coming soon
Find out more and read extracts from the previous winning entries at at www.undiscoveredvoices.com
Shannon Dapelo @smdapelo.bsky.social Author SM Dapelo, mother, wife. Losing her mind in Colorado.
Philippa Leathley @prleathley.bsky.social Author of INKBOUND, publishing January 2025 with HarperCollins. Represented by Hannah Sheppard at HS-LA
@hayleyeditor.bsky.social @hayleyeditor.bsky.social 
The Independent Author Network @ianauthornetwork.bsky.social Welcome to the Independent Author Network at Bluesky. Promoting and Supporting Indie Authors since 2010. Our Book of the Year Awards program features $6,000 in cash prizes. #IAN1
Patrice Lawrence @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social Writer, Feminist, Furious.
Zulekhá A. Afzal @zulekhaa-afzal.bsky.social Author of YA fantasy DANCERS OF THE DAWN ☀️ Agent: Lauren Gardner
https://linktr.ee/zulekhaa_afzal
Mostly Book Talk @mostlybooktalk.bsky.social A podcast about children’s and YA books for teachers and librarians. Interviews with authors and also anyone doing interesting reading for pleasure activities, plus lots of book talk. #kidlitUK
www.mostlybooktalk.com
Helen MacKenzie @helenmackenzie.bsky.social Writer based in Scotland. YA and MG mostly. UV 2020 and Scottish Book Trust New Writer’s Award 2017. Dotty about my spotty dog.
Zeena Gosrani @zeenagos.bsky.social Writer.
My debut novel, This Dark Heart is out now.
Fraer Stevenson @fraerstevenson.bsky.social Writer/Artist/Selkie | Arts Council DYCP (Literature) Grant Recipient | MA Creative Writing | SL Aurora Prize | LL The Next Big Story @Thenovelry | LL BCNA @bathnovelaward
Alex Atkinson @alatkinson.bsky.social Children’s writer of the Spooksmiths Investigate series with
Usborne @northlitagency.bsky.social
@linalanglee.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/alexatkinsonstories
Farrah Riaz @farrahriaz.bsky.social London writer ✨ picture book The Twirly Wiggly Dance available now to buy✨
#WritingCommunity #2024debut Insta: farr.ahriaz
Little Miss Contrary @eimanmunro.bsky.social Writer ~ Researcher ~ Autism Expert by Experience for CAMHS NHS professionals.
SCBWI member, Megaphone community member, Writementor Hub community member, #UV2024 winner🤩
Rhiannon Oliver @rhiannonoliver.bsky.social Children's Poet, Actress & Workshop Leader. South Wales. Dysgu Cymraeg.
Debut children's poetry collection publishing Spring 26 with Firefly Press
Happiest eating chips by the sea
Kat Ellis @katelliswrites.bsky.social YA author of Harrow Lake, Wicked Little Deeds/Burden Falls, and other creepy stuff. The Devouring Light coming this Oct. She/her. https://linktr.ee/katelliswrites?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
Dev Kothari @devkothari.bsky.social Author. देसी Londoner. 한국어 학생. Mum.
Bringing back Kay-Kay - Walker Books
Agent: Clare Wallace - Darley Anderson Children’s Book Agency
Morgan Wright @bymorganwright.bsky.social Published #author (finally😱😍!), Queen of Hell (duh😜😂), #screenwriter & book cover animator. My debut “THE TRAITOR’S GAMBIT” is coming out sometime this century (I hope💀😂).
www.morganwrightbooks.com
Leonie Marie Lock 🦔 @leoniemarielock.bsky.social Editorial. Expert Bookseller. All round Bookie Monster.
All views mine. She/Her. 🏴
Anika Hussain @anikahussainwrites.bsky.social YA author of This is How you Fall in Love (Hot Key Books 🇬🇧/ Bloomsbury 🇺🇸) 
Sharada Keats @sharadakeats.bsky.social Not here that much! Writing #Kidlit #Author #Debut2024 These Stolen Lives April 2024. This Shattered Promise coming 2025
Website: https://sharadakeats.wordpress.com/
Nazima Pathan @nazimapathan.bsky.social Author, doctor, researcher and parent. Here for the #kidlitcommunity. My MG novel Dream Hunters came out Aug 2024 Simon and Schuster. #ukkidlit #booksky
Sam Missingham @samatlounge.bsky.social Publishing commentator. Founder of Meet The Booktokers, As Seen On Booktok, and The Empowered Author. Trying to disrupt book publishing for 15+ years. Not easy. 
Authorfy @authorfy.bsky.social Visit authorfy.com for award-winning author videos, classroom resources & book extracts. Perfect for using in the classroom, libraries or at home 📚✍🏻🎥
Claire Fayers @clairefayers.bsky.social Children's author. Fantasy and Welsh folklore. Hobbies include boardgames, piano, gardening and cooking. Owned by two cats. She/her. 📚🐱🐱
Alexandra Dawe @alexandradawe.bsky.social Writer and artist in Devon, UK. Inconsistent poster. Dawe is pronounced 'door'. No AI in my art or writing, ever.
Rep'd by @belllomaxmoreton.bsky.social
The Stitchwort Curse published by @foxandinkbooks.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/alexandradawe
Julie Pike @juliepike.bsky.social 🤗Author of Flame Chasers and The Last Spell Breather. Made in Wales 🏴
Lindsay Galvin @lindsaygalvin.bsky.social Author 🐙🐉🚢 MG historical adventures: @chickenhsebooks chapter books: @bigcatreading
and more!
Rep: @litagentclare
She/her
Bounce Sales and Marketing @bouncemarketing.bsky.social The Sales and Marketing Agency for Children's Publishers. We represent 30 children's book publishers from the UK and overseas. 
Salomey Draws @salomeydraws.bsky.social Author-illustrator, fairytale lover 📚🩷 Creator of the "Brielle and Bear" teen graphic novels & "The Prince and the Angel" fairytale 👑✨ Brielle & Bear 2~Pre-Orders open! ✨
https://linktr.ee/sa.dokuart
The Bookseller @thebookseller.com At the heart of the book trade since 1858📚
News, charts, previews and more, online & in print. Buyer's Guides, conferences & The British Book Awards (Nibbies)✨
Nicola Baker @mrsnicolabaker.bsky.social Author… Baker… Our Farm in the Dales
Whistledown Farm Adventures published by Simon & Schuster 
Agnes MG 🧚 in Faedom @agnesmg.bsky.social Tricky Fae & Escape Artist 🧚 Co-author of Faedom 🧚♀️ Writer & Translator 🧚♀️
Firefly Press @fireflypress.bsky.social Independent publisher of quality fiction for children & teens. WINNER Branford Boase first children’s novel Award, Yoto Carnegie Medal, Wales Book of the Year
www.fireflypress.co.uk
Karen Bultiauw @karenbultiauw.bsky.social Unrepenting book pusher & Howard Ashman fangirl. Writer. Chocolate connoisseur. She/her. Views own.
https://karenbultiauw.com/
Holly Race @hollyrace.bsky.social (She/her) Author, baker, history enthusiast
Tudor fantasy SIX WILD CROWNS out with Orbit UK & US in 2025
YA urban fantasy MIDNIGHT’S TWINS out with Hot Key books now
Melissa Welliver - TO THE DEATH available to pre-order NOW! @melliver.bsky.social YA Speculative Author | Rep: Lucy Irvine PFD | Writer of YA Dystopia | TO THE DEATH out with Hachette Children's Group March 2026 | Co-Host of The Chosen Ones and Other Tropes podcast | she/her
Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com Author (THE BUTTERFLY ASSASSIN trilogy; THE WOLF AND HIS KING) and medievalist specialising in the Ulster Cycle. #1 fan of Láeg mac Ríangabra.
🏳️🌈 they/them | siad/iad
📍Cambridge, UK
♿
https://finnlongman.com
Sifa E. Poulton @sifaelizabethreads.bsky.social Book blogger, nuclear physics PhD student, SFF author, Christian, autistic, acespec, she/her
https://sifaelizabethreads.wordpress.com/links/
UKYA Spotlight @ukyaspotlight.bsky.social Highlighting UK and Irish YA since 2020
https://ukyaspotlight.co.uk/links/
The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social Empowering authors since 1884. The largest UK union for writers, illustrators and literary translators. #societyofauthors #humanauthored
Diana Rodriguez Wallach, YA Horror Author @dianawallachauthor.bsky.social YA Horror Author of SMALL TOWN MONSTERS & HATCHET GIRLS (out now!), and THE SILENCED (Delacorte Sept. ‘25)
Gaynor Andrews @gaynorandrews.bsky.social Children's author and poet | 'Pandora and the Story Forge' pub by Rocket Bird Books | @scbwi | Based in NE Scotland
https://gaynorandrews.online/
Kathryn Evans @kathrynevans1.bsky.social Writer, farmer, twit. Expect books, dogs, equality and typos.
LibraryLass @bedeslibrary.bsky.social School librarian, keeper of all things bookish, thoughts and opinions my own
Blog 'Books & Beyond' - https://www.bedes.org/senior/academic/library/library-blog
Sally Doherty @sallywrites.bsky.social MG author: Toby and the Silver Blood Witches, Max and Monty with Collins Primary
Winner of the Book Bloggers' Novel of the Year Award 2022
Owned by three-legged rescue dog
ME/CFS
https://linktr.ee/SallyDoherty
Sarah Harrison @sarahharrison.bsky.social Children's author from Lancashire.
School of Doom out now! @chickenhousebooks.bsky.social
Terry Pratchett fan. Owned by cats and dogs.
Agent: Louise Lamont at LBA Books.
https://linktr.ee/sarahharrisonauthor
Hannah Moffatt @missdeplume.bsky.social Hello, I’m a children’s author from London. SMALL! & SMALL BITES BACK out now.
HELP! ALIENS STOLE MY GRANDAD out 28 May
Publisher: Everything With Words
https://hannahmoffatt.com/
Jack Jackman @jackjackman.bsky.social Functioning chocoholic. Author of the MAISIE VS series. Rep @LinaLanglee 🏴
Lucy @librarylucy.bsky.social Secondary School Librarian from Nottingham, UK
Bex Hogan @bexhogan.bsky.social Author of YA (OWL KING, NETTLE, BLACK HEAT and VIPER, VENOM & VULTURE) and young MG (BRONTE TEMPESTRA series). Probably daydreaming. Or napping.- I Iqbal Hussain @ihussainwriter.bsky.social Debut adult novel “Northern Boy” came out June 2024 (ABBA, Bollywood, cobbles) - rep Robert Caskie | working on debut children’s MG novel - rep Lucy Irvine @pfd | child of the 70s/80s
Nicky Smith-Dale @nickysmithdale.bsky.social Children’s author. Betty Steady and the Queen’s Orb out now!
Laila Rifaat @lailarifaat.bsky.social Children's author. ALIYA TO THE INFINITE CITY & ALIYA ABOARD THE TIME TRAIN out now! Repd by Lucy Irvine at PFD. Find me on insta: @lailarifaat_author
Website: lailarifaat.com
Buy my books: https://shorturl.at/bKjQi
Antonia Maxwell @antoniamaxwell.bsky.social Writer, editor, mentor, general word nerd. Terra Electrica - debut MG novel - published July 2024 by Neem Tree Press. antoniamaxwell.com
Ravena Guron @ravenaguron.bsky.social Author of THIS BOOK KILLS, CATCH YOUR DEATH, MONDAYS ARE MURDER (Feb '25) and the FARROWFELL series. Rep: ASH Literary
Andreina Cordani @andreinacordani.bsky.social YA & crime writer, author of MURDER AT THE CHRISTMAS EMPORIUM
"good for spreading holiday fear." Kirkus Reviews
I love: Books 📚 Animals 🐙 Dinosaurs 🦕 Folklore 🧚♀️ Science 👨🔬
she/her
Bookseller Jo @joannaclaire.bsky.social Wedding, Family & Art photographer by day, Waterstones Senior Bookseller, avid reader and writer also by day, because they both require working daytime hours
Amy McCaw @amymccawauthor.bsky.social Author of the Mina books and They Own the Night. Buffy buff.
Anna Britton @brittonbookgeek.bsky.social Freelance book editor, cake maker and loud laugh-er. Library lover, crime writer and dog spotter. Rep’d by Saskia Leach & pub’d by Canelo - Shot in the Dark and Close to the Edge 📚
https://linktr.ee/thebrittonbookgeek
Shelly Mack @shellymackbooks.bsky.social Adult fiction and YA writer | Rep'd by Saskia Leach at Kate Nash Agency | Podcaster; 1 of 3 YA Book JAM | Meet the Author - IG | WM S/listed | SCBWI_BI | Austen, Buffy & G Girls
Amie Jordan @amiescool.bsky.social Author. Tea drinker. Pro Knitter. ALL THE HIDDEN MONSTERS out now w/ Chicken House. ALL THE LOST SOULS out May ‘25. Agent: Lydia Silver, DA Children’s.
order: linktr.ee/amiejordan
Emma Finlayson-Palmer @finlaysonpalmer.bsky.social Author ✍️ Artist 🎨 Editor 📝 AuDHD 🏳️🌈
Tombstone tourist 🪦 Cryptid cultivator 👣
Writing strange stories from strange places 🖤
#ukteenchat • #WriteMentor
Substack: Notes from the Graveyard Shift 🪦
Lucy Mohan @lucymohan.bsky.social Writer, editor, teacher, pumpkin carver 🎃 📚🏴
Kael Tudor @kaeltudor.bsky.social I write books for kids. Represented by Emily Talbot at United Agents. Pronounced ‘Kyle’ 🌱
https://linktr.ee/kaeltudor
Louisa Reid @louisareid.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Teacher.
Sarah Ziman (aka BardyMum) - Bison Rule, OK! is out now! @bardymum.bsky.social Poet, mainly for children (more fun!) but I occasionally adult…
Won YorkMix Poems for Children '21,
Kids’ collections: Why did my brain make me say it?
Bison Rule, OK!
School visits in Watford, St Albans, London & further afield
www.sarahziman.co.uk
Teriterrywrites @teriterrywrites.bsky.social Word wrangler of psychological thrillers The Stalker & YA Scare Me & more! Freq enraged. Obsessed with stationery & easily distracted by cats & dogs. She/her. Website https://teriterry.jimdoweb.com/
An unusual mix of 🇬🇧🇨🇦🇦🇺🇫🇷🇳🇱🇫🇮
Arden Jones ✨️ She/Her @ardenelizajones.bsky.social 🧙♀️👻 Witchy Boo @puffinbooksuk
Working-Class, Carer, ND/OCD Author & Podcaster rep'd Molly Jamieson @unitedagentsbooks @bookjampodcast
Emma Bradley @emmaebradley.bsky.social Indie Author of fantasy fiction - she/her 🌈
BBNYA 2023 and 2026 semi-finalist!
2022 Write Blend Award Finalist!
PhD researcher at Manchester Met
Marisa Noelle @marisanoelle.bsky.social Author of dystopian, horror, sci-fi & fantasy
Mental health rep in every book! Rep: Shannon Snow @ rosecliff
The ocean is my passion (mermaid in a former life) https://linktr.ee/marisanoelle77
Lucy Ann Unwin @lucyannunwin.bsky.social Children's writer. Non-fiction debut INSIDE YOUR BRAIN out in June published by Thames & Hudson. Fiction HOW TO BE A REVOLUTIONARY and THE OCTOPUS, DADU & ME out now. Represented by Emily Talbot at United Agents. www.lucyannunwin.com linktr.ee/lucyannunwin
Sue Wallman @suewallman.bsky.social Author of 8 Young Adult thrillers including LYING ABOUT LAST SUMMER, I KNOW YOU DID IT and WATCH YOUR BACK. Does school visits. Often found drinking wine, eating crisps & reading. Agent: Becky Bagnell #theArchers
Josie Jaffrey (she/her) 🏳️🌈 @josiejaffrey.bsky.social Fantasy Author (🌟BBNYA winner ‘21)
Writer @jackvalentinepod.bsky.social
Editor @indiebites.bsky.social
🚫AI
🔜📕 1 Oct: ENCOUNTERS (Silverse Shorts)
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Clare Harlow @clareharlow.bsky.social Writer, bookworm
She/her
https://www.clareharlow.co.uk
https://linktr.ee/clareharlow
Yvonne Banham @eviewriter.bsky.social Author MG/Teen Horror & Paranormal Fiction #DeloresMackenzie
Hiker; Trail Runner; Cute dogs; Not-so-cute-dogs; Gothic Fiction; Cake; Strong Coffee; Often found in dungarees and Docs (yes at my age!)
Susan Cahill @susancahill.bsky.social 🌧THE WORLD BETWEEN THE RAIN 🌧 middle-grade children’s fantasy, out now!
🌟Longlisted for Branford Boase Award 2025
🎙️STORYSHAPED: podcast about children’s books that shape us
https://linktr.ee/susancahillwrites
Clare Furniss @clarefurniss.bsky.social Author. Latest book is Carnegie shortlisted THE THINGS WE LEAVE BEHIND: ‘Compulsive, poignant YA dystopia’ Guardian. RLF Writing Fellow.
Agent: Catherine Clarke, FBA
www.clarefurniss.com
Photo: Tom Pilston
Piu DasGupta 🐒🐍💫 @piudg.bsky.social UPDATES ONLY (Find me on Instagram) Writing words | SECRETS OF THE SNAKESTONE & THE GOLDEN MONKEY MYSTERY 🐒🐍💫 l
https://linktr.ee/piudasgupta
Paris 16eme 🇫🇷🇮🇳🇬🇧
Cathie Kelly @cathleenlkelly.bsky.social MG Fantasy Children's writer @theGEAcademy @SCBWI_uk @GEA_North She/Her Northerner🇮🇸 Roman History & Reading & Libraries #authorgoals Book Cheerleader
School Reading List @schoolreadinglist.bsky.social #1 UK children's booklisting website according to Ubersuggest. We recommend children’s and YA books to teachers, parents, librarians and schools. Free resources, free reviews and no paywall. #GoAllIn
https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk
Simone Greenwood @simonegreenwood.bsky.social 📚Children’s fiction writer
🎬Award-winning screenwriter
🐧Penguin WriteNow 2026
🏴Literature Wales’s Representing Wales 2022 (she/her)
📍South Wales, via Cumbria
Marie Basting Author @mariebasting.bsky.social 🚴BMX and Ancient Rome📜
Children's author #PrincessBMX #MyFamilyandOtherRomans #AuntieMedusaAndMe @chickenhsebooks
Fab school visits
Rep The Shaw Agency
she/her
www.mariebasting.com
PaperBound Magazine @paperboundmag.bsky.social Online writing magazine and blog for the young and the young at heart. Featuring new writing & art for MG, teen & YA, plus content for readers and aspiring writers.
www.paperboundmag.com
Anna Mainwaring @annamainwaring.bsky.social Author. Teacher. PhD in progress
YA novels: Rebel with a Cupcake and Tulip Taylor
WIPs: contemporary verse novel/gothic romance
@leenasharma.bsky.social @leenasharma.bsky.social Finnish journalist working for Suomen Kuvalehti. Love everything movies and tv-series related.
Tess James-Mackey @tess-james-mackey.bsky.social Thriller Author.
Rep YA - @ASHliterary
Rep Adult - @friccar_
SOMEONE IS WATCHING YOU | YOU WOULDN'T CATCH ME DEAD | @teambkmrk
http://linktr.ee/tessjamesmac
Saskia Leach @saskialeach.bsky.social 📖 Junior Literary Agent at Kate Nash Literary Agency 💬 "You chose looks. I chose books." 📚 #RespectRomFic 🩷
K L Kaine Author @katjakaine.bsky.social Award winning author, nature nerd, raging feminist. Debut YA Fantasy Blood of Gods and Girls published by PRH in 2026. #ya #kidlit #fantasy #feminist #nature
Sue H Cunningham #Neverlast⌛is out now! @suehcunningham.bsky.social Writing YA. Vaguely incompetent around social media.
#Neverlast #TotallyDeceased #CloudNine Scholastic UK
Rep: Rachel Petty
@tbpagency.bsky.social
Winner #WMCNA 2020 #UV2022 #Dudley Teen Book Award 2025
Jess Popplewell @jesspopps.bsky.social I know writers who use subtext, and they’re all cowards.
Author: THE DARK WITHIN US.
See also: Careers Consultant; views own & not representative of employer, obviously.
See more of my nonsense at jesspopplewell.com