James Whitbrook @jwhitbrook.bsky.social Freelance Writer and Editor │I used to run a website, now I write at https://observationdeck.ghost.io/ │Questionable taste in puns, sci-fi, and video games. 🏳️🌈│He/Him │Icon by @joehunter.bsky.social ❤️
Channelle Desamours @elledesamours.bsky.social Author of NEEDY LITTLE THINGS and THEY CALL HER REGRET | Rep: Molly Ker Hawn
Anne Clark @anneclarklit.bsky.social Literary agent at Anne Clark Literary Agency, representing mostly children's and YA authors (fiction, non fiction, picture books). www.anneclarkliteraryagency.co.uk
James Morland @jameswmorland.bsky.social Researcher & writer of many things including 18th-century poetry, grief, medicine & solitude 🏴🏳️🌈
Currently writing a memoir about chronic illness and shared connective solitudes.
Human to a very cute corgi.
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Emma Donoghue @emmadonoghue.bsky.social writer of fiction (The Paris Express, Learned by Heart, Haven, The Pull of the Stars, The Wonder, Room, etc), films, plays...
Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social In the culture wars, I want to be the bit on Christmas Day where they all knocked it on the head for a bit and played football.
Ele Fountain @elefountain.bsky.social Royal Lit Fellow | Author: BOY 87 shortlisted Waterstones Children's Book Prize | LOST Guardian Best Books | FAKE BookTrust 'future classic' | WILD an FT Book of the Year | STORM CHILD Times Book of the Week
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S.J. Wills @sjwills.bsky.social Writing for teens
PYTHON: The New Recruit out now
Award-winning BITE RISK series
LIFE HACK coming in October
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Thomas Taylor @thomastaylor.bsky.social Author of Malamander, and the Eerie-on-Sea Mysteries. Secret new book on the way…
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
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Florianne Humphrey @floriannewrites.bsky.social Author represented by Darley Anderson Children's Book Agency | 1 out of 4 of WriteMentor | 🏳️🌈 
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Cam @cambolton.bsky.social Literary Agent, MD, Darley Anderson & Associates Agency, London UK
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Robin Stevens @redbreastedbird.bsky.social Author of the Murder Most Unladylike series and the Ministry of Unladylike Activity. 🏳️🌈
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. www.celesteng.com
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M.D. Isabelle Kenyon
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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social Publishing independently since 1929.
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Derek Landy @dereklandy.bsky.social Writer
Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social ⭕️Director of Education at Shakespeare’s Globe
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Charlotte @wonderfullybookish.bsky.social LGBTQ+ bookworm & school librarian • D&D & theatre nerd • Proudly Welsh 🏴 • A fan of anything rainbow 🌈 • Passionate about queer media & education (she/they)
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✨ Carnegie Medals Judge 2023/2024 ✨
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Kieran Larwood @kieranlarwood.bsky.social Bestselling children’s author: Podkin, Dungeon Runners, Jed Greenleaf 📚
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BookTrust @booktrust.org.uk We are the UK’s largest children’s reading charity. We get millions of children & families reading together from the earliest possible age.
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Kat Dunn @katalicedunn.bsky.social does books and stuff | HUNGERSTONE (2025) Zaffre Books, Bitterthorn, Dangerous Remedy &c | part time goth witch | IG: KatAliceDunn | rep: Hellie Ogden
Ryan Hammond @hamdesign.bsky.social Author-Illustrator of Villains Academy. Art Director & designer 📚 Book, nature and dog lover. He/him🏳️🌈
Alice Leggatt @aliceedda.bsky.social School librarian and cheese aficionado. #CILIP125 Recipient, @cilipslg.bsky.social committee member, SLYA Honour List 2024 #GreatSchLibs #RfP
Andy Shepherd @andyshepherdwriter.bsky.social Author of the best-selling ‘The Boy Who Grew Dragons’ series out now. Short-listed for Waterstones Children's Book Prize She/her Rep by @jslwilliamson
Agent Kate Shaw @agentkateshaw.bsky.social Literary agent in the living room, mother in the kitchen, asleep in the bedroom. Beagle-owned. www.theshawagency.co.uk
Fox & Ink Books (formerly UCLan Publishing) @foxandinkbooks.bsky.social Northern indie publisher | Winner of the IPG Nick Robinson Newcomer Award 2019 | Publishing the very best books in all genres | Home to NYALlitFest
NEBookAwards @nebookawards.bsky.social All the latest booky news, updates & reading suggestions from the NE Book Awards. Getting - and keeping - young people reading since 1999
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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
Liam 🏳️🌈 @crookedquilluk.bsky.social 30 | Newcastle | School Librarian 👨🏫 | Etsy Shop: CrookedQuill.co.uk 🪶 | MLitt in Children's Literature 🎓 | he/him 🏳️🌈 | All views my own
Hannah Sheppard Literary Agency @hslanews.bsky.social A boutique literary agency representing fiction for adults and children run by Hannah Sheppard (@hannahlitagent.bsky.social). Associate Agent Louise Buckley (@louisebuckley.bsky.social)
#WeNeedDiverseBooks
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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.
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Gab Astorga @gabastorga.bsky.social 📍Norwich, UK
Studying E. coli diversity and phylogenomics within a One Health perspective
4th year bioinformatics PhD student
LGBTQ+ & EDI advocate
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Bec Treveil @bectreveil.bsky.social ✍️ 📚 ☀️ 📸 🏕️ ✈️ 🐱
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Jenny Moore, Author @jennywritemoore.bsky.social A writer of two halves.
Children's/YA books published by Maverick, New Frontier and ZunTold.
Psychological thrillers published by HQ, Harper Collins, writing as Jennifer Moore.
https://jennifermoore.wordpress.com
Michael Rosen @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social Writer, performer, broadcaster, university professor
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YouTube Channel: 'Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen'
Radio show: BBC Radio 4 'Word of Mouth'
Goldsmiths University of London, Prof Children's Lit., teaching MA
Peter Bunzl @peterbunzl.bsky.social Bestselling UK Children’s author writing about clockwork, hope and magic. #COGHEART etc. New book #GLASSBORN out now! 🏳️🌈 (he/him)
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
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JL Bleakley @jlbleakley.bsky.social YA author | Proofreader | YA Book JAM Podcast
Bill Wood @billwood.bsky.social Author of LET’S SPLIT UP & LET’S SPLIT UP 2 (2025) • rep’d by Lucy Irvine • https://linktr.ee/billreads
Laura Livingstone @zombieirishgirl.bsky.social YA romance author with a side hustle in the paranormal. Reformed history teacher. Massively into toxic Tudors, happily-ever-afters and cats. The Boy with the Heart of Sea Glass (June 2026 with Rowan Prose)
Sarah J.Harris @sarahjharris.bsky.social Author of Meet Me On The Bridge, The Colour of Bee Larkham's Murder and One Ordinary Day At A Time. Writes YA as Sarah Wishart - Four Good Liars and The Murder Hypothesis
Book and charity shop lover, karate black belt!
Holly Bourne @hollybourne.bsky.social Times bestselling author. I write books for teens and books for adults. Ambassador for Women's Aid. 
Blackwell's Manchester @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social Your friendly neighbourhood bookshop on Oxford Road, Manchester 📚 Bookchat, events and silly things. Bleets (?!) by @rednewsom.bsky.social
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org radical publisher of politics, culture, current events
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Margaret Atwood @margaretatwood.bsky.social Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca
and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...
Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.
Profile Books @profilebooks.bsky.social Independent publisher of inventive books, fearless writing and powerful voices. Our authors include Mary Beard, Shoshana Zuboff and Francis Fukuyama.
LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk 20,000 titles across two floors in Bloomsbury, plus the best events in town.
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Pan Macmillan @panmacmillan.bsky.social We publish a broad and vibrant range of books for audiences of all ages.
Frances White @franceswrites.bsky.social Award winning USA Today & Sunday Times bestselling Author of VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED 🐟 THE BONE DOOR (2026)💀 She/Her 🏳️🌈
eden 😎✌🏻 @edenison.eurosky.social A smol northern boi in the big world. Sports enjoyer. Frequent train traveller. Likely posting about all of that and more!
(Currently not blonde)
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Will Vincent @willsvincent94.bsky.social 32 | Manchester | he/him | Avid fan of all things theatre & gaming | 🎭🎮
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Austin @aperlee.bsky.social 
HarperCollins @harpercollins.bsky.social Publishing great authors since 1817. 📚
Robert Mann @robbiemann.bsky.social Writer/Bookseller
REP: Chloe Seager from Madeline Milburn
Riya Reve is writing @riyareve.bsky.social 🇵🇭🇧🇩🇬🇧 Writer of MG and YA. Current project: MG Paranormal Mystery. She/Her #writingcommunity
Ann Sei Lin @annseilin1.bsky.social Author of REBEL SKIES & REBEL FIRE Published by Walker Books. Agent: Lina Langlee
Morgan Owen @morganowen.bsky.social YA author, cat person, cosy gamer. The Girl With No Soul (2022)/The Boy With the Haunted Heart (2024) - Scholastic