LJ Ireton @literaryvegan.bsky.social Poet. 'Interlude' with Haywood Books. 'Unclaimed' with Whittle Micropress. Expert Children's Bookseller. Vegan.
Gita Ralleigh @gitaralleigh.bsky.social Writer/Poet/Lecturer/ex-doc
Kids' novels:
Minou Moonshine / Sam Singh @kidsbloomsbury.bsky.social
Poetry:
Empirical
@thebraag.bsky.social
Siren @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
A Terrible Thing Bad Betty Press
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Books read: 83/100
📚 Art On My Mind
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Suzanne Bhargava @shushbot.bsky.social IB PYP librarian, Chair of YLG London, allotment grower
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Kate Heap - Scope for Imagination @kateheap.bsky.social Primary English Consultant, children's book blog, author of the Developing Reading Comprehension Skills series, Chair of Governors, Girlguiding, Canadian in the UK
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Sarah Hagger-Holt @sarahhaggerholt.bsky.social Award-winning children's author and freelance writer/editor. School visits. Empathy Lab trained. She/her. www.sarahhaggerholt.com
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Kim Kinloch @kimberleykinloch.bsky.social Non-fiction editor/writer 📚✍🏾 All I ever had were Redemption Songs.
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Kayleigh Bohan @kayleighbohan.bsky.social Bookish, Scotland. Charity worker, writer, they/them. Kpop, disabled & class politics, knitwear, easily tempted outside by a library or museum. 🏳️🌈📚🏴
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Ian Eagleton @ianeagletonauthor.bsky.social He/him
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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social South African abroad 🇿🇦
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Aoife Walsh @aoifewalsh.bsky.social Writes books; likes books; likes country music; likes Transformers and Real Housewives; likes a lot of semi-colons. Still hanging out in dark bars (in my mind). ND. She/her. Pretty marvellous.
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Brian Conaghan @bconaghanauthor.bsky.social Writer of books.
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Books: When Sadness Comes to Call, Where Happiness Begins and Where is the Cat?
Michelle Robinson @micherobinson.bsky.social Picture book author. Books include
How To Wash a Woolly Mammoth 🦣
Ten Fat Sausages 🌭
Goodnight Tractor 🚜
Brit in Canada. She/her. www.michellerobinson.co.uk
Eileen Armstrong @earmstronglib.bsky.social Chartered School Librarian, SLE Literacy, former School Library Association Chair, previous Carnegie Greenaway judge, North East Book Awards organiser
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Holly (Holliday if you're mad) St Clair @hollidaystclair.bsky.social Your favourite Wasian’s favourite Wasian. Lecturer @ Camberwell College of Arts, UAL
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Books for Keeps, the children's books review journal @booksforkeeps.bsky.social Launched in 1980, we review hundreds of new children’s books each year and publish articles on every aspect of writing for children. Explore new issues and our 40 year archive for free on our website www.booksforkeeps.co.uk
Andrea Reece @reeceandrea.bsky.social Mostly reading. Managing Editor Books for Keeps, administrator Klaus Flugge Prize and Branford Boase Award plus other book-y stuff.
Maleeha Mir @mmir08.bsky.social 🚨Creative Freelancer | 📝 Creative | ✍🏽 Book Reviewer | 😉Nerd |✨ Works in Publishing | 📖 2023 Shorlist Judge The Diverse Book Awards | 🌎 2020 Deputy Chair of SYP London
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