Debra Collins @thewritedebrac.bsky.social School psychologist, children's author rep'd by @JenNewens; SEL PB blogger. Co-author, S.T.O.P. and Relax therapeutic yoga curriculum. Website: www.thewritedebracollins.com
@ChildrensBookAc; #SCBWI; #RYS, @writeforkids Insider Coaching Club.
Kirsten Miles, Author 🌹 @kirstenmiles.bsky.social Author 🖊 Vegan 🥬 Libra ♎️
EDM forever 🪩 Write Your Heart Out ❤️
Visit me at kirstenmilesauthor.com 💕
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Kathleen Doherty @kathleendoherty.bsky.social Reading/Educ. Specialist and playful author of DON'T FEED THE BEAR (Union Square), THE THINGITY-JIG (Peachtree), and THE TWIST-A-ROO (Peachtree) #kidlit www.KathleenDohertyAuthor.com
garygalipio.com @garygalipio.bsky.social #author of 3 middle grade books // Craziest Cajun Football Tale // 2019 Nat’l Book Fest Craziest FISHING Tale on the Bayou // Bayou Bogeyman // #bass coach // overactive daydreamer // co-ra #scbwi La/Ms // a teen’s chauffeur ^_^
Tara Garrigan Illustration @taragarriganillos.bsky.social Children’s book illustrator blending kid-friendly wackiness and playful surrealism. SCBWI member [Southern Breeze region]
Eunice Demi @eunicedemi.bsky.social Living between reality and whatever book I'm currently obsessed with
xtinarey85 @xtinarey85.bsky.social Sports fan, member of staff for Cookie (rescue cat), love nature, games, getting together with family and friends
Betsy Bird @fuse8.bsky.social Blog about kids books? You bet (A Fuse #8 Production). Library degree? You know it. Books for kids? Seven. Books for adults about kidlit? Two. Podcasts about kids books? One (Fuse 8 n’ Kate). Having fun! https://afuse8production.slj.com
Dave Blackwell @daveblackwell.bsky.social Medical Engineer and Indie Author from Kent, UK. I am profoundly deaf and write comedy based on my experiences.
The Hospital is now available - check it out.
Shruti Prabhu @shrutiprabhu.bsky.social 🎨 Mixed Media Illustrator and Visual Artist
🪡 Sewist and Knitter
🌿 Home Gardener
That Librarian: Amanda Jones @librarianjones.com Educator-Librarian-Author-Activist-Speaker-Bibliophile-Louisianan-Defender of Wonder
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/ThatLibrarian
Heather Gillingham @gillzville.bsky.social Passionate about literacy. Elementary school media specialist. Views are my own.
Tony Vincent @tonyvincent.bsky.social Dad ⭐️ Educator ⭐️ Learning in Hand ⭐️ Speaker ⭐️ Former grade 5 teacher ⭐️ District AI Coordinator ⭐️ Shapegrams
learninginhand.com/newsletter
Fran Kompar @fkompar.bsky.social K-12 Teacher Librarian, Educational Technology leader, pursuing and exploring AI in education and Digital Learning. A fierce advocate for the principles of our Library Learning Commons - freedom to read, learn and live in a strong democratic world. 
Bookelicious @bookelicious.bsky.social ❤️ Bookmoji Book-Matching Technology
📚 Curated Online Children's Bookshop
🎒 Virtual Author Visits
🧑🏫 PD Webinars
🛍️ PopUp Shops Fundraisers
Amy T @amytrost.bsky.social Librarian, nature lover, science nerd
e katherine kottaras @katherinekottaras.bsky.social Rep’d by Jennie Kendrick, Red Fox
www.katherinekottaras.com/
Bethany Kauffman @librarianbethany.bsky.social Executive Director Prairielands Library Exchange, School Library Media Specialist, Dog Lover, Mystery Reader, Anglophile
Rachael Coultart @rcoultart.bsky.social From 'technophobe' to 'digital pioneer'! Now an NCCE LPDL, Apple Teacher, CAS Community Leader, Barefoot volunteer, and CEOP Ambassador
Dana Will Read @danawillread.bsky.social 📚Elementary Teacher Librarian | Sharing the joy of reading, learning, discovery, and growth. ✨
Media Specialist S.B. @mx-sbk-librarian.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈☮️🌹
Media specialist. Birdwatcher. Trekkie. Lover of the human imagination. In grad school now.
Alyssa Sidlosky @alyssajoybooks.bsky.social Writer/Illustrator
https://www.alyssajoybooks.com/
Natasha Khan Kazi @natashakhankazi.bsky.social Author & Illustrator of Moon’s Ramadan, Lulu In The Spotlight, Bela and Lily, Sun's Eid ✨ Repd by Tanusri Prasanna
she/her/hers
www.natashakhankazi.com
Highlights Muslim Storyteller Fellow
Based in LA
Jill Read, Rise, Resist @reading2learn.bsky.social School Librarian-Wife-Mom-Educator-Tech-Books #TLsky #tlchat #digcit #mglit #EDUsky #futurereadylibs #istelibs #aasl #ncte #elachat #ELLs #BookPosse 🌈ally #WeNeedDiverseBooks ☮️
Jolene Gutiérrez | Kidlit Author & Teacher Librarian @writerjolene.bsky.social #Kidlit writer 📚 #SCBWI member 📚 Teacher librarian in a haunted library 👻 TOO MUCH! AN OVERWHELMING DAY '23 ✨ THE OFRENDA THAT WE BUILT '24 ✨ MAMIACHI AND ME '25 ✨ UNBREAKABLE: A JAPANESE AMERICAN FAMILY IN AN AMERICAN INCARCERATION CAMP '26 ✨ 
Chloe Yelena Miller @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social Writer & Writing Teacher in Washington, D.C.
Co-founder of @brownbaglit.bsky.social
Author of Perforated ('26) and Viable ('21) from Lily Poetry Review Books
Christine Beachler @beachdunegirl.bsky.social -School Librarian/Library Director
-2025 Michigan Assoc of School Librarians President
-2023 District School Library Director of the Year
-Gov Whitmer’s Educator Advisory Council
-Book Lover, Cat Mom & Swiftie
Karyn Curtis @karyncurtiswrites.bsky.social Middle Grade, Picture Book writer, former editor, horse girl, #MGWaves
Diana Delosh - illustrator @dtdelosh.bsky.social Illustrator/storyteller represented by Lynnette Novak of The Seymour Agency
portfolio: https://dianadelosh.com
Andrea Koehle Jones 🌿 Author @andreakoehlejones.com 📚 Author of The Wish Trees & Don't Let Ned Plant a Tree There!
💚 Children's books that grow empathy, hope & care for the planet.
https://linktr.ee/andreakoehlejones #CanKidLit #BookSky
Laura Alary @lauraalary.bsky.social Writer. Storyteller. Wonderer.
#Kidlit #PictureBooks New in 2026: THE CURIOUS LIFE OF CECILIA PAYNE (Eerdmans Books for Young Readers), AROUND THE CIRCLE (Beaming Books)
www.lauraalary.ca
Natasha Zimmers (she/her) @natashazimmers.bsky.social Picture Book Writer
(TINY HIKER- Orca Book Publishers 2026)
Nature Adventurer
Outdoor Educator
Teacher
https://linktr.ee/natashazimmers
Alycia Calvert @alyciacalvert.bsky.social (She/Her) 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ | #Typos | Writes weird hybridy things | EIC @HarperPalate | Res '22 & '24 | MFA '22 | PhD '26 | @hecatemagazine @thebansheejournal @writersrebel 🇵🇸🇨🇩
https://linktr.ee/alycia.calvert
Arthur Slade @arthurslade.bsky.social Arthur Slade was raised in the Cypress Hills of southwest Saskatchewan, Canada (on a ranch). He wasn't raised by wolves. It was elves. And one grumpy dwarf. He is the author of over thirty novels for kids, adults and aliens.
Loretta Garbutt www.booksbyloretta.com @lorettagarbutt.bsky.social Kid Author
2020 - Stopwatch From Grampa-KCP
2021 - JJ SLEPT - KCP
2023 - JEFFREY LOVES BLUE-Owl
2024 - Wake Up, Little Pin!-Owl
2025 - DIAPER KID-Owl
2027 - In Baba's Tiny Kitchen-Owl
2027 - Where I Belong -Tundra
Voice Animation
Sailor Moon, Max & Ruby
Beverly @picturedragon.bsky.social Illustrator, cat mom. 🩷💜💙
Accepting commissions!
Reesa Guerra @reesaguerra.bsky.social 🌩️ Middle Grade Horror Fantasy writer 🌩️
Member of #SAGAFTRA
Celiac/Gluten-Free
I 👁️🗨️👻
Unless I'm familiar with you or you're really cool, please no DM's.
Kathy Palm @kathleenpalm.bsky.social MG horror writer. General weirdo. Find me running in the haunted cornfields. Author of The Nowhere Series from Undertaker Books (Middle Grade horror) HWA Chicago.
Creepy is fun.
Joan Marr Books @joanmarrbooks.bsky.social Children's book author of IZMELDA THE FAIREST DRAGON OF THEM ALL! (Union Square Kids)
Susan Park @susanfirghilpark.bsky.social writer, poet, nature lover and complete book geek living in the Pacific Northwest surrounded by forest, birds, squirrels, chipmunks and chickens. Member SCBWI.
Hey, Jim Hill! @heyjimhill.bsky.social Word nerd, pixel wrangler. Writes funny on purpose.
VCFA WCYA SCBWI
www.heyjimhill.com
Maria Linn @marial1nn.bsky.social I write silly/scary MG books, make silly/scary collages, and, silly/scariest of all, analyze data for a living
Stony Evans @stony12270.bsky.social I have been an educator for 26 years. I am a librarian, author, and musician.
Blog: librarymediatechtalk.blogspot.com
#StonyStories #tlsky #HackingSchoolLibraries
Shawn Proctor #middlegradeauthor #author @shawnproctor.bsky.social Middle Grade author. MGNarwhals! WriteMentor 2021. Rosemont MFA. WYRM's Gauntlet Champ. Library fan.
Patchree Jones is officially published 🎉 @patchreejones.bsky.social Thai-American Author of MG fantasy #SKYLIGHT & #HIMMAPAN CB w/ SORRA Books |#MGMiracles |#LitKidsMag Mentor | #MixedUpFiles Writer |#WriteHive24 |#AAPI| #2024debut | patchreejones.com
Alexandra Z. Lazar @alexandrazlazar.bsky.social ✨Author. Disneyphile. Animal lover. Fairy tale aficionado. Photographer. Holiday fan.
📚Writes YA, MG & kids’ fiction (including WFH projects for Disney)
📱Instagram: @alexandrazlazar
👩🏻💻Current project: The Other Fairy Godmother, a MG fairytale reimagining
@jilltataraworld.bsky.social @jilltataraworld.bsky.social interested in books art movies science and other cool kids' stuff. #kidlit #scbwi #amwriting
Nancy Viau @nviau.bsky.social Reader, Writer,📚 Biker, 🚴🏻 Hiker, Nature-Lover, 🏖️Traveler
Newest book: HANGING OUT WITH GRAM (Jan. 2026)
#PB #kidlt #author #travel
www.NancyViau.com
Kelsea Wolf 📚 ✨ @kelseawolf-writes.bsky.social Writer, Guinea Pig mom, Honorary Scholar of Whimsy at The Academy of Soul and Sword
📖 The Society of Curse Breakers ✨
https://www.tiktok.com/@author.kelsea.wolf?_t=ZT-8zI4IjcPavu&_r=1
Emily Deibert @emilydeibert.bsky.social Middle Grade Author of BEA MULLINS TAKES A SHOT (Random House Kids, out now!) 🏒🇨🇦🏳️🌈 More info here: https://bit.ly/3EOkGZ2
Represented by Kurestin Armada/Root Literary
emilydeibert.com | she/her
Benjamin Ludwig @benjaminludwig.com | NH K-8 School Librarian | Reviewer for School Library Journal | YA Novelist @HarperCollins.bsky.social | Choosing books is how we choose and build our culture. | benjaminludwig.com | Against AI |
Chelsey Bahe @chelseybahe.bsky.social Nanny. Auntie. Nature artist. PB writer. Outdoor play advocate. 12x12. SCBWI.
Rebecca Weber 🙂🐈⬛📰 @rweberwrites.bsky.social #SCBWI Author - THE PAINTER'S BUTTERFLY and LOOPHOLE (Artemesia Publishing)/Beta reader/@litkidsmagazine.bsky.social founder/House flipper/Bostie & girl mom/#MGpies #YANation
"You are the one you've been waiting for all of your life!"
Caroline Kind @carolinekind.bsky.social MG author, educator, researcher, reader, learner | She/Her | Halifax, NS |
Tyler Cook @tylercookbooks.bsky.social M.Ed., Ed.S. Moonshine Press publisher & author. Education professional. 🏳️🌈 Check out my website at www.tylermcook.com.
Jacinta Patterson @jacintapatt.bsky.social #PB author, SCBWI
Winner: #FallWritingFrenzy '25, #50PreciousWords '25, and #kidlitchucklechallenge '24
HM: Valentiny '25
My words appear in @TheDirigible 🎈
Laya Steinberg @lsteinberg.bsky.social Author of: THESAURUS REX; ALL AROUND ME I SEE; THE BEST SUKKOT PUMPKIN EVER. Planet Earth protector, SCBWI member, Walden swimmer, chocolate eater. 🇨🇦 layasteinberg.com
Rep'd by: Rachel Letofsky at Transatlantic Literary Agency
DJ @djtherapydog2.bsky.social Just a little therapy dog having fun and trying to make everyone I meet feel better🧡 #mentalhealth #everychildmatters
Dedra Davis is AGENTED!! @dedradavis.bsky.social PB & YA writer | #SCBWI | The Inner Circle at @thewritersbarn | #CouragetoCreate | #chronicallyill | #PsoriaticArthritis | 2023 Austin SCBWI Cynthia Leitich Smith Mentorship Finalist | Imagination Library of Waco board member |
Tina Hoggatt @thoggatt.bsky.social Writing and illustrating stories for young readers. Fond of books, animals, nature, and baseball. Northwestie.
Hamline MFAC, #scbwi #C2C, #12x12
Mr. Pimo @mrpimo.bsky.social SMART = Science + Math + 🌟Art🌟
I Post Post Movies/Shows/Anime news #PostPost
Follow me, I follow back
Becky Lance @beckylancekidlit.bsky.social Aspiring Author-Illustrator | Former Montessori Educator | Math Nerd
#SCBWI
www.beckylancekidlit.com
Jonathan Humble @northernjim.bsky.social Editor of The Dirigible Balloon (Submissions Closed)
A Poetry Bank for Children
#PoetryForChildren
dirigibleballoon.org
northernjim.wordpress.com
#Cumbria #Poetry
Phil Vernon @philvernon.bsky.social Poetry, humanitarian issues, peacebuilding. Latest poetry collection Guerrilla Country (Flight of the Dragonfly Press, 2024): http://bit.ly/485JisV
Have finally quit the awful 'X' - why did I wait so long? - and landed here.
abhi_draws @abhidraws.bsky.social Illustrator. Traditional media artist. BIPOC.
Portfolio: https://abhishiktadutta070.wixsite.com/portfolio
Jack Foster @jackfoster14.bsky.social Jesus follower, Kid lit illustrator, father, grandfather, animal lover
Helen D @dhmd.bsky.social Retired Primary Headteacher, time limited researcher, canal explorer and Francophile.
Simone Beach @simonebeach.bsky.social Headteacher of the primary school I went to when I was little. Worked here for over 20 years and still love it. We were evacuated 16/01/23. Can’t wait to be back together as one school. Also love books.
Ella McLellan @booksella.bsky.social Regional Outreach Co-ordinator for Scottish Book Trust in N,S & E Ayrshire and Dumfries and Galloway. Childrens books, playfulness, comics and graphic novels, gaming and general fun nerdiness. All views my own
Lara T is a museum nerd @museumlara1.bsky.social I love life! I love my family, friends, animals, plants, art, poetry, books, movies, museums, & food. I am here to learn & enjoy. Love is love. Cancer fighter. We have to help each other, not hate each other. She/her.🌈 🖖🌊🖼📚🌱 museo_lara on Insta
No DM.
Charlie Nutbrown @charlienutbrown.bsky.social Children’s writer from Bristol. Debut novel The Feathered Book out now, published by @everywithwords.bsky.social
https://www.everythingwithwords.com/authors/charlie-nutbrown/
Ali @aligeorge.bsky.social Work on Digital Content in the Heritage Sector, read (and sometimes write) kidlit, mostly lurking just now. Beautiful parent of two lucky children. A cat also lives here. she/her
Lesley Watts @ljwattswales.bsky.social Retired librarian with 27 years in the rip-roaring world of libraries (last 13 years in a school library) Books, films, gardens, nature and fretting about climate emergency.
https://mrswatts101.edublogs.org/
Ashley Herman @ashleyhermanart.bsky.social Illustrator & Artist~Open to commissions ~Etsy shop owner
Subscribe to my newsletter and get 20% off my shop!
~ Portfolio, Etsy Shop, Newsletter & more: linktr.ee/ashleyhermanillustration
Deb Cushman @debcushman.bsky.social Pacific Northwest author of fantasy adventures for children and teens.
I post stuff I like, and if it interests someone else, that's great. It makes me happy and gives me an outlet for my creativity. www.debcushman.com
Create the Ripple @createtheripple.bsky.social Passionate about people, positivity and potential. Creating ripples of kindness.
The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social Theatre actor, bookstore connoisseur, autumn enthusiast, cat rescuer, educator, explorer of cobblestone streets, and defender of the Oxford comma.- E Enzo51 @enzo51.bsky.social
Kaye MC @mermaidkaye.bsky.social Writer🖊 Teacher🍎 SCBWI RA
☆Kidlit☆MG Folklore Fantasy☆
📍Houston
Kirsten | Fantasy Author @kirstenwrites.bsky.social Life & pages full of plot twists 🌪️ | RevPit 2026 Winner 🎉
Proudly represented by Carter Hasegawa of Tugeau2 Art and Literary Agency
📸 Instagram: @kirstenwrites
Jacquie Hann @jacquieha.bsky.social Children's book author/illustrator, creator of littlejacquie.thecomicseries.com, associate professor of children's book writing and illustration at the New School writing program, black belt.
Tracie Adams @tracieadams.bsky.social Books: Our Lives in Pieces (2025) and Not Finished Yet (2026)
Words in Stanchion, Pithead Chapel, Cleaver, Fictive Dream, BULL, Hippocampus
2X Pushcart nominee, BOTN, Best Microfiction and LL Wigleaf Top 50
Retired educator and playwright
Katherine Fox: KidLit Picture Book Writer @katherine-fox.bsky.social Picture Book Author #pb
Member of 12 x 12 and SCBWI
Website - https://katherine-fox.com/
Lisa Cloherty @lisaclohertybooks.bsky.social Kidlit author |Terrance the Hothead (2022) Mabel’s Mitzvah (2026, Free Spirit) | SCBWI.
Find me on instagram: @lisaclohertybooks
Carrie Cook @carriecookhere.bsky.social writer of #kidlit and #fiction. Member of #SCBWI and #12x12
Emily Machelle Bailey @emilymachelleb.bsky.social KidLit author repped by @AliceWilliamsLiterary
MG/YA Community&Program lead for #InkedVoices
Yogi, toy poodle mum, English tea drinker & chocolate eater.
LisaWriteDraw @lisawritedraw.bsky.social Children's author, illustrator and poet, SCBWI NM ARA, ranch living under blue skies of Santa Fe
www.strongboxstudio.com
Tiffany Mackay Illustrates @tmackayillustrates.bsky.social I am an author-illustrator creating children’s books for ages 4-7
#childrensbookillustrator
Elisabeth Giffin Speckman @egspeckman.bsky.social Playwright
Writer - PB Manuscripts
Theatre Educator/Theatre Artist
Molly Schaffer @mollyschaffer.bsky.social Kidlit Author, Therapist, Mom, Former Actor
mollyschafferbooks.com
#SCBWI #PB #12x12PB #PBParty
David @dflan1.bsky.social Come all without,Come all within
Here to make Michigan BLUE 🔵 again!
Sports..Arts..Music! LOVEWINS
graceotoole.bsky.social @graceotoole.bsky.social Exploring the magic of the natural world through stories for children
Annely So @annely-so.bsky.social Kid lit illustrator and writer, educator, and outdoorsy girl.
Rep’d by @essiewhite.bsky.social at Essie White Literary
www.annelyso.com
christinedoublew.bsky.social @christinedoublew.bsky.social Illustrator & Fine Art Teacher based in Plouzané.
Capturing light, nature, and atmosphere through traditional mediums.
Founder of L'ARTElier.
Portfolio: christinedoublew.com- E Elsie Linden @elsielinden.bsky.social Children's book author • Writing picture books about a small pumpkin-orange dragon named Beatrix • elsielinden.com 🐉🔥
Jessica Braidan @jessicabraidan.bsky.social 📚 Color & Discover series — fact-and-coloring books for curious kids 4 and up. Surprising facts + bold pictures to color + try-it activities. Read, create, discover, screen-free. 🦕🚀🐴 jessicabraidan.com
https://www.facebook.com/jessica.braidan/
ØROJI (Eunbee Kim) @orojiart.bsky.social Warm, playful picture books bursting with character and a little magic.✦
Picture Book Author–Illustrator · Hand-drawing + digital collage
🇰🇷 Seoul, Korea · SCBWI Member ·🔗orojiart.com
Alyson Greene @alysoncgreene.bsky.social Writer, mom, sea hag
2025 mentee for Round Table Mentor program for MAKE ME YOUR WITCH, a sapphic rom-com about a single mom who scares away busy bodies by claiming to be a witch.
#momswritersclub
Alysongreene.com
📍Corpus Christi, TX
🏳️🌈
Mary Jane Lange @maryjanelange.bsky.social Wine lover, tree hugger, children's book author-illustrator, middle/high school art teacher in Paris.
California (native) 🐻
France (adoptee) 🐓
https://serendipiti.myportfolio.com/
https://www.instagram.com/maryjanelange4?igsh=ZngzZTBpdW5qbW1m
Gréachán @greachan.bsky.social Metaphysical poetry
www.greachan.com