Anna Cosper @annacosper.bsky.social Illustrator/author (prepublished, looking for representation) and illustrator of ON WINGS OF WONDER
I do painting commissions, hand-drawn and lettered logo design and book formatting/layout as well.
annacosp@gmail.com
Kidlit portfolio: annacosper.com
Syd @sydwritesalot.bsky.social A passionate writer who loves comics, anime, cartoons, and video games. You can find my articles on Substack, also over 1 million views on Quora
He/Him
Kate Arnold @illustratebykate.bsky.social Illustrator | Cat Enthusiast | SCBWI Member
Represented by Emelie Burl at Susan Schulman Literary Agency
www.katearnold.net
J. C. Jones @thejcjones.bsky.social Author of the best selling Louisa Moss detective series.
Ex-nightclub boss and, due to carelessness, owner of only half a lung.
Poems and Limericks daily.
Based in Hereford, UK.
Trevor Humble Art @tea3d.com Artist, grad student, animator, meditator
Tea3D.com
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Evie Richner @evierichner.bsky.social Children’s book writer and illustrator. Artist. Teacher.
www.eviewoltilrichner.com
AllAuthor @allauthor.bsky.social 📚 Discover Books & Authors
✍️ Get Your Book Featured & Promoted
🌎 For Readers & Authors Worldwide
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https://allauthor.com/
Marcela Chermont ✏ Illustrator @marcelachermont.bsky.social 🖍️ Illustrator of books #kidlitartist
🐩 fearlessly drawing animals from the wilderness
inside my head 🦩🪴🦉🦒🐛
📚 Rep’d by Monica Rodriguez at Context Literary Agency
📍 www.marcelachermont.com
📧 hello@marcelachermont.com
inprnt.com/gallery/marcelachermont/
Gunja Bhatt @artistgunja.bsky.social Picture book and Chapter book illustrator -> www.gunjabhatt.com
Rep’d by @AmyMilligan at @illoagency
Art educator and Workshop facilitator -> www.artistgunja.com
Clare McIntyre🇨🇦 @cmstudio.bsky.social ✨magical✨ realist
https://www.claremcintyre.ca
Artist Emily Drouin @emilyatplay.bsky.social Award-Winning Illustrator of Comics, Children's Books, Animation & more! 🎨 emilyatplay.com
National Cartoonists Society Member & Vice Chair NE Chapter, SCBWI, Kidlit, Founder @kidscon kidsconne.com
Facebook.com/emilyatplay
Instagram.com/emilydrouinart
Amanda Baehr Fuller @mamarobot.bsky.social 📖 NYC based Author/Illustrator
BUNNY MADE TEA (2025, Owlkids Books)
🧘🏽♂️ 500 hr certified yoga instructor
📺 Maker of animated shows
Nikki Harwood @ohhhhdoodles.bsky.social Aspiring author/illustrator and ASL/English interpreter by day - also obsessed with the magic of theater.
https://nharwood124.wixsite.com/ohhhh-doodles
IslandTwinArtists @islandtwinartists.bsky.social Hi! We're Dori and Kate! 💕 Identical twins, kidlit author-illustrators, educators, SCBWI members, bakers, nature lovers, moms of super kids and pets, neurodiverse 💞
✨ Joyfully seeking representation ✨
www.IslandTwinArtists.com
Veronica V. Jones @vvjonez.bsky.social Children's book illustrator and comic artist
Repped by @jenazantian
For more art visit VVJones.com
Lara Willard @larathelark.bsky.social Comics editor and art teacher. Former designer, sometimes writer. ♾️
🖼️ by @neapaulatan.bsky.social
🔗 larawillard.com/links
Layne Johnson | Children’s Author - Is Querying @laynejohnsonkidlit.bsky.social Layne Johnson is a picture book writer/aspiring illustrator. #SCBWI. Humor and Heart|STEAM and SEL|ADHD #amquerying
Website: https://laynejohnsonkidsbooks.com/
Laura K Zimmermann @laurak-pbwriter.bsky.social Children’s Author | Professor | Rep’d by @KaitlynLeann17.bsky.social at @Bradfordagents.bsky.social | MUSHROOM RAIN | UNDER THE FOREST FLOOR coming Spring 2028 | #SCBWI | she/her
KidsWord & AllKidsBooks – Explore, Read & Share! @allkidsbooks.com 🌟 Join our vibrant community of children's book lovers!
🔗 KidsWrd.com | AllKidsBooks.com
👧 Parents & Teachers: Find the best books for young readers.
✍️ Authors & Illustrators: List & showcase your books to a global audience.
hiimeyu ✧ @hiimeyu.bsky.social Parttime Artgoblin | No Ai | Dnd | Lv.33 | 🍉
https://vgen.co/hiimeyu
Please do not use my OCs in any capacity.
Thank you!
doe⭐🇵🇸 @sealdeer.bsky.social has anybody seen my tablet pen
(she/her, illustrator, bird guy) 
Zorana Ivcevic Pringle @z-i-pringle.bsky.social Author, The Creativity Choice: https://tinyurl.com/thecreativitychoicebook
Speaker. Yale faculty.
JessieLeh.bsky.social @jessieleh.bsky.social Author/ Illustrator Naturalist/ Educator
Artist, Curriculum Writer, Maker, Mom
#12x12pb | #scbwi |
Rep’d by @liznealon.bsky.social
www.wineberrywoodpress.com
Bear Edwards @bearedwards.bsky.social Cartoonist, illustrator, designer.
National Cartoonists Society
#seekingrepresentation
BearEdwards.ink
Melizza Chernov ✨Open to Commissions✨ @melizzachernov.bsky.social #Kidlit Artist/Writer, love of #naturewalks #dogs, #books and #boardgames!
https://www.melizzachernov.com/
https://www.melizzachernov.com/contact
email: melizza@melizzachernov.com
Kaushani Mufti @padfootblack25.bsky.social 🌟Kidlit and Middle-grade Illustrator from🇮🇳
🌟Open to Representation
🌟 SCBWI India - Illustrator Co-ordinator
🌟 https://kaushanimufti.com/
✉️ kaushani.mufti@gmail.com
Kerry McQuaide @kerrymcquaide.bsky.social Author/Illustrator of THE BIGGEST, HIGHEST WAVE | #SCBWI RA Eastern New York | she/her
I’m @kerrymcquaide on Insta, Threads, Cara & @kerrymcquaide.bsky.social
https://www.kerrymcquaide.com/
Janee Trasler @janeetrasler.bsky.social Children’s book author/illustrator HarperCollins, Scholastic, S&S, FSG, Holiday House
2020 National Cartoonist Society Award Best in Book Illustration
Represented by Jamie Weiss Chilton
Andrea Brown Literary Agency
Annie Hobbs @anniemcbeth.bsky.social 🖌️🎨 Ink & Paint Artist @ Disney Animation
📚 KidLit Illustrator: Rep’d by Gaby Cabezut @The Seymour Agency
Portfolio: Www.AnnieHobbsIllustration.com
Kirsten McGonigal @kirstenmcgonigal.bsky.social Children’s book illustrator, kid lit author, nature lover, reader, music maker, dreamer, SCBWI, #pbparty 2024 finalist, She/her
Rep’d by Becca Langton at Darley Anderson Illustration
kirstenmcgonigal.com
Thalamus Plank @thalamusplank.bsky.social Author/illustrator
www.thalamusplank.co.uk
http://thalamusplank.etsy.com
Patty Wurster @pattywurster.bsky.social Illustrator • Writer • Regional Advisor #SCBWI New York West/Central Upstate • MFA Indiana U
#kidlit #kidlitart
www.pattywursterstudio.com
Theartofpuro @theartofpuro.bsky.social I'm a children's book, comics illustrator and cover artist often in collaboration with my buddy Andrea.
PB (TOOFS)
#kidlitart
https://www.artstation.com/theartofpuro
IG: @ theartofpuro
Emma Latham Illustration @emmalatham.com Author illustrator of kid's books
Rep'd by Lorna Hemingway @ The Darley Anderson Agency
National Geographic, Highlights Magellan, Franklin Watts, Collins Big Cat, Brilliant Monsters Books @scbwi
http://www.emmalatham.com
Nicole Castrovinci @nicolecastrovinci.bsky.social #PB writer, book eater, coffee drinker. Out now-THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT (Clavis). Out Oct 2026-SNOWBALLED (Familius)-Now Available For Pre-Order! #scbwi #kidlitsky www.nicolecastrovinci.com
Cailyn Creative @cailyncreative.bsky.social Traditional Artist I Kidlit Illustrator I Small Business I Cozy art (she/her) 🇨🇦
I make silly guys to help people smile🪴
🧡Etsy🧡: https://cailyncreative.etsy.com/
#artshop #art #cozyart #kidlitart #illustration
Elio @eliopictures.bsky.social ✏️ Illustrator represented by Andrea Brown Literary Agency. 📚 Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, Abrams. 🍏 Associate Professor of Instruction at Columbia College Chicago. 🏡👧 Dad. 💼 www.eliopictures.com
Katie Gilstrap @bykatiegilstrap.bsky.social Author of SPACEMANATEE! (Magination Press), PENNY LU PORCUPINE, and FINNEGAN FOX (Nancy Paulsen Books). 📚
Bestie to @attaboyartie.bsky.social 🐕
Friend to all creatures ❤️🐾
Christiana Doucette @doucette515.bsky.social Author | Poet | SDWF Kids Write Judge | MGpies | SCBWI Mentee: Joy McCullough | Agent: Leslie Zampetti | #KidLitChat [Tuesdays 9pm ET] | MG Hub | Highlight’s Kay Yoder Scholarship for US History ‘24 | Intern for Kaitlyn Sanchez | https://bit.ly/3Zf7FiH
Shirley Ng-Benitez @shirleyngbenitez.bsky.social Author and Illustrator of children’s books, and absolutely anti-AI.
📚🎨 https://www.shirleyngbenitez.com/
—Everyone’s a story.
Michelle McGaughey @michellemcgaughey.bsky.social Illustrator & Writer
michellemcgaughey.com
Jack Foster @jackfoster14.bsky.social Jesus follower, Kid lit illustrator, father, grandfather, animal lover
Jason D. McIntosh @jasondmcintosh.bsky.social Hi there!
I'm an Author & illustrator creating thoughtful illustrations & stories that inspire.
- SCBWI Don Freeman Award Winner
- PBParty Finalist '23, '24, ‘25, '26
- KidLit
- Follow me on Facebook, X, & Instagram!
- www.JasonDMcIntosh.com
Brooke Baum @brookebaum.bsky.social 🌟 2025 #PBRisingStars Mentee
🎨 #kidlit author-illustrator
📚 Former children's bookseller and school librarian
😴 Current tired mom
🤓 Self-taught and still self-teaching
Represented by Marissa Brown at Pippin Properties
brookebaum.com
Kaz Windness she/her @kazwindness.bsky.social •📕Out now: WORM AND BUTTERFLY (S&S)
•📘Out soon!: TIME TRAVELING CHICKENS (S&S)
•📚Check out: “When You Love a Book” (PRH)
Award-Winning Children’s Book Author-Artist, Art Professor, Autistic-ADHD 🌈📚Books, Classes, Social Media: linktr.ee/KazWindness
Anita Bagdi @anitab.bsky.social Kidlit illustrator, human artist, neurodivergent family
Proudly represented by Illo Agency
https://linktr.ee/anitab_art
JasonHendrickson.com @jasonhendr.bsky.social Definitely not a cryptid pretending to be human or anything.
KidLit Author, Illustrator, Designer. JasonHendrickson.com
Just Security @justsecurity.org Forum on law, rights, and security. Editorial Board includes professors, top civil society attorneys, former senior government officials.
Pokémon Gems @pokemongems.bsky.social Pokémon Content Daily
Turn on Post Notifications 📢
MF Paint @mfpaint.bsky.social Danish graphic designer and illustrator with a love for robots and monsters. Love for u to follow, and feel free to repost and copy my work, it's all for fun
⛔️ viewer discretion advised, this page contains really bad humor ⛔️
☕️ https://ko-fi.com/mfpaint ❤️
Sydney J. Stone @sydleys.bsky.social Critter connoisseur and lover of breakfast food.
✏️ Kidlit Illustrator | Spooky and Fantastical
💁♀️ Rep’d by @kellydhouse.bsky.social
📚 SCBWI Carolinas
IG 📷: instagram.com/sydleys
Portfolio 📁: sydneyjstone.com
TeTed / Illustrator @teted.bsky.social 🎨 Picturebook and Children Book Artist
✉️ DM me for collaboration and commission.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/teted_draws
Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social MAEVE MULVANEY HAS HAD ENOUGH (Holiday House).
LIKE THAT ELEANOR (Cardinal Rule Press).
#KIDLIT author/illustrator. Comics geek. Trekkie. Squirrel Girl enthusiast. “Endearingly sarcastic.”
Rep: @tajmccoy.bsky.social
Www.Authorkellymangan.com
#NoAIArt
GovTrack.us @govtrack.us At https://www.GovTrack.us, we're tracking the United States Congress and the White House. Research & track the bills, votes, and members in the 🇺🇸 Congress, executive orders, etc. Civic engagement & government accountability project since 2004. #opengov
Steph Littlebird @stephlittlebird.bsky.social 🪶 Indigenous artist, author, curator @artnerdforever on IG - StephLittlebird.com 😘
Lee Ballard @leeballardbooks.bsky.social Novice Writer of Chapter Book Series, Experienced Grandmother, Almost Graduate of SNHU, Gladly Retired, Shivering Chicago Resident, Extreme Novice Website Developer (mine only), Longtime lover of life!
www.LeeBallardBooks.com
Ayumi Horie @ayumihorie.com Potter. Parent. Mainer. Native Planter.
Entoten @entoten.com www.entoten.com
Ai Kanazawa of Entoten. San Diego, CA
Mostly about craft, the way of tea, and kotoba of two worlds
Abi 🎨 TheNerdyAlchemist @thenerdyalchemist.bsky.social Illustrator 🍁 I really like fantasy 🍁 Etsy and other socials linked below 🍁 please read Witch Hat Atelier thanks
https://thenerdyalchemist.carrd.co
Landscapehead @landscapehead.com 📷 Top Landscape Photography
©️ Only Attributed Works
✔️ Verified No AI
Collaboration: editorial@landscapehead.com
Aria's Hollow @hollowleaf.bsky.social Aspiring artist and writer of fantasy. Also into gaming, superheros, and manga! Currently working on an urban fantasy, post-apocalyptic novel series. She/they. #writingcommunity #ocsky #art
Art comms open: https://artistree.io/hollowleaf
arias_hollow @TH
Eros Thanatos @erosthanatosart.bsky.social Nonbinary artist with ADHD. I do commissions, traditional art, digital art, and I identify as a solar punk anarchist.
https://vgen.co/Erosthanatos Vgen (commissions)
Jack Phoenix (a comics librarian) @comicslibrarian.com Librarian specializing in comics.
GNCRT President-Elect (@libcomix.bsky.social)
🇺🇸 in 🇨🇦
👬 @mathewcasper.bsky.social
Banner by @breindigo.bsky.social
My 📖
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/maximizing-the-impact-of-comics-in-your-library-9781440868856/
JK Scot @jakey-scot.bsky.social I still owe strangers now long dead for food they’ve shared & words they’ve said.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0CKNLBYV6
🏴🏴🏴🇦🇺🇹🇴🇳🇨🇨🇦🇪🇸🇵🇹🇫🇷🇩🇪 🇱🇺🇳🇱🇧🇪
Saphira @nilambiru.bsky.social Hello! I'm a Fulltime artist based in Bali, Indonesia
You can reach out to me here : https://linktr.ee/hellonilambiru?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=3cbb302b-1dc5-463c-985b-29e087c0fb7e
Jime Wimmer @prettylines.bsky.social 🩷Represented by Hen & Ink Literary https://henandink.com
💚SCBWI Southern Breeze RIC
🩵Illustrator/Author: Prettylines.com
💚 Visiting Assistant Professor Hollins University
💛Dorothy in Oz: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wimmerstudios/dorothy-in-oz/
Phyllis Harris @phyllisharris.bsky.social Children’s book author-illustrator. Rep’d by @KTerrette.bsky.social at Martin Literary.
Books:
THE GIFT SHOP BEAR 🧸🎄❤️
CLAUDE 🎨🐶 3 Starred Reviews
THE DAY KINDNESS CAME🌲🐻
Illustrated over 30 children’s books.
Website - https://www.phyllisharris.com
Lisa Yee . . . is confused about social media @lisayee.bsky.social New York Times Bestseller, Newbery Honoree, National Book Award Finalist, Procrastinator Extraordinaire, #KidLit Author
Cybils Awards @cybilsawards.bsky.social Celebrating books for children and teens since 2006.
https://linktr.ee/CybilsAwards
Monika Baum @monbaum.bsky.social Kidlitart illustrator, accountant & analyst, linguist. I love watercolor, cakes, the Alps, Scotland, squirrels, Star Trek, and happy accidents. 🇨🇭&🇩🇪.📍Switzerland.
www.monbaum.com
Deborah Paquette @deborahpaquette.bsky.social Picture-book author/illustrator. #SCBWI Canada West Co-ARA.
deborahpaquette@shaw.ca
deborahpaquette.com
205TF @205tf.bsky.social TF, two letters that stand for Type Foundry and Typographie Française (French Typography).
https://www.205.tf/
Valerie Estelle Frankel📚👩🏫🌌🎲🎮🏰📜🧷🧛🏻♂️🦇🎭✡️✍️🧙🏻🎃 @valeriefrankel.bsky.social 👨🎓Professor, 📚author of 100 books on drwho💫starwars✨outlander #sfwa🚀 #scbwi #kidlit Cali https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B004KMCLQK pitch me on #academic #Jewish #sff https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/jewish-science-fiction-and-fantasy/
James Gurney Art @jamesgurneyart.bsky.social Creator of Dinotopia and artist/author of Color and Light and Imaginative Realism.
Artanzo @artanzo.bsky.social Surrealist and Symbolist artist.
Get prints on my website: https://artanzo.com
Lisa Aisato @lisaaisato.bsky.social Illustrator and Author
Sam Yang @samdoesarts.bsky.social Draw and make youtube videos (:
⭐ Tutorials + process videos on patreon!
👇🏻 Youtube | Patreon | Prints
https://linktr.ee/samdoesarts?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaZUewVi- A Iva Mikles @artsideoflife.bsky.social ✏️ Illustrator 🎨 Procreate Brushes ✏️Top Skillshare Teacher ✨YouTube: artsideoflife
⭐️ Classes + Links ↓
https://artsideoflife.com/links/
Laura El @iamlaurael.bsky.social Illustrator & Storyteller.
https://linktr.ee/iamlaurael?fbclid=PAAaZ91sxPtO_J7QxbKRrk3ry_KChATMEgjMnYWPzASoi1Xo9ABf5wcHPfoJ4
Loish @loish.bsky.social I’m a digital artist!
Free tutorials & brushes: loish.school
Simone Grünewald @schmoedraws.bsky.social Visual Developement Artist , worked in the game industry for over 10 years as Art Director and more . Now Happily Freelancing.
Tim Probert @timprobert.bsky.social Illustrator and Author.
Lightfall 1, 2 and 3, published by HarperAlley
timprobert.com
Lennart Menkhaus @lennartmenkhaus.bsky.social 🪐 Based in Oldenburg, Germany
✉️ info@lennartmenkhaus.com
🪨 Repped by @kombinatrotweiss_illustration
IG: @lennartmenkhaus
Brian Borncamp @zubaplants.bsky.social www.zubaplants.com - Native Plants and More - Buffalo, NY
Adriane Tsai @theartofadriane.bsky.social Just keep drawing 💫 • Children’s book illustrator #kidlit • TUGGOAT (‘24), Coco book series • Rep’d by James McGowan at BookEnds Literary
Portfolio • Classes • Socials ⤵️
https://linktr.ee/theartofadriane
Mallory Grigg @mallorygrigg.bsky.social Senior Art Director at Macmillan Children's Publishing Group working with Balzer + Bray, Feiwel & Friends, Henry Holt BYR, FSG BYR, Roaring Brook Press, Swoon & Squarefish. She/Her
Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social Indie Developer/Director @ Polygon Treehouse (Mythwrecked & Röki) • BAFTA Breakthrough 2021 • BAFTA Games & The Game Awards nominee • 2 x BAFTA Juror • Industry speaker & mentor • He/him
Dundee (Scotland)
https://www.polygon-treehouse.com/
Senongo @senongo.bsky.social Designer and illustrator in NYC. Author of Cross-Cultural Design. VP of Design at Nava.
Doan Buu @dbuu.bsky.social Designer, Dude, Cleveland Sports Fan, NYC resident.
Michael Bierut @michaelbierut.bsky.social Graphic designer, teacher, writer, since forever
Whitney L-P 🩷💜💙 @whinknee.bsky.social She/Her
Children’s book Art Director and designer.
Website: whitlpdesign.com
Mom to a NB 8 year old and two black cats. Passionate about books, workers rights, equity, safe spaces for LGBTQIA+ individuals, anti-racism, and picture book art.
Evui @ GenCon AS 34 @labillustration.bsky.social Art Director on MTG, Illustrator, and Fairy trying her best. Co-host of the Painted in Color podcast. Etsy: http://labillustration.etsy.com . NO A/I. Views are my own.
Damien Correll @damiencorrell.bsky.social Creative Director at Figma. Former baby.
Wolfgang Bremer @wolfgang.bremer.co 🇩🇪🇨🇦 Product Experience Leader · Advisor & Speaker · Former VP VW Group · Ex Nokia, SAP · Fortune 500s & Startups
📧 Collaborate? 👉 collabs@bremer.co
👉 bremer.co · linkedin.com/in/wolfgangbremer
Jim Hoover @jimhoover017.bsky.social I am a children’s book art director, and that’s it. That is my entire vibe.
Oh, and pop culture stuff.
Right right right—I’m also drawn to politics like a mosquito to a bug zapper.
Mark Boulton @markboulton.co.uk Head of product design @checkout.com. Typographer. Cyclist. Likes tea.