Michael Hotchkiss @mchotchkiss.bsky.social Writer, artist, tall dad.
Neha Rawat @neharawatart.bsky.social Children’s book author and illustrator | India | Rep’d by Lori Steel at SteelWorks Literary
Gael_Me ☆ Illustrator @gaelme.bsky.social Freelance Illustrator
Represented by Pyro Represents
linktr.ee/adaabigael
Sheree Tomba @shereesketches.bsky.social Storyteller, bike racer, board game player, animal lover, tea drinker.
www.shereetomba.com
Repped by Kaitlyn Sanchez of Bradford Lit
‘24 PB Party Finalist
#12x12PB #SCBWI
#kidlit #kidlitart
Brook Gideon @brookgideon.bsky.social Wrangler of words, watercolors, pets, and plants. Lover of sharks, science, and second breakfast. Salty.
brandi @brandirecognition.bsky.social they/them
cartoonist/illustrator/designer • slushie appreciator • 📚 MSIS
contact: art.brandipayne@gmail.com
represented by Kari Sutherland @ KT Literary
brandipayneart.com
next con: TBA
Farida Zaman @faridazaman.bsky.social Author. Illustrator - telling a story through words and illustrations.
Ameena | Kidlit Author & Illustrator @ameenasiddique.bsky.social ⭐️Animation & VFX Producer / PM⭐️
⭐️Children's Book Author & Illustrator⭐️
⭐️Aspiring Creator⭐️
Jason Chapman @jasonchapman.bsky.social Author, illustrator, picture book maker
https://jasonchapman.co.uk/
Shop: https://jasonchapman.bigcartel.com/
Clara Dee @yayaveebs.bsky.social Children’s book illustrator ✨🇮🇩
website : deeclarade.com
Janyne Azevedo @janyneilustra.bsky.social Children’s book author and illustrator
Based in Brazil
janyneazevedo.com
💌 janyneilustra@gmail.com
Gabby Correia Illustration @gabbycorreia.bsky.social Award winning Children's Book Illustrator from South Africa. Member of SCBWI
Proudly represented by @illoagency
http://www.gabbycorreia.com/
#kidlit
Fanny Liem @fannyliem.bsky.social Children’s Book Illustrator, aspiring to be an Author one day.
Country Music Fans
www.fannywen.com
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
Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social “Having fun isn’t hard, when you’ve got a library card!” - Arthur Read
linktr.ee/mychalthreets
Joy McCullough @joymccullough.bsky.social Author @ PRH & S&S, resident playwright at Seattle Public Theater, mom. She/her
Up next: TEAM AWKWARD (S&S, 2/11)
Ellen Hopkins @ellenhopkins.bsky.social NY Times bestselling, often banned author. MARRIED feminist. Mom. Grandma. German shepherd lover. Joy seeker midst the chaos. Staunch ally. Democracy defender. Fighting for our kids' future. Not here to be sold anything. #blueresister 
Cordelia Jensen @cordeliajensen.bsky.social MG/YA verse novelist, author of LILAC AND THE SWITCHBACK, EVERY SHINY THING, SKYSCRAPING, THE WAY THE LIGHT BENDS. Creative writing teacher, freelance editor and certified book coach.
Chris Baron @baronchrisbaron.bsky.social MG author of ALL OF ME & THE MAGICAL IMPERFECT-THE GRAY 23 & more in 24 @FeiwelFriends, English Prof, Poet, ig: christhebearbaron
Twitter @baronchrisbaron
Jessica Vitalis @jessicavitalis.bsky.social Award-winning author, Greenwillow/HarperCollins. American by birth, Canadian by choice. 
Susan Hood @susanhood.bsky.social Award-winning children's book author of LIFEBOAT 12, ADA'S VIOLIN, ALIAS ANNA, HARBORING HOPE, THE LAST STRAW, SHAKING THINGS UP, and more. Rep: Brenda Bowen, The Book Group. susanhoodbooks.com New: LIFEBOAT 5!
Meg Eden Kuyatt @medenkuyatt.bsky.social Author of GOOD DIFFERENT & THE GIRL IN THE WALLS @Scholastic
Christ-follower #Actuallyautistic #2023Debuts #MGin23
rep'd by @laurenspieller.bsky.social
http://www.megedenbooks.com/
Hannah V. Sawyerr @hannsawyerr.bsky.social A masterpiece after a wreckage. Author: TRUTH IS 🎙️ (out September 23!) + ALL THE FIGHTING PARTS 💙 (Morris Finalist + Walter Honor!)
Traci Sorell @tracisorellauthor.bsky.social Cherokee Nation citizen and author of fiction and nonfiction for young people. tracisorell.com
Kate Fussner @katefussner.bsky.social 📕 13 WAYS TO SAY GOODBYE (HarperCollins, March 18, 2025)
📕 THE SONG OF US (KTegenbooks/HarperCollins)
✍ DVMentor '22
✍ MFA Lesley ‘21
🏳🌈Queer she/her
rep: Eric Smith @P.S. Literary
Karuna Riazi @karunariazi.bsky.social Kidlit author. Blasian Muslim magical girl. Always dreaming.
Latest: A BIT OF EARTH (Greenwillow 2023). Next: SABRENA SWEPT AWAY (Greenwillow 2025).
Hamline MFAC July '21 | Rep: Thao Le
No means to donate currently 💔
Cindy Baldwin @cindybaldwinbooks.bsky.social Kidlit author (latest: NO MATTER THE DISTANCE). Disabled activist with #cysticfibrosis and #ehlersdanlos. Homeschool mom, cosmetic formulator, human with too many passions. She/her
Kip Wilson @kipwilsonwrites.bsky.social Author: WHITE ROSE, THE MOST DAZZLING GIRL IN BERLIN, ONE LAST SHOT, next up: BACKPACK, BOY, BERLIN (11/3/2026) | high school librarian | anti-fascist | www.kipwilsonwrites.com
Heather Camlot @heathercamlot.bsky.social Children's author & editor. Latest: Becoming Bionic, The Prisoner and the Writer, Secret Schools, I Can't Do What? Montrealer in Toronto. 
Margarita Engle @margaritaengle.bsky.social Cuban American poet and children’s book author. Young People’s Poet Laureate Emeritus. Newbery Honor, Pura Belpré Awards, etc.
KA Holt @kaholt.bsky.social Writer, poet, lavender menace
David Elliott @profavenarius.bsky.social Trying to live a quiet life in the fog of the North Atlantic.
Aimee lucido @aimeelucido.bsky.social I’m an author and crossword puzzle maker! 
David Bowles @davidbowles.us Writer. Translator. Nahuatlahtoh. Chicano. He/él/yehhua. Pan [💖💛💙]. Representation: Full Circle Literary. Associate Professor at UTRGV. Ca notoca Tlahzotic Mazacnihuitl.
kelsey sutton @kelseysutton.bsky.social editing and occasionally writing about TV at morning brew / marketing brew 
Sarah Crossan @sarahcrossan.bsky.social Writer based in Sussex.
Marilyn Copley Hilton @marilynhilton.bsky.social Award-winning author & poet; speaker, editor, teacher, student, mother in the order life requests. Represented by Adams Literary
Tracie Renee (she/her) @tracierenee.bsky.social Librarian in sort-of Chicago.
PW book reviewer.
#Amquerying #SCBWI writer/poet.
Winner: #50PreciousWords, Highlights scholarship, ElegantLit, IAmWritingMG.
HM: #PBParty.
WTMP mentee, RisingTalent finalist, BOTN.
https://linktr.ee/tracie.renee
Ellen Armendáriz @ellenarmendariz.bsky.social Latina | Chilanga | Immigrant | Middle Grade + kidlit Author | Hamline MFAC
PitchWars alumn | Las Musas Hermana | Round Table Mentor
rep: @thejordache.bsky.social | @awfulagent.bsky.social
Mary Averling @maryaverling.bsky.social Author of Bram Stoker Award finalist THE CURSE OF EELGRASS BOG and THE GHOSTS OF BITTERFLY BAY with Penguin Young Readers. Next: THE BURN BEAST (Putnam, Fall 2026)
Rep'd by Kelly Sonnack at ABLA
Marcie Flinchum Atkins @marciefatkins.bsky.social Librarian | Hollins gal (MA/MFA) | Poet | PB & YA Author | Wait, Rest, Pause (2019) One Step Forward (2025) When Twilight Comes (2026) | Rep: Carter Hasegawa at Tugeau2
www.marcieatkins.com
https://linktr.ee/marciefatkins
Laurie Halse Anderson @halseanderson.bsky.social Forest creature who writes books & champions libraries. American heart, Danish soul.
Author of YAs: Speak, Shout & many more
Historical adventure novels: Chains, Forge, Ashes & Fever 1793.
And…. Rebellion 1776 is a NY Times bestseller! Huzzah! 🎉❤️🇺🇸📚
Kassie Lamro @kassielamro.bsky.social Writer, Teacher, Mama (sometimes drummer)| #amquerying MG niv| MG Narwhals | Arizona http://kassielamro.weebly.com
Taylor Tracy 🌊✨🍝 @tayberryjelly.bsky.social New Jersey trash panda. Bunmom. Stonewall Honor-winning #kidlit author. Saltier than the sea. 🌊🍝🌈
MURRAY OUT OF WATER (out now, QuillTree Books)
PASTA GIRLS (Fall 2025, Quill Tree Books)
Rep: @mariavicente.com at P.S. Literary
www.taylorismyfirstname.com
Laura Bryte Writes @laurawrites.bsky.social Author | Poet | Picture Books | Middle Grade | Young Adult | SCBWI | 12x12 | Lyrical Language Lab Alum |
Lindsay H. Metcalf @lindsayhmetcalf.bsky.social Author of nonfiction and poetry for kids and teens. Former journalist. OUTDOOR FARM, INDOOR FARM out now; TOMATOES ON TRIAL coming summer 2025. lindsayhmetcalf.com
Nikki Grimes @poetnikki.bsky.social Poet, novelist, general word-nerd, gardener, photographer, foodie, film lover. My favorite people on the planet are children, which is why I write for them. Oh! And I'm a freak for roses, watercolor, and collage. Author of Ordinary Hazards, a memoir.
Ray Anthony Shepard @ras37.bsky.social I write about race in American history for young readers. These are the kinds of biographies that didn't exist when I was a student or teacher and those I couldn't publish as a textbook editor.
Katherine Applegate @kaaauthor.bsky.social I write books, like the "ONE & ONLY" series, WISHTREE, ODDER, DOGTOWN, and POCKET BEAR.
My new novel, WOMBAT WAITING, is out now!
I post with some help from Two Cats Comm.
Lyn Miller-Lachmann @lynmillerlachmann.bsky.social Author, translator & Lego builder. Winner 2023 LA Times Book Prize for YA Literature for TORCH. Author of MOONWALKING (co-authored with Zetta Elliott) & EYES OPEN, both historical novels in verse. 
Dana Kramaroff @danakramaroff.bsky.social Mom, 2nd grade teacher, and middle grade author of THE DO MORE CLUB (Penguin Random House - Rocky Pond Books) 💛💛💛
Lou Piccolo | Picture book & middle-grade editor & author @loupiccolo.bsky.social What do I do?
✨ Help kidlit authors write & revise their books
✨ Host Middle Grade Made Easy(er) podcast
✨ Run Rhyme Made Easy(er) membership
Start here⇣
https://linktr.ee/LouPiccolo
Karen Krossing @karenkrossing.com #KidLit Author, Editor, Mentor.
Latest: ONE COSMIC ROCK. THE CLOUD THAT STUCK.
Upcoming: FOREVER FRIES.
Agency: @curtisbrownltd.bsky.social
VCFA Alum. Faculty at Whale Rock Workshops.
Settler heritage. She/her. Bi/pan. 🏳️🌈
https://karenkrossing.com
Mae Respicio 🇵🇭🇺🇸 @maerespicio.bsky.social ✨ Writer of Books / Eater of Snacks
✨ APALA Honor Award, NPR Best Books
✨ www.maerespicio.com
✨ Author brand: tender+joyful+Filipino dad jokes
✨ Agent: Jennifer Laughran
Linda Weste @lindaweste.bsky.social Academic, Writer & editor, PhD verse novel +poetry + narrative research, author of poetry, novels in verse, and edited nonfiction interviews with verse novelists, (she/her)
#VerseNovels #DiverseVerse #poetry
www.linda.weste.com
Jeannine Atkins @jeannineatkins.bsky.social Author of Knocking on Windows: A Memoir, Green Promises: Girls Who Loved the Earth, Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science, all from Atheneum/S & S, Rep: @saracrowelit.bsky.social
LizRiceWrites @lizricewrites.bsky.social Writer- current project is a contemporary middle grade novel in verse. I'm always working on picture books. The beach is my happy place.
Jean Letai @jeanletai.bsky.social Writer pub’d in WBUR Cog, Boston Globe, LA Times, Japan Times, Princeton Alumni Weekly, Friends and Anemones. Olympic Short Track Speedskating Mom. #SCBWI #12x12 #WritingBarn
Serena Molloy @serenamolloy.bsky.social Irish children's author.
'Wider Than The Sea' Winner of the Eilís Dillon Award KPMG CBI. Sunday Times (IRL) Children's Book of the Week. SL The Week Junior Awards '24.
'The Tree That Sang to Me' out now with Hodder.
https://serenamolloy.com/
Author Padma Venkatraman @padmatv.bsky.social THE BRIDGE HOME, BORN BEHIND BARS, SAFE HARBOR, A TIME TO DANCE. WNDB Walter Award winning writer, reader, poet, oceanographer, yoga teacher. K-12 Education. Science, nature, music, art. DEI. “Stories are ships on which we sail oceans of hope.”
Carol Lieske Williams @calwilliamswriter.bsky.social KitLit writer: middle grade novel-in-verse author, children's book creator, YA enthusiast. Dog lover who says yes to food from all over the world. #SCBWI
Sandy Deutscher Green @sandydgreen.bsky.social I'm a former ballet dancer writing with musicality and rhythm as I turn to scaring the daylights out of children with my horror in verse books!
https://linktr.ee/sandydgreen | SCBWI | Horror Writers Assoc.
Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social Editor of Forgotten Ground Regained (https://alliteration.net), a website devoted to modern English alliterative verse. If you like Beowulf, or Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, or Tolkien's Fall of Arthur or Sigurd and Gudrun, you're in for a treat.
Diet Groothuis @dietgroothuis.bsky.social Dutch writer & poet. Klimaatdichter en Dolle Mina. Writes books for adults, young-adults and children. Loves birds, cats and badgers. Swims outside all year long. Last book: ya verse novel De langste één minuut. www.dietgroothuis.nl #author
Reem Faruqi @reemfaruqi.bsky.social Award-Winning Children's Book Author of LAILAH'S LUNCHBOX, UNSETTLED, & more. 
Rebecca J. Gomez @rebeccajgomez.bsky.social Children's book author and illustrator, story time enthusiast, young-ish grandma of seven (so far).
Shari Green @sharigreen.bsky.social author, poet, beach-wanderer 🇨🇦🏳️🌈 | she/her | Vancouver Island, BC | www.sharigreen.com
Sygnin @sygnin.com Comic: https://nowherecomic.com/
All links: https://sygnin.carrd.co/
Vgen (comms): https://vgen.co/sygnin
🇨🇦 🇸🇬 Main account @charlenedraws.bsky.social
🚫 AI /NFT
P. J. Purtee, AKA Jill (Shields) @pjpurtee.bsky.social SCBWI
PBs
Poet: The Toy, Little Thoughts Press
Mira Reisberg's Children's Book Academy (featured poems)
Honors: Madness! Poetry (Elite 8), #50PreciousWords, Valentiny, Halloweensie, Holiday, Spring Fling
School volunteer
Hx: pediatrics
http://pjpurtee.com
Shane Harris @shaneharris.bsky.social Staff Writer @theatlantic. Author. Podcaster. Filmmaker. https://linktr.ee/shaneharris Signal: shaneharris.64
Lauren Magaziner @laurenmagaziner.bsky.social Internationally bestselling author of middle grade books: ⚡️ The Incorruptibles (coming 6/10/25), 🔎 Case Closed series, 🐙 Mythics series, 🐰 The Only Thing Worse Than Witches, 💰 Pilfer Academy, ✨ Wizardmatch.
she/her 🌈
Friends in the Pages (Alex) @friendsinthepages.bsky.social Reading, writing and studying a Masters in Children's and Young Adult Literature 📚📑📝✍️
Student Editor at https://dublincityuniversitychildrensandyaliterature.wordpress.com/
Dr Jennifer Mooney @mooneyjennifer.bsky.social Assistant Professor, DCU School of English
Children’s & YA Literature MA Chair
Applications now open: bit.ly/4hGaOyy
MA Blog: https://share.google/4lAJIYRDbWZHNBUJ7
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 |
nala khan ✩ @nalakhan.bsky.social ✎ Author • Illustrator • Menace
☼ Rep: @jmcgowanbks.bsky.social
⟡ www.nalakhan.com
* Debut PB 2027+2028 via Scholastic! *
Greg Pincus @gregpincus.bsky.social Writer. Likes to rhyme, though not when writing movies or novels. But you should see my shopping lists! Has never bought an orange. #kidlitchat cohost for 14+ years on ex-Twitter (and now here on Tuesday nights at 9 PM EST!). Still bats and throws righty.
Deborah Underwood @underwoodwriter.bsky.social Writer of picture books and kisser of cats. DeborahUnderwoodBooks.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
Jared Andrew Schorr @supercoolspyclub.bsky.social Illustrator and Paper Cutter! ✂️💌✨
JANUARY: http://www.jaredandrewschorr.com/store/january
✏️: http://www.jaredandrewschorr.com/
💰: http://www.jaredandrewschorr.com/shop
💌: supercoolspyclub@gmail.com
Rachel Rizzuto @rachelrcreates.bsky.social
Kidlit Author/Illustrator Represented by Jes Trudel at The Rights Factory
RachelRCreates.com
Making stories that create touchstones for anxious and inquisitive children.
Maria Vicente @mariavicente.com senior literary agent & senior advisor | P.S. Literary
board member | Association of American Literary Agents
🜂 🜄 🜁 🜃
resources & rep info ⤵️
https://www.mariavicente.com
agency ⤵️
http://www.psliterary.com
Lisa Katzenberger @lisakatzenberger.bsky.social Mom of twins
#KidLit Author of:
A LOVE LETTER TO MY LIBRARY
CROC & GATOR: Swamp Ranger School
I CAN DO IT EVEN IF I'M SCARED
IT BELONGS TO THE WORLD
IT WILL BE OK
#12x12PB #Insulin4All #T1Dmom
https://linktr.ee/lisakatzenberger
Manuscript Wish List® @manuscriptwishlist.bsky.social 📚The new, non-Twitter home of #MSWL! We are a way for agents and editors to tell writers what they *wish* they had in their inboxes. Full agent profiles here: https://www.manuscriptwishlist.com/ Newsletter: https://manuscriptwishlist.com/subscribe 
KidLit Collective @kidlitcollective.bsky.social We are KidLit Collective, a collection of creative kidlit authors and illustrators supporting each other since our 2020 debuts and beyond. Art by @nielanderamy
Elizabeth Law @elawreads.bsky.social #Kidlit and YA Lit are my vocation and I won't stop preaching. Currently Editor-at-Large at Holiday House Bks, and a freelance editor and speaker. 40 years in the biz, yowsah! https://www.elawreads.com/ I'm also a showqueen trapped in a woman's body.
Brier @briermarilyn.bsky.social All things art & kidlit 🪲
🤎Aussie dog mom 🤎Probably holding a pencil or ice cream (or both).🎨🐶
Rep’d by Rebecca Angus & Ashlee McCallum @ Howland Literary Agency
My Portfolio: https://brierhaigh.myportfolio.com/creative-hub
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
Yu Kito Lee “Yuey” @studio-yuey.bsky.social Hello! I’m Yuey, a Japanese #Kidlit illustrator and a mama of 3 based in Los Angeles.
Represented by Kait Lee Feldmann at KT Literary.
Member of #SCBWI.
https://www.studio-yuey.com
✉️ hello@studio-yuey.com
MayumiSasage @mayumisasage.bsky.social Illustrator and Author. From Japan, Based in San Francisco. Rep’d by @essiewhite.bsky.social
🌐 https://mayumi-sasage.com
#kidlit
Travis Jonker @100scopenotes.bsky.social School Librarian. Author of BLUE FLOATS AWAY, THE VERY LAST CASTLE, THE SHIP IN THE WINDOW, CABOOSE | Author/illustrator of JUST ONE FLAKE and JUST ONE WAVE (2025)
Megan E. Freeman @meganefreeman.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author. Poet. Wildflower enthusiast. Novels ALONE and AWAY available from Simon & Schuster. Rep’d by East West Literary. I love connecting with readers and educators for school author visits. linktr.ee/meganefreeman
Veronica Bartles @vbartles.com Author: THE PRINCESS & THE FROGS and TWELVE STEPS, recycle-knitter, graphic designer (web/book design, etc.) #KidLitConfections cookie queen, book-grandma, #ActuallyAutistic. (she/her) https://vbartles.com
Heidi Yates @heidikyates.bsky.social Author, illustrator & nature photographer.
#SCBWI | #12x12PB | #PBChat '21 mentee
Rep'd by Elisa Houot at The Seymour Agency
Jennifer Chambliss Bertman @jennbertman.bsky.social NYT bestselling author: Book Scavenger series, SISTERHOOD OF SLEUTHS, and A GOOD DEED CAN GROW, illustrated by Holly Hatam. More info: www.jenniferchamblissbertman.com
&
https://jenniferchamblissbertman.substack.com
Leigh Anne Carter @lacarterbooks.bsky.social Author-Illustrator
📘 YETI IS NOT READY FOR SCHOOL
📘 YETI IS NOT READY FOR GAME OVER
💼 Rep’d by Lane Clarke, Ultra Literary
#kidlit #kidlitart
https://lacarter.com/links
Clare Helen Welsh @clarehelenwelsh.bsky.social Former teacher, children's author, writing tutor and founder of #BooksThatHelp
Nancy Tupper Ling @nancytupperling.bsky.social Children's Author, Poet, Librarian, Believer. #SCBWI. Repped by Anne Marie O’Farrell Inspired by my multicultural family & the world around me. Soli Deo gloria! https://www.nancytupperling.com/ & latest book https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/714096/
Becca McMurdie @beccamcmurdiebooks.bsky.social ☀️Author
☀️BUILDING A BEAK (Page Street, 2024)
☀️JUST A SHELL…OR IS IT? (Abrams, 2026)
☀️JUST A PUDDLE…OR IS IT? (Abrams, 2027)
☀️Rep: Joyce Sweeney www.beccamcmurdie.com