Children in Read @childreninread.bsky.social The Largest Signed Book Auction in the World
Charlotte Tomson @charlottetomson.bsky.social Teacher. MA Writing for Children. Golden Egg WYSCN. Divides time between reality and escapades in MG fiction. Lives with one family, two guinea pigs and a very demanding cheese plant.
Deborah Kalb @deborahkalb.bsky.social DC area. Ex-journalist, writer, editor, book blogger, podcaster, author of OFF TO JOIN THE CIRCUS and other books.
A.C. Harper (he/him) @harperac.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ Transgender Author
📚 Hi, My Name Is Alex: https://a.co/d/0fD7INpf
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Michelle Harrison @mharrisonauthor.bsky.social Author: 13 Treasures, A Pinch of Magic, Twice Upon a Time, There’s A Beach in My Pants & more.
www.michelleharrisonbooks.com
Julia Tuffs @juliatuffs.bsky.social Writer of things.
45 Things To Do Before You’re 45 out now on Audible.
Here for all your staring out of window needs. Team Cat. She/her.
Flora Night @floranight.bsky.social I am a huge bookworm, I'm also an author but none are under this name (yet!). I often use exclamation marks... I think that sums me up pretty well!
E.K. Johnston @ekjohnston.bsky.social "the meryl streep of ya". 18 books and counting. i WILL answer your rhetorical questions.
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Hounslow SLS @hounslowsls.bsky.social Hounslow School Library Service providing books and events to promote literacy and a love of reading across Hounslow and beyond!
Sophie Siddall @sophiesiddall.bsky.social Writer of YA romance with a natural world twist📚Birder🦆Happiest by a river🦦
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Honey Hyman-Dworsky @hymandworsky.bsky.social Aspiring writer to beginner writer to amateur author to professional author.
Currently in step 3.
Rusty Fischer | Children's Author @rustyfischer.bsky.social Rusty Fischer's poems for children have appeared in Reader’s Digest, Good Housekeeping and Woman’s Day. His latest poem, “Socks,” is currently featured in The Dirigible Balloon.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/byseries/36446
Colm Field / Frank Cadaver @colmthewriter.bsky.social Sometimes cadaverous writer of fiction.
Gytha Lodge @gythalodgeauthor.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author of the Jonah Sheens series and other crime to come. Obsessive tea drinker and pun maker. Mostly silly.
Clare Harlow @clareharlow.bsky.social Writer, bookworm
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https://www.clareharlow.co.uk
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Jim @yayeahyeah.bsky.social Book lover and math tutor.
Camp YA @campyafest.bsky.social Camp YA is a young adult bookfest. Join us online on the 26th and 27th of September for an amazing event filled with free bookish fun!
Amy Feest @amyfeest.bsky.social YA Writer, 1:1 SEND TA, School Librarian, Lake Swimmer, Board Game Geek 🥰
Daniel Peak @idanielpeak.bsky.social Telly writer: Not Going Out, Code 404, Horrible Histories.
Book writer: Little Horror, Grimstink
LJ Ireton @literaryvegan.bsky.social Poet. 'Interlude' with Haywood Books. 'Unclaimed' with Whittle Micropress. Expert Children's Bookseller. Vegan.
Laura SL @lauraslwrites.bsky.social YA Fantasy Writer ✨ English teacher 👩🏻🏫 Mom 💗 Reader 📚Tea Enthusiast ☕️ Geek 🤓
Rep’d by Anjanette Barr at Dunham Literary
https://www.laurasorreselefkow.com/
Penny Chrimes @pennychrimes.bsky.social Children's author. TIGER HEART, THE DRAGON AND HER BOY, WILDER, MOONSHIFTER. HERO THE HIGHWAY GIRL coming in September with @FireflyPress
Agent Lisa Babalis, Curtis Brown. Bookings Authors Aloud.
Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social Scottish SFFH Author | Shirley Jackson Award & BFA Finalist | Latest: LIMELIGHT, Shortwave, DARK CRESCENT, Luna Press | Words in Apex, Analog, Weird Tales, & more | Rep: Michael Mungiello InkWell, Film/TV: Sean Berard https://linktr.ee/lyndseycroal
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/
Milton Keynes Literary Festival @mklitfest.bsky.social A fabulous festival of books, writers, words and ideas! In-person, online and in the community year round, and also on X, Instagram, Facebook, Threads, YouTube and Spotify.
https://www.mklitfest.org/
Jessica Ralli @jessicaralli.bsky.social Manager of #EarlyLiteracy Programs & Special Initiatives @ Brooklyn Public Library | #KidLit Writer @ RISE X Penguin Workshop | LJ Mover and Shaker 2020 |
Sevenoaks Bookshop @sevenoaksbookshop.bsky.social Independent bookselling since 1948, black-owned bricks and mortar and online shop
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Norfolk Children's Book Centre @childrensbooks.bsky.social An independent children's bookshop in Norfolk 🌞
We provide services to schools & organisations across the UK, including:
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Bloomsbury Education @bloomsburyed.bsky.social We publish the education books everyone’s talking about 📚✨
New books, resources for every age & stage, expert authors and practical ideas for teachers, parents + educators.
SEND • EYFS • CPD • STEM • PRIMARY • SECONDARY • HISTORICAL FICTION • POETRY🌈
Faye Brann @writerfaye.bsky.social Author. Performer. Loves fine wine and applause.
Winner of the 2020 Comedy Women in Print Prize
2021 Tinker, Tailor, Schoolmum, Spy pub. a HarperCollins
2025 Kiss, Marry, Murder
*COMING SOON* Little Grey Cells June 2026
Insta: @writerfaye
Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social Author. The Wolf That Chews Rocks (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wolf-That-Chews-Rocks-ebook/dp/B0HF8SR6JR?ref_=ast_author_mpb), the Erin Callahan thrillers, and some politics nonsense. Wulferhampton interloper. Twat.
https://russelljonesauthor.com/
wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social The home of #WildflowerHour: 8-9pm every Sunday.
Wild Flowers you find across Britain & Ireland in the last week.
The biggest cheerleader for our wild plants!
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@mattgoodfellow.bsky.social @mattgoodfellow.bsky.social 
Andy Ruffell @andyruffell.bsky.social Writer (rep’d J Mustelier @ Bent Agency), adopted Northerner & Hachette Children’s Novel Award Winner 2021 with Lily Grim and the City of Undone
Angela Wooldridge @angw.bsky.social Writer of short stories and MG
#GoldenEggAcademy
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
BookishPerseus @bookish-perseus.bsky.social 22yrs
Book Count: 2060
TBR: 6965
2026 Reading Challenge: 202/200
Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org We use the law to resist hate and bring hope. Injustice is not inevitable.
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Mr B's @mrbsemporium.bsky.social 
Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social ⋆Queer Southern Novelist 🌿
⋆WHITE TRASH WITCHCRAFT (HH Fall, 2027)
⋆Rep: @keiralekseii.bsky.social at Azantian
⋆✒️WTMP & 🩵 SmoochPit Mentor
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Jon Biddle @jonnybid.bsky.social Year 5/6 teacher and English lead. Children's books and reading mostly, Blake's 7 sometimes. Currently reading: Toffee by Sarah Crossan.
KidLit TV @kidlittv.bsky.social 📚We're an Award-Winning website celebrating children's books & reading with Videos 🎥 Podcasts 🎧 KidLit Crafts & Activities 🎨 🏅An ALSC BEST DIGITAL TOOL 🐛CARLE HONOREE
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Fran Moldaschl @franmoldaschl.bsky.social https://buymeacoffee.com/franmoldaschl
Kelpies Prize for Writing Winner
Former #archaeology student
Children's book reviewer
Neurodivergent
inquisitivenewt.com
(Any pronouns)🏳️🌈
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
Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social Novelist. Poet. Reader.
🏺OVID’S HEROINES 🍼INCARNATION 🐇FIERCE BAD RABBITS 🔮 DELPHI 🏰THE UNTAMEABLES 🧚🏾THE MODERN FAIRIES, ✍️LIVES OF THE FEMALE POETS 🌊THE OTHERNAUTS, etc
Substack: Clare’s Poetry Circle
Alastair Chisholm @alastairc.com Author: 🚀OrionLost ☁️REEK 🐲OneHungryDragon 🐉DragonStorm
🐺#IAMWOLF out now! 🤖 #BLITZERS out now!
Rep: https://www.rupertcrew.co.uk. He/him. Likes biscuits.
More: https://alastairc.com/links
#KidLitUK
Jess French @drjessfrench.bsky.social Author, vet, mum
Nora Racz @noridraws.bsky.social Hi, I’m an illustrator living in the UK and I like drawing cute things! 😊
norasillustrations.co.uk
Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social Climate, extinction, and biodiversity scientist at the University of Maine researching Earth’s past for a better future. Writing and podcasting for the planet. Chaotic good professor. She/her.
Urmston Books & Board Games @urmstonbooks.bsky.social Book shop and board game cafe in Urmston, Manchester. Find us at 72 Flixton Road, Urmston M41 5AB. urmstonbooks.co.uk
A.S. King @as-king.bsky.social Author of books. Maker of art. Speaker of speeches. Part squid/part earthquake. Literacy fanatic. Lover of corn. Ardent supporter of teenagers. Founder of 🏳️🌈 Gracie's House: www.gracieshouse.com.
She/her https://linktr.ee/AS_King
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
ALCS @alcs.co.uk We're the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society. Nobody else in the world does exactly what we do. We've been championing writers and making sure they get paid for secondary uses of their work since 1977
www.alcs.co.uk
Authors Aloud UK @authorsalouduk.bsky.social We specialise in arranging author, illustrator, poet and storyteller visits to schools, libraries and other venues in the UK or abroad. We run many virtual events too. https://linktr.ee/AuthorsAloudUK
@ylglondon.bsky.social @ylglondon.bsky.social YLG London is a CILIP volunteer-led community. Notification of events & activities will be posted here. Our communications are not CILIP policy.
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@piccadilly-press.bsky.social @piccadilly-press.bsky.social 
Sarah Merrett 🫧A Place of a Thousand Wishes @sarahmerrett1.bsky.social Writer. A Place of a Thousand Wishes and The Others published by Everything With Words.
Instagram: sarahmerrett1
X:sjmerrett1
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@fraumorris.bsky.social @fraumorris.bsky.social School librarian, English teacher, native plant gardener, union member, food lover, farmers market enthusiast, cat mom
Lucie Ebrey @lucieebrey.bsky.social Comic schmuck. 🦕Cowgirls & Dinosaurs: Big Trouble in Little Spittle out now!🦕 She/her. Email: lucie.ebrey@gmail.com
https://linktr.ee/lucieebrey
TMWSLibrary @tmwslibrary.bsky.social Rural, secondary school library. Always on the look out for new books and authors and ways to engage students.
themarketweightonschool.co.uk
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
Proud queer 🏳️🌈 Trans ally 🏳️⚧️ Intersectional feminist ✊ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
Lily Bailey @lilybailey.bsky.social Dyspraxic writer with OCD & MS. Loves: dogs, books, tea, crafts, horror films, being cosy 🐾🍁
📚WHEN I SEE BLUE, WHEN I FEEL RED, Hachette Children’s
https://linktr.ee/lilybailey?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=24905c65-9be7-445a-9044-e0ad31548915
Jack Hillside | Illustrator @jackhillside.bsky.social Illustrator 🎨 | Based in Bordeaux, France
✍️ Available for work
📬 contact@jackhillside.com
https://jackhillside.com/
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🫶 Support my work : https://ko-fi.com/jackhillside
Catherine Cawthorne @catcawthorne.bsky.social Children's author and secondary school librarian.
🐺Big Bad Wolf Investigates Fairy Tales
🦣We Went To Find A Woolly Mammoth
🦖We Went To Find A T Rex
Diane Debrovner @dianedebrovner.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Former deputy editor @Parents Magazine. Co-author of ROXIE IN COLOR, Candlewick Press, 2026. 
Vicky (Mrs S) @missvlbishop.bsky.social Book blogging, teaching and dungeons & dragons. DMs open for review requests (middle grade, picture books, YA, graphic novels, sci-fi & fantasy)
https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/vickylovesreading
Kate Halena @katehalena.bsky.social Author ✨️ Editor ✨️Fiction
Debut Novel SOMEWHERE BETWEEN LIES is out now on Amazon!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GH75XHK9
www.katehalena.com
Mark Bradley @markbradley.bsky.social Children’s comic artist/writer.
Bumble & Snug graphic novels published by Hachette!
Represented by Lydia Silver of the Soho Agency.
Talks about comics a *lot*.
Chris Callaghan @chris-callaghan.com Children's Author
'When the War Comes In' - Out Now 🛠
Writes about chaos & chocolate 💥🍫
A Geordie living in London 🖤🤍
Ex RAF Engineer & Enviro Scientist 🌍
Loves wine gums
https://www.chris-callaghan.com/
Jo Baker 🏳️🌈 (she/her) @writerlyjo.bsky.social Writes things. @BathSpaUni #MAWYP & #GEA Alumni. Searchlight SL&LL / Voyage SL / Guppy YA LL / PFD Queer Prize SL. Book nerd. Also - psychotherapist and joyously queer person.
Fiona Kennedy @f-kennedy.bsky.social Publisher at Zephyr an imprint of Head Zeus Ltd
Alex Foulkes @foulkeswrites.bsky.social Vampire children's author, lover of tea and DnD! ⚔️ 🦇 RULES FOR VAMPIRES 🦇 and 🍄 MINISTRY OF MISCHIEF 🍄 out now with Simon & Schuster! https://linktr.ee/foulkeswrites
Rebecca Southgate Williams @rebeccaksw.bsky.social Author based in Cornwall.
Linguist. Language lover. Weaver of words into worlds within and without.
Lisa Lueddecke @lisalueddecke.bsky.social Author and screenwriter. Literary agent: Silvia Molteni at PFD.
Award Publications @awardbooks.bsky.social 📚 We publish award-winning children’s books and have been for over 50 years in the heart of Sherwood Forest!
✨ Our aim is to inspire a love of reading in all children; our books entertain and encourage learning!
Find out more at www.awardpublications.co.uk
@meganpickford.bsky.social @meganpickford.bsky.social 📚 Editor at @zephyrbooks.bsky.social
📍London
Alexandra Beaumont - Folklore Fantasy Author @abeaumontbooks.bsky.social 🦉Folkloric books, folk music, gothic meanders
📚Indie Press 2025 Distinguished Favourite
🦌 Folk horror obsessed
🐉British Fantasy Soc London Event Org
🌊Books @brigidsgatepress
Ben Smith @ben-smith-writer.bsky.social Author and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing @exeter.ac.uk
Doggerland (4th Estate)
Writing, reading, surfing (in any order…)
Jo Jakeman @jojakeman.bsky.social Coffee drinking, Cornwall dwelling, cat wrangling, novelist and screenwriter. All views stolen from someone cleverer than me. ONE BAD APPLE 🍎 out now 📕
J.S. Watts @j-s-watts.bsky.social Writer (poet, novelist, short story writer and sometime reviewer) amateur photographer and very amateur musician. Website: https://www.jswatts.co.uk/
Anna Chorlton @annachorlton.bsky.social Writing in the Cornish wilds.
Author of the Cornish Folk Tales of Place series.
KidsWord & AllKidsBooks – Explore, Read & Share! @allkidsbooks.com 🌟 Join our vibrant community of children's book lovers!
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Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social Writer from Cornwall: #TheGraniteKingdom, #TheTravelWritingTribe, #ThePathlessLand (forthcoming), Indonesian history; academic stuff on travel writing. Teaches Writing & Literature at ATU Sligo.
Shelley Trower @shelleytrower.bsky.social Writer & Professor Emerit (Roehampton), research facilitator & peer supporter for Survivors' Voices. Cornwall.
& see e.g. https://linktr.ee/shelleytrower
@clareowenwriter.bsky.social @clareowenwriter.bsky.social 
David Long @writerdavidlong.bsky.social Blue Peter Book of the Year winner. Writes for children and adults, 70+ books translated into more than 30 languages. Occasional ghost. Agent: Penny Holroyde at Holroyde-Cartey.
davidlong.info
Ollie Harris @ollieharris14.bsky.social Postgraduate Researcher in Film at University of East Anglia
@kables16.bsky.social @kables16.bsky.social 
Liz Kessler @lizkessler.bsky.social 
Abigail Kelly @abigailkelly.bsky.social 📚Assistant Editor at Puffin, Penguin Random House
📍London
Kate Mallinder @katemallinder.bsky.social Writer of teen fiction. Secondary school librarian.
Rep: Hannah Sheppard
Summer of No Regrets
Asking for a Friend
Coming soon: Summer Under the Stars
School events for KS3 - get in touch!
Based in Ashby, UK
Www.katemallinder.co.uk
World Book Day UK @worldbookdayuk.bsky.social 📚 World Book Day® - Thursday 5 March 2026 📚
World Book Day is a charity, sponsored by National Book Tokens. Follow here for news, bookish fun and more!
Tracy Curran @writercornish.bsky.social Children’s author/carer,rep’d Alice Williams Literary Agency, PUMPKINS FAIRYTALE 2021, UNICORNS IN UNIFORMS Feb 2025,