Leslie Nightingale @leslienightingale.bsky.social Writer of YA novels and educator in the DC area
Leslienightingale.com
JennAli @jennali.bsky.social Artist, reader, and lover of interesting words.
Maya Gittelman @mayagittelman.bsky.social full of love poems and rage
stories in the anthos Why on Earth, Night of the Living Queers, Lofty Mountains, Fiery Deeps
reviews & criticism at reactor mag
fil-am & jew-ish
they/she
@desiwrites.bsky.social @desiwrites.bsky.social 
matpar @matpar.bsky.social Art. Animation. Alliteration.
Amanda Hoving @amandahoving.bsky.social Writer of things. Teacher of humans. ENTHUSIASTIC reader working in a library!!! 📚❤️(Aspiring hermit.) Words in McSweeney's, Slackjaw, Highlights ... https://amandahoving.com/
Emily Rahlwes @emilyrahlwes.bsky.social 
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
@ollmy.bsky.social @ollmy.bsky.social 
Gama Valle | KidLit Author - is out on sub @gamavalle.com él/he | Author ✍🏼 Casting Director 🗂️ Theatre Director 🎭 | 🇵🇷🏳️🌈 | Rep’d by Leah Pierre of Ladderbird Literary Agency
KINDNESS GROWS IN THE DARK-Barefoot Books- out now!
gamavalle.com | https://tr.ee/xnyTkFHJQH
@kaitlindesroches.bsky.social @kaitlindesroches.bsky.social 
Toddling The Stacks @toddlingthestacks.com You should be reading #kidlit, and we'll help you see why.
A children's literature podcast by award-winning educator and Princeton-educated literature PhD @seangill.net
New episodes drop on Mondays!
http://www.ToddlingTheStacks.com
Kristin Houlihan, Writer @kristinwrites.bsky.social Poet, Wife, Mom, LongCovid/MECFS. Looking to connect and learning to advocate. EIC, Poetry @epistemiclit.Bsky.social, @nimblewitlit.bsky.social. Micropoetry chapbook Lift the Mask available widely. www.kristinhoulihan.com
Megan Peterson, NBCT @mspetersonmiddle7.bsky.social 7th grade ELA teacher 🍎 Reader 📚 National Board Certified Teacher 🎇
Libby Wilson @libbywilsonwriter.bsky.social Children’s nonfiction author. Loves kindness, books, libraries, flowers, birds, dogs, biking, discovering nature
www.libbywilsonwrites.com
Brackenlowe Halt Storyworld @brackenloweproject.bsky.social A Hull-rooted community arts and heritage project bringing Victorian railway history to life through stories, illustration, film and an immersive fictional world.
( Brackenlowe Halt is a fictional storyworld rooted in real history)
brackenlowehalt.co.uk
Jennifer Sweeney @storiesbysweeney.bsky.social 📚 Children’s Book Writer & Book Lover
🌴 SCBWI Southern Breeze Member
⭐️ Retired Educator
🥔 Passionate about Potatoes
StoriesBySweeney.com
#PB #SCBWI #kidlit
Daniella Kaufman @bydannikaufman.bsky.social #Kidlit Writer (PB/MG/Poetry) ∙ #SCBWI ∙ #12x12PB ∙
Author Craig Read @craigread.bsky.social Dwayne And The Dinosaur Dilemma now available, either from myself paperback £10 each, or Hardback £15 each, or Amazon at £15 & £25
Sonya Afnan @sonyaafnan.bsky.social Writer | illustrator | Iraqi-Chaldean † | SCBWI
Rep: Jordan Hamessley at JABberwocky Lit Agency
www.sonyaafnan.com/portfolio
Sandra Kaye @sandrakaye.bsky.social Marketing strategy * Writing Kid Rangers chapter book series * Neurodivergent * Chronic Illness Warrior * Medical Parent * #BoilerUp #GoJays #MakeItSo
Anjanette Barr @bookbarrista.bsky.social Literary Agent with Dunham Literary, Inc.
Temporarily closed to queries.
https://www.dunhamlit.com/how-to-submit
🌎Alaska 💕Books! Tea! Whisky!
Andrea Wickert @librarymusthaves.bsky.social 🌳 Parent | ♡ Book Lover |📍Upstate NY
🖼️ Author + Illustrator
✨ Finding you the best children’s books
💻 Portfolio: andreawickert.com
📖 IG: instagram.com/librarymusthaves
🍄 Shop: shop.hedgerowgeneral.com
Angela Dahle @angelapenadahle.bsky.social Signed Ink founder 🤟signedink.org , 🇺🇸HOH 🦻🧏♀️AUTHOR of MG fantasy/historical fantasy & PB, 2023 SCBWI Rising Kite (2nd place MG), 2020 Walter Grant recipient, 2020 Las Musas Hermana. Lover of wit, waves🌊, fruit tarts, & all shades blue 🦋 #MGForce
Janine Johns @janinegj.bsky.social Former teacher/counselor. Writer. 
@jennysmurray.bsky.social @jennysmurray.bsky.social 
Jackie Thomson @jackie-thomson.bsky.social I'm a picture book illustrator, gardener, and mini book maker. If I'm not in the studio, I'm reading in the garden. http://www.jackie-thomson.com
Jason Hussong @jasonhussong.bsky.social Dad Husband #Writer #VCFA student #Library guy doing the teen programs #SCBWI #SFF Love to #travel And occasionally I play #chess
Allison Hackworth @allisonhackworth.bsky.social Neurodiverse mom, wife, and nurse who absolutely loves creating colorful, spooky picture books with her husband! 📚📖✏️🎨🖌️👻💀🧟🧛🏼🦇🎃♥️🧡💛💚💙💜
nicole d. collier (harp) @essentialcoco.bsky.social ✨ developmental editor & book coach | novelist for young readers | professional daydreamer ✨
www.nicoledcollier.com
www.cocostudio.com
Sarah Steinbacher, Ed.D. (she/they) @sarahsteinbacher.bsky.social Disabled nonbinary 🏳️🌈 #kidlit #author | '26 #50PreciousWords 1st place🏆 | https://www.sarahsteinbacher.com/ | Published in Countdown, PaperBound, Little Thoughts Press, Tyger Tyger, Paper Lanterns, The Dirigible Balloon | Repped by @joycesweeney.bsky.social
Authors League Fund @authorsleaguefund.bsky.social Emergency fund for professional writers. Find our application form, FAQs, and more at www.authorsleaguefund.org.
Jane Kohuth @janekohuth.bsky.social Children's book author, Jewish educator, Mom, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome haver. Rep'd by Bookmark Literary. https://www.janekohuth.com/
KidLit Deconstruction Zone Podcast @kdzpodcast.bsky.social We'll mine children's books for tools you can use in your own stories.
https://linktr.ee/kdzpodcast
#Kidlit Deconstruction Zone Podcast
#kdzpodcast hosted by @me-mwai.bsky.social, @morganlau.bsky.social, and Rona Shirdan.
Art by Mel Mwai
Morgan Lau @morganlau.bsky.social Mother of two. Gardener for life. Environmental Scientist.
#SCBWI #kidlit Author-Illustrator
#50PreciousWords winner '24
#PBParty ‘25, 24, 23 HM
#FWFwinner'23+'22 #kidlit
https://www.instagram.com/greengirlblueplanet/
Artie Lynn Rosefinch @alynnrosefinch.bsky.social 📖 Author 💚 25 🏳️⚧️ Genderfluid 🏳️🌈 Biromantic/Asexual 🦜 Ace Attorney Fanboy 🌈 AuDHD + Bipolar 📷 pfp: makowka picrew
R.C. Chizhov @rcchizhov.bsky.social I write books for young people.
rcchizhov.com
Kid's Book Revisions PLUS @kbrplus.bsky.social KBR PLUS is @drydenbks.bsky.social, @eileenwrobinson.bsky.social, and @hunderdown.bsky.social. We are 3 experienced #kidlit and #yalit editors. Focus: revision, writing, illustrating, publishing, and related topics.
www.kidsbookrevisions.com
Alec Longstreth @aleclongstreth.bsky.social (he/him) Award-winning, Eisner-nominated cartoonist, illustrator, and animator. Living and working in Santa Fe, NM, USA! https://www.alec-longstreth.com/
Elice Brunnette @elicebrunnette.bsky.social Author & illustrator, art teacher, outdoor enthusiast and creative dabbler. 
marty lapointe-malchik @mlapointemalchik.bsky.social Collage artist, author, PBParty '23 HM, 50PreciousWords Prize Winner '21 SCBWI, 12x12, Writers’ Loft, Good Ship Illustration Crew, Walden walker, recipe ranker, library lover. She/her
Marcia Misawa | Author-Illustrator @marciamisawa.bsky.social Children’s Book Illustrator & Author 🎨
🌿 Born in Brazil, based in Florida. 🇯🇵🇧🇷🇺🇸
✨ Seeking representation
🔗 marciamisawa.com
Tamara Campeau @tamaracampeaudraws.bsky.social Freelance Illustrator
Www.tamaracampeau.com
Devika Oza @devikaoza.bsky.social Hello! I am an illustrator that loves to create stories with warmth and colours. Thanks for stopping by ♥️
Represented by Astound Us Inc
Kathy Anne Cowie @kathyannecowie.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Graphic Designer. https://www.kathyannecowie.com
Library and Indie bookseller supporter.
@jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social @jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social #HUMANS>$ Love my HUSBAND, NO BOTS or FRAUDS; I REPORT, nature loving gardeners, photographers, & cooks, TRAINS, especially vintage & Bri'ish steam. 4EVER LIBERAL WOKE DEM, UNION, BLM, LGBTQIA+, anti-bullying, & providing a safe space to everyone.
Jarch @itsokihaveabook.bsky.social Massachusetts librarian, parent, greyhound adopter. "It's what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it." https://jenny-arch.com
Leigh Woznick @wozleigh.bsky.social Middle school librarian. Freedom to read. Feminist. Lover of mystery, history, and puzzles. Amateur genealogist. Crafts. She/her. Views are my own. 
Sue Sutherland, Author - TWELVE DAYS AT GLACIER @suemt.bsky.social Debut picture book author - TWELVE DAYS AT GLACIER, granola girl, weaver, quilter, traveler, photographer, 12x12, Montana SCBWI
Coming Soon - HOW HANNAH GOT HER LUMP OF COAL (2026), TWELVE DAYS AT YELLOWSTONE (2027), & NOTHING BUT NET TROUBLE
Nev @alphukit.bsky.social Outdoors and all things nature type of guy.
I love camping, hiking, foraging and travelling anywhere, anytime.
Shaunessy Sinnett @shsinnett.bsky.social #KidLitWriter/SCBWI/12x12 • Published in Little Thoughts Press • ‘24-25 Winner Halloweensie, #KidLitChuckleChallenge & SunWriteFun • ‘25 HM #50PreciousWords & Valentiny • Performer: Riverdance
Mythic Texture @mythictexture.bsky.social owned by @akemiart (writer, artist) & publisher of Black art, books, and products.
www.mythictexture.com
TikTok/Instagram/youtube: @mythictexture
Sameer Kankali Ⓥ☮✌🏼🌱💚🍉🐸🐮🐷📚📖♟️✊🏼 @sameerkankali.bsky.social MUNDUS SINE CAESARIBUS 💙🦋
#Activist #HumanRights #AnimalRights #UBI #ClimateChange #Books #Tech #Poker #Chess
He/Him/His
❌👑
Evie Richner @evierichner.bsky.social Children’s book writer and illustrator. Artist. Teacher.
www.eviewoltilrichner.com
Sara Fujimura @authorsarafujimura.bsky.social YA Author | NPR Best Book Winner | Educator
Authorpreneurship Coach at Tanabata Wishes Enterprises
aka The Obento Lady
https://linktr.ee/saraffujimura 
Erica Lee 🧸 @ericalee.cc Sr. Concept Artist - Open for Work
Past: Squid Games, Inc., Spin Master
VisDev/Concept Art & Illustration | Kidlit Illustrator
Taiwanese/Cantonese Asian American
Mom to a little 🦖
💼 https://ericalee.cc
☀️Open for Freelance
✋Seeking #kidlit representation
Amy Leskowski @amyleskowski.bsky.social Rep'd by Keely Boeving. PB writer, #scbwi, #12x12, copyeditor, dog mom, mom of 3, actor, instructional designer, baseball fan, soccer mom, baseball mom, Red Sox Nation, rhymer, pickleball player, cake decorator
Brittany Drehobl @brittdrehobl.bsky.social Writer & Creative At Large. Librarian Emeritus.
Out 9/1 in OCWW's TILT: MOONSTRUCK
#WIP: Contemporary #YAFiction.
She/Her(s). #ArtWillHealUs
https://linktr.ee/brittdrehobl
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
Michelle H. Losardo @michellelosardo.bsky.social Children's Book Writer, Poet, & Artist
SCBWI New England member
Early Childhood Educator
Lover of dogs, nature, sentimentality, and beautiful words
https://www.instagram.com/michellelosardo/
https://michellelosardowri.wixsite.com/michelle-losardo
eileenwrobinson.bsky.social @eileenwrobinson.bsky.social Author. Editor. Publisher. Scholastic. Harcourt. Co-founder Reycraft Books. Founder of Move Books (now at Charlesbridge as Charlesbridge Moves). Partner in Kid’s Book Revisions PLUS. Author of 2 PB’s (2028). But even more importantly—lover of desserts!
Ana Kelly @anakellyinla.bsky.social 🇳🇮 to FL to CA to FL to...
#PB Writer, Reading Interventionist, Dodger Fan
#SCBWI | #PBParty '25 Finalist | #PBParty '23 Honorable Mention (HM) | #50PreciousWords '25 and '23 HM | #KidLitChuckleChallenge Champ '25
Benson Shum @bshum79.bsky.social Award-winning Author-Illustrator & Disney Animator on #Zootopia2 #Encanto, WE ARE LION DANCERS, ANZU THE GREAT KAIJU. Rep: Teresa Kietlinski, Bookmark Literary
🎨 www.bensonshum.com
📑 www.bensonshum.com/activities/
🌟 https://linktr.ee/BensonShum
Nina Crittenden @ninacrittenden.bsky.social kid book maker. tea drinker. minnesotan. ice out. ninacrittenden.com- C @cvpaul.bsky.social @cvpaul.bsky.social
Domingos @domingosmcc.bsky.social I know not what tomorrow will bring…(Pessoa)
💙💛 Україна українцям! 💙💛
🚫 Nazifascists&Maga🚫 Bitcoin 🚫 Get-rich schemes
I reject fanaticism and outdated orthodoxies!
Jessie May @jessiemayontheweb.bsky.social Writer, musician, school librarian. #booksky #12x12PB
The Wheel of the Year: An Introduction to Pagan Holidays is out now! https://amzn.to/4tbmyyL
https://sites.google.com/view/jessicakarjanis/home
https://linktr.ee/jessiemayontheweb
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
Kristen Picone @kpteach5.bsky.social Mom, 5th grade ELA/SS teacher, nErDCampLI organizer, book lover 
Shirley Ng-Benitez @shirleyngbenitez.bsky.social Bay Area Children's book Author/Illustrator, and absolutely anti-AI.
DOWN, THROUGH, UP - debut picture book releases March 2, 2027, pre-orders available now at: shirleyngbenitez.com
—Everyone’s a story.
Tracy Nishimura Bishop ✨Illustrator @tracybishopart.bsky.social Illustrator of picture books. Lover of iPads, fountain pens, and notebooks!
Portfolio: https://www.tracybishop.com
Represented by Jemiscoe Chambers-Black at 🐦⬛ Starling Literary + Media
Caroline Carlson @carolinecarlson.bsky.social I write books for kids (VERY NEARLY HONORABLE LEAGUE OF PIRATES, WICKED MARIGOLD, & more). Latest: THE TINKERERS. Rep: Allison Hellegers. https://carolinecarlsonbooks.com
Druscilla Santiago @adventurefunclub.bsky.social An Illustrator! In Honolulu! Probably drinking coffee.
Rep'd by @ksonnack.bsky.social
www.adventurefun.club
📗: Anything? Anything! (Summer 2027)
Judith Henderson @judithhenderson.bsky.social ✍️ author/illustrator, Composer🎹TV Producer. Wrote theme song for PBS show, Arthur.🏆
Mary @marywrites2.bsky.social Educator/Author
LOVE WILL TURN YOU AROUND
SCBWI, 12x12
@crawford3cathy.bsky.social @crawford3cathy.bsky.social 
Dianna Geers @diannageers.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Education. Retired teacher & school librarian. Writer.
Margaret Cioffe @margaretcioffe.bsky.social Books. Baking. Kitchen Witch. Strength training. Former elementary teacher. Working on a memoir about addiction and recovery and life in general.
Substack: https://substack.com/@margaretcioffe
Buy Me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/3o9DJM9U7N
Melissa Rafson Friedman @mrafson.bsky.social 📚 reader ✏️ writer 👩👧mom 👩🏫 teacher #12x12challenge #scbwi #kidlit
Ian Robinson 🇦🇺🐨🦘 @idrobinson.bsky.social Saving democracy, saving the planet.
jessicajenson.bsky.social @jessicajenson.bsky.social Writer of stories for the young and young-at-heart!
@ronp1018.bsky.social @ronp1018.bsky.social 
Linda J Thomas @lindajeantm.bsky.social Creativespace Explorer—
Writer/Poet/Editor/Mixed Media Maker
#12x12PB #SCBWI #ChildrensBookInsider #50PreciousWords Honorable Mention 2025 & 2026 #ValentinyWritingContest Honorable Mention 2026 #The100DayProject 2026
Dawn Simon @dawnsimon.bsky.social MG and PB writer. VCFA WCYA. Dog and chicken lover.
I'm represented by @jenniekendrick.bsky.social at Red Fox Literary.
https://www.dawnsimon.com/
Rebecca J. Allen @rebeccajallen.bsky.social Rebecca writes middle grade stories that blend mystery & adventure and young adult stories with kick-butt heroines. MY CAT CAN'T TELL TIME (BUT I CAN) & 3 OTHER MATH ALL AROUND series books are out now! Loves yoga, enjoying nature, & growing yummy food.
r. p. singletary @rpsingletary.bsky.social W(e)i(r)dely published in so-called 'underground publications,' or so they said. www.rpsingletary.com
Abby @abbywilber.bsky.social Here for the kidlit community when I remember to check this app
@amandapenecale.bsky.social @amandapenecale.bsky.social ✏️ illustrator -art teacher -naturalist
✨ nature, dogs, cookies, and slow days
J.A. Misek @insomniac2024.bsky.social Shun not the scrutiny of fact. Human female.
Delia Ruiz @aventuras.en.esl @aventurasenesl.bsky.social 📝 First-gen Latina author
📚 Sharing new Latine picture books
🤝 Trusted by parents, teachers, & librarians
🔗 Resources & Goodies 👇🏽
https://lnk.bio/AventurasEnESL
Terry Birdgenaw @terrybirdgenaw.bsky.social Award-winning author of The Antunite Chronicles (Antifascist Allegorical Fiction), Satirist, Professor, Democracy Defender, Resists Autocracy, Writing for freedom, See my fun Orwellian & Swiftian stories.
terrybirdgenaw.com
https://linktr.ee/terrybirdgenaw
Mariana Dominé @mariana-domine.bsky.social Writer | Poet | 2026 WNDB Mentee
FOR THE WIN: Poems Celebrating Phenomenal Athletes
Emory 🩶 @emory-f8.bsky.social I write dark Victorian fiction and specialize in the long 19th century.
She/Her 🏳️🌈🇪🇸✡️ (I'm always kind)
#writer #historian #Lesbian #sapphic #wlw #Hispanic #feminist #goth #vampires #jpop #bibliophile
NO DMs | Terfs & Narcissists DNI
Tracey Kyle @authortraceykyle.bsky.social Children's PB author. Retired Spanish teacher. Cat Mom.
Rep’d by Jennifer Unter at The Unter Agency. https://www.traceykyle.com
Laine Bell @lainebell.bsky.social Writer, baker, chicken tender. Also love animals, nature, grilling, roller skating. Viable Paradise 2018 grad (VP22).
She/her.
Blog at lainebell.wordpress.com
Theodore Chao 趙伯立 @professorteds.bsky.social Math Ed Professor Cal State Fullerton. Formerly Ohio State University. NSF CAREER, Fulbright Scholar: Critical Math Storytelling. Director CSUF MSTI, Co-Host TODOS Podcast, Co-Author Auntie Kristina's Guide to Asian American Activism (4/26). Always hungry.