Hopeful News @hopefulnewshq.bsky.social The newsletter full of good news. Start your day with a smile!
Eve's Rose @evelyn-gaze.bsky.social Mostly here to look at animal pictures and art
And there are the Jacksonville Jaguars
Keke Davis, MLS✨ @literarykey.bsky.social ✍🏾Children’s author querying for representation
💫PB Rising Star Honorable Mention
🎓Writing Studies grad student
💭Fandoms galore
⚠️Only account: @literarykey
🔗 kekedavis.com
Iris Wong @rhymeswithpapyrus.bsky.social PB and MG writer // reader of everything!
#intersectionalkidlit
I made this to try out #DVpit ✌️
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.
William Edwards 2D Artist. @williamedw258.bsky.social 🎨 Anime & Manga Illustrator
Fanart • Character Art • MTG
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers @ebyrbooks.bsky.social Creating conversation & opening children's minds to a larger world since 1995 🌎📖💡
📘 Picture books
📕 Fiction, nonfiction, & YA
📗 Award winners
linktr.ee/eerdmansyoungreaders
Fayora | Children's Book Artist @fayorart.bsky.social Children's Book Illustrator
Helping authors create memorable stories through expressive illustrations. Available worldwide.
Upwork: https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/ilhamtrisusilo?mp_source=share
Behance: https://www.behance.net/ilhamtrisusiloo
Sasha @typeofcrayon.bsky.social 📚 Book lover | Deep thinker | Forever curious
Finding wisdom in stories and life
Jeanne Walker Harvey @jeannewharvey.bsky.social #kidlit author! I value the power of words, art, dancing & chocolate.
I love writing picture book bios about inspiring creative people!
Recent books: THE GLASS PYRAMID, ELSE B. IN THE SEA, ABLAZE WITH COLOR & DRESSING UP THE STARS. jeanneharvey.com
Daniele Arndt @danielearndt1.bsky.social PB author rep'd by Jen Newens, Debut PIG AND SKUNK with Disney Hyperion ‘27 (sequel’28). Friend of Jesus.
Brian Kirby @boringstorybook.com Author/illustrator of humorous stories for kids.
https://briankirbystudio.com
SCBWI Ohio: North | #pbparty Finalist ‘24 & ‘25 | #kidlit booster
Represented by @KaitlynLeann17.bsky.social at
@Bradfordagents.bsky.social
Anne Weaver @annemweaver.bsky.social SCBWI, 12x12, Inked Voices | boy mom, PB writer, belly-laugh enthusiast
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/
Quinette Cook @quinettecook.bsky.social Storyteller | Weimaraner Mom | Gardener | MFA in Writing for Children & YA Hamline University | SCBWI RAE | HWA | seeking representation www.quinettecook.com
Alicia Fairbourn @aliciafairbourn.bsky.social Children's book illustrator, book designer, sketchbook artist
Stewart Guy @stewartguy.bsky.social Naturalist. Wildlife Photographer.
Aka StewRat. Founder of Wildlife.net
Share, Inspire, Protect.
Wildlife @worldwildlife.bsky.social Wildlife Community for those who care about species & habitat conservation. Photography, Art, Videos of Birds,Mammals,Reptiles,Plants,insects
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61578489868735
https://www.tiktok.com/@wildlife.net?_t=ZN-8yV9vhsHk0c&_r=1
E.A. Pippenwell (Beth Kinzer) @pippenwell.bsky.social Author–illustrator of bright, story-driven children’s books. Creator of Dragonwing Valley. Working in Procreate with traditional textures. Usually painting dragons over tea and coffee—preferably both. SCBWI
Kaitlyn Agcaoili @kaitlynpaints.bsky.social Illustration & Design
kaitlynagcaoili.com
Amber @theprimrosecorner.bsky.social ✏️Illustrator, 🎨 Artist, 🖋Stationery Addict
⭐️ Planner Girl 🇺🇸 Army Wife 📚 Bookish 🤓
Portfolio: http://theprimrosecorner.com
Matt loux @mattloux.bsky.social Cartoonist and illustrator. Creator of My Journey To Japan Escape To Yokai Mountain, Prunella and the Cursed Skull Ring, The Time Museum series and the Salt Water Taffy series.
Mattloux.com
NO AI EVER
#kidslitart #comics #kidscomics #middlegrade
A.W. Wise @aw-wise.bsky.social 
Amanda Dressel @amandadressel.bsky.social 🖍️ illustrator & writer of picture books
📝 illustrated newsletter about art & life as an orphaned young adult ↓
www.amandadressel.com
Lens Creator @ztk999.bsky.social ✨ Professional Snapchat Lens Designer
Welcome! 👋
Follow me on Snapchat and discover my latest creative lenses.
https://www.snapchat.com/add/ztk999
The Storytellers Foundation | The Storyteller's Shelf Podcast @tstorypodcast.bsky.social https://thestorytellersshelfpodcast.com | Kidlit & publishing conversations. Top 100 & Spotify Award-Winning Podcast. Home of the Big Bang Notable Book List & Storytellers Summit Series. Writing a book? Our writing tools: https://getstoryrise.com
byraquelromero @byraquelromero.bsky.social Picture Book Writer 📚
Rhymer 🎶
#PBRisingStars '26 Mentee 🌟
Mikki - KidLit Author @mikkidefever.bsky.social Picture Book Author
SNUG AS A MOSQUITO IN A BURRITO (Beaming Books '28)
HOT CHOCOLATE IN YOUR POCKET (Groundwood Books '28)
Rep'd by Katie Erickson at Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency. #kidlit
gabriel nari @gabrielnari.bsky.social an author-illustrator of children's books looking for representation and also, maybe, a hobbit.
portfolio: https://www.behance.net/gabrielnari
yumikokitazono.bsky.social @yumikokitazono.bsky.social Japanese Children’s book author/illustrator in Fl, creating lively and endearing characters.
🎨SCBWI and The Illustration Department
📚2024,2025,2026 PBParty finalist.
Currently seeking representation.
Lonely Arts Club Band @lonelyartsclubband.bsky.social Hi, I'm Jenny, a Houston, TX based artist and illustrator who loves finding the fantastic in the diversity of nature, humans and our imagination.
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
Francisca Staines @franciscawrites.bsky.social Author of MG & Picture Books • https://franciscastaines.com/
🇲🇽 All around book nerd with a weakness for mystery, fantasy, sci-fi, dogs, and tacos (not always in that order)
Kirk Reedstrom @kirkreedstrom.bsky.social USA Today Bestselling author/illustrator of funny kids books with heartfelt characters and a little bit of mayhem. Creator of the Duck & Moose graphic novel series (Disney-Hyperion).
He/Him
kirkreedstrom.com
Brackenlowe Halt Storyworld @brackenloweproject.bsky.social A quiet storyworld legacy project for children and grown-ups. Gentle tales, old railway memories and his journals.
( Brackenlowe Halt is a fictional storyworld rooted in the railway and social history of Hull and East Yorkshire)
brackenlowehalt.co.uk
Ashley Gayle @ashleygwritespb.bsky.social •Writing picture books for the kid in all of us
•✨PB Rising Stars Mentee 2024 ✨
Kinsey @poor-artist.bsky.social Illustrator, novice handler (dog show), clown enthusiast
Anna Cechony @wovenexperience.bsky.social Disability doula, coach, aspiring children’s book author, sewist, knitter, coco bb 😷
kocona @kocona.bsky.social 🐚Picture books| Illustration
🚂Hop on!
Anya-Kaye @afrancis211.bsky.social Picture book creator. Woman of God. Former School Counselor. Disabled Vet. Wheelchair operator 🦽👩🏾🦽➡️♿️ Living by faith 🐝🐝🐝 DST 🔺🐘
Maliha Sheikh @malihasheikh.bsky.social Mom to Humans, Dogs, and Cats, Psychologist and KidLit Author
#12X12, #SCBWI NJ
Board Member of Women Who Write, Inc.
Vivian Kirkfield's *50 Words* Honorable Mention 2026
@whatchudrawing.bsky.social @whatchudrawing.bsky.social 
Jackie @jackieyacky.bsky.social 🌟 Jackie (they/he/she) 🌈💕
✏️ Storyboard artist, 2D animator, Illustrator
🔗 https://linktr.ee/jackie_yacky
🧶 Crafter and plant lover 🌱
😷 Chronically Ill
🖖 Trekkie
🪲Shop: @discobeetle.bsky.social
🐭 Personal project: @spriggeandsprout.bsky.social
Amy R. Murrell @amyrmurrellauthor.bsky.social Clinical Psychologist; Author, Member of the Authors' Guild, SCBWI, Mighty KidLit, 12x12, Storyteller Academy, Children’s Book Academy , and more :)
Susan @sburdorf.bsky.social Member of 12x12 PB Writing Challenge; The Writer’s Sanctuary; Ebony Lynn Mudd’s PB Retreat; published author; collector of socks; herder of cats. Welcome to my world.
Sarah Wheeler @sarahsart.bsky.social Artist • Illustrator
Member of SCBWI
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
Louise Bradford @storybylouise.bsky.social 📚Author. Member of Batchewana First Nation. SAGE AND THE SNOWSHOE EXPRESS, coming Sept 1, 2026! Illustrated by Maya McKibbin. Kids Can Press, publisher.
louisebradford.com
New Gizmo @newgizmoblog.bsky.social The latest in Consumer Technology. Tech/Media News & reviews #CES #IFA #MWC #CollisionConf #Drones #IoT #ConnectedDevices #AI #followback #Wearables #SmartHomes #Columnist #Journalists
⬇️ my other socials ⬇️
https://www.newgizmoblog.com
Bree | PAILBN Art @pailbn.bsky.social Bree | They/He/She | Illustrator | 🖤🩶🤍💜 | Yinzer | 2nd Most Annoying Poster in South Minneapolis | Anti-AI Luddite | @atle25zine Lead
🖼️ Shop: https://ko-fi.com/pailbn
🔁 Zine/Sticker Trades: OPEN
💌 Freelance/Comms: pailbnart@gmail.com
LaTasha Vines @latashavines.bsky.social Victim to Victor: HER2+ My Breast Cancer Story https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F2Z5MFL7
Sheri Bentley @sheribbooks.bsky.social Writer. Literacy Coach. Lover of people and words. #SCBWI #KidsChoice-Winner #KidLitVibes-Winner #50PreciousWords-HM #KidlitChuckleChallenge-HM Pub'd in @DirigibleBalloon
Sandra Kaye @sandrakaye.bsky.social Marketing strategy * Writing Kid Rangers chapter book series * Neurodivergent * Chronic Illness Warrior * Medical Parent * #BoilerUp #GoJays #MakeItSo- R Rebecca Loescher (Becky) @rebeccaloescher.bsky.social Award-winning poet, nature/animal lover, humor, informational fiction, NF.
DearEditorDotCom @deareditordotcom.bsky.social Deborah Halverson—“The Editor”—posts writing tips, inspirations, news, & alerts when she answers new questions from writers on DearEditor.com
Faith Gluskin @authorfaithgluskin.bsky.social #PICTURE BOOK Writer/#Teacher/#amquerying/Author of Gorillas’ Night Out (Indigo River Publishing/2019) and Matzah Means So Many Things (Yorkshire Publishing/2022). Member of #SCBWI
Illustration Jobs @illustration-jobs.com https://illustration-jobs.com is a free job board for illustrators.
Operated by two lovely humans 🇱🇧 🇵🇭 not bots or AI.
Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social Storyboard Artist (MLP:FIM, Ada Twist, Camp Snoopy) & Children’s Book Illustrator. SPACE CASE: The Graphic Novel by Stuart Gibbs out now!
[he/him] Absolutely NO AI.
wardjenkins.com
I share things, too: #wardsmorguefile
Juliana Vieira @julianavii.bsky.social Illustrator and Designer in Vancouver 🍁
julianaillustration.com
Anisi Baigude | illustrator @anisibaigude.bsky.social 🖍️ Mongolian American KidLit Illustrator
📖 BORN NAUGHTY, Anne Schwartz Books
📖 ODI’S LIBRARY DAY, SDPL
📮 Rep'd by Analía Cabello at ABLA
📍San Diego, CA
linktr.ee/anisibaigude
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
Two Bridges Publishing @2bp.bsky.social After a 25+ year career as a professional illustrator, working with editors, art directors, and private clients, I felt it was time to follow my passion for creating children’s books.
Undefeated Final Boss of Atheism: "madamprezident" @kingbiden.bsky.social I have a pro-drug, and anti-religion viewpoint. Yes, you read that right. Pro-Drug and Anti-Religion, and I function better than you! How much more unfair could it be, if I was the one to abstain and you'd been forced into hard drug use by criminalization?
Caroline @carolinewu.bsky.social ✨ MG and PB writer
🏔️ Always in the mountains
🐦 Avid hiker, amateur nature photographer, wannabe birder
Olga Herrera @olgaherrera.bsky.social Latinx kidlit author illustrator rep’d by Abigail Samoun Red Fox Literary
www.olgaherrera.me Host - illoChat podcast
Rock & Spike GN series 2027
A Light For Lucinda 2026
Alice Alone 2025
The Unwelcome Surprise 2023
Caterina Salvatori @caterinawrites.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Picturebook writer. Dog mom.
Canette Books @canettebooks.bsky.social Children's books for parents who get it 📚
"You're Only Two Once" — celebrating toddler magic
👇 Get the book
amazon.com/dp/1736839500
Anne Marie Corey @amcorey.bsky.social Children’s Book Author/Illustrator. Hollins MFA Grad Student. Beautifying the world one child at a time. #SCBWI
annecorey.myportfio.com
Jen Hillyard @mininglibrarian.bsky.social Library & Archives Manager at The Common Room in Newcastle and Business Development Manager for NAG. Ex Carnegie-Greenaway judge. Mobility issues thanks to MCTD - I’m the one with the purple crutches...
Disabled 🏳️🌈 parent.
John Lucy Ash - Fantasy Author @johnlucyash.bsky.social Debut novel The Nexus Prince out now!
Where fantasy, humor, and self-discovery collide, 1 word at a time. All people welcome & cherished here.
https://johnlucyash.com/
#fantasy #scifi #author
Kris Rashid @krisrashid.bsky.social She/her | Picture Book Author represented by Janine Le at JLLA | @SCBWIEPA.bsky.social Blogmaster | 2025 #PBParty finalist | Here for #PictureBooks and #KidLit
📍Philly
www.krisrashid.com
Marta Costello @martacostello.bsky.social Author, YOU’RE ONLY TWO ONCE (Kirkus calls it a "comedic hit" :D ) | Writing & making little paintings and drawings for my kids’ lunchboxes | #SCBWI #12X12pb
Rebecca G. Aguilar @rebeccagaguilar.com Writer | Reader | M.Ed. | Texas Master Naturalist 🌱 | https://rebeccagaguilar.com/
Laura Croyle @lcroylewrites.bsky.social Children’s author seeking representation. Instructional designer, mom, & former educator. Cat-lover 🐈. #scbwi #12x12pb
koyo @letsgokoyo.bsky.social 🎈 Children's author/illustrator. Might be a witch. Kill her with croissants 🥐
✒️ Seeking representation 📑
Katiuska Pino @katiuskapino.com ✨ open for picture books and early readers projects.
✨ currently seeking representation.
🌈 www.katiuskapino.com/
Nancy So Miller @nmillerillo.bsky.social #Korean American #Kidlit #Illustrator, #Edusky #Author, and #ArtEd (K-8). Author/Illustrator SUN, MOON, AND STAR Holiday House Spring 2026 💫
www.nmillerillustration.com
Ellen Weinstein @ellenweinstein.bsky.social Illustrator, Author, New Yorker
Five Stories, Holiday House
Yayoi Kusama:From Here to Infinity, MoMA
IG: www.instagram.com/ellenweinsteinilloz
WEB: ellenweinstein.com
https://linktr.ee/ellenweinstein
Andie Borbely @andieborbely.bsky.social Illustrator, doodler, funky earring collector
A. Mulvoy @saymulz.bsky.social ✍🏻 Author/Illustrator
👻 Kidlit Horror/Sci-Fi
⚪️ Seeking representation
✨Current WIP: N 🎄
SCBWI Alaska @scbwi-alaska.bsky.social Alaskan Chapter of SCBWI (Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators) • Find us on FB for additional event updates at SCBWI Alaska Chapter
https://www.scbwi.org/regions/alaska
sally chen | illustrator | 🇨🇳🇺🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @salpalc.bsky.social 🐚 they / she / he
💗 illustrator + poet
⛅️ NYC🪞台山
🍀 shop + commissions open!
📚 A Song For Nolan (2024)
🔍 looking for a #kidlit literary agent 💕
💌 salpalc@gmail.com
🔗 https://salpalc.carrd.co
Ignacio Gallup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social College teacher, Atlantic World historian, Poirot + Morse aficionado
he/him/his
@husky77.bsky.social @husky77.bsky.social 
Kevalkumar @kevalkumar.bsky.social Motivational Quotes Writer
Nadiad, Gujarat, India 🇮🇳
Contact:+918866868474
Srinidhi Srinivasan | Kidlit Illustrator @srinidhidraws.bsky.social Rep’ed by Aliza Hoover at CAT agency!
Children’s book Illustrator, Sketchbook Scribbler ✏️& Maker of many things 🪡|
🕸️ www.srinidhidraws.com
📧 srinidhis01@gmail.com
Hannah Roy LaGrone @hannahlagrone.bsky.social Mom of 2 toddler boys, poet and picture book writer, former ESL/bilingual teacher #12x12PB #PBparty finalist #50preciouswords ‘26 winner