@bobbycarlson73.bsky.social @bobbycarlson73.bsky.social A gentle heart understands that every creature deserves kindness, patience, and love. 🐾❤️
Leslie Nightingale @leslienightingale.bsky.social Writer of YA novels and educator in the DC area
Leslienightingale.com
ww3map @ww3map.bsky.social AI project about human war which started by AI
https://ww3map.live
Gale Galligan @galegalligan.bsky.social 🐰 Cartoonist, bunfriend, learnin the drums
📚 BABY-SITTERS CLUB 5-8
🪀FREESTYLE & FRESH START✈️
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🏳️🌈 they/them
new book: BSC Super Special! (Sept 2026)
David Grayson @da-vidg.bsky.social Good energy, a genuine heart, and a curious mind. I enjoy meaningful conversations, laughter, and discovering what makes people unique. Life’s better when you have someone interesting to share it with. ✨
M31🍁 @m31author.bsky.social 🇨🇦Canadian author by day, potato by night • fantasy nerd • book enthusiast • magical • Harvard alumna • part owner of Canada • my life is an absurd musical • Lake Ontario forever
adrian doran @adriandoran.bsky.social Toronto-based art director and graphic designer. check out my work at https://adriandoran.myportfolio.com
✨StarChick68💫 ➡️🐸 @starchick68.bsky.social PNW~Finally got a Bluesky account (been reading my fav profiles for a while), but Schumer ticked me off. I had to share info about CR (March 2025)
https://www.epi.org/publication/cutting-medicaid-for-low-taxes-on-the-rich-is-terrible-for-american-families/
Freya @freyaliusy.bsky.social #DogMom #Brainstorming #1A #2A
LGBTQ+ Toronto & LA Film Festival @lgbtlatoronto.bsky.social Monthly festival showcasing the best of LGBTQ+ films and screenplays from around the world, using the audience feedback format.
https://lgbttorontofilmfestival.com/
https://filmfreeway.com/LGBTTorontoFilmFestival
Daily Novel Writing Festivals @novelfestivals.bsky.social All of these contests give you 3 options to submit: Full Novel; 1st Chapter; Performance video readings.
https://festivalreviews.org/daily-novel-festival-contests/
mz @zwirnm.bsky.social Just trying to get a hang of this thing. Same handle on the other site.
Julene Tripp Weaver @trippweavpoet.bsky.social Poet—latest book: "Slow Now with Clear Skies." Writer. Herbalist—Green Witch. Therapist. Systemic or Family Constellation. Health Artist. #WOMPO https://www.julenetrippweaver.com
Gabrielle Harbowy, Literary Agent 🌈 @gabrielle-h.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Typo ninja. Ttrpg writer. Award-nominated author/editor. Active member, SFWA & AALA. Joyfully queer & polyam. Disabled. Literary Agent at Corvisiero Literary Agency. She/her. Opinions my own.
Anne Lipton, MD, PhD @annelipton.bsky.social Neurologist. Writer. Editor.
THE COMMON SENSE GUIDE TO DEMENTIA, PUTTING THE SCIENCE IN FICTION, THIS SIDE OF DOCTORING
Epistemic Literary Magazine.
#KidLitChuckleChallenge champion, #SpringFlingKidlit winner, #FallWritingFrenzy winner
Jeff Turner 🦋🌈🦋🌈@loveneverhate @loveneverhate.bsky.social ✔️ NOW & FOREVER: WE WANT JUSTICE, LIBERTY & FREEDOM FOR ALL
✔️ Future generations will enjoy these GOD given rights because of our courage and integrity
✔️ LOVE is more powerful than fear & hate
✔️ l believe in:
LOVE NEVER HATE
✔️ JOIN OUR FIGHT FOR FREEDOM!
Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 🇨🇦 🍁 🇸🇪 🇵🇷 @vero1986.bsky.social A liberal-University of California Berkeley-degree in history minor in government. If you aren't concerned about climate change, I'm not interested in anything you have to say.
NO DMS. I Block 🚫 no posts and 🚫 no bio.
Glow Vault @glowvault.social.pcpulse.us Gentle skincare & beauty tips with real deals you'll love. 🌿 Honest finds for your routine.
Telegram: t.me/GlowVaultBeauty · YouTube: youtube.com/@glowvaultbeauty
Jocelyn Rish @jocelynrish.com Writer & filmmaker who puts birthday hats on my dogs.
📚 BATTLE OF THE BUTTS (Running Press Kids)
📽️ GRAVE INTENTIONS (Terror Films)
📚 BATTLE OF THE BRAINS (Running Press Kids)
Dr. Lara Ameen @trucherrygirl.bsky.social PhD, MFA | Sensitivity/Authenticity Reader | Writing Instructor and Freelance Editor | TV Drama Writer + Romance & Fantasy Author | BEING ACE (out now—Page Street YA) | Wear A Mask 😷 | She/They
📚🐺🍒
https://laraameenauthor.com/
Jennifer 📚🎧❣️ @jdawson001.bsky.social ♿️🏳️🌈American SFF author, poet, editor, & book reviewer living in England. She/her. The Poetry Society & The British Fantasy Society. Old OWW member.
Online at: WorldsOfMayhem.com
https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/dawson001
🏳️⚧️ rights = human rights.
Daily Screenplay Festival contests @dailyscreenplays.bsky.social Daily Screenplay Contest Deadlines
All of these top screenplay contests offer full feedback on each submitted works.
https://festivalreviews.org/daily-screenplay-contest-deadlines/
Vibha Surya | Kidlit Illustrator @vibhasurya.bsky.social Illustrator + Designer
Seeking art representation
🧚🏻♂️Clients:PRH•Scholastic•Harpercollins•Hachette
Kris Waldherr @kriswaldherr.bsky.social Author, illustrator, designer, tarotist. British-American Brooklynite. Beauty lover. Author of TAROT FOR STORYTELLERS and many other books. Chief power-that-be behind Muse Publications. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/kriswaldherr
@avidreader8.bsky.social @avidreader8.bsky.social 
Female Feedback Film Festival @femalefilmfestival.bsky.social The FEEDBACK Female Film Festival (FFFF) was created for women filmmakers and screenwriters. The goal is to showcase the best of female talent from around the world.
https://femalefilmfestival.com/
https://filmfreeway.com/FEEDBACKFemaleFilmFestivalFFFF
@currently.shannon.pink @currently.shannon.pink Love has no hierarchy.
she/her💕 mom 💕 early millennial💕 OC, California 🌴 #PCUSA
https://currently.shannon.pink
Anne @anitaschultz.bsky.social Maturity doesn't mean stopping dreaming; age is just a number. I still look forward to new scenery, new stories, and a sincere and warm connection.
Terry Farish, Writer @terryfarish.bsky.social Novels, picture books, poems, essays. Themes of cross-cultural friendship, migration, war and resilience of families, the young as witnesses of the world, always dogs.
terryfarish.com
Sameer Kankali Ⓥ☮✌🏼🌱💚🍉🐸🐮🐷📚📖♟️✊🏼 @sameerkankali.bsky.social MUNDUS SINE CAESARIBUS 💙🦋
#Activist #HumanRights #AnimalRights #UBI #ClimateChange #Books #Tech #Poker #Chess
He/Him/His
❌👑- M @melindataub.bsky.social @melindataub.bsky.social
Jory Lane @jory-lane.bsky.social "The Herbalist's Sanctuary" on Amazon.
https://a.co/d/08BxEyhm
My website: Join my newsletter!?
jorysbooks.com
Sunny Sommerset @sunnysommerset.bsky.social Author & Illustrator: Picture Books, Middle Grade.
Winner Golden Gate Writer's Award: Picture Book - SCBWI SF South 2024. Honorable Mention SCBWI SF South Golden Gate Portfolio Showcase 2024.
@ollmy.bsky.social @ollmy.bsky.social - M @michelalexander.bsky.social @michelalexander.bsky.social
princess fingerblast 🪬🇵🇸🏳️⚧️ @hannahjohnspoon.bsky.social 'My castellany of Poissy has not brought me in a sou this year.'
Victor Marie Hugo. "Notre Dame de Paris", 1917. Book 5, Chapter 1: 'The Abbot of St.-Martin’s'.
Shari Williams @shariwilliams157.bsky.social On the journey, reading, writing, painting, teaching adaptive yoga, hiking, kayaking, smelling flowers, feeding birds, parenting my boys, and reparenting myself.
Jennifer Worrell @jworrellwrites.bsky.social Author. Cat fan. Flaneur. Seeking perfect egg roll.
Found in: As It Ought to Be, To L.A. With Love, Hooghly Review, West England Bylines, NECKSNAP, Broken Antler Magazine, Channel Magazine, subTerrain, /tƐmz/ Review; more.
linktr.ee/JenniferWorrell
Basic Income Action ↗️ @basicincomeaction.org A global network of advocates organizing, mobilizing, and taking action to win universal basic income.
Join basicincomeaction.org
DMs Open ❤️ Re-Shares
Alice Goldfarb @alicegoldfarb.com Thinking about messy data.
[Unbreaking](https://unbreaking.org/) & [CU Boulder's Info Visions Lab](https://infovisions.github.io/)
(extricated from afgoldfarb on 🐦, was once goldfarb.bsky.social 🦋)
@smackintexas.blacksky.app @smackintexas.blacksky.app 
Caroline Kind @carolinekind.bsky.social MG author, educator, researcher, reader, learner | She/Her | Halifax, NS |
@catwflynn.bsky.social @catwflynn.bsky.social 
Laura Pérez Delgado @acasadassilvas.bsky.social Illustrator
Web: https://laurapzdelgado.myportfolio.com/
Instagram: a_casa_das_silvas
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
https://filmfreeway.com/WILDsoundFilmandWritingFestival
Anne Armstrong @childbookart.bsky.social wonder hunter | art agent #kidlitart | tree + neighborhood advocate
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madison @beastlibrarian.bsky.social 📍 seattle-ish
📚 art librarian (academic libraries)
👩🏻🏫 part-time faculty teaching arts librarianship
this is an unprofessional account!
I’m here for people with librarian in their bio.
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/
Kara Yorio @karayorio.bsky.social Senior news editor, School Library Journal (slj.com). Opinions are my own.
Phil Garnock-Jones @theobrominated.eurosky.social Botanist, retired academic. Author of "He Puāwai, a natural history of New Zealand flowers" (Auckland University Press, 2025) illustrated with >500 stereo pair photographs. 🎸🌺🌱
Whakatū, Aotearoa. orcid.org/0000-0002-2539-4152
Jessie Romigh @jessieromigh.bsky.social Children's book writer & illustrator seeking representation. Finding whimsy & humor with a dash of puns. Illustrations are hand-drawn, inked, & painted with watercolor. SCBWI-Austin Chapter. She/Her
www.jessieromigh.com
#kidlit #picturebook #kidlitart
Erik Talkin @eriktalkin.bsky.social Author. YA novel Private School Punk (full-cast audiobook, 2026 IPPY Outstanding Book of the Year). Lulu & the Hunger Monster (ILA Social Justice Award). MFA from VCFA. Punk, audiobooks, illustrated fiction, book-connected soundtracks.
Author M. I. Verras (She/Her) @miverrasauthor1.bsky.social Gothic author, corp.associate, singer, composer, keyboardist, designer, university graduate, sports fan, existential seeker. Author of two metaphysical, symbolic fantasy-mystery novellas. Novella plots and covers are in English and NOT AI.
Paula Holmes @qsprite.bsky.social Reader & occasional blogger of #WorldKidLit, huge fan of Finnish translations, beginner weaver, library advocate, magpie
Cathy Potter @cppotter.bsky.social Middle School Librarian & Tech Integrator, NBCT, co-chair of Lighthouse Award for Nonfiction, Sibert 25th Anniversary Task Force, #TLSky #EduSky
Melinda Beatty @melindabeatty.com Writer, bookseller and crafter. Author of the Heartseeker duology, (Putnum) TELL THE TRUTH, PANGOLIN,(Anne Schwartz Books) THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE DAY, (Dial) THE WITCH'S TABLE, (Little Bee) WHAT IS A PIRATE? (Little Bee, Fall 2026)
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
Mary R. @amerrywrath.bsky.social I write quips, not tragedies. |she/her| VCFA's Writing for Children and Young Adults MFA '26 | books |TTRPGs | movies | nature/science shenanigans | new to Bluesky, not the internet
(pfp by Makowka/picrew)
Art commission carrd-> https://keirelo.carrd.co/
SarahWontVerifyLocation @sintexas.bsky.social Texan. “Home is where you understand the sum’bitches” Ronnie Duggar, Texas Observer
Cheryl Fosnot Bingisser @aucherylbingisser.bsky.social Christian romance author of "Love, Weddings and the Key: Book 3". Sharing stories of faith, love, laughter, and heart. #booklovers #booksky
Nick Campbell @nickmcampbell.bsky.social Kids’ bookseller/picture book fan/sometime-writer/onetime-academic (topic: children’s folk horror lit) (he/him)
INKLING ILLUSTRATION AGENCY @inklingagency.bsky.social A small but mighty illustration agency, representing an outstanding team of hand-picked creatives worldwide. If you'd like to collaborate with any of our illustrators, please email hello@inklingillustration.com to discuss your project needs.
Bailey @hideonshell.bsky.social 
Eva Soukal @evasoukalauthor.bsky.social 📖 MG/YA author raised in Czechia. Rooted in PNW 🌲
✍️Dark folklore. Speculative fiction. Light in dark places.
❤️ Editing a trilogy. Drafting a novel. Homeschooling.☕