Maria is Writing @mariakidlit.bsky.social #Kidlit PB/MG writer and enthusiast
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Kelli Welli @kelliwelli.bsky.social “The Pixar of Children’s songwriters.” - Planning Playtime | Award-winning smart, funny, genuine songs | ‘24 John Lennon Song Contest WIN | ‘23 ISC WIN | '24 DSA WIN | ‘23 NAPPA | Grammy voter | SCBWI | Lucky mom to twins! linktr.ee/kelliwelli
Tony Dunnell @tonydunnell.bsky.social Writer of fact and fiction ( #scifi mainly, some horror). English but living in the high jungle of Peru. Short stories published in Escape Pod, Fusion Fragment, Fission, Sci Phi Journal and more. I also post about #movies. https://tonydunnell.com/
G.G. Sherrill @ggsherrillreads.bsky.social Writer, Aspiring Middle-Grade Novelist, Traveler, Fan of Nature, Folklore, Underdogs, Paranormal/Spooky, Humor, Encouraging Boys to Read, Making a Difference.
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Pamela Ueckerman @melalouise.bsky.social Children's Author | Poet | Middle Grade Mavens Podcast.
Rep'd by Silvia Molteni of PFD Agents.
Ayla's Christmas Wish 2023
New book out 2026 with Scholastic Australia.
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Sara Axelbaum (she/her) @bysaraaxelbaum.bsky.social RevPit 2026 Short List.
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Always tired. Never bored.
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NostalgicShaz @nostalgicshaz.bsky.social Crazy middle school librarian! (all views my own) ❤️ BOOKS! 📚 Classic Movies! 🎥 Peter Cushing, Ray Harryhausen, vintage horror & musicals 🥰
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Gill Evans. Counselling Psychologist AFBPsS. @gillevansx.bsky.social Psychologist living in Philadelphia from the UK.
Gill Evans author of The Anxious Therapist, YouTuber and Wordler. Honourable Mention for my book by Hay House.
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Junior Einsteins Science Club® @junioreinsteins.bsky.social Award-winning Science events for kids. Founded Ireland☘️ Scientist, Mum, speaker United Nations 🇺🇳 Fun, messy, screen-free hands-on, STEM fun Ireland 🇮🇪 UK 🇬🇧 Canada 🇨🇦 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 Luxembourg 🇱🇺 Ukraine 🇺🇦 International Schools partnerships. Franchise.
S J Poyton Author @sjpoyton.bsky.social Author & Illustrator
Middle Grade Debut Mammoth Rider published 2026
The Reading Agency @readingagency.bsky.social We are a UK charity that inspires social and personal change through the proven power of reading. In 2025/26, we reached over 2.5 million people.
Philip Womack @philipwomack.bsky.social Author: Ghostlord and Wildlord 12+, The Arrow of Apollo, The Double Axe, 10+, How to Teach Classics to Your Dog, for adults.
Writes for many papers, mostly about books. Shakespearean, Classicist, etc
Ghostlord - Sunday Times Children's Book of the Week
Reading for Pleasure (The Open University) @openuni-rfp.bsky.social The Open University's Reading for Pleasure Research and Practice Coalition. Transforming #RfP in schools and beyond. Training & CPD from Prof. @teresacremin.bsky.social and The Open University's RfP Team💙📚✨
Visit our website at ourfp.org
Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
Mr. H @owlhandsondeck.bsky.social 
Endpapers @endpapers.bsky.social Sharing and celebrating the endpapers of children’s literature.
Dee @dee4ever.bsky.social Mother of 7, grandmother of 16, veteran educator of 40 years.
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The Mint Library @themintlibrary.bsky.social We are a Little Free Library that believes in dreams and personal growth. Words can change you. 38.94908° N, 77.01772° W
BookishPerseus @bookish-perseus.bsky.social 21yrs
Book Count: 1618
TBR: 5578
2026 Reading Challenge: 10/200
Marielle Bayliss Author @mariellebayliss.bsky.social Author of the Frog’s Bog series. New series Neurons and.. publishing in 2025.
A.F. Harrold @afharrold.com Poet, performer, children's author.
The Imaginary, The Worlds We Leave Behind, Fizzlebert Stump, Greta Zargo and others.
www.afharroldkids.com
Ruth Parker @ruthparker.bsky.social Year 5/6 teacher. English Lead. Lover of reading and running in the South Downs.
Miss W 🌼🌳📚 @lornawatson16.bsky.social Assistant Headteacher. Well-being Lead. Behaviour Lead. Attendance Champion. KS2 Lead. English Lead. Passionate about Reading for Pleasure. ECT mentor. NASENCO. NPQH. Mum of 2 gorgeous boys. Love the wonder of nature. Kindness always.
Ross Welford @rosswelford.bsky.social Author
National Book Tokens @nationalbooktokens.bsky.social A gift beyond words.
National Book Tokens and Bookily gift cards can be spent in bookshops and online.
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EmpathyLabUK @empathylabuk.bsky.social Jump into someone else's story!
Social Enterprise. Read stories, build empathy, make a better world. Founders of #EmpathyDay.
Lou Kent @readupastorm.bsky.social Reads, doesn't really write, works as a secondary school librarian, used to teach in primary, reads some more.
Mainly reviews everything read (middle grade, young adult and fantasy in the most part).
Lauren Whitney (she/her) is querying! @laurenem6.bsky.social Mom of two, #kidlit writer, elementary school librarian, movie-lover, crazy LEGO lady
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Waterstones Leicester Highcross @waterstoneslhx.bsky.social We love books, dogs in bookshops, and customers who laugh at our jokes
Isabel Ashdown @isabelashdown.com 🦀 Coast loving writer of 10 novels
📚 Royal Literary Fund Fellow
✍️ Writing tutor & coach
⭐️ NEW novel writing masterclass out now!
Publisher: @orionbooks
Agent: @agentkateshaw
www.isabelashdown.com
Collins @collinsbooks.bsky.social Publishing educational and informative books since 1819. Leaders in education and language learning resources, dictionaries, atlases, general reference, and children’s non-fiction.
David Daily @daviddaily.bsky.social Writer (PB, MG) | rep’d by Elena Giovinazzo
Entrepreneur, salty snack aficionado, outdoor & travel enthusiast, grumpy runner, skilled in cookery, made in Minneapolis | MN
Elizabeth Everett | Educator & Kidlit Author 📚 @elizabetheverett.bsky.social ➡️ Boosting books for #Teachers, #Educators, #Librarians, #Parents, #Authors, #Writers, and #Readers
💙 Former #Teacher turned #Homeschool mama
✏️ #Kidlit #Writer and #SCBWI member
📚 #PB #Author rep'd by Michelle Witte
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Amy Bond @amylouisebond.bsky.social Librarian and writer
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
Undiscovered Voices @uvcompetition.bsky.social Undiscovered Voices is an initiative by @SCBWI_BI to help find fresh, new voices in children's literature - #UV26 coming soon
Find out more and read extracts from the previous winning entries at at www.undiscoveredvoices.com
Sam Subity @subity.bsky.social Dad, MG author, dragon rider | THE LAST SHADOW WARRIOR ~ Percy Jackson meets Beowulf | VALOR WINGS ~ Dunkirk with dragons (2024) - both from @Scholastic | Find me at subity.com
Jan Dunning @jandunning.bsky.social 📚YA Author #TheLastThingYoullHear and #MirrorMe published by Scholastic
🏆Winner Oxfordshire Book Award 2024
Rep: Anne Clark Literary
IG:@jandunningbooks She/her
Books: https://linktr.ee/jandunning
Hayley Hoskins @hayleyhoskins.bsky.social Writer of spooky middle-grade, published by #PuffinBooks Second novel THE WHISPERLING TWINS out now!!
Here for ALL the whisperlings
🤍👻👻🤍
Ruth Lauren @ruthlaurenbooks.bsky.social I write books for kids. MURDER AT HOTEL MARVELO out now! ND
Rep @anneclarklit.bsky.social
Satish Shewhorak @asianastroboy.bsky.social 🇲🇺🇬🇧 Dr. of Performance Capture. POC in Play. DVRS Games Festival Director
Lee Matthew Goldberg @leematthewgoldberg.bsky.social Author of 16 📚 including ANCESTOR, MENTOR and the GREAT GIMMELMANS.
Lit Rep: Josh Getzler @ HG Literary
Screenwriter and publisher of Fringe Press.
Native New Yorker. LeeMatthewGoldberg.com
Katey Murphy @authorkateymurphy.bsky.social Writer, Blogger, Travelling Photographer, Hobbyist Historian of American and Railroad history as well as Aspiring Author. Currently writing my 1st book.
https://katey-murphy.weebly.com/ | https://linktr.ee/authorkateymurphy
#writingcommunity #BookSky 💙📚
Nancy Barfield, Author @nancybarfield.bsky.social Writer of sci-fi, fantasy, and grocery lists. Chocoholic, crazy cat lady, pun enthusiast
Ian Brownlie @ianbrownlie.bsky.social Writer of poetry/fiction for children/adults | Fiction: Times/CH LL | Poems: Dirigible, Tyger Tyger, Little Thoughts, The Toy | SHINE, streetcake, Audi Locus | Pushcart nom '26 | he/him
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
Emma Salisbury @emmasauthor.bsky.social Author@bloodhoundbooks.bsky.social Crime fiction author writes gangland fiction as Maya Ross.
Hachette Children's Group @hachettechildrens.bsky.social Official feed for Hachette Children's Group, publishing for every child 📚
Clare Weze @clareweze.bsky.social Author of UP ABOVE THE CITY and THE LIGHTNING CATCHER, science editor, CILIP Carnegie 2022 nominee, Northern Writers' Award-winner.
Agent: Abi Fellows, DHH Literary Agency
(Weze is pronounced Way-Zay)
clareweze.com
linktr.ee/ClareWeze
Diane Debrovner @dianedebrovner.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Former deputy editor @Parents Magazine. Co-author of ROXIE IN COLOR, Candlewick Press, 2026. 
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
Bex Hogan @bexhogan.bsky.social Author of YA (OWL KING, NETTLE, BLACK HEAT and VIPER, VENOM & VULTURE) and young MG (BRONTE TEMPESTRA series). Probably daydreaming. Or napping.
Anna Kempster @bookselleranna.bsky.social 
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
Charlotte mason @bookswithcharlotte.bsky.social Small booktuber. YouTube: books with Charlotte
Reading is my life 📚📚
14/100📚
Wife & mum of 2
Louise McLaughlin author she / her @louisemclaughlin.bsky.social 📚💙 Scottish fantasy author of D-Notice series- Cassie discovers saving the world with Glaswegian retired gods is a tough gig.
FREE BOOK links
Deviation: Wandering gods https://BookHip.com/CAMQGZQ
Darkness https://BookHip.com/XNZJLNF
E. D. Jones (he/him), author and weirdmaster of Write Sinister @sinister42.bsky.social Weird fiction, fantasy, and horror writer, and occasional dragon, living in interesting times. SFWA Associate member. https://writesinister.substack.com/
Jane Considine Education @janeconsidineedu.bsky.social We provide research informed training & structures for success, helping you shape the future for pupils ⭐
linktr.ee/JaneConsidineEducation 
Paula Burgess @paulaburgess.bsky.social Children's author Rep: Joanna Moult - Skylark Literary
#MAWFYP Bath Spa Uni
Valerie Baeza @valeriebaezaauthor.bsky.social Storyteller | Upmarket Fiction Author | Poet
E. J. Nash @ejnash.bsky.social Things that bring me joy: Writing, reading, lasagna | Words in CBC, The Globe and Mail, Nature, and elsewhere | Say hi at ejnashwrites.com
A. Colleen Jones (she/her) @colleenjones.bsky.social Technical writer by day, children's book writer by weekend, chocolate fanatic, cat lover, member/volunteer for @scbwiireland, book reviewer for @KidsBooksIrel and annual Irish Elf for #BookElves.
http://acolleenjones.com
Mónica Mancillas Author @monicamancillas.bsky.social Mexican-American kidlit author living in the UK. 🇲🇽🇺🇸🇬🇧
Books 📚:
Mariana and Her Familia
The Worry Balloon
How to Speak in Spanglish
Sing it Like Celia
Taco Tuesdays
Leyendas/Legends
My Barrio Sings in Spanglish ('27)
Rep: Melissa Edwards, Stonesong
Anna Brooke - Death by Chocolate **coming March 12!** @annabrookewriter.bsky.social Children's author rep’d by @stubbleagent @RCW.
Books: Death by Chocolate, Monster Bogey, Monster Stink, Two Little Dicky Birds & HELP! Travel writer (The Times/Frommer's) https://www.annabrookewriter.com/where-to-buy
https://linktr.ee/annabrookewriter
Xena Knox @xenaknox.bsky.social YA AUTHOR of SH!T BAG and BUZZ CLUB. Addressing important - often taboo - subjects through humour.
Pub: Hachette Children’s Group. Agent: J Williamson @ Anthony Harwood.
Louise Corcoran @louisecorcoran.bsky.social Professional Northerner (MCR via Teesside). Books, gigs, saxophone, slow running and sport-spectating. Happiest by the sea.
Key Accounts Manager and northern rep for @bouncemarketing. All views my own. (she/her)
Essie Fox Writer @essiefox.bsky.social
Catherine: A retelling of Wuthering heights is my latest novel, exploring the classic book through the voice of Cathy's ghost.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Catherine-Retelling-Wuthering-Essie-Fox/dp/1917764421/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0
Serina Hartwell - Author @serinahartwell.bsky.social Award winning author of The Hidden Saga
Step into my world and let me take you on a journey...
https://serinahartwell.com/
https://books2read.com/ap/n0A0Mv/Serina-Hartwell
Quite Interesting @qi.com A Quite Interesting account from the team behind the BBC show QI.
Dr William M Moreland @volcano-will.bsky.social Specialist in GIS 🗺️ (specialising in Volcanology 🌋) at the Icelandic Meteorological Office 🇮🇸 views my own
@purplekf.bsky.social @purplekf.bsky.social 
The Island of Brilliant @islandofbrilliant.bsky.social The podcast that treasures everything about children's books, presented by Nadia Shireen and Frank Cottrell Boyce, produced by Geoff Bird, music from The Ukulele Uff Trio. 
Tamara Letter @tamaraletter.bsky.social Instructional Technology Coach | VSTE Certified Coach | Author | Mom of 3 | Writer at www.tamaraletter.com | Passionate about Student Choice and Voice | Kindness Cultivator
Julia Blackburn @juliathumwrites.bsky.social Writer of childrens’ stories inspired by the magic of nature. The May Day Chorus = #2 in The Songbird Choir Series out now!🦅 🪶🐦.
Scottish Book Trust @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social A national charity dedicated to changing lives with reading and writing. Home of Bookbug, Book Week Scotland and Reading Schools.
Charlotte Jensen @authorcharjen.bsky.social 📚Co-author of SLEEP TO HEAL (2023)
✨Writer, editor, journalist
❤️music❤️books❤️the UK❤️cats
📍Orange County, CA🌊
Rachel Hamilton @rachelhamilton.bsky.social Lecturer at Bath Spa Uni and sometimes Uni of Lincoln (I like train travel), freelance editor and copywriter, author of books about fame-hungry unicorns and exploding toilets, and now PhD researcher into the intersection of AI, comedy and literature. Busy
rshillus @rshillus.bsky.social Children's book illustrator, former IC of SCBWI-WI. Married, mother of two, and anti- AI "art".
www.rshillus.com
Deirdre Laide @deirdrelaide.bsky.social 📚 SHIPWRECK out July'25, Tilbury House Publishers.
✔️ Teacher
✍️ PB & MG writer #kidlit #F #NF
🖍Doodler
🍃 Woodland walker
⛰️ Mountain hiker
🌊 Summer swimmer
🕴Trampoline jumper
🏠 Living in Ireland 🇮🇪
📕 Rep'd by Tracy Marchini
Laura Taylor Namey @laurataylornamey.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of Reese’s Book Club A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow. 🇨🇺out now: With Love, Echo Park
https://linktr.ee/laura.taylor.namey
Compass Connections @compassconnectd.bsky.social Compass Connections has been nurturing children’s wellbeing through imaginative and creative experiences and explorations since 2011.
www.compassconnections.co.uk
Mark Brownless @markbrownless.bsky.social Horror and psychological thriller author.
Witch, The Shadow Man and The Hand of an Angel available at Amazon.
Whispers available 2025 (that's the cat out of the bag!).
Animal wrangler. Dad and husband when not in cricket season.
markbrownlessauthor.com
elvestinkle @elvestinkle.bsky.social Dad, teacher, writer, dreamer. Probably a hobbit. Posting images of the natural world, thoughts about food & gaming, reflections on parenthood, and the ravings of the seedship colony stranded on an alien world in my mind to relieve the stress.
Steve Griffin @stevegriffin.bsky.social Author of supernatural thrillers.
✨ The Ghosts of Alice series
✨ Christmas Ghost Stories
Latest: THE OLD MAN OF THE BLACK
https://linktr.ee/stevegriffin.author
Jill K Wilson @jillkwilson.bsky.social Writer of historical/ crime-ish, speculative type things. P/T lecturer in FE. GEA graduate. A winner of Irish Novel Fair 2023. Mslexia LL 2020 (YA)
Northern Type #FBPE @ducatichappie.bsky.social Twitter/X ‘Fugee. Here for insights, news, laughs. Father of two wonderful humans. Like walking, running, cycling and Ducatis.
Detest Brexit and the rise of the Far Right.
Kris @froggyreadteach.bsky.social 📚 The Wyatt House Learning Center -
Idiomas para todos
Teacher | Book reviews
Story Time • Workshops • Conversation •
📍Nigrán (Galicia)
That Librarian: Amanda Jones @librarianjones.com Educator-Librarian-Author-Activist-Speaker-Bibliophile-Louisianan-Defender of Wonder
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/ThatLibrarian
Sara M. Kapadia @sarakapadia.bsky.social AS WE CONVENE
anthology author
A GLIMPSE INTO MY COUNTRY
anthology author
Adoptive-Foster Mum to 2 boys, Storyteller, Artist, Academic, Survivor
#SouthAsian
#Neurodivergent
#MGpies
MacMillan Mentee
www.sara.kapadia.com
Hanh Bui @hanhbuiwrites.bsky.social Children's Book Author
hanhbui.net
https://hanhbui.net/about/
https://hanhbui.net/connect/
All Stories @allstorieswrite.bsky.social Free opportunities for underrepresented children's book writers unable to pay for support
Funders: @ace_national @ALCS_UK @IBCplatform
Founder: @catherinecoe
https://linktr.ee/allstorieswrite
Andrea Reece @reeceandrea.bsky.social Mostly reading. Managing Editor Books for Keeps, administrator Klaus Flugge Prize and Branford Boase Award plus other book-y stuff.
Jenny Hawke @jennyhawke.bsky.social Children’s Librarian and Chair of CILIP YLG National Committee
Tom Lancaster @tomwriting.bsky.social Children's author by night.
Winner, Searchlight Best PB 2024; 15 other competition LL and SL.
Repped by Georgia Tournay-Godfrey @ The Bright Agency