Emma Applegarth @emmaapple.bsky.social 🪻Scientist, writer, earth lover. 📝Aspiring #kidlit author. 🌟2025 #PBRisingStars mentee.
Dr. Lara Ameen @trucherrygirl.bsky.social PhD, MFA | Sensitivity/Authenticity Reader | Writing Instructor and Freelance Editor | TV Drama Writer + YA and Adult Author | BEING ACE (out now—Page Street YA) | She/They
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https://laraameenauthor.com/
Régine Théoodat @reginetheodat.bsky.social Author #kidlit Afro-Caribbean folklore, heritage, & migration stories #pb & #mg querying | OPEDS | Toy-Maker | Kid at heart | Mama | Opinionated AF like my ancestors 🇭🇹 | Get my self pub books & toys here: www.isseandlo.com | Radical Dreamer | Strategist
@roseannemoreau.bsky.social @roseannemoreau.bsky.social Before a traumatic brain injury, I taught special education for 17 years. Now, I write picture books, chapter books, and middle-grade fiction. Here, I hope to exchange craft tips, share resources and be part of the online writing community.
Laura Wardle is querying @laurawardlewrites.bsky.social YA fantasy writer | 🇬🇧
✎ #amquerying BEYOND THE AURORA 🏹🌍✨
neurodivergent (OCD) / SEN parent / eco-minimalist 🌿
Kennedy (he/they) @kennedy-struggles.bsky.social Transmasc | Autistic | Physically disabled | Amateur Writer, Artist, & Composer
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@crawford3cathy.bsky.social @crawford3cathy.bsky.social 
Randy Z Ochoa @rzochoa.bsky.social He/Him. Author. Lego Fan. Power Rangers/Tokusatsu trash.
cnbays.bsky.social @cnbays.bsky.social *QUERYING* Author, Mom, Firewife, former children's librarian and college instructor
Kiana Nguyen @kiananguyen.bsky.social Literary Agent at Donald Maass Literary Agency
Representing YA & Adult Fiction; Horror, SFF, Thriller, Romance, and WF
IG: knguyenbooks
www.kiananguyen.com
Amy Law @amylawscigeek.bsky.social Science geek, dog person, nature lover, non-fiction writer. Citizen scientist. Half of a pet therapy team.
Unless noted or reposted, all photographs are my own.
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Annaleigh Robbins @annaleighrobbins.bsky.social Writer and lover of tough books with honest conversations. Proud polyglot 🇫🇷 🇯🇵. AI has a place in society, but it isn't in art.
Seeking representation for my YA contemporary manuscript "A Landscape to Burn"
Check out my website www.annaleighrobbins.com
Thomas Delfino @thomasdelfino.bsky.social Details about Thomas’ character are being kept under wraps.
Amanda Lien is in the querying trenches! 🌈🩸🗡️ @alienwrites.bsky.social Querying adult fantasy, revising adult SF, coming up with terrible jokes || Chaotic, queer, chronically ill || https://alienwrites.com
Nixadon @nixadon.bsky.social 2026-09-10-0718 CT
M.O. (Mindy) Yuksel @moyuksel.bsky.social Author of picture books:
📕In My Mosque
📙One Wish
📘Ramadan Kareem
📗Sami’s Special Gift
📒The Prince of Stars
www.moyuksel.com
@aurorabreak.bsky.social @aurorabreak.bsky.social 
@jacindajones.bsky.social @jacindajones.bsky.social 
SpoFest (James Bryant) @spofest.bsky.social Disabled avant-garde writer & musician
Author of the Dark Haiku series
Championing writers and their original work through unique audio & video programming since 2011
SpoFest
From Their Lips To Your Ears
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Nicholas Common @nicholascommon.bsky.social Science fiction and fantasy novellas. Currently witing a novel about a society that solved aging, and the couple who chose it anyway.
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
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@kathleenfineauthor.bsky.social @kathleenfineauthor.bsky.social 
Jory Lane @jory-lane.bsky.social "The Herbalist's Sanctuary" on Amazon.
https://a.co/d/08BxEyhm
My website: Join my newsletter!?
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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.
Elizabeth Botsford @elizabethbotsford.bsky.social Middle grade novel writer. Longlisted, Yeovil Literary Prize 2026. Shortlisted, Jericho Writers Friday Night Live.
Cheryl M. Simon @cmsimon18.bsky.social Picture Book Writer // SCBWI // 12x12PB // Kids’ Choice Honorable Mention 2023 // Write Mentor Scholarship Recipient 2022 & 2023 // PB Rising Stars Mentee 2023 // PitchMe Finalist 2024
Yasemin Gyford @yasemingyford.bsky.social Artist, 👩🎨 Children's Book Illustrator, Urban Sketcher ✍️ Over Thinker📍Between London and Cambridge UK
Dakota Shain Byrd and Bridgette Johnson @byrd-johnson-books.bsky.social Southern queer writing duo.
Nicoletta Poungias @nicolettawrites.bsky.social 🏳️🌈♾️🇩🇪🇬🇷 bookish creative
www.nicoletta-poungias.com
Miranda Nichole @mirandanwrites.bsky.social YA Contemporary Fantasy Writer, Nerd, and Crafty Person
Current WIPs:
Querying: Sprigs of Magic - Found family with magic and mystery
Editing: Sigils of Power - Magical conspiracies + college apps
Writing: Elements of Truth - More magic, but Appalachia
Sid Jain @sid--j.bsky.social BSFA-longlisted writer of gothic, maximalist literary speculative fiction. Find me in Uncanny, Podcastle, Giganotosaurus. Newsletter: stratigraphy.substack.com
Miriam Frehner @miriamafrehner.bsky.social 28-year reading specialist & ELL educator turned YA author. Writing The Listener Archives — hi-lo fiction built for reluctant readers. Seeking representation. 📚
Jesse O Benitez - Writing @jesseobenitez.bsky.social Lifelong reader & writer
I'm here to make friends (especially people who write/read books) please reach out 📚📝✍️
I hope to make a better world for everybody
Never let them get you down!
https://linktr.ee/JesseOBenitez
@majajonesey.bsky.social @majajonesey.bsky.social 
Brooke Nevara (is querying) ⚔️🥀 @brookewrites97.bsky.social Writer of 4 novels | Querying my adult gothic romantasy, The Darkest Light 🖤🗡️
🏆 2x Finalist in the Dante Rossetti Awards
🏆 1x Finalist in the Paranormal Book Awards
🏆 2x Top Pick List in the Killer Nashville Claymore Awards
📚Booktok: @paradise_lostx (5.8k)
Hannah Murphy @littlemrspiggy.bsky.social MLitt in Creative Writing. YA fantasy author. Word of the wild winner 2024. Querying: A lullaby of lies
@TrishaWrites4#writingsomethingsomewhere#onquery#readingbooks @mindingmybizness.bsky.social Author , Mom, Wife , #SCBWI Businessowner, public education supporter , former ESL, disability advocacy ,
Speak up even if it’s uncomfortable.
Caroline Kind @carolinekind.bsky.social MG author, educator, researcher, reader, learner | She/Her | Halifax, NS |
Rosalinda Alcalá @rosalinda87.bsky.social Storyteller & dev editor. Coaches writers. Accountability partner. Loves YA, MG, PB and women's fiction. Nonfiction includes sports, education, and finance. WWS-Writing Group. I lived life on the run--as a competitive runner. https://www.wordbouquet.net/
Dmytro Demchenko 🇺🇦 @dmytrodemchenko.bsky.social My cat is smarter than you. I wrote a book ( #HerOwnDream ) about it.
Ex-CERN physicist & journalist turned indie novelist and SaaS architect. Kyiv, Ukraine.
dotyk.carrd.co
Don't be offended if I don't respond—the russians are trying to kill us every day
Jess Woodburn @jesswoodburn.bsky.social Writer and reader
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.
Marnie A. Jackson @marnieajackson.bsky.social Executive Director, Whidbey Environmental Action Network • Novelist, The Alis Switch • Mule and donkey aficionado, Brays Of Our Lives. www.MarnieAJackson.com
M. Rob @oedipalschmedipal.bsky.social In the sober light of day it's a little too bright out |
Will be mean to people you hate for food | Writer | Ball Knower
Max Reval @maxreval.bsky.social Australian novelist. Literary fiction about meticulous people, the systems they trust, and the quiet ways certainty comes apart.
MaxReval.com.au
#booksky
@katedross.bsky.social @katedross.bsky.social 
@richwingerter9.bsky.social @richwingerter9.bsky.social I write speculative fiction. I'm adapting stories from my short story collection, "Fantastical". This includes myth, folk tale, and science fiction. For me, a typical story starts with “What would it be like if...”. And then, the journey begins.
The Story Architects @gcstoryarchs.bsky.social Storytellers at heart | Creating worlds for all ages 🎬📚✨
Linnea Solomon @sololinnea.bsky.social Kidlit and background artist! She/her, 22. Available for work. Business inquiries ✉️ linnea@solomonster.org
https://www.linneasolomon.com/
@leylzik.bsky.social @leylzik.bsky.social (icon credit finndraws.tumblr.com)
@sipillustrations.bsky.social @sipillustrations.bsky.social 
Cindy Sommer @cindysommpb.bsky.social Award-winning children's book author of PB SAVING KATE'S FLOWERS (Arbordale) Crystal Kite winner, #KidLit, #SCBWI, #12X12PB Gold Member, ISO Agent, Querying PBs. www.cindysommer.com
S4LT! 🔞 @s4ltorii.bsky.social SEX IS NOT THE ENEMY!!
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It's Måns - Mr Swanberg if ya nasty @mansswanberg.bsky.social 2.7% Neanderthal
Dmitry @dmitrygart.bsky.social Children's book illustrator ✏️ | Based in Israel | Open to commissions & collaborations | dmitryg.art
Brackenlowe Halt Storyworld @brackenloweproject.bsky.social A quiet storyworld for children and grown-ups. Gentle woodland tales, old railway memories, familiar characters — and a little place called Brackenlowe Halt. Meet the signalman and his friends . . .
brackenlowehalt.co.uk
Diana Kohne @dianakohne.bsky.social Painter, printmaker, writer: Sensory Housekeeping
www.dianakohne.com
www.kohne.substack.com
www.printmakingpress.com
Leslie H. 📚 🐕 @bookshopleslie.bsky.social I like big dogs | Freelance editor of #KidLit + select books for adults | Referrals deeply appreciated | EFA & SCBWI | She/her | https://bit.ly/LH_EditsBks
Ashley Mangtani @writerash.bsky.social Slipstream Writer ✍️
Published or forthcoming in Strange Horizons | LITRO | Washington Square Review | Boudin | Neon Dystopia | Expat Press | HAWKEYE etc
Short story collection ⬇️
ashleymangtani.com
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
DearEditorDotCom @deareditordotcom.bsky.social Deborah Halverson—“The Editor”—posts writing tips, inspirations, news, & alerts when she answers new questions from writers on DearEditor.com
Colin Lewis @colinlewis.se Designer + builder + writer.
https://colinlewis.se
@vincentshawauthor.bsky.social @vincentshawauthor.bsky.social 
Olga Komashko @sirenasdream.bsky.social Children’s Book Illustrator | represented by the Plum Agency | mom of two | SCBWI member
My portfolio:
www.olgakomashko.com
David Z.M. Allison @dzmallison.bsky.social Picture book author. Heartfelt, humor, quiet and absurd manuscripts. SCBWI & 12x12 member. Working toward traditional publication one manuscript at a time. SCBWI AZ Desert Bloom Grand Prize 2026. #amquerying
Madamm Meek @madammmeek.bsky.social Madamm Meek is a North American rapper and songwriter from Detroit, Michigan. #MusicSky
https://linktr.ee/MadammMeek
Serena Call @serenacallart.bsky.social Aspiring children's book author and illustrator.
Lady Luddite (KJ Colt) @moistenedtart.bsky.social Conversational curser. Externally processing. Friendly, happy; will hunt jerks for sport.
Feminist, political, far left epic fantasy top selling novelist. Anticapitalist. Adult Dx #audhd (psych, counselling, fiction editor, coaching, novelist, sociology)
Jay Busta @jbusta214.bsky.social A fifty year old mystery + a glitchy unhinged AI + two broken teens, barely holding it together… they’ll be fiiiiine.
Probably.
Lauren Kimberly 🇨🇦 @authorlaurenk.bsky.social THE HOLIDAY TRAIN (fall 2028) #PBParty Finalist ‘26 | #PBParty HM ‘25 | Writing PB through MG | autistic mom of two | #SCBWI #12x12PB | #amquerying #neurodiversity
www.laurenkimberlyauthor.com
Jason D. McIntosh @jasondmcintosh.bsky.social Hi there!
I'm an Author & illustrator creating thoughtful illustrations & stories that inspire.
- SCBWI Don Freeman Award Winner
- PBParty Finalist '23, '24, ‘25, '26
- KidLit
- Follow me on Facebook, X, & Instagram!
- www.JasonDMcIntosh.com
Chris Swallow @tanziltalks.bsky.social Literary Fantasy Writer, TTRPG, and general nerdom enthusiast. Owner of DastardlyDrave LLC, running D&D and other TTRPG games as a Professional Game Master.
https://linktr.ee/dastardlydrave- P pinki-tuscaderro.bsky.social @pinki-tuscaderro.bsky.social
Krystal Norton💕💙💛 @krysnorwrites.bsky.social She/her | Pan | Writer of Paranormal Romance | trans rights are human rights | 🇵🇸 | 🚫AI🚫 #amwriting
Arun Pradhan @arunaway.bsky.social Curious, empathetic geek.
Co-founder of www.modelthinkers.com
Interests include behavioral & learning science; tech & AI; scifi & fantasy novels; and progressive politics.
Opinions are my own.
Sandra Schehl @sandraschehl.bsky.social Historical Romance Author and all-around liberal minded troublemaker. I am an avid board game player, crocheter, and history buff. I am always up for a night of bar trivia. Documentaries are my jam. I am proudly neurospicy!
Rachel E. Tell (is querying) @racheletell.bsky.social ✨goes by Rae, hi!
☕50% coffee, 30% hyperfixation, 20% punctuation, 🚫AI
📚querying The Refinement: Mercury
🖋️drafting The Ariad (YA romantasy/eco-horror)
↪️ more active on Threads @racheletell
Molly Schaffer @mollyschaffer.bsky.social Kidlit Author, Therapist, Mom, Former Actor
mollyschafferbooks.com
#SCBWI #PB #12x12PB #PBParty
BeingMrB @neilbailey.bsky.social Simply trying to make a difference in the world. #running #writer #poet #CFS #fibromyalgia #Plogger #Autistic #author #writingcommunity #amquerying neilbailey.net
ROCKY LASTER🌱🦍 @rockylaster.bsky.social Feral Alaskan Hoosier. 17% Sasquatch DNA. High Priestess of the Leguminati 🫘. Allegedly Afraid of🐀 Mice. Watermelon Enthusiast 🍉. Awesome Dad🎖. Adoring Husband. Impossibly Humble. Susceptible to Flattery, 🥑's, and Wizardry. Balding Vegan Earthling 🌎
Celina Sun @celinasun.bsky.social Associate Editor @ Penguin Workshop🐧📚
she/her▪️中文还可以▪️believer in magic▪️drinker of tea▪️all these feelings are mine~
#WeNeedDiverseBooks
Michael Lieberman @mlieber123.bsky.social Writer/Atty in Maryland outside DC. Bylines in Jewish Currents, Points in Case, and McSweeneys.
Dor Cosby Atkinson is querying! @atkinsondor.bsky.social KidLit author | professional theatre director | college & youth educator | she / her | MG & YA | SFF | myths | founder of the Inkredibles | Aries, ally, bi | SCBWI | BLM | proud mom of a ND kiddo | 😸😸😸 | doratkinson.com