CLPE @theclpe.bsky.social The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) is a UK based charity that creates and delivers award-winning literacy training and resources for the teachers of early years and primary school children.
Charlotte Morris @cbocomms.bsky.social Comms Manager for the University of Glasgow's College of Social Sciences. Fuelled by ☕️ 
Emma Perry @emmaperry.bsky.social ▪️ Children's author writing stories & poems filled with giggles & warmth.
▪️Teacher
▪️Shortlisted for Sheffield Children's Book Award 2023
▪️www.emmaperryauthor.com she/her
Lucy Ann Unwin @lucyannunwin.bsky.social Children's writer. Non-fiction debut INSIDE YOUR BRAIN out in June published by Thames & Hudson. Fiction HOW TO BE A REVOLUTIONARY and THE OCTOPUS, DADU & ME out now. Represented by Emily Talbot at United Agents. www.lucyannunwin.com linktr.ee/lucyannunwin
Jo Franklin @jofranklinbooks.bsky.social MG and series children’s author looking for rep and/or ghost work. Writing tutor and mentor. 🐕🦺🐈🐈⬛She/her
Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd Assoc. Project Director @ Knowledge Commons, MSU | Lit and Publishing Research Prof @ Uni of London, Birkbeck | Music on tici taci records | My books: https://books.eve.gd
Jasbinder Bilan @jasbinderbilan.bsky.social Costa Award winning children’s author ASHA, TAMARIND, AARTI, XANTHE, NUSH and more! agent Kate Shaw I write magical adventures with animals and nature in them mostly @chickenhouse @barringtonstoke @walker
www.jasbinderbilan.co.uk
Maleeha Mir @mmir08.bsky.social 🚨Creative Freelancer | 📝 Creative | ✍🏽 Book Reviewer | 😉Nerd |✨ Works in Publishing | 📖 2023 Shorlist Judge The Diverse Book Awards | 🌎 2020 Deputy Chair of SYP London
https://linktr.ee/maleeha.mir8
Nazima Pathan @nazimapathan.bsky.social Author, doctor, researcher and parent. Here for the #kidlitcommunity. My MG novel Dream Hunters came out Aug 2024 Simon and Schuster. #ukkidlit #booksky
Farah Mendlesohn @effjayem.bsky.social SF fan, writer etc etc. 🏴Author of The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein; Rhetorics of Fantasy and Considering the Female Man (Luna Press, Order now!) UK GUFF delegate to Swancon 2028, Member of @brisbanein28.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸 (Farah/they)
Zainab Khan @zainabzk.bsky.social Children's Author
NOURA'S CRESCENT MOON; March 5, 2024
(Candlewick)
HANA'S HAJJ; 2026 (Candlewick)
Kelsea @kelseamae.bsky.social 25 • Marketing Coordinator for @childs-play.co.uk • BSU Grad • All views are my own • She/Her 🌈
Joanie Grenier @joaniegrenier.bsky.social Étudiante de doctorat | Découvrabilité, écosystème du livre au 21e siècle, sociologie de l'édition, études culturelles | Université de Sherbrooke, Groupe de recherches et d'études sur le livre au Québec
Judith Eagle @juditheagle.bsky.social Children’s author: The Secret Starling; The Pear Affair; The Accidental Stowaway; The Stolen Songbird. Published by Faber; rep’d by Lucy Irvine at PFD
ExpendableMudge (he/him) @expendablemudge.bsky.social Book blogger. Lectomane. Tsundoku carrier. #ReadingIsResistance
WARNING: Reading can seriously damage your ignorance.
I EXIST ON US DISABILITY 'BENEFITS'*DON'T ASK ME FOR MONEY.- S @shabbasnake.bsky.social @shabbasnake.bsky.social
Bryanna Somers (Tidmarsh) @bryannawrites.bsky.social Queer Writer & Kidlit Scholar | Books. Activism. Cats. Astrology. Plants. Politics. Poetry.
Signe Rudoviča @signeru.bsky.social Sharing Sensory Stories Project manager @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social Love and live Edinburgh 💙
#ReadingForPleasure I read everything from picture books to YA! Interested in Additional Support Needs, education, language/s, literacy, &pugs
Gita Ralleigh @gitaralleigh.bsky.social Writer/Poet/Lecturer/ex-doc
Kids' novels:
Minou Moonshine / Sam Singh @kidsbloomsbury.bsky.social
Poetry:
Empirical
@thebraag.bsky.social
Siren @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
A Terrible Thing Bad Betty Press
https://linktr.ee/gitaralleigh
Book Clubs in Schools @bookclubsinschools.bsky.social Our charity helps young people discover a love of reading and book chat. Teachers say our book clubs increase students' well-being and grow their confidence and communication skills.
bookclubsinschools.org
School Reading List @schoolreadinglist.bsky.social #1 UK children's booklisting website according to Ubersuggest. We recommend children’s and YA books to teachers, parents, librarians and schools. Free resources, free reviews and no paywall. #GoAllIn
https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk
Mostly Book Talk @mostlybooktalk.bsky.social A podcast about children’s and YA books for teachers and librarians. Interviews with authors and also anyone doing interesting reading for pleasure activities, plus lots of book talk. #kidlitUK
www.mostlybooktalk.com
Dr Tahaney Alghrani @drtahaneyalghrani.bsky.social Lecturer #Criminology ⚖
Author-Wayward Girls (2024) 📕YouthJustice|CrimeHistory|Pathways|SocialJustice *views my own
#Liverpool #YNWA 🇵🇸🇾🇪
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/wayward-girls-in-victorian-and-edwardian-england-9781350407114/
@davidhogge.bsky.social @davidhogge.bsky.social 
Kate Capshaw @katecapshaw.bsky.social Prof. of English and Social and Critical Inquiry at the University of Connecticut, past president of the Children's Literature Association. Opinions are my own and do not represent my employer.
Judith Wilson @judithwilson.bsky.social Children’s reading | Children’s writing | Senior publisher for Primary Literacy@Oxford University Press (views own)
Rooted in Reading @rootedinreading.bsky.social A cheap, tangible, reading for pleasure promotion project est in 2008 and now used in primary and secondary schools across the UK and beyond. Create a reading culture in your school - see the range at https://www.swillshawconsulting.co.uk/books.
Dr Francesca Benatti @rhymesontheroad.bsky.social Wandering scholar at Open University. Digital Humanities, Book History, Comics and Thomas Moore. Irish/Italian. She/her. Views my own.
Justin Fife - Narrator @justinfife.bsky.social I'm a Voice Actor and Audiobook Narrator, catch me live here:
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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Laura @frudel.bsky.social Yarn hoarder/ GO fan/ 36
she/her
Harvey Mccallister @harveymccall.bsky.social CEO of GGC & JYMLUX
Investor, Realtor & Business inovator
Tech & Finance
Forex / Crypto / Stocks
Aimed at making the world a better place filled with love, happiness and laughter 🤭 I ❤️ 🥰🥰🥰
atlantic 40 @atlantic40.bsky.social Berlin. Painting + illustration. Works in progress
@kamilaaugustyn.bsky.social @kamilaaugustyn.bsky.social Assistant professor at University of Wrocław, literary scholar, avid listener, metascientist, obsessed with publishing studies
Aisha @actuallyaisha.bsky.social .
Madeleine Hunter, PhD @huntressleine.bsky.social Kids media researcher and critic. Vice-Chancellor's postdoctoral research fellow at RMIT University.
Have brain - will travel.
Alastair Chisholm @alastairc.com Author: 🚀OrionLost ☁️REEK 🐲OneHungryDragon 🐉DragonStorm
🐺#IAMWOLF out now! 🤖 #BLITZERS out now!
Rep: https://www.rupertcrew.co.uk. He/him. Likes biscuits.
More: https://alastairc.com/links
#KidLitUK
Kibriya Mehrban @kibriyatm.bsky.social 28. Notorious pen thief. Co-director at @overhearapp.bsky.social. Probably attempting a new craft project.
M. G. Leonard @mglnrd.bsky.social 🖋️Author - Time Keys🎶 - Portly 🦦- The Ice Children ❄️- The Twitchers 🦅- Adventures on Trains 🚂- Beetle Boy🪲
She/Her
🪲Posting about author-y book-y nature-y stuff.
🐞Agent: Kirsty McLachlan
❓Use my website for ALL enquiries: www.mgleonard.com
Will Tattersdill @tattersdill.bsky.social Writer and teacher. Literature and science, dinosaurs, fantasy/sci-fi, alternate history, worldbuilding, periodicals, museums, etc. Fiction as W. J. Tattersdill. He/him.
Alex Ingram @nutty.bsky.social Free range nerd in Sydenham, Lewisham, London, England, Earth. (He/Him)
Trying to fix climate, environment, streets, housing and harvest tomatoes.
Mark Goodwin @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social poet . sound artist . fiction maker . re- thinker . speaks and writes . in various ways . walker . balancer . stroller . climber ... 
Charlotte Hacking @charliehacking.bsky.social First, foremost and always a teacher. Also Education Consultant, including with CLPE, and Speaker. Co-creator of The Balancing Act: http://bit.ly/42D93f9. Poetry editor with Otter Barry Books. Shortlisted for Branford Boase Award 2024 for The Final Year.
Devlin Hartline @devlinhartline.bsky.social Husband, father, & IP geek. JD, LLM, & Esquire. Senior Fellow, Forum for Intellectual Property, Hudson Institute. #Hudson4IP
David Finkelstein @finkelsteind.bsky.social Business & Cultural Historian, personal capacity blurbs. Co-Editor, The Edinburgh Companion to British Colonial Periodicals, https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edinburgh-companion-to-british-colonial-periodicals.html
Dr Michelle Anya Anjirbag-Reeve @anjirbaguette.bsky.social UK based. Disney/fairy tale adaptation/deep stories/literature/libraries/culture. she/her
same handle on the hellbirb; not sure how much I'll be here
Insta: @michelle_anya; www.michelleanjirbag.com
Mike Jung @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social OH FFS, do I have to
Okay fine, FINE, I'm a children's writer and artistttnnnggghhhh that still feels so weird to say, I'm also Korean American and autistic and a messy emotional glob who constantly gets sentimental on main, you've been warned
Celine @celiniezucchini.bsky.social Dog lover & owner but crazy cat lady at heart, avid reader, politics, movies/tv, have a degree in history that I don't use, best friend of Spencer the Spaniel, Bob's Burgers enthusiast, follow me on letterboxd: https://boxd.it/83DR
Wendy @wsiegs.bsky.social Just wanna be my most authentic self. Hydrate and rest. The phoenix burns so she can rise again. #slp #trauma #prek #pride #aac #lgbtq #womensrights #reproductiverights #disabilityadvocate #nj #njslp #autism #adhd #audhd #asl #earlyintervention #history
HoulaMa @noseinabook.bsky.social Not too sure about people
Pro-Choice Democrat thru and thru, Elementary Librarian, Child-Advocate, LGBTQ-Ally, Dogs' Person 💙📚🎶
Had it up to here with friggin' zealots. Get off my damn porch
🚫MAGAts 🚫Porn 🚫Sales
Quantum Mechanic @thequantummechanic.bsky.social 🌌 Author of The Quantum Mechanic series | Sci-fi adventures through alternate realities.
Book 1: Butterfly Effect -amazon.com/dp/B0DQJDNYVT
Book 2: Time Layers - amazon.com/dp/B0GWLGW8CL
@lovewins11.bsky.social @lovewins11.bsky.social a girl with a camera. super quiet. listening and learning. she/her (all photos mine)
Dr. Emily Hamilton-Honey @hermioneclone.bsky.social Associate Professor at SUNY Canton. YA series books, C19AmLit, WWI, fandom, gender studies. Queer (pan/demi), feminist, Wiccan. 🏳️🌈📚☕ Views my own, not employer's. https://linktr.ee/emilyhamiltonhoney
Laurel Lehman @laurel-lehman.bsky.social here for the copyright, content mod, antitrust, and right to repair nerds! (and always the swift theories.) views my own.
lover of puns & showtunes.
then: consumer reports, fb.
now: back to school (older, wiser law student)
Larre Bildeston @larreau.bsky.social Writer, artist, parent, carer. Autistic and aspec. Australia via Aotearoa, (soft) atheist. Agender. Pronouns: I want to say “any” since I’m collecting A words. (they/them actually). DMs inaccessible due to Aus age verification. larre.bildeston@yahoo.com
Emily Corbett @dremilycorbett.bsky.social Academic specialising in children's and YA literature. Head of the MA Children's Literature programme at Goldsmiths, University of London. General Editor of The International Journal of Young Adult Literature.
Ross Young @writingrocks.bsky.social The #WritingForPleasure Centre | Literacy Lab - University of Edinburgh | Real-World Writers | Science Of Teaching Primary Writing | How To Teach Writing | #WritingRocks
Website: writing4pleasure.com
PhD Profile: blogs.ed.ac.uk/literacylab/the-writing
Katie Venit @katievenit.bsky.social she/her. National bestselling author in WI
🎪FORTS, Viking
🛰️CASSINI'S MISSION, MIT Kids Press
🛰️VOYAGER TWINS FOREVER! ('28)
https://linktr.ee/KatieVenit
Dave Pickering 🦊💜🦝 @snufkintattoo.bsky.social Writer, performer & podcaster. Fiction, nonfiction, and everything in between. Dave of all trades, master of some. Part Glitter Wizard part Messy Witch. He/They
http://davepickeringstoryteller.co.uk/
Amanda M Greenwell @amandamgreenwell.bsky.social Teacher. Researcher. Human.
Associate Prof of English and English Ed at CCSU. Author of The Child Gaze: Narrating Resistance in American Literature. Associate Editor of Children’s Literature Association Quarterly. Content is mine and not my employer’s.
Ben Prangell @bprangell.bsky.social IP and commercial solicitor http://www.asendalaw.co.uk. Loves music, law, fonts, hazy beers, fashion, pinball, technology, arts, films, trade marks, food, SWFC.
Julie Casey @juliecasey.bsky.social High school English, History, and Food Studies teacher. 90s pop culture savant. Sci fi and horror addict. Cat lover. Farm girl. 🇨🇦
Jamie Purdie @jamiepurdie.bsky.social Reader, writer, teacher.
Interested in education, literature, film and culture.
@tomcolley.bsky.social @tomcolley.bsky.social 
Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me Multilingual digital humanities, founder of the Textile Makerspace at Stanford & the Data-Sitters Club, teaches data visualization with textiles, helped start #DHmakes. SUCHO 🇺🇦 co-founder, archiving at-risk cultural heritage. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Dr. Gascoyne 🇨🇦 @debbieg.bsky.social Retired English prof, continuing independent scholar of children's fantasy, particularly interested in intertextuality and the sublime. Photographer, dog lover, gardener, and nerdy nerd nerd. I review for Strange Horizons.
Moon @moonshea.bsky.social Hi! I'm Moon🌙
✨she/her, 30s, type 2 diabetes
✨Women rule
✨BLM
✨Protect Trans kids
✨From the river to the sea
✨Crochet obsessed, computer addicted, plant🪴killer, writer, lapsed reader, chronic doodler, gamer, horror fan, comes with many soapboxes
Jewell @jewellislate.bsky.social If it's dark and twisted, send it my way. Joy is important even in the bleakest of times - small joys too. Bad at rules. Grumpy old lady, but not old. Self-medicating with books.- I Ilene Frank @ifrank.bsky.social I'm a reference librarian at a community college and UoPeople.edu and an instructor at UMGC.edu and I'm an excellent lurker
Lindsay Littleson @lindsaylittleson.bsky.social Kelpies Prize winner, Carnegie nominated children's author @DiscoverKelpies @CranachanBooks
#SCBWI she/her
Wendy Jackson @wljackson.bsky.social Retired Ontario educator and life long learner. Travel, books, theatre. Left leaning dog lover. Don’t post much but I listen well. I worry a lot.
Eva Hamilton (she/her) @toknitter.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Formerly joyful Torontonian (currently in northwestern ON), living with lupus; lymphoma survivor; owned by English toy spaniels; passionate about knitting 🧶
Hannah Robbins (they/them) @drhannahrobbins.bsky.social Educator - Writer - Speaker - Consultant: Musical Theatre, Identity in Popular Culture, Black Studies & Music. Author: TOO DARN HOT: KISS ME, KATE AND THE MAKING AND REMAKING OF A BROADWAY MUSICAL (OUP, 2026)
DarkLiterata iykyk @darkliterata.bsky.social she/they
i read slowly & often 📚 • queer black librarian 🏳️🌈 • anti-oppression educator ✊🏾 • kidlit scholar, reviewer, guide author 🤓 • high key trekkie 🖖🏾
Angie @ameliapeabody23.bsky.social Children's Lit Librarian, Instruction Librarian, and Zumba Enthusiast
Brian Gene Olson @bgowriter.bsky.social #Kidlit #poet from the PNW. Words in LADYBUG, BABYBUG, THE SCHOOL MAGAZINE, HIGHLIGHTS HELLO. #SCBWI. #80s kid. Member of The Poets' Garage.
http://briangeneolson.weebly.com
https://willowcroft.blog/2021/04/09/five-things-friday-mini-interview-with-author
Raen (she/her) @raeniedaze.bsky.social Daydreamer. Writer. Imposter. Perpetually restless.
#amquerying
Dawn McLachlan @deemclachlan.bsky.social Poet, author, bookseller, allotmenteer - for hire or loan. Won some poetry prizes. Account is stuff from a small rural town in NE Scotland. Kitten content warning! Once a librarian….
#FridayPoem
She/Her
https://dawnmclachlan.com/
@hilaryemmett.bsky.social @hilaryemmett.bsky.social Associate Professor at UEA (American literature and culture) and recent MASIE grad at UCL. Transnational American studies, children’s literature, inclusive pedagogy, celebrating neurodiversity, protecting trans kids. She/her.
Dr Rachel Gregory Fox @rgf26.bsky.social Freelance proofreader, copyeditor, and indexer, specialising in academic and non-fiction writing. Learn more about my services at https://foxtales-editorial.com.
PhD in English Literature; independent researcher; writing a book on the Hostile Environment.
@neschen.bsky.social @neschen.bsky.social PhD in theater, Lecturer in English and Queer Studies. Pop culture, fan studies, comics, Shakespeare and Elizabethan theater, Long 18th century drama, mid-century media, film noir, drag queens
Ritwika Roy @fangirlrika.bsky.social PhDing in Children's Literature; Co-Founder at Assoc for Children's Lit in South Asia (aclisa.in); pretend grown-up; fangirl; likes rainy days with dry laundry; loves spoilers. #kidlitinsouthasia #postcoloniallit
Dr Jennie Gouck @jenniegouck.bsky.social WiRe Fellow at University of Münster 📚 Researches girlhood in American YA 🤓. ChLA Membership Committee 👥. Reviewer for Kids Books Ireland 🇮🇪. She/her.
Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social Author of RAINBOW TRAP and QUEER DATA 🌈 Researching LGBTQ data at the University of Edinburgh 📊 he/him/his ➡️ linktr.ee/kevinguyan
left-handed hobbyholic @sgerald.bsky.social Blue dot in small town Mississippi. Into books, poetry, pets, arts, crafts, plants, etc. Gen-X Swiftie. Surviving alongside rheumatoid arthritis and its various pals. Recovering academic, adjunct retiree.
David McIlroy @thedavidmcilroy.bsky.social Author of horror and fantasy. Lives in Northern Ireland. Mostly on Substack.
Everything you need from me: https://thedavidmcilroy.carrd.co/
Ellen Forget @ellenforget.bsky.social Book history, disability studies, and digital humanities. Specialty in tactile reading. Certified braille transcriber. she/they. ocd & chronic pain & cane user.
Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social Neurodiversity, disability, access, medical humanities, genre fiction. "Divergent Minds in the Archive" project PI.
Disability, Literature, Genre book (Liverpool UP, 2019) #OpenAccess at https://shorturl.at/5ykqk
Sydney Paige Guerrero (she/her) @sydneyficant137.bsky.social asst prof @ the University of the Philippines Diliman | stories in Apex, Fantasy, Cast of Wonders & more | Nick Joaquin Lit Award '18 & '19 | Clarion '24 Sense of Wonder Scholar | World Fantasy Award '25
https://sydneypaigeguerrero.wordpress.com/
Sarah Thot @sarahfav35.bsky.social Prof doc anciennement dans le monde des musées. Gardienne des livres, exploratrice du numérique et passeuse de savoirs 📚👩🏫
Handi, féministe, enfantiste et fan de jeux et ciné 👋
#prof #books #geek #profdoc
Eggyhelen a.k.a Helen Jones @eggyhelen.bsky.social Lecturer in Primary Education @UCL, PhD candidate @Goldsmiths. Loves children's literature & comics. And cats. Not that fussed about eggs tbh.
Helen Docherty @helendocherty.bsky.social Children's author (Superwolf, Someone Just Like You, The Snatchabook), language nerd & mum of teenagers. I love broccoli & dark chocolate (but not together). Gower / Wales / Cymru. SoA. I will probably post pictures of my dog as well. www.helendocherty.com
Nora Benedict @norabenedict.bsky.social 📚💻📜💃✨🧁 | Associate Prof of Spanish & DH @ UGA
| book: _Borges and the Literary Marketplace_ (Yale UP) | edited volume: _The Oxford Handbook of Jorge Luis Borges_ (OUP)
Stephanie Cotela @stephaniecotela.bsky.social Art Historian & Author writing spooky mysteries for children & crime thrillers for adults. 👻📚 @scbwi_british_isles @mslexia & @thesocietyofauthors https://linktr.ee/stephaniecotela
aimee phan @aimeephan.bsky.social writer. books: the lost queen (ya fantasy duology, putnam May 2025) we should never meet, the reeducation of cherry truong. teacher: california college of the arts. bay area.
Claire Parnell @claireparnell.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Publishing at the University of Melbourne. Researching digital book publishing, popular fiction & platform economies.
https://t.ajrkmx1.com/331727/6224/0?po=6533&aff_sub5=SF_006OG000004lmDN
Melbourne City of Literature Office @melcityoflit.bsky.social The official Blue Sky account for the Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature office.
https://linktr.ee/melcityoflit
Jodi McAlister @jodimca.bsky.social Romance author, romance scholar. Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature & Culture at Deakin (Naarm/Melbourne). My newest rom-com, An Academic Affair, is out now.