Sarah Frances Hardy @sfhardy.bsky.social Children’s book author/illustrator. www.sfhardy.com PUZZLED BY PINK (Viking); DRESS ME! and PAINT ME!; ONE MISSISSIPPI (Nautilus Publishing) @SCBWI #PBParty #kidlit #illustrator PB MG
The Little Apple Bookshop @littleapplebkshop.bsky.social Indie Bookshop in York. 🍏 Selling new books for adults and kids. 🍏 Signed books a speciality. 🍏 Next to York Minster. 🍏 Not quite as old. 
Clare Helen Welsh @clarehelenwelsh.bsky.social Former teacher, children's author, writing tutor and founder of #BooksThatHelp
Nikki Louise @libraryninja.bsky.social School librarian in the UK, dog lover, beach walker, avid reader.
Michelle Harrison @mharrisonauthor.bsky.social Author: 13 Treasures, A Pinch of Magic, Twice Upon a Time, There’s A Beach in My Pants & more.
www.michelleharrisonbooks.com
Katharine Orton @katharineorton.bsky.social Author, human, quite sleepy.
www.katharineorton.com
David Dean @daviddean-illus.bsky.social Illustrator of book covers and other stuff, living in the North of England with my cat.
www.daviddean.co.uk
https://www.instagram.com/daviddeanillustration/
Lindsay Galvin @lindsaygalvin.bsky.social Author 🐙🐉🚢 MG historical adventures: @chickenhsebooks chapter books: @bigcatreading
and more!
Rep: @litagentclare
She/her
Laura Noakes @lauranoakes.bsky.social Author of the COSIMA UNFORTUNATE series. writer + disabled person. represented by Lydia Silver at Darley Anderson Children's Agency. (she/her)
Laila Rifaat @lailarifaat.bsky.social Children's author. ALIYA TO THE INFINITE CITY & ALIYA ABOARD THE TIME TRAIN out now! Repd by Lucy Irvine at PFD. Find me on insta: @lailarifaat_author
Website: lailarifaat.com
Buy my books: https://shorturl.at/bKjQi
@emilydrabs.bsky.social @emilydrabs.bsky.social 
Lydia Massiah @lydiamassiah.bsky.social Writer, wanderer, wonderer, always curious to learn more. Knows a smattering about much, but not much about anything.
Worried about biodiversity loss. What's happening is one big horror story.
Rebecca Rouillard @rebeccarouillard.bsky.social School librarian, neurodivergent writer, cold-water swimmer. Panel chair: @SparkBookAward.bsky.social ✨ www.rebeccarouillard.com
Annaliese Avery @annalieseavery.bsky.social Children’s and YA Author
The Celestial Mechanism Cycle & The Immortal Games out now!
The Wycherleys - coming 22nd May 2025
Siski Kalla Author/Illustrator @siskikalla.bsky.social Opinions: Children’s books are the most delicious; watercolour is liquid colour therapy; animals and GREEN are pure joy.
Facts: Actually autistic, breast cancer beater, sopaipilla eater, my book, Gertie is Not ALL Dogs, out now, Clavis Publishing.
@tinabookpusher.bsky.social @tinabookpusher.bsky.social PR Scholastic UK - FKA book pusher Midas, HarperCollins, Bonnier Books and Abrams & Chronicle Books
Bookstagram: https://www.instagram.com/exlibris_tina/
Lucy Noguera @lucynoguerawrites.bsky.social Children’s author Swop 7+ chapter book series & Herman Needs a Home. Owner of Brilliant Monsters Books a London based empathy led indie children’s publishers. @bmonstersbooks.bsky.social Organises lots of school author visits. Ex Teacher of the Deaf.
Holly Farrell @holly-farrell.bsky.social Garden author, (children's) novelist in waiting.
Guernsey LitFest Administrator.
SoA Sustainability Committee.
All things nature, books and chocolate.
Iolo the dog's plus one.
Views own. www.hollyfarrellbooks.com
She/her
Hannah Love @aitchlove.bsky.social Senior PR Manager at Scholastic UK. 1/4 of Down the Rabbit Hole. Occasional reviewer or event chair. Generally excited.
Hull Schools’ Library Service @hullsls.bsky.social 
Vikki Fenton @mrsfe77.bsky.social Headteacher and MG book addict. Also partial to horses and dogs. Views my own. 
Rob Biddulph @robbiddulph.bsky.social Children's book author and Illustrator of the Year 2025. #DrawWithRob, Peanut Jones, I Follow the Fox, Gigantic, Odd Dog Out, Show and Tell, Blown Away, GRRRRR! & more.
Agent: @jodiehodges.bsky.social
www.robbiddulph.com
www.youtube.com/@DrawWithRob
Julie Pike @juliepike.bsky.social 🤗Author of Flame Chasers and The Last Spell Breather. Made in Wales 🏴
Laurence Anholt 🌻 @laurenceanholt.bsky.social Multi-million selling author/illustrator of 200 titles 📚
New book SMALL STORIES OF GREAT ARTISTS published by @Taschen 👩🏽🎨
Everything here: https://linktr.ee/LaurenceAnholtAuthor 🪷
#UKKidLit #ChildrensBooks #books #EduSkyPrimary #illustration
Catherine Friess @ Story Snug @storysnug.com Bookblogger: https://storysnug.com
🇮🇪 #scbwi #writementor #writemagic
3rd place: Writing Mag PB Prize '25
Top 100: #CNPKids CB '25
Shortlisted: Searchlight PB Award & #WM Idea Idol '24 / #WMCNA PB '23
https://www.instagram.com/cjfriess_storysnug
Julian Sedgwick @juliansedgwick.bsky.social Writer and therapist: Tsunami Girl, Tokyo Ghost Cafe and more. Bewitched, bothered and bewildered since 1966 :-)
Katherine Woodfine @katherinewoodfine.bsky.social Author, reader
Claire Barker @clairebarker.bsky.social Words, pictures and plants. Author of Knitbone Pepper series, Picklewitch and Jack series. Hettie Nettle’s Handbook for Hedgewitches out now. Rep’d by Julia Churchill at AM Heath. https://linktr.ee/clairebarker
Lou Kuenzler @loukuenzler.bsky.social Writing tutor & children's writer - picture books through MG. Rep by Millie van Grutten RCWLitAgency.
www.loukuenzler.com
Sarah J.Harris @sarahjharris.bsky.social Author of Meet Me On The Bridge, The Colour of Bee Larkham's Murder and One Ordinary Day At A Time. Writes YA as Sarah Wishart - Four Good Liars and The Murder Hypothesis
Book and charity shop lover, karate black belt!
Andy Shepherd @andyshepherdwriter.bsky.social Author of the best-selling ‘The Boy Who Grew Dragons’ series out now. Short-listed for Waterstones Children's Book Prize She/her Rep by @jslwilliamson
Lesley Parr @lesleyparr.bsky.social Author: Bloomsbury Children's, Barrington Stoke
Rep: Sam Copeland at RCW
Made of Port Talbot steel
Chopsy
lesleyparr.com
Fiona Woodcock @fionawoodcock.bsky.social Author & illustrator of Hiding Heidi, Poppy and the Blooms, Look, Hello and Silver Linings.
Little Lion Girl written by Olivia Hope out now!
Represented by The Bright Agency.
London
https://linktr.ee/FionaWoodcock
SF Layzell @sflayzell.bsky.social I write queer stories & edit books sometimes https://sflayzell.com/
Buy Cottonopolis, a MG set in 1840s Manchester, shortlisted for Little Rebels https://sflayzell.com/cottonopolis/
Views mine, contact via website
Joanne Burns @joanneburns.bsky.social Educator and writer of children’s fiction. Bath Spa, Class of 2025, MA Writing for Young People.
Alex Milway @alexmilway.bsky.social Children’s author and illustrator of Hotel Flamingo, Big Sky Mountain and many other books. Makes things.
Rachael Scotson @rachaelscotson.bsky.social Making it up as I go.
MAWYP @BathSpaUni.
@bathnovelaward.co.uk and The Bedford Competition longlistee. Book reviewer, librocubicularist, wobbly pot thrower and owner of “officially” the prettiest dog.
Lisa Williamson @lwilliamsonauthor.bsky.social MG/YA author (Bigg School, The Art of Being Normal etc). Books, whippets, dessert.
Ceridwen Eccles @teacherglitter.bsky.social Teacher ⭐️ Mother ⭐️ Lover of the arts ⭐️
I adore reading and hoard books like a dragon does gold.
Becky Morris @albinismadventures.bsky.social Library Worker. PhD in children's books. Coffee lover. Into fitness, baking and crafts. Sports enthusiast. She/Her.
Josh Lacey @joshlacey.com Author of children's books: A Dog Called Grk, The Dragonsitter, The Pet Potato, Hope Jones, etc http://joshlacey.com 
Mat Tobin @mattobin.bsky.social 📚 Lecturer - Primary English & Children's Lit | Co-Author of "Understanding & Teaching Primary English" 📖
Jo Smith @jojophysicsgirl.bsky.social ITE assistant prof 👩🎓
Primary teacher EYFS to Y6 👩🏫
Secondary (physics) 💫
Engineer👩⚕️
Well-being of trainee teachers 🧚🏻♂️
First generation at uni 🙋🏼♀️
Anything physics, but love space🔭
mum👨👩👧👦
views mine, always learning
Cat Norris @cathtigermoth.bsky.social Catcher House available on Amazon.
Shortlisted Guppy Publishing '21. MA(WYP) Bath Spa University.
Currently writing thrillers & ghost stories - adult fiction.
Travelling and exploring new places.
I always smile at dogs 🇬🇧
Clare Brumpton @clarebrumpton.bsky.social She/Her, International School Librarian, IB Librarian, Teacher Librarian, student-led Research Institute, ECIS Lib & Info SIG committee member.
#reading #informationliteracy #research #librarian #inquiry #IBLibrarian #IB #EduSky #UKKidLit
Teriterrywrites @teriterrywrites.bsky.social Word wrangler of psychological thrillers The Stalker & YA Scare Me & more! Freq enraged. Obsessed with stationery & easily distracted by cats & dogs. She/her. Website https://teriterry.jimdoweb.com/
An unusual mix of 🇬🇧🇨🇦🇦🇺🇫🇷🇳🇱🇫🇮
Raen (she/her) @raeniedaze.bsky.social Daydreamer. Writer. Imposter. Perpetually restless.
#amquerying
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
Philip Gray @philipgraybooks.bsky.social Author of THE HOUSE WITH NINE LOCKS (2025) and TWO STORM WOOD, A Times Book of the Year (2022), and other stuff. Pub: Harvill (Penguin Random Hs). Rep: Nicola Barr
#TheHousewithNineLocks #TwoStormWood
Web sites: philipgraybooks.com &
philipgrayauthor.com
Aimee Larke @arlarke.bsky.social Storyteller - #kidlit writer - science librarian - so many ideas - not enough time @ar_larke on Twitter
Julia Lund @julialund.bsky.social Author MG & Women's Fiction. Northern through and through.
rep'd Hannah Sheppard http://hs-la.com #amwriting
#ADCI #pwME #ambulatory #wheelchairuser
Barbara Henderson (new WIP 6831) @scattyscribbler.bsky.social Author. Scottish historical fiction and eco- adventures for kids. 2x Young Quills Winner. 🎭 Teacher, ✝️, 🏴 🇩🇪, Highlands.
www.barbarahenderson.co.uk
Matt Robertson @drawingmatt.bsky.social I’m an award winning Norfolk based children’s book author and illustrator.
Represented by Emily Talbot at United Agents. matttheillustrator.com
Holly Bourne @hollybourne.bsky.social Times bestselling author. I write books for teens and books for adults. Ambassador for Women's Aid. 
Literacy Tree @literacytree.bsky.social We #TeachThroughaText📚
🌐 https://literacytree.com/
Gabrielle Kent @gabriellekent.bsky.social Writer - Knights and Bikes, Alfie Bloom. Co-creator of Rani Reports (as Gabrielle Shewhorak) and Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch with @rhi.bsky.social. Former game developer/lecturer.
Agent- @Hannahlitagent.bsky.social
Eleanor Thom @eleanorthom.bsky.social #Author of Connective Tissue (Taproot, 2023), The Tin-Kin (Duckworth, 2009), and Sea Legs (Penguin Fig Tree, forthcoming 2027)
www.eleanorthom.com
Samuel Burr @samuelburr.bsky.social Author of the instant Sunday Times and USA Today Bestseller, THE FELLOWSHIP OF PUZZLEMAKERS 🧩
Proud #BookSky recruit 💙📚
https://linktr.ee/samuelburr
Sarah Connell @sarahconnellwrites.bsky.social Writing, global affairs, full-time cat-herding
✍️ Rep’d by Steph Thwaites at Curtis Brown
🌊PaperBound & Northern Gravy 🌊 ✨Winner Mslexia YA Novel Prize
Jo Bowers @jobowers.bsky.social Children’s Book Reviews Editor for @justimaginecentre.bsky.social Book Reviewer, Children’s Literature, Reading for Pleasure, Reading, Books.
david tazzyman @gumdraw.bsky.social Illustrator
Sarah Ziman (aka BardyMum) - Bison Rule, OK! is out now! @bardymum.bsky.social Poet, mainly for children (more fun!) but I occasionally adult…
Won YorkMix Poems for Children '21,
Kids’ collections: Why did my brain make me say it?
Bison Rule, OK!
School visits in Watford, St Albans, London & further afield
www.sarahziman.co.uk
Brian Moses @brianmosespoet.bsky.social Writer, children's poet, anthologist, percussionist.
website www. brianmoses.co.uk
Blog for teachers/children brian-moses.blogspot.com
Kirsten Allen (@kidsstoryworld) @kidsstoryworld.bsky.social Helping families & carers find books children love 📚
Reviews, book battles, story challenges & fun author/illustrator Q&A
#kidlit #family #parentlife
kidsstoryworld.org
http://www.substack.com/@kidsstoryworld
WRDaboutbooks @wrdmag.bsky.social Hello we're WRDmag - The STUFFED-FULL-OF-BOOKS, BOOKY magazine all about new titles, authors & booky bits for 8-14 yr olds, since 2003. To read the latest magazine online: http://www.wrdmag.co.uk
Mariesa Dulak 🐯📚 @mariesadulak.bsky.social Children's author | Ex-Publishing | MA Kids Lit | Winner of @FABAward | @thegeacademy | @scbwi | Rep’d by @bathlitagency
https://linktr.ee/mariesadulak
Charlotte Guillain @cguillain.bsky.social Children's author (picture books and non-fiction)
www.adamandcharlotteguillain.co.uk
Artwork in banner by Tony Neal
Theo Bosanquet @theobosanquet.bsky.social Arts journalist and theatre critic. News editor @artsprofessional.co.uk
FORUM Books / the bound / The Accidental Bookshop @forumbooks.bsky.social Three lovely, friendly, award-winning independent bookshops in Corbridge, Whitley Bay + Alnwick
https://www.forumbooksshop.com
Events: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks
Victoria M. Adams @victoriamadams.bsky.social Those em-dashes are all mine, my precious. We do not use the nasssssty AI because it stinks. Silly hobbitses
Amberin Huq @amberinhuq.bsky.social Children's illustrator.
Drawer of pictures, colourer of spaces, writer of moments.
Rep'd by The Plum Agency
She/Her
Abeeha Tariq @abeehatariqart.bsky.social Pakistani and Irish illustrator currently in Edinburgh ✨
www.abeehatariq.com
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/AbeehaTariq
Philip Reeve @philipreeve.bsky.social Author of Utterly Dark, Railhead, Mortal Engines: co-author (with Sarah McIntyre) of Adventuremice, Pugs of the Frozen North etc. My short film Gwenevere is now on YouTube.
Daisy May Johnson @chaletfan.bsky.social Author of How To Be Free, How To Be Brave & How To Be True. I also research school stories, juvenilia, and girlhood in children's literature.
didyoueverstoptothink.com
Kirsten Bakis @kirstenbakis.com Author: King Nyx, Lives of the Monster Dogs. Awards: Bram Stoker, Whiting, Sustainable Arts. Finalist Women's Prize for Fiction. Rep: Janklow & Nesbit. Teach@Yale Writers Workshop. 🌱 💚 she/they- E Liz Hale @ebrhale.bsky.social Associate Prof at University of New England; children's books and classical reception, between Australia and New Zealand... website: https://antipodeanodyssey.wordpress.com/
Meredith Vigh Author @meredithvighauthor.bsky.social Picture Books in rhyme and prose.
Agent: @ichristmasbell @DHAchildrens.
Proud Kiwi. She/Her.
Picture Book Critiques at https://www.fiverr.com/merypink33/critique-and-help-edit-your-c
Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com Author (THE BUTTERFLY ASSASSIN trilogy; THE WOLF AND HIS KING) and medievalist specialising in the Ulster Cycle. #1 fan of Láeg mac Ríangabra.
🏳️🌈 they/them | siad/iad
📍Cambridge, UK
♿
https://finnlongman.com
CassHT @cassht.bsky.social Well this is cute🌞
Year 5 teacher + English lead✏️
Avid reader, keen traveller, shower singer + obsessive crafter ✨
Polly Noakes @pollynoakes.bsky.social Illustrator- author of picture books.
Repped by The Catchpole Agency. Living on a hill in North Yorkshire.
www.pollynoakesillustration.com
Eileen Armstrong @earmstronglib.bsky.social Chartered School Librarian, SLE Literacy, former School Library Association Chair, previous Carnegie Greenaway judge, North East Book Awards organiser
Sarah Wynne @sarahwynne25.bsky.social Children's book author from Chester, educator and reader of all things kidlit.
A Reading Agency 2023 Book of the Year & The Times Best Middle Grade Murder Mystery, Murder in Velvet.
Chapter book, Dogs of Doom due 31st Aug!
Website www.sarahwynneauthor.co.
Authors Abroad @authorsabroad.bsky.social Organising Author, Poet, Illustrator and Storyteller visits for schools & libraries all over the world, #AIMHigh Days and #PoetrySlams in the UK.
https://linktr.ee/authorsabroad
#Edusky #Booksky #KidLit
Jacqui Sydney 📚 @jacquisydney.bsky.social Ex KS2 teacher, children’s book blogger and lover of undunked biscuits and Lego. Currently reading all the books. Autistic. She/her.
Blog: https://worldssmallestlibrary.wordpress.com/
Lauren Steele @shteeeley.bsky.social 📚 MJ PRH Sales 📔 Ex Bookshop Manager 🎓 MA, The Warburg Institute💻 lozlit 📖 May We Feed the King▪️she/her (views my own)
The Unbelievable James Harris @jamesharris.bsky.social Children’s author. Monster hunter. Mentor for Writers’ Block North East and BFI Academy Teesside. Extremely unreliable narrator.
theUnbelievableJamesHarris.com
Rebecca Franks @rebeccafranks.bsky.social Writer | Journalist | Classical music critic @thetimes.com
Finishing that novel… @BathSpaUni @TheGEAcademy
Sign up: http://wordsonmusic.substack.com
David Litchfield @dc-litchfield.bsky.social Scruffy Illustrator and author
https://www.davidlitchfieldillustration.com
Reggie Brown Art @reggiebrownart.bsky.social Artist, illustrator, and writer. 
Thank You Books @thankyoubooks.bsky.social Birmingham, AL’s independent bookstore
Find your book. Find your people. 🩵
lnk.bio/thankyou_bham
Elle Jackson-Codling @bookish-fish.bsky.social UK secondary school librarian, former Carnegie Medals judge (2022-23), and bunny owner
Emma Bradley @emmaebradley.bsky.social Indie Author of fantasy fiction - she/her 🌈
BBNYA 2023 and 2026 semi-finalist!
2022 Write Blend Award Finalist!
PhD researcher at Manchester Met
Liz Pollock: bookseller, non-fiction writer. @lizpollockbooks.bsky.social Specializing in unique books & ephemera on gastronomy, wine, menus, kitchens, and American theater history. Proud to be a member of the National Writers Union. https://www.cooksbookcase.com
Tamsin Mori @tamsinmori.bsky.social MG #UKkidlit writer - author of the Weather Weaver trilogy and Gargoyles. Discovering magic in the everyday. Endlessly curious. Book worm tending towards book dragon.
Loves: cats, crochet, creative people.
Elle McNicoll 🏴♾️ @ellemcnicoll.bsky.social Autistic. Bestselling author and award winning screenwriter. Agent: Lauren Gardner.
Winner of Blue Peter Award & Overall Waterstones Children's Book Prize, 21. Emmy nominated #AKindOfSpark streaming on BBC iPlayer!