ashleylaffin @ashleylaffin.bsky.social Debut PB The Balloonimals available now!🎈Wife & mom💗 MFA Grad. Writer. Marketer. SCBWI member & guest blogger April ‘24. Kids’ Choice KidLit Writing Contest HM ‘24📚
Maria is Writing @mariakidlit.bsky.social #Kidlit PB/MG writer and enthusiast
Parent
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#Scbwi
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Kim Ryan - Middle Grade Fantasy Author & Illustrator 📚✨🎨 @kruss1013.bsky.social MG Fantasy Author of Elvina Wispwhistle Books • Artist • Classically Trained Mezzo-Soprano • Lyricist • Frmr Marketing Exec. • 9/11 Survivor • Believer in Fairies and Magic •🌟🧚🐉
Amazon➡️ https://a.co/d/0fiZla5M
Website➡️ https://elvinawispwhistlebooks.com
Hub City Bookshop @hubcitybookshop.bsky.social 864•577•9349 | Spartanburg, SC
Nonprofit bookstore of Hub City Writers Project
Sister store to @hubcitypress.bsky.social
Home of Zora Nelle, #hubkitty
Hub City Press @hubcitypress.bsky.social Nonprofit press publishing new and extraordinary voices from the American South. Learn more at hubcity.org/publishing. Shop our catalog at hubcity.org/books.
Mary Hertz Scarbrough @mjscarbrough.bsky.social U.S. Midwesterner living/loving all the biking, museums, and stroopwafels in Amsterdam. Dog lover. Writer for kids: shortlisted by the Historical Novel Society and Mslexia.
Sheyla Knigge @sknigge.bsky.social Literary Agent
Writer
Chaos Coordinator
Laurie (THE QUEEN OF CHESS) Wallmark @lauriewallmark.bsky.social Award winning children’s book author. (THE QUEEN OF CHESS / GRACE HOPPER: QUEEN OF COMPUTER CODE / CODE BREAKER, SPY HUNTER / and more. Repped by Liza Fleissig at Liza Royce Agency. www.lauriewallmark.com
Dev Petty @devpetty.bsky.social Children’s Author. Devout Californian.
Rep'd by @jenrofe of ABLA
www.devpetty.com
Susan Wroble @susanwroble.bsky.social THE DAWN CHORUS (Holiday House, 2/16/27) #Kidlit #STEM @SCBWIRockyMtn member, Therapy dog handler, Leader 2E support group, https://susanwroble.com, KidLit Bird Book Reviews https://www.10000birds.com/author/susan. Repped by Sara Megibow at MLA
Sarah Atherton @sarah-a-author.bsky.social Children's Author & Teacher/SENCo
Winner #ChuckleChallenge 2024
Winner #springflingkidlit 2023
Mentor #WriteMentor 2023 & 2025
Becky Walker @beckywalkerbooks.bsky.social ✍️#Kidlit author (rep’d by Stephen Fraser)
📚Debut 2027, Charlesbridge
FRASER & HENRY GROW A FRIEND, May 25,2027
💻business owner
🧳explorer of the world
👋🏼Love making friends!
https://linktr.ee/beckysuzannewalker?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
Missouri Association of School Librarians @maslonline.bsky.social Visit maslonline.org
Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social A nerd at large. Writer of stuff.
Join my sci-fi book club:
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nerd humor • space & sci fi • books
McCall Hoyle @mccallhoylebooks.bsky.social Best-Selling & Award Winning Author, Educator, Avid Dog Enthusiast, Book Nerd 🖊️👩🏼🏫🦮📚 #kidlit
Learn more at mccallhoyle.com
Angie Thomas @angiethomas.bsky.social #1 NYT Bestselling author - The Hate U Give, Concrete Rose, etc. On the Come Up streaming on Paramount+ . Nic Blake and The Remarkables out now!
Lisa Cowan Pineo @lisacowanpineo.bsky.social Writer currently working on a MG novel. Mom to a ND son and a trans daughter. Ally. Lover of horror, LGBTQIA2+, MG, YA and romance books. She/her 🇨🇦🏳️⚧️♾️
Find me at:
Instagram: @pineolisa
Goodreads: Lisa Pineo (user 62350303)
StoryGraph: @lpineo
Nancy Hudgins @nancyhudgins.com 🎈Celebrating🎈
Books Good Enough For You: The Storied Life of Ursula Nordstrom, Editor of Extraordinary Children's Books
Rep’d: Rachel Orr, Prospect Agency
#MG #SCBWI #BoydsMill #InkedVoices #nonfictionkidlit
Rocky Mountain Chapter of the SCBWI (RMC-SCBWI) @scbwirockymtn.bsky.social https://www.scbwi.org/regions/rmc
Conference link tree: https://linktr.ee/rmcscbwi
Massachusetts Children's Book Award @mcbareading.bsky.social Children's choice middle grade book award sponsored by Salem State University. Find our 24-25 Materials here: https://sites.google.com/milfordtownlibrary.org/mcba/mcba-list?authuser=0
Mary K @maryloveswords.bsky.social *jazz hands* MaryKuehner.com Early lit librarian. Storytime pro. PB author seeking representation. Proudly neurodivergent (OCD/ADHD). “She reads a lot of shouty books.” - that one kid at Storytime. She/her.
Tracie Renee (she/her) @tracierenee.bsky.social Librarian in sort-of Chicago.
PW book reviewer.
#Amquerying #SCBWI writer/poet.
Winner: #50PreciousWords, Highlights scholarship, ElegantLit, IAmWritingMG.
HM: #PBParty.
WTMP mentee, RisingTalent finalist, BOTN.
https://linktr.ee/tracie.renee
Books of Wonder @booksofwonder.bsky.social Open 11am-7pm, 7 days a week📚
NYC's largest independent children's bookstore 🌈
Boni Ashburn @boniashburn.bsky.social Children’s Book Author.
Librarian (Middle/High School & Public).
Mom. Dog mom. Human.
The U.P. of Michigan. boniashburn.com
Christine Taylor-Butler @ctaylorbutler.bsky.social Author, servant of cats, Visiting MIT Scholar
Anna Staniszewski @annastanisz.bsky.social Children's book author, writing instructor, and general word nerd. Lover of dogs, fairy tales, and silliness. My most recent titles: MY COUSIN'S MERMAID, THE WONDER OF WILDFLOWERS, and CLIQUE HERE. annastan.com
Elizabeth Shreeve @shreevebooks.bsky.social Author of kids’ books about Planet Earth. Science writer, reader, hiker, mom. Dog rules the house. 🐾💙🌏📚
New from Simon & Schuster: DINOSAURS TO DRAGONS: The Lore and Science of Mythical Creatures.
rep Ammi-Joan Paquette, Aevitas Creative Management
Mary Beth Miller @mbcatmiller.bsky.social Writer, reader, quilter, and gardener.
#kidlit author
#YA author
#writer
#quilter
#gardener
Kekla Magoon @keklamagoon.bsky.social Writes books, bakes cupcakes, makes pottery, entertains two orange cats. Award-winning author, keynote speaker, unconventional educator. Passionate about literacy, community, diversity, conversation, and social justice. She/Her.
Cynthia Levinson @cylev.bsky.social Kidlit author/presenter specializing in nonfiction and social justice--and now STEM! See more at cynthialevinson.com. Contact me at clevinson@austin.rr.com. Rep’d by EMLA.- Z zoie janelle @zoiejanelle.bsky.social editorial assistant @PeachtreePub & @PeachtreeTeen • cat enthusiast • the L in LGBTQ • (all views are my own!)
Kristen Kiesling @kristenkiesling.bsky.social Writer. Creative napper, theater-loving foodie, Author THE HARROWING (Abrams, April 16, 2024) Rep’d @dzhyde Film/TV:Jasmine Lake and Mirabel Michelson UTA, she/her
Ruth Horowitz @ruthhorowitz.bsky.social Writer repped by Linda Epstein (kids books) and Rena Rosner (adult). Latest title: THE MIDNIGHT MITZVAH (Barefoot Books 1924).
Zara González Hoang @zarprey.bsky.social I make picture books and fill sketchbooks.
Rep'd by Andrea Morrison @ Writers House
https://linktr.ee/zarprey
Michelle Cusolito, M.Ed. ❌👑 @mcusolito.bsky.social Award-winning author of books for kids. Educator. Science Communicator. Ocean Evangelist. Preorder JELLYFISH SCIENTIST and IN THE WORLD OF WHALES. Adjunct @SimmonsUniversity MFA. Rep: @jmcgowanbks #SciComm she/her
https://linktr.ee/mcusolito
Anne Broyles, author @annebroyles.bsky.social Children's author & Cherokee Nation citizen
Newest book: EATING TO SAVE THE PLANET: HOW VEGANISM HELPS FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE
Agent: Jen Newens @ Martin Literary
Eric Bell @ericbellwriter.bsky.social Middle grade writer of ALAN COLE IS NOT A COWARD and ALAN COLE DOESN'T DANCE. Kidlit teacher, workshop facilitator, freelance editor. Queer, neurodivergent. He/him. Rep: Christa Heschke, Daniele Hunter. https://iamericbell.com/
Sondra Zalewski @sondrazalewski.bsky.social Children’s book writer musing about the craft, and posting #PBreview, while waiting for manuscript feedback.
https://sondrazalewski.com/
Elizabeth Law @elawreads.bsky.social #Kidlit and YA Lit are my vocation and I won't stop preaching. Currently Editor-at-Large at Holiday House Bks, and a freelance editor and speaker. 40 years in the biz, yowsah! https://www.elawreads.com/ I'm also a showqueen trapped in a woman's body.
Marie Lamba @marielamba.bsky.social Author of A DAY SO GRAY (Clarion), GREEN GREEN (FSG), DRAWN, OVER MY HEAD, WHAT I MEANT... Senior Lit Agent at The Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency. Opinions my own. 
Joyce Uglow, award-winning kidlit picture book poet @jpuglow.bsky.social #PB poet 🌳🌸🌞🌙💦 #RA #SCBWI #12x12 #CtC | Storied Ink on Substack https://substack.com/@jpuglow #NSTA #ALA #CrystalKite WI Fellowship of Poets
https://joyceuglowauthor.com repped by Liza Voges at Eden Street
Claire Blumenfeld @cblumenfeld.bsky.social K-12 Reading Specialist, PBWriter, reader, mom, SCBWI #12x12PB #InkedVoices mentee www.ClaireBlumenfeld.com
CRANKY HANK and THE NOISY NEIGHBORS: A PURIM STORY (spring 2027, Kar-Ben)
Jo Marie Bankston @jomariebankston.bsky.social Scribbler of Stories, Hoarder of Books, and a Registered Nurse. Sometimes stuck waiting for spoons.
Do Not Obey In Advance.
#SCBWI #LongCovid
She/Her
@miriamsf.bsky.social @miriamsf.bsky.social Mom of 2 daughters. Middle Grade Author. Repped by Nicole Eisenbraun. Developmental Editor. MS ELA Teacher. Tree-hugger. Vegetarian. Figure Skater. Dreamer.
#MGpies
https://mspitzerfranklin.wixsite.com/mysite/critique-services
Sue Fliess @suefliess.bsky.social Children’s book author of over 50 books, school presenter, freelance writer, decent cook. Travels whenever possible. Rep’d by Unter Agency. www.suefliess.com
Barbara Kimmel | #KidLit @barbarakimmel.bsky.social Children's Book Author
#KidLit #Writer #Author #WritingCommunity #SCBWI
www.barbarakimmelwrites.com
🕎 Hanukkah Hippity-Hop (Kar-Ben)
👑 Purim Possibilities (PJ Publishing)
🦊 Rep'd by Eve Adler, Red Fox Literary
Aisha Saeed @aishasaeed.bsky.social Author
Kristin Houlihan, Writer @kristinwrites.bsky.social Poet, Wife, Mom, LongCovid/MECFS. Looking to connect and learning to advocate. EIC, Poetry @epistemiclit.Bsky.social, @nimblewitlit.bsky.social. Micropoetry chapbook Lift the Mask available widely. www.kristinhoulihan.com
Tanya Konerman, Kidlit Author 📚 @tanyakonerman.bsky.social PB/MG; Nature/Verse/Prose
Agent: Mona Kanin
'28 OTIS: THE KING OF KATMAI 🐻🌊👑
‘25 MUD TO THE RESCUE! 🐘🦩🦫 🐢
‘24 HAUNTED STATES OF AMERICA 👻
SCBWI; WFH | hiker 🥾 | veggie 🌽|
bird&bear lover 🐤🐻 | nature 📷 | 💙
www.tanyakonerman.com
Christiana Doucette @doucette515.bsky.social Author | Poet | SDWF Kids Write Judge | MGpies | SCBWI Mentee: Joy McCullough | Agent: Leslie Zampetti | #KidLitChat [Tuesdays 9pm ET] | MG Hub | Highlight’s Kay Yoder Scholarship for US History ‘24 | Intern for Kaitlyn Sanchez | https://bit.ly/3Zf7FiH
Charlene Chua @charlenedraws.bsky.social 🇨🇦 🇸🇬 Illustrator, author (The Pink Pajamas, S&S 2025) | Rep: Tracy Marchini | Co-host @kidlitart.bsky.social chat | 🚫AI/NFT
🎨 CharleneChua.com
🖼️ Links - charlenechua.com/links
✏️ Alt account @sygnin.com
Heather Ayris Burnell @heatherayris.bsky.social Author of the Unicorn and Yeti. Sub It Club moderator. Librarian. Garlic farmer. Represented by @mccarthylit https://www.heatherayrisburnell.com/
https://www.greatnortherngarlic.com/
Julie Reich @juliereich.bsky.social #Kidlit writer #picturebooks • #SCBWI member • Editor in #edtech and educational publishing 
Melissa H. Mwai @me-mwai.bsky.social https://melissamwai.com/
Author, Illustrator, Podcaster | Rep'd by Jacqui Lipton.
Preorder: National Geographic Kids Encyclopedia of African American History & Culture (Dec ‘26)
#SCBWI | #PBCHATMentee | #ADHDwriter | #KDZPodcast
Steph Lau (she/her) @stephlaubooks.com Author, illustrator, former pastry chef.
🐍🪨 MEDUSA'S PET ROCK (HarperCollins): OUT NOW!
❄️🩰THE ABOMINABLE SNOW DANCER (Penguin Workshop, 2025)
Rep: @allielevick.bsky.social
Website: bit.ly/stephlaubooks
Kellie DuBay Gillis (she/her) @kdubaygillis.bsky.social Enviro scientist. Kidlit author. linktr.ee/kelliedubaygillis Out now: IF YOU FIND A FAWN art by Wazza Pink from Disney’s Planet Possible & BIG BIKE, LITTLE BIKE art by Jacob Souva from HarperCollins. Great Lakes lover living near Cleveland. Go Blue!
Michelle Witte @michellewitte.bsky.social Literary agent with Mansion Street Literary (currently closed to queries) and mental health advocate. I also write craptastic books. She/her.
www.michellewitteliterary.com
Jess Hernandez (she/her) @jessjhernandez.bsky.social Writer of #kidlit. Former teacher and librarian. Current kid wrangler. Mutant diabetic and perpetually tired nd. Author of 1st Day of Unicorn School (Capstone) and I WANT TO DANCE IN PANTS (Sleeping Bear, 2025) www.jesshernandezwrites.com
Refe Tuma @refe.blue Writer, dinosaur photographer. Author of FRANCES AND THE WEREWOLVES OF THE BLACK FOREST, a Page Turner Award winner and Bram Stoker Award nominee, and the bestselling WHAT THE DINOSAURS DID pb series. Rep: Marie Lamba, Kristyn Benton.
Laura Lavoie @llavoieauthor.bsky.social Author of picture books & middle grade novels. Newest PB: COUSINS! Spooky MG mystery: 13 DOORS OF BLACK HOUSE out now! Rep: James McGowan Website: linktr.ee/lauralavoie
Ashley Lamb-Sinclair @alambsinclair.bsky.social Author, NatGeo Explorer, Educator
Rep'd by Joyce Sweeney at The Seymour Agency
ashleylambsinclair.com
#kidlit
Sarah @sarahfloyd.bsky.social Writer, mom, dog lover, dreamer 🦋
MG novels: BUTTERFLY GIRL and SURVIVOR MOUNTAIN (Wild Ink Publishing, 2025)
PB: TEN CLEVER NINJAS (Clear Fork Publishing, 2019)
SF Said @whatsfsaid.bsky.social Author of the Varjak Paw books, Phoenix and TYGER! I also write about children's books & all things connected - libraries, literacy & reading for pleasure.
http://www.sfsaid.com/
Jilanne Hoffmann | Kidlit @jilanne.bsky.social Children's book author, book blogger: PB/MG, #STEM
linktr.ee/JilanneHoffmann
HEARTLAND (LBYR '26)
THE OCEAN'S HEART (Millbrook ‘26)
A RIVER OF DUST (Chronicle '23)
Agent: Lori Steel
Focus: Earth's wonders+environment, STEAMTeam
Heather Brockman Lee @heatherbrockmanlee.bsky.social Award winning Illustrator of Picture Books represented by East West Literary- books with Simon and Schuster, Flamingo PRH, and Harper Collins
Heatherbrockmanlee.com
Sondra Eklund @sonderbooks.com Librarian. Writer. Book Reviewer. Math geek. Knitter. Progressive Christian. She/her. No DMs from strangers.
More at https://sondraeklund.com
Julie Mata @juliemata.bsky.social MG author—KATE WALDEN DIRECTS: NIGHT OF THE ZOMBIE CHICKENS and KATE WALDEN DIRECTS: BRIDE OF SLUG MAN (Disney Hyperion). Movie director wannabe; ping-pong ninja; SCBWI. #kidlit
Melissa Murray @melissamurray.bsky.social Author + Illustrator + Artist
SCBWI | CBIG | 12x12
PBParty 2024 Illustration Showcase HM
https://melissamurray.net
#kidlitart #kidlit
Julie Hedlund @juliefhedlund.bsky.social Picture Book author & Founder, #12x12PB @12x12challenge.bsky.social & co-founder @pbsubmissions.bsky.social. SONG AFTER SONG: Julie Andrews Bio (2023, little bee), OVER, BEAR! UNDER, WHERE? (2021, Philomel) juliehedlund.com
Jacqueline Lindsey @jlindseybooks.bsky.social Writer - ALWAYS ROOM FOR ONE MORE (Sourcebooks, 2026) | Rep'd by @litagentkatiem.bsky.social #SCBWI #12x12 @pb26debut.bsky.social
mgwg.bsky.social @mgwg.bsky.social Middle Grade Writers Group is a free online meeting for MG authors and writers. We meet on the third Monday of select months at 7 pm CT
https://linktr.ee/MiddleGradeWritersGroup
Simon Kids @simonkids.bsky.social Find us at https://www.simonandschuster.com/p/kids!
Kevin Roose @kevinroose.com NYT tech columnist, Hard Fork co-host, best at 0.8x speed
Sky @writtenbysky.bsky.social MG & YA author | #SBCWI member | Rep: Ann Rose
Stephanie Rondeau, Author @stephrondeauwrites.bsky.social MG and PB author. Lives in a haunted house. Rep: Ann Rose @ Tobias Lit
Jake Fluekiger- Author- 🏳️🌈 @jakefluekiger.bsky.social Author, rep’d by Ann Rose at Tobias Literary Agency - Co-host of THE WRITERS BLOCK podcast
#writingcommunity
Heather Turner @techielibgrl.com #EduSky #TLSky #TLSkyChat #KidLit #Skybrarians #ISTCert
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‘16 CNYSL Super Librarian, Teacher Librarian, EdTech, Lib Advocate
kevan atteberry @kevanjatt.bsky.social 
Jolene Gutiérrez | Kidlit Author & Teacher Librarian @writerjolene.bsky.social #Kidlit writer 📚 #SCBWI member 📚 Teacher librarian in a haunted library 👻 TOO MUCH! AN OVERWHELMING DAY '23 ✨ THE OFRENDA THAT WE BUILT '24 ✨ MAMIACHI AND ME '25 ✨ UNBREAKABLE: A JAPANESE AMERICAN FAMILY IN AN AMERICAN INCARCERATION CAMP '26 ✨ 
Julie Kingsley @juliekingsley.bsky.social Enthusiastic writing cheerleader. Author of The Space Between Me and You. Cofounder of the Manuscript Academy and the Manuscript Academy podcast. #MSWL. Excited to be here with you all! 
Katherine Applegate @kaaauthor.bsky.social I write books, like the "ONE & ONLY" series, WISHTREE, ODDER, DOGTOWN, and POCKET BEAR.
My new novel, WOMBAT WAITING, is out now!
I post with some help from Two Cats Comm.
Torrey Maldonado @torreymaldonado.bsky.social Educator & Writer for Young People | Close to 25 years teaching in Brooklyn, NYC where I was born & raised.
Alexandra S. D. Hinrichs @puddlereader.bsky.social Children’s author | editor Islandport Press | former librarian | enthusiastic tea-drinker | probably baking or lost in the Maine woods
Katherine Marsh @katherinemarsh.bsky.social Award-winning, middle-grade author of novels for all kinds of readers from historical and contemporary fiction to fantasy. Journalist by training, reader/writer and introvert by temperament, pet-lover by nature.- T Tricia Springstubb @triciaspringstubb.bsky.social Author of award-winning picture books, chapter books, and middle grade novels, with a new MG, HOW TO TELL A TRUE STORY, publishing in April 2025. Lover of kids, cats and anything containing ginger! Find me at https://triciaspringstubb.com
Sarah Aronson @saraharonson.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Bike Rider. My books include: Abzuglutely: Battling Bellowing Bella Abzug (2024), Brand New Bubbe (2022) and Just Like Rube Goldberg (2019)! Are you writing a book? Subscribe to my substack or work with me at Highlights!
Jo Knowles @joknowles.bsky.social Author: http://www.joknowles.com #kidlit #AABB #PB #MG #Tween #YA
Editorial Services: https://www.revise-and-shine.com/jo-knowles
Author visits: https://www.joknowles.com/school-visits
Teacher: Mountainview #MFA Center For Cartoon Studies (summers)
Kate Fussner @katefussner.bsky.social 📕 13 WAYS TO SAY GOODBYE (HarperCollins, March 18, 2025)
📕 THE SONG OF US (KTegenbooks/HarperCollins)
✍ DVMentor '22
✍ MFA Lesley ‘21
🏳🌈Queer she/her
rep: Eric Smith @P.S. Literary
Kelly Starling Lyons @kelstarly.bsky.social Children’s Book Author and Teaching Artist
www.kellystarlinglyons.com
Valerie Bolling @valeriebolling.bsky.social Author of books for children and teachers | Longtime educator | DEIAB advocate | Born in NY | Raised and resides in CT
https://valeriebolling.com
Authors Guild; SCBWI; 12x12; Boyds Mills, #kidlit #PB #earlyreaders #booksforteachers
Andrew Hacket @andrewchacket.bsky.social Picture book author & elementary educator
Up next:
IN THIS CLASSROOM (Spring 2026)
SQUIRREL & TURTLE: THIS BOOK HAS BIG WORDS (Fall 2027)
https://t.co/YSBfW8Jq3
Tracey Baptiste @traceybaptiste.bsky.social Author. Educator.
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)
Patricia Tanumihardja @ediblewords.bsky.social 🇮🇩🇸🇬🇺🇸 I write for kids! 📚RAMEN FOR EVERYONE🍜JIMMY’S SHOES👠 THE SUGAR PLUM BAKERS🧁 
Hannah West @hannahwest.bsky.social Middle grade and YA author 📖 Ivy and Forest Rewrite the World (Holiday House 2025); The Bitterwine Oath; The Nissera Chronicles
www.hannahwestauthor.com
Barbara O'Connor @barbaraoconnor.bsky.social Children's writer, books including How to Steal a Dog and the NYT bestseller WISH
www.barbaraoconnor.com
Alan Gratz @alangratz.bsky.social New York Times bestselling author of books for young readers, and eater of pizza.