Shirley Ng-Benitez @shirleyngbenitez.bsky.social Author and Illustrator of children’s books, and absolutely anti-AI.
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—Everyone’s a story.
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/
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!
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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
Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social Gulfport, FL poet laureate
I write poems about bodies - ours, animals, water, our collective nature
Here to connect with poets & poetry lovers
Author of Water Yoga (Singing Dragon 2022).
Lover of tea & avocados 🥑
https://christafairbrotherwrites.com/
Springer Nature @springernature.com Leading research publisher empowering researchers, educators, and health professionals with our trusted brands for 180+ years. #BePartOfProgress
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OER Commons @oercommons.bsky.social A public digital library of Open Educational Resources. You've got questions, we've got librarians! @ us for help.
📚oercommons.org📚
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Shanna "Read Black Fantasy" Miles @srmilesauthor.bsky.social Writer. Librarian. Rep'd by the extraordinary @johnmcusick at
@foliojr Latest title: #THERISEOFISSAIGWE
she/her
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Jennifer Laughran @literaticat.bsky.social literary agent with a lot of opinions 👀 also a podcast 👀 also my puppy looks like baby chewbacca! www.jenniferlaughran.com / www.andreabrownlit.com
Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social Founder and Agent, Headwater Literary Management
Co-host of Print Run Podcast
www.headwaterliterary.com
www.printrunpodcast.com
fiction and essays in Triangle House / Welcome To Hell World / Typebar Magazine / Mount Hope / elsewhere
Josh Funk @joshfunkbooks.bsky.social I write picture books for adults to read to children so that children fall in love with reading.
New in 2026: A Celebration of You (3.17); The Dino Door (5.5).
linkin.bio/joshfunkbooks
Solarpunk Magazine @solarpunklitmag.bsky.social An online publication of radically hopeful science fiction.
solarpunkmagazine.com
patreon.com/solarpunkmag
Anne Ursu @anneursu.bsky.social I write books, herd cats, and mostly stay under the bed. Latest release: Not Quite a Ghost. Minneapolis, always.
anneursu@mac.com
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social Founder & Agent, Headwater Literary Management. Host of the award-winning Print Run Podcast. AALA Member. Treasurer for Literary Agents of Change. Publishers Weekly industry MVP. She/her & Ms/Mx. Open to queries!
PRINT RUN @printrunpodcast.bsky.social The Book Bird Cometh
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Boyds Mills @boydsmills.bsky.social Boyds Mills positively impacts children by amplifying the voices of storytellers who inspire children to become their best selves.
https://linktr.ee/boydsmills
Jennifer Ann Richter @jenniferannrichter.bsky.social Writer of stories. Watcher of birds and stars. BIRD NERD (Fall 2024, Holiday House) THE STAR OF MOON VILLAGE (Jan 2026, Holiday House) Agent: Amy Thrall Flynn at Aevitas Creative Management.
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PNLA - Pacific Northwest Library Association @pnla-library.bsky.social Website: https://pnla.org
As the World Stearns @mikalroy.bsky.social Former editorial director and editor; current agency head, book packager, and writer. USC film, Hollins U, Clarion West alum. Dad. Books & cats & f&sf & film & games & music & Brooklyn. He/him/foul unspeakable one. 
rachel elliott @okieelliott.bsky.social portfolio: rachelelliott.me
luvs comedians tacos comics
queer kentucklahoman teacher she/her/y’all
author-illustrator of THE REAL RILEY MAYES (harpercollins 2022)
and ZEB AND BEL (harpercollins 2026)
all views and expressions are mine, not my employers’
@kaylacichello.bsky.social @kaylacichello.bsky.social Agent at Upstart Crow Literary
Currently OPEN to queries
Www.upstartcrowliterary.com
Ellen Oh @ellenoh.bsky.social I write MG & YA books that win awards from people not related to me. Founding member of WENEEDDIVERSEBOOKS. Fight Book Bans!!!
Publishers Lunch @publisherslunch.bsky.social Trade publishing's daily rundown, and sibling of the source of Deal Reports.
Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social We are Authors Against Book Bans. We stand united against the deeply unconstitutional movement to limit the freedom to read. We unequivocally support diverse voices on our library shelves, in our schools, and in our culture.
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com
Jennifer March Soloway @marchsoloway.bsky.social Founder + Agent @StarlingLiterary | she/her | @MillsMFALit alum | horror fan (bring on the blood) | In love with all things story | ✨Revision is magical!✨
Marietta B Zacker @agentzacker.bsky.social Book enthusiast & champion, agent at Gallt & Zacker Literary Agency
www.galltzacker.com
Susan Hawk @agenthawk.bsky.social Literary Agent at Upstart Crow Literary, repping books for kids and teens. Periodically open to unsolicited queries, details here: UpstartCrowLiterary.com
Christine Taylor-Butler @ctaylorbutler.bsky.social Author, servant of cats, Visiting MIT Scholar
Poets & Writers @pw.org Official account of Poets & Writers, the primary source of information, support, and guidance for creative writers since 1970. Sign up for our newsletter: at.pw.org/newsletter
Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social White House reporter at the Washington Post. Focused on politics, policy and public health. Democracy dies in darkness.
Find me on Signal: username dan_diamond.01
@shortissweet.bsky.social @shortissweet.bsky.social 
Rachel Alberque @mrsalberque.bsky.social 6th grade ELA teacher, avid reader, 2x TCNJ grad, she/her, views my own
ACES: The Society for Editing @acesediting.bsky.social We are the nation’s leading organization of editing professionals, educators, and students. Follow us for #editing news, events, & training. https://linktr.ee/aceseditors
Nashae Jones @nashaejwriter.bsky.social Kit lit author. Rep'd by @chloenseager. COURTESY OF CUPID(2024) AS YOU WISH (2025). Words in @huffpost@thebelladonnacomedy @mcswys
Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social Dems comms staffer. UCI, King's College London, Johns Hopkins. | INFINITE SKY (Bloomsbury 2026) + more | Many bylines. | AAJA/SCBWI | Rep: Uwe Stender at TriadaUS
The Reading Teacher Editors @the-rt-editors.bsky.social Peer-reviewed, research based best practices for literacy educators
The RT Editors is a collective of scholars who are currently serving as editors for The Reading Teacher. Our posts are our own, and do not reflect the position of the publisher or the ILA
Florence Migga @florencemigga.bsky.social Author. THE SUMMER SCRAPBOOK (Out now!); THE FORTUNE OF IMMY NAKATUDDE (Putnam, Summer 2027).
Add THE SUMMER SCRAPBOOK on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/236003438-the-summer-scrapbook
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
Libby Hartwell @libbyhartwell.bsky.social Children’s writer. 🏆Winner of Little Tiger IAmInPrint Picture Book Prize ‘23. 🏆Winner of SCBWI Slushpile Challenge ‘24. Runner-up Write Mentor Chapter Book Award ‘24. SL for Searchlight Awards ‘24. SL for Write Mentor PB Award ‘24 & ‘25 #MAWYP
Julie Scheina @juliescheina.com Children's & YA book editor at Julie Scheina Editorial Services | Former senior editor at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | Coffee & book lover
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
News Literacy Project @newslit.org We advance the development and teaching of news literacy in K-12 education. #NewsLiteracy https://newslit.org/
Andy “Fucking Bitch” Dashiell ❤️🌈🖖🏔️ @andydashiell.bsky.social Ski, bike, hike, climb, camp, etc. Coloradan. Atheist. Nerd. Dad. Had cancer once. Lived.
Kindness, not cruelty. Cats, not dogs.
CU-Boulder alumnus. Srsly in love. Still don’t know how I got so lucky.
He/him/his.
Last 3 elections: Her/non-felonious him/her
Readiatrician @readiatrician.bsky.social Just a pediatrician who loves to read!
🚫Fighting book bans
💪Freedom to read
📚#kidlit
🍪baked goods
❤️my three boys
👶pediatrics
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www.readiatrician.com
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social Subscribe to www.lawdork.com for SCOTUS and other legal news. / lawdorknews@gmail.com / Signal: crg.32 / About me: Sober. Queer. Bipolar. Theater. Buckeye. And, now, F1. (I'm as surprised as you are.) / He/him.
Main St. Books Monroe @mainstbooksmonroe.bsky.social A used and new bookstore in Monroe, Washington since 1995. Woman- and LGBTQIA-owned and operated. Store cat. 110 E. Main St. Monroe WA 98272 📚🌈😺 MainStBooksMonroe.com
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
The Brown Bookshelf @thebrownbookshelf.bsky.social The home to 28 Days Later, we are an award-winning website dedicated to highlighting both under the radar Black children's lit creatives and the vanguards whose shoulders we all stand on. Your go-to source on #BlackKidLit since '08. thebrownbookshelf.com
@dmc-nmrk.bsky.social @dmc-nmrk.bsky.social 
Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social Independent Journalist. Host of “The Jim Acosta Show” on Substack, YouTube and Apple Podcasts: Former Chief WH Correspondent. Author. https://substack.com/@jimacosta?r=lpd3z&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile Inquiries: go to jimacosta.com
Derrick Chow @derrickchow.bsky.social Author, illustrator, and cartoonist.
I Got You, Allen Liu (Simon & Schuster, 2026)
Ravenous Things (Disney-Hyperion).
Repped by Thao Le. On Deadline.
heymoncalamari @heymoncalamari.bsky.social A Black man with a few library cards.
(he/him/we/us)
#booksky
b.andherbooks @bandherbooks.bsky.social Public Servant. Romance Reader.✨. Fainting couch? I'm on it. She/her.
campsite.bio/b.andherbooks
Kris Bruno @brunosclass.bsky.social Elementary School Media Specialist, Instructional Technology Coach, District 202
Tonya Abari @iamtabari.bsky.social ✨ Storyteller ✍🏾 Independent Journalist | Author | 📚 Collaborator #amquerying
🖊: Essence, USA Today, AllRecipes, HuffPost, Ambrook and more
📚: Mudpuppy, The Innovation Press, LBYR, HarperCollins, Quarto, Wiley, Penguin
💻 (Subscribe) www.tonyaabari.com
KidLit TV @kidlittv.bsky.social 📚We're an Award-Winning website celebrating children's books & reading with Videos 🎥 Podcasts 🎧 KidLit Crafts & Activities 🎨 🏅An ALSC BEST DIGITAL TOOL 🐛CARLE HONOREE
Founder: Julie Gribble @juliegribble.bsky.social #kidlit
A.S. King @as-king.bsky.social Author of books. Maker of art. Speaker of speeches. Part squid/part earthquake. Literacy fanatic. Lover of corn. Ardent supporter of teenagers. Founder of 🏳️🌈 Gracie's House: www.gracieshouse.com.
She/her https://linktr.ee/AS_King
@tamekafryerbrown.bsky.social @tamekafryerbrown.bsky.social 
Tasslyn - AKA Dr. Sasslyn @tasslyn.bsky.social Poet. Superfan - AUTHORS. KIDLIT. BOOKS. 
Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social Cinéaste maudit. Educator. Dad of 2. Quinquagenarian. Man of Appetites. Film writer. UCLA '94, M.F.A. '99. 2nd gen native Angeleno. Pro-union. Anti-fascist. Clearly not the actor from NICKEL BOYS. He/Him.
N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social Writer. She/her.
John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social Writer, speaker, consultant. Chicago Tribune columnist, blogging at Inside Higher Ed. Coming soon, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI. Previously: Why They Can't Write and The Writer's Practice. biblioracle.substack.com
Brandon Tensley @brandontensley.bsky.social Now: National Politics Reporter, Capital B, a Black-focused nonprofit newsroom. Before: National Political Writer, CNN. Writing a book about Whitney Houston's I'm Your Baby Tonight for 33 1/3.
Email: brandon.tensley@capitalbnews.org | Signal: btensley.53
PeeCee @thatpaulachase.bsky.social On the lam from my day job moonlighting as a critically acclaimed Upper MG and YA author, Co-founder of The Brown Bookshelf and momager to MDBallerina. Rep: Jennifer Carlson, DCL Literary Linktr.ee/paulachase
Shakirah Bourne @shakirahwrites.bsky.social 🇧🇧 Author. Up next: HERE LIES A GHOST (March 3rd 2026, Scholastic), BEWARE THE HEARTMAN, NIGHTMARE ISLAND, JOSEPHINE AGAINST THE SEA, ALLIES
www.shakirahbourne.com
Jes Trudel 🇨🇦 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ @jestrudel.bsky.social Literary agent with The Rights Factory. Founder of WritingCommunity.ca.
jentrification @jentrification.com i don't brag enough: detroiter building what's next via m.otherboard.org + ResilientToolkit.jeniferdaniels.com.
#WhatUpDoe #Anishinaabe ᓂᔑᓈᐯ lands 🌱 #urbanist #BlackWithMS 📸
Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social FL public school parents who believe in preserving access to information in public education and libraries. https://www.fftrp.org/florida_censorship_attempts
✨Black Girl Healing✨ @blackgirlhealing.bsky.social http://blackgirlhealing.bio
middle finger to my thumb and then I snap it #justlikemagic💫
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Sourcebooks Library @sbkslibrary.bsky.social The Sourcebooks library team offering updates, news, reviews, and a whole lot of library and educator love! 📚 linktr.ee/sbkslibrary
Peter A. McKay @peteramckay.bsky.social Posts here about #AI, #blockchain, the #Mets, and more. | 🗞️ Ex-reporter: @wsj.com (mostly pre-Murdoch) and @washingtonpost.com (100% pre-Bezos) | 🌎 Website: https://pmckay.com | 📬 Email: peter[at]pmckay[dot]com | Proud alum of Florida A&M's j-school 🐍
SCBWI @scbwi.bsky.social Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators
Supporting quality children’s books & the artists who make them since 1971.
Linda Stanek @lindastanek.bsky.social #Kidlit author of 7 books plus comic book series; winner of Children's Choice Book Award; Choose to Read Ohio award; TX, DE, & PA reading lists; NSTA recom. read + more. Seeking rep. for MG fiction and NF. Also, #crazycatlady
Teresa Rodrigues @teresarodrigues.bsky.social Histotechnologist turned Children’s Books Author
📚 WHERE THEY GATHER (Atheneum, ‘26)
Rep’d by @christietellsastory from @the_cat_agency
Destiny Howell @dhowl37.bsky.social MFA Grad at USF. ENNIE Award winning TTRPG Writer. Writer for One Shot Wonders and Perils & Princesses. Author of High Score and Second to None. destinyhowell.com 💜🖤🤍
Rep: Emily Mitchell (Wernick & Pratt)
Lesley Roessing @lesleyroessing.bsky.social Former MG/HS ELA teacher, director of Coastal Savannah Writing Project and teacher of pre-service/in-service teachers. Author of 5 professional books and articles on literacy & a website with reviews for teachers/librarians, www.LiteracywithLesley.com
CTU Librarians @ctulibrarians.bsky.social Official Blue Sky of the CTU Librarian Committee
https://linktr.ee/ctulibrarians
School Library Journal @slj.com School Library Journal is the premiere publication for librarians and information specialists who work with children and teens. A source of quality, award-winning journalism and reviews for 70 years, SLJ publishes 5,000+ reviews annually.
denise @crispcoco.bsky.social delightfully human | cute as a button | fun loving & fair | midlife, no crisis… yet
📍dallas
Kathie MacIsaac @kathiemacisaac.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Co-author of SEE IT, DREAM IT, DO IT & IF YOU CAN DREAM IT, YOU CAN DO IT • passionate reader • #MGLit lover
The Mixed-Up Files @themixed-upfiles.bsky.social A group blog of middle-grade authors celebrating books for middle-grade readers. For anyone with a passion for children’s literature. Join us! https://fromthemixedupfiles.com/
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics.
Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more.
Typos and opinions both mine.
Co‑Director: @miccenter.bsky.social
Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, NYC PLAN, etc...
@metroadlib.bsky.social @metroadlib.bsky.social 
dsallenauthor @dsallenauthor.bsky.social Damara Allen (she/her) Wife, mother, and writer of #middlegrade #horror | #MGnarwhals | #PitchWars '21 alum | rep'd by @esc_key | The Skeleton Flute (Aladdin Books 2024) | The Undead War (Aladdin Books 2026) | www.dsallenauthor.com
Black Creatives Children's Book Fair @blackcreativescbf.bsky.social We believe that stories matter and Black children deserve to see the depth and breadth of experiences that reflect their lives in books.
Amber McBride @ambsmcbride.bsky.social 🥀Award Winning Author/Folklorist/ Hoodoo/ Poet/Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award winner, National Book Award finalist.🏳️🌈
🥀Cozy (Virginia) Country Living
The Book Faire | A Children's Literature Podcast @bookfairepod.bsky.social The Book Fiare: Children's Literature for Grownups looks at contemporary literature for young audiences, the freedom to read, and interviews with YA and Middle Grade authors.
https://open.spotify.com/show/4yh3qiSM0aE3e9vcP1GsT2?si=541dbda8c7e94aca
Sylvia Liu @sylvialiu.bsky.social MG author who loves oceans, kraken, cephalopods | new MG: ⚽️ STEALING THE SCORE (World Cup mystery)| next: 🐕 NOW THAT WE DON’T TALK| sci-fi: 🦀 HANA HSU AND THE GHOST CRAB NATION | co-run Kidlit411 | website: enjoyingplanetearth.com
Joanne Levy @joannelevy.bsky.social I write books for kids and make things with wool, wood, and a bit of magic.
Some of my books: LET IT GLOW (with Marissa Meyer), BIRD BRAIN, SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS , THE SUN WILL COME OUT, FISH OUT OF WATER, SMALL MEDIUM AT LARGE.
www.joannelevy.com
elisha myra @elishamyra.bsky.social https://blackgirlhealing.bio
middle finger to my thumb and then i snap it. #justlikemagic💫 #blackgirlhealing🧘🏾♀️
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Alexis Pauline Gumbs @alexispauline.bsky.social Queer Black Feminist Love Evangelist. Author of SURVIVAL IS A PROMISE: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde.
adrienne maree brown @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social writer. gardener of healing ideas. emergent strategist, pleasure activist. earthling. good witch. homecoming southerner.
https://linktr.ee/adriennemareebrown
Tom Bober @captainlibrary.bsky.social Librarian Speaker Writer. LJ Mover&Shaker. Fmr @librarycongress Teacher in Residence. ALA Emerg Ldr. '19 Caldecott Comm. Podcaster. @Maslonline Past President.
Kathy Ishizuka @kishizuka.bsky.social Third generation JA; Master Gardener
Priors: Editor in Chief, School Library Journal, Partnerships & Innovation Director, SLJ & LJ
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Victor Pineiro @victorpineiro.bsky.social Pura Belpré author of The Island of Forgotten Gods & Time Villains (Sourcebooks) | Rep: Elana Roth Parker | Digital Innovation Director at HBO / Max | Ran social for YouTube, Skittles etc at Big Spaceship | 🇵🇷
Brittany J. Thurman @brittanyjthurman.bsky.social Award-winning 📖 🏆Author of:
Fly; Fearless Boulevard of Dreams & The Takeover;Forever and Always
Up Next:
OPAL WATSON: PRIVATE EYE
COME CATCH A DREAM
QUENTIN & ALFIE
THE FIRST LIBRARY, 2025
Rep'd by @agentzacker
http://brittanythurman.com
Leah Johnson @byleahjohnson.bsky.social Writer. Bookstore owner. Midwest Princess.
BLACK GIRL POWER out now! 💕
BREE BOYD IS A LEGEND out 3.4.25 ✨