Naima Amrin @romizabooks.bsky.social Naima R Amrin is an upper Middle Grade Australian writer of South Asian background. In 2025, she participated in the Cultivate Mentorship Program for Emerging Writers from Diverse Backgrounds, funded by Create NSW (government organisation), Australia.
Rebecca Weber 🙂🐈⬛📰 @rweberwrites.bsky.social #SCBWI Author - THE PAINTER'S BUTTERFLY and LOOPHOLE (Artemesia Publishing)/Beta reader/@litkidsmagazine.bsky.social founder/House flipper/Bostie & girl mom/#MGpies #YANation
"You are the one you've been waiting for all of your life!"
Leslie Nightingale @leslienightingale.bsky.social Writer of YA novels and educator in the DC area
Leslienightingale.com
Avery Dexter | Romance Author @averydexter.bsky.social Amazon bestselling author with a spicy-spooky romance coming out next Halloween...
Daily Novel Writing Festivals @novelfestivals.bsky.social All of these contests give you 3 options to submit: Full Novel; 1st Chapter; Performance video readings.
https://festivalreviews.org/daily-novel-festival-contests/
Matthew Vecera @mvecera.bsky.social 
Vanessa Global @vanessaglobal.bsky.social 209K LIBRARY: universities,libraries,politicians,scientists,academics, lawyers,economists,linguists,historians,writers,BLUE, ANTIFA!
Me: brown NA,Oregonian,veteran,globetrotter,critical thinker,linguist,teacher,reader,atheist,constructive,ANTI-TRUMPIST
Peggy Ross @peggyrosswrites.bsky.social Anarcho-commie jewish writer in WA
they/them 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
2026 PNWA unpublished literary contest Finalist (Speculative Fiction/Fantasy category)
Kayleigh @kaydwrites.bsky.social Mother, educator, bibliophile. Aspiring author who should probably be grading. I collect (far too many?) antique books. 📚♥️
New profile! Same me.
PFP: @nushdeco.bsky.social
Hannah ✿ 🌷 @anarchy-bunker.bsky.social dms open if you can keep up 😏
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
https://linktr.ee/SpoFest
Laura Pérez Delgado @acasadassilvas.bsky.social Illustrator
Web: https://lauraperezdelgado.myportfolio.com/
Instagram: a_casa_das_silvas
Kirsten Miles, Author 🌹 @kirstenmiles.bsky.social Author 🖊 Vegan 🥬 Libra ♎️
EDM forever 🪩 Write Your Heart Out ❤️
Visit me at kirstenmilesauthor.com 💕
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I do not read DMs here.
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
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.
Yasemin Gyford @yasemingyford.bsky.social Artist, 👩🎨 Children's Book Illustrator, Urban Sketcher ✍️ Over Thinker📍Between London and Cambridge UK
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
❄️ ⓐ. ⓡ. ⓛⓔⓔ ❄️ is querying @itsamabee.bsky.social 📍Chicago ⟢ Indigenous ⟢ NB 🏳️🌈✨
✧ Fantasy Author & Poet ✧
𓂃✍︎ Querying: “An Artistic Deception”
#OwnVoices #SapphicFantasy
✨Want more? DM me!
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 
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
Nancy Stark Lee 🇨🇦 @drnancydraws.bsky.social #kidlit author-illustrator seeking representation | #PBRisingstars 2023 alum | SCBWI San Diego Own Voices Illustrator Award Winner 2024
https://linktr.ee/drnancydraws
Jessie Romigh @jessieromigh.bsky.social Children's book writer & illustrator seeking representation. Finding whimsy & humor with a dash of puns. Illustrations are hand-drawn, inked, & painted with watercolor. SCBWI-Austin Chapter. She/Her
www.jessieromigh.com
#kidlit #picturebook #kidlitart
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
Alex Winters | Romance Author @awintersromance.bsky.social Amazon bestselling romance author with a passion for holiday music, junk food, cheesy 80s horror movies & Epcot...👍🎄📻🍫🕯📗
https://www.amazon.com/author/awintersromance
Linnea Solomon @sololinnea.bsky.social Kidlit and background artist! She/her, 22. Available for work. Business inquiries ✉️ linnea@solomonster.org
https://www.linneasolomon.com/
Departure ticket @departureticket.bsky.social Departure ticket for a specialized travel and tourism blog
👇
https://www.departureticket.com
Jeff Harter @jeffharter.bsky.social Children's book Illustrator, aspiring author, Assistant Professor of illustration, and explorer of humor, whimsy and timelessness! Illustrator of The Lion on the Bus, Trusty Bus, 10 little Vehicles and the My Life is Weird series.
@sipillustrations.bsky.social @sipillustrations.bsky.social 
Howard Aiken 📚 @howard-aiken.bsky.social Blogger, writer, and reader. Looking for an agent for my real-world (no dragons) 14th-century historical fiction trilogy "Cruz Espada."
Blog: https://unexpectedangles.wordpress.com
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! 🔞 ❰OPEN❱ @s4ltorii.bsky.social SEX IS NOT THE ENEMY!!
❕No ai❕No Minors❕
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Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social Scurrying through the mire of existence. #AmQuerying a novel about a trip through the lives of ancestors.
NYC! 🏙️
Follow me at Medium.com/@edwardrstapleton
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
Anne Armstrong @childbookart.bsky.social wonder hunter | art agent #kidlitart | tree + neighborhood advocate
tinyurl.com/t4vzkrne
Brackenlowe Halt Storyworld @brackenloweproject.bsky.social A Hull-rooted community arts and heritage project bringing Victorian railway history to life through stories, illustration, film and an immersive fictional world.
( Brackenlowe Halt is a fictional storyworld rooted in real history)
brackenlowehalt.co.uk
Kate Newton | Children’s Book Author @itskatenewton.bsky.social Children’s Book Author
📚Little Levi and the Bedtime Scaries 📚EmpowerMintPress
https://linktr.ee/kateandthenewtones
Caroline @carolinewu.bsky.social ✨ PB and MG writer
🏔️ Always in the mountains
🐦 Avid hiker, amateur nature photographer, wannabe birder
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
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
Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social Professor of Russian & Soviet History at Queens College, CUNY. Author of The Essential Guide to Writing History Essays and An Ordinary Marriage: The World of a Gentry Family in Provincial Russia. antoshki.com
Canada Fiction Fest @canadafictionfest.bsky.social Like a great big online book fair, featuring Canadian fiction books and authors from all across the country. 🍁🦫🫎 | FictionFest.ca
(Also @nptwrites.bsky.social)
Kallie Stenman @kalliestenman.bsky.social Children’s book writer & illustrator, kidlit enthusiast, designer & artist.
Protecting and promoting creativity and human empathy through 100% human-made art and story text for children’s books!
SCBWI & 12x12
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
CaseyAD @caseychavis.bsky.social Child of God, Proud Liberal, Brother, Uncle, Baker,Short Story Writer, Published Author, Cat Owner, World wide Traveler, Architect in a past (or future) life, Proud New Yorker living in Wisconsin. Introvert struggling to become more of an extrovert
DAR @darbooks.com Author/Writer/Dreamer - DA RASMUSSEN
Pandore Series
DearEditorDotCom @deareditordotcom.bsky.social Deborah Halverson—“The Editor”—posts writing tips, inspirations, news, & alerts when she answers new questions from writers on DearEditor.com
@alinagridley.bsky.social @alinagridley.bsky.social 
Colin Lewis @colinlewis.se Designer + builder + writer.
https://colinlewis.se- J jenniferstoner.bsky.social @jenniferstoner.bsky.social
@vincentshawauthor.bsky.social @vincentshawauthor.bsky.social 
Allison Hackworth @allisonhackworth.bsky.social Neurodiverse mom, wife, and nurse who absolutely loves creating colorful, spooky picture books with her husband! 📚📖✏️🎨🖌️👻💀🧟🧛🏼🦇🎃♥️🧡💛💚💙💜
Serena Call @serenacallart.bsky.social Aspiring children's book author and illustrator.
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
Jacob Hansen @jacobhansenwrites.bsky.social Repped by Sorcha Fairbank
#SCBWI member
#chucklechallenge ‘24 winner
#kidlit Author
Indianapolis- A AlayneKayChristian.bsky.social @alaynekaychristian.bsky.social Alayne Kay Christian--Author TURKEY ON THE RUN!
SCBWI, 12X12. Former acquisitions editor, an award-winning children’s book author, and a picture book writing mentor/teacher.
@sunflowerhues.bsky.social @sunflowerhues.bsky.social 
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.
Vicki Gausden @vickigausden.co.uk Illustrator, friend to dogs & fan of the 6B pencil. Love a dress with pockets. Books with Little Tiger, Farshore & HarperCollins.
www.vickigausden.co.uk
Serineh Eliasian @seelillustrations.bsky.social ✨Kidlit illustrator and storyteller
✨Portfolio: www.serineheliasian.com
Kimberly Parsons @kimberlyparsonsart.bsky.social Hello! Daily original pen and ink illustrations 🎨 Vermont 🌲
Heidi Lewis @heidilewis.bsky.social Author and vintage ephemera/mixed media collage artist. Ask me about the lost art of letter writing.
My picture book, LOUIE MATTAR’S FABULOUS CAR, illustrated by the amazing Jordi Vila Delclòs comes out in August (Creative Editions).
heidilewis.info
Kevalkumar @kevalkumar.bsky.social Motivational Quotes Writer
Nadiad, Gujarat, India 🇮🇳
Contact:+918866868474
Wine Mom Wrote a Mystery @winemommystery.bsky.social I wrote a cozy mystery at 50.
NorCal
THE DEVIL WIND MURDERS
Link below⬇️
BOOK LINK: https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/the-devil-wind-murders-a-vi-sandoval-mystery/id1804920377
#crime #crimenovel #humor
#California
Jeannine Vetrano Smith @jvsmithauthor.bsky.social Picture book author, canine educator, messy cook,Ga-ga for Golden Retrievers, writer4life, proud to be human not AI
www.jeanninevetranosmith.com
Debbie Moeller @debbiemoellerbooks.bsky.social Author. Eclectic kidlit writer. I write picture books (fiction & nonfiction), leveled readers and early readers. Retired teacher. Eccentric grandma. Beach junkie. SCBWI member. She/her
Molly Schaffer @mollyschaffer.bsky.social Kidlit Author, Therapist, Mom, Former Actor
mollyschafferbooks.com
#SCBWI #PB #12x12PB #PBParty
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
Lonely Arts Club Band @lonelyartsclubband.bsky.social Hi, I'm Jenny, a Houston, TX based artist and illustrator who loves finding the fantastic in the diversity of nature, humans and our imagination.
Lit Kids Magazine @litkidsmagazine.bsky.social An online literary magazine for kids who love to read, by kids who love to create. ✨ *Submissions open for Issue 12: Fantasy through 11/7!*
https://www.litkidsmagazine.com/
Elowen Silverscale @elowensilverscale.bsky.social ✨ Weaver of magic! ✨
She/Her | Artist | Kidlit Writer
Rebecca Wong @rebeccawong.bsky.social 🍓 #kidlitartist #childrenbookillustrator. She / Her. 🇸🇬
🥝 Available for #picturebook #kidlit #childrenbook projects!
🍊 Looking for Rep!
🫐 rebeccawongsilin@gmail.com
🥦 NO AI USE
https://rebeccawongillustrations.carrd.co/
naho ogawa illustration @nahoogawa.bsky.social Naho Ogawa
www.naho.com
Tokyo based published illustrator
Work inquiries: hello<at>naho.com
IG: nahoogawa_illustration
Madeleine Mu 🇨🇦🏳️⚧️ @madeleinejessa.northsky.social Scribe, scribbler, musician, crossword enthusiast
Xennial trans woman living on Treaty Six territory
Dramatic subtlety of Groucho paired with the comic timing of Karl.
Working on a debut MG graphic novel.
(she/they)
Jennifer W. Bull @violinwriter.bsky.social Author-Illustrator & Pro Violinist. 🎻 Creating hybrid MG worlds where misfits find their voice. Currently developing The Wild String trilogy.
Marianne Doherty @mariannedoherty.bsky.social Digital Project Manager for Scottish Book Trust. Children’s books and comics enthusiast. Dyslexic. ME/CSF. Here for the kids book chat. All views my own. #KidsBooksFriday 📚🏴
Griet van Lente @vanhelsingssister.bsky.social Blogger about child literacy in rural America, also features writer for small town Oregon. Favorite published story, Exorcism, In County (Danse Macabre), blogger: https://makingspiritsbright.org/it-take-a-village-to-read-a-book
ejoyd.bsky.social @ejoyd.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Lover of dark chocolate. 2026 #KidlitChuckleChallenge HM. 2024 #50preciouswords HM. #SCBWI #PB #kidlit #travel
RIVERS.JOHNSON @rivers30.bsky.social Illustrator looking for an agent. Open for commissions.
Rivers.illustrations@gmail.com
Claire Woodend @clairewoodend.bsky.social Budding picture book writer.
CANSCAIP '25 Long List (x2)
#PBParty '25 Honorable Mention.
Trivia nerd. Would do anything for my cats.
Victoria, BC. 🏳️⚧️
Cynthia Mackey, Butterfly Sea, out now! @booksbycindy.bsky.social Poet, Picture Book author, and Nature educator. IF A BUMBLE BEE LANDS ON YOUR TOE, Picnic Heist. BUTTERFLY SEA is available for pre-order with Tielmour Press, #SCBWI #Edusky #CANSCAIP #CWILLBC
🦋 🐝 🍃
www.booksbycindy.com
https://linktr.ee/Cynthiamackey
Amy Leskowski @amyleskowski.bsky.social Rep'd by Keely Boeving. PB writer, #scbwi, #12x12, copyeditor, dog mom, mom of 3, actor, instructional designer, baseball fan, soccer mom, baseball mom, Red Sox Nation, rhymer, pickleball player, cake decorator