Laurel Aylesworth @laurelillo.bsky.social Children's book illustrator | Rhode Island | THE BLUE CANOE | MY HOUSE, MY FAMILY | CHALK THE WALK | rep'd by Essie White at Essie White Literary Agency | SCBWI member
Portfolio: www.laurelaylesworth.com
Fayora | Children's Book Artist @fayorart.bsky.social Children's Book Illustrator
Helping authors create memorable stories through expressive illustrations. Available worldwide.
Upwork: https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/ilhamtrisusilo?mp_source=share
Behance: https://www.behance.net/ilhamtrisusiloo
Astrarium Digital @astrariumdigital.bsky.social ✨🎮Helping indie games find their players! 🎮✨
We help indie developers grow wishlists & launch with confidence - games don't fail because they're bad, they fail because no-one sees them.
📅 Let's chat:
https://calendly.com/accounts-astrarium/30min
Katie Mazeika @kdmaz.bsky.social author/illustrator of
MAYBE JUST ASK ME! (Beach Lane 2025)
BEULAH HAS A HUNCH! (Beach Lane 2023)
ANNETTE FEELS FREE (Beach Lane 2022)
#ND #Disabled |
https://linktr.ee/KatieMazeika
www.katiemazeika.com
Grimm‘s Illustrations @grimm-illustrates.bsky.social Children’s Book Illustrator 🖌️
SCBWI Member
I create digital and traditional illustrations
www.grimms-illustrations.com
su moon @sailor-smoon.bsky.social author-doodler + character designer #kidlit #animation
📕 Vlad is Mad! (B+B/Macmillan, Aug ‘26)
📖 The Ugly Donkey (B+B/Macmillan, Aug ‘28)
Amanda Dressel @amandadressel.bsky.social 🖍️ illustrator & writer of picture books
📝 illustrated newsletter about art & life as an orphaned young adult ↓
www.amandadressel.com
Juliana D’Angelo Illustrator @judangeloillustra.bsky.social Children's book illustrations with heart, humor, and a little chaos.
Mari Richards @maririchards.bsky.social Author/Illustrator, Toy Designer, Mom, Artist, Rock Collector, Book sniffer | Illustrator of the Archie and Pip series | She/Her | Represented by @AdriaGoetz @KTLiterary
https://bio.site/MariRichards
Jessica Braidan @jessicabraidan.bsky.social 📚 Color & Discover series — fact-and-coloring books for curious kids 4 and up. Surprising facts + bold pictures to color + try-it activities. Read, create, discover, screen-free. 🦕🚀🐴 jessicabraidan.com
https://www.facebook.com/jessica.braidan/
Lens Creator @ztk999.bsky.social ✨ Professional Snapchat Lens Designer
Welcome! 👋
Follow me on Snapchat and discover my latest creative lenses.
https://www.snapchat.com/add/ztk999
Sue Sutherland, Author - TWELVE DAYS AT GLACIER @suemt.bsky.social Debut picture book author - TWELVE DAYS AT GLACIER, granola girl, weaver, quilter, traveler, photographer, 12x12, Montana SCBWI
Coming Soon - HOW HANNAH GOT HER LUMP OF COAL (2026), TWELVE DAYS AT YELLOWSTONE (2027), & NOTHING BUT NET TROUBLE
Wendy @thistleandmoss.com Trans woman, Druid priestess, polyam queer kin 🌾
Tending a hearth for the burned-out and the becoming. Earth magic, queer joy, dispatches from the edges.
📜 thistleandmoss.com
#Trans #LGBTQIA #Pagan #Druid #Witch #Polyam #Progressive
DearEditorDotCom @deareditordotcom.bsky.social Deborah Halverson—“The Editor”—posts writing tips, inspirations, news, & alerts when she answers new questions from writers on DearEditor.com
Faith Gluskin @authorfaithgluskin.bsky.social #PICTURE BOOK Writer/#Teacher/#amquerying/Author of Gorillas’ Night Out (Indigo River Publishing/2019) and Matzah Means So Many Things (Yorkshire Publishing/2022). Member of #SCBWI
Natasha B Padhiar @natashabpadhiar.bsky.social Author | Illustrator | Educator
natashabpadhiar.com
Anne @anneleblanc2.bsky.social Retired(ish) teacher, picture book writer, reader, library lover, geologist. I also love to sing, dance, code and learn about just about anything!
Hailey Dorritie (Commissions OPEN!) @haileydorritie.bsky.social SVA Illustration 2024 // 26 // She/Her // Comms Open! // 📧 - haileydorritieart@gmail.com
https://linktr.ee/haileydorritie
Megan McNamara @writtenbymegan.bsky.social Story Maker-Upper 📺 TV Writer: ESE on All American: Homecoming I Staff Writer on LA’s Finest 📚 Kidlit Writer: Member of Storyteller Academy I PB Rising Stars HM 2025 I Blogger of @keepwritingkidlit.bsky.social (she/her)
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
A-Chau Caban @atcreateartworks.bsky.social 👋Hi, I’m A-Chau👩🏻Illustrator Seeking Rep
🫶🏼Cute characters,sweet stories,animals, nature
🪷 Little by little, a little becomes a lot. ~Tanzanian Proverb 🖼️ All artworks & content©️ATCreateARTworks
More about Me: https://linktr.ee/atcreateartworks
Beehandi @beehandi.bsky.social She/her
Kidlit Illustrator/ writer.
Insta @bhandiillustration
http://www.bhandiboe.com
Catholic 😂, wife 😊, mom of 3 🤪 ADHD and ASD 💖🎨💪🎧 SCBWI IC MD/DE/WV
Clay Adamah @clayadamah.bsky.social (they/ze)
Author-Illustrator of #KidLitArt (long-press)
https://linktr.ee/clayadamah
just reading books, drawing stuff,
and tree-watching with birds. 🌳 👀 🐦
🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
Human made - No AI
Illustrator of Kismet, No! (PJP 2027)
Shennen Bersani @shennen.bsky.social A children’s book author and illustrator I’ve illustrated 45 picture books (currently working on more). I also create fine art, portraits, & share 🍀 with others. www.Shennen.com Find free puzzles, coloring pages and crafts at www.achoowhypollencounts.com
Andrea Wickert @librarymusthaves.bsky.social 🌳 Parent | ♡ Book Lover |📍Upstate NY
🖼️ Author + Illustrator
✨ Finding you the best children’s books
💻 Portfolio: andreawickert.com
📖 IG: instagram.com/librarymusthaves
🍄 Shop: shop.hedgerowgeneral.com
Hollie Michaels @hbmichaels.bsky.social Literary Manager at Martin-Newens Literary Management
Author & Illustrator
Author of GOLDA AND EZRA series - Capstone
Member: SCBWI, Kids Comics Unite, Children’s Media Association
www.holliemichaels.com
www.QueryTracker.net/query/holliemichaels
KIM F-M @kimf-m.bsky.social 💙 We are NOT going back! 💙
UNITED WE STAND, TOGETHER!
#DEMOCRACYMATTERS, #Liberal
#RESIST, #BlueCrew
#INSPIRATION 😊
#VoteBLUENoMatterWho 💙
#BeARaindropMakeWaves 🌻
Knowledge = TRUE POWER!
Health, Nutrition, Fasting, Exercise!
Kevalkumar @kevalkumar.bsky.social Motivational Quotes Writer
Nadiad, Gujarat, India 🇮🇳
Contact:+918866868474
Cyrus Frioli @cyruscreates.bsky.social (They/them) Painter, illustrator, muralist.
Contact:
CyrusCreatesart@gmail.com
Kidlit Portfolio:
cyruscreatesart.com
Shop/patreon/other goodies:
https://linktr.ee/CyrusCreates
Illustrated By Jessica Cooper @illustratedbyjess.bsky.social Author Illustrator, Bookish, KidLit Community, Pattern Designer. Picture Books, MG, YA, Nature Science, Environmental, Folklore & Historical Fiction. Illustration Coordinator for SCBWI Los Angeles. My portfolio website is www.IllustratedbyJessica.com
Maria is Writing @mariakidlit.bsky.social #Kidlit PB/MG writer and enthusiast
Parent
Bunny person
#Scbwi
Nature
Foodie
TheresaAnackerWohlers @tanackerwohlers.bsky.social Artist, Must be outdoors, Lover of imagination and youthfulness. An illustrator and author of PBs and working on MG pieces as well. 
Geeks for Growth - Baltimore @g4gbaltimore.bsky.social Dramatically performing digital marketing for Baltimore, MD area businesses. Grow your business the smart way
Schrill_art @schrill-art.bsky.social Rp: @jmcgowanbks.bsky.social at @bookendsliterary.bsky.social | she/her | Brush-creator & illustrator based in Berlin | Portfolio & shop:
https://www.schrill-art.com
Show the art you did with my brushes: #schrillbrushes
Amanda Morrow @amandamorrowart.bsky.social Kidlit Artist 🎨
amandamorrowart.com
Rep’d by the Bright Agency
Marianna Smith @mariannasmith.bsky.social Children’s Illustrator. Art Educator. MFA Illustration SU 2026. BFA Communication Arts VCU 2020. #SCBWI Member. She/Her. Brazilian-American.
Portfolio: mariannasmith.com
Email: ms@mariannasmith.com
Estee Hall @esteehillustrates.bsky.social 🖍️ Illustrator, designer, storyteller.
🎓HarperCollins Author Academy - Alumni 2025
💂🏾♀️London, UK
*Seeking representation*
✐ Portfolio: www.esteehall.com
📧Email: xesteex@ymail.com
🎨Shop: www.thisismi.co.uk
Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social They/them. Artist just doing book covers, email info@debutart.com for inquiries. Co-creator of folk horror TTRPG "The Woods at Blight's Hollow," now available for pre-order! http://www.blightshollow.com/
Angela Matteson @angelamatteson.bsky.social #KidLit Illustrator / Surface Designer
Obsessed with color & inspired by nature
Represented by James McGowan at BookEnds Literary Agency
bio.site/angelamatteson
@gravyhands.bsky.social @gravyhands.bsky.social Voted goofiest ball 🏈🏆
Doing super not well with authoritarianism 😵💫
Fay Ryu Kelling @drawnbyfay.bsky.social Children's Author-Illustrator
Based in Southern California
Rep'd by @essiewhiteliterary
SCBWI member • Mom of 2
drawnbyfay.com
Marta Pilosio Illustration @martapilosio.bsky.social Italian author-illustrator with a passion for books, folktales, fairytales, legends and history. SCBWI member. Represented by Erzsi Deàk at Hen&ink Literary.
Ace Myers | Kidlit @acemyersauthor.bsky.social Children's book author | Love nature and animals | I filmed a video series of squirrels in my backyard. | Musician 🎺 | Songwriter 🎹 #kidlit #writingcommunity
YoungJu Kim @illuhaus.bsky.social Kidlit Author-Illustrator based in Vienna, VA. #SCBWI, #12x12PB, #PBRisingStars
https://kimyoungju.com/
https://www.instagram.com/youngjukim_illuhaus/
#kidlitart #kidlt #kidlitillustrator #illustration #artist #midatlant
Ronni Runyon - Illustrator 🌷 @ronnirunyonillo.bsky.social See the world as a kid again!
Children's book illustrator, SCBWI member
ronnirunyonillustration.com
Arpita Choudhury @fernspikeart.bsky.social She/ Her
Lapsed marine biologist turned illustrator.
Looking for representation.
SCBWI Member Western PA.
Interested in PB, CB, ER, MG, BC, NF, puzzles, and kids games.
https://www.fernspikeart.com/moreinfo
iWIC-featured-books @iwic-book-features.bsky.social You write ... we tell the world about it!
www.writersinspiringchange.com
Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social Anti-Zionist Free Palestine Ukraine Solidarity Anti-Racist Anti-Carceral Abolitionist Anti-Genocide Anti-Colonial Anti-War Anti-Imperialist Intersectional Feminist Queer LGBTQI+ Green Eco-Socialist People Planet Peace Interfaith Seeker of Beloved Community
Mike Petrik @mikepetrik.bsky.social Author and illustrator of books for kids!
One Cool Duck 4, Camp Out! Out now from Hippo Park and Astra Pub.
Currently seeking representation.
https://linktr.ee/mikepetrik
• MarieBee Banville • @mariebee10.bsky.social Artist • Illustrator • Writer
Member of SCBWI and CANSCAIP
She/her - LGBTQ+ 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ ally
Canadian 🇨🇦
Nature lover 🍁
Cancer thriver 💪
CraveCute Collector @cravecute.bsky.social Adore cute vintage books and home decor.
💙🇺🇸 ♻🌲😺
Alina Manolache @alpacasbookshelf.bsky.social I'm Alina and I like alpacas🦙
romanian children's book illustrator
available for new projects
🚫 No AI
Portfolio: alpacasbookshelf.com
Kaushani Mufti @padfootblack25.bsky.social 🌟Kidlit and Middle-grade Illustrator from🇮🇳
🌟Open to Representation
🌟 SCBWI India - Illustrator Co-ordinator
🌟 https://kaushanimufti.com/
✉️ kaushani.mufti@gmail.com
Jenn Bower @jennbower.bsky.social Children's book author-illustrator from NC.
Rep'd by Lane Clarke at Ultra Literary
🌐 www.jennbower.com
Srinidhi Srinivasan | Kidlit Illustrator @srinidhidraws.bsky.social Rep’ed by Aliza Hoover at CAT agency!
Children’s book Illustrator, Sketchbook Scribbler ✏️& Maker of many things 🪡|
🕸️ www.srinidhidraws.com
📧 srinidhis01@gmail.com
@Vera Lisa Smetzer @veralisa.bsky.social Picturebook maker. Author/illustrator.
12x12. SCBWi.
Maine photographer.
"Journey to Forgiveness," second chance romance on a Maine flower farm. Harl. Aug. 2026. 🌷
John Lechner @johnlechner.bsky.social I'm an author, illustrator, animator & puppeteer. I write stories and comics about nature, especially insects! Currently seeking an agent. he/him www.johnlechner.com 🍃
Rebecca Field @rebeccafieldgraphy.bsky.social Illustrator of beautiful worlds where dogs train humans to be kinder and more joyful. HS art teacher, teenager whisperer, facilitator of creative thought and imaginative possibilities
https://www.rebeccafieldgraphy.me
Anya @greenrainart.bsky.social Author-illustrator of children’s books
She/her
#kidlitart
Anyakopotilova.com
Rep’d by Eve Adler at Red Fox Literary
Cara: https://cara.app/greenrainart
MiliFayArt.bsky.social @milifayart.bsky.social Story Artist, Illustrator, Author, Globe Trotter 🏆 Roger Allers Story Artist – Notable Contribution 2026! 🌎 On art and writing. ✍🏻 Staying positive most of the time. 💕 ☀️ 😊 https://milifay.art
Juliana Vieira @julianavii.bsky.social Illustrator and Designer in Vancouver 🍁
julianaillustration.com
Tracy Nishimura Bishop ✨Illustrator @tracybishopart.bsky.social Illustrator of picture books. Lover of iPads, fountain pens, and notebooks!
Portfolio: https://www.tracybishop.com
Represented by Jemiscoe Chambers-Black at 🐦⬛ Starling Literary + Media
Deborah Paquette @deborahpaquette.bsky.social Picture-book author/illustrator. #SCBWI Canada West Co-ARA.
deborahpaquette@shaw.ca
deborahpaquette.com
Ramya G Spaulding @rgspaulding.bsky.social Author/illustrator looking for representation #12x12 #PB #MG #engineer #STEAM #scbwi #2021PBParty Finalist, #2025PBParty HM, #2025PBRisingStar HM. Will not engage in DMs from unknown people.
www.rgspaulding.com
Ana Lobo @lobomaravilha.bsky.social Children's Illustrator
SCBWI member
Currently seeking representation
https://lobomaravilha.carrd.co
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
Michelle Denise Wood @mdwillustration.bsky.social 🖍️Illustrator, author, mom to girls
🌿Nature, retro, spooky, nostalgia
👋🏻Let’s make cool stuff together! #scbwi #kidlitart #12x12PB
⭐️#PBRisingStars 2024 Honorable Mention
📍Indiana
✨michelledwoodillustration.com
✏️michellewooddraws.com
📒 Seeking representation
Airen Hall @withoutaladder.bsky.social Writer. Illustrator. Wild Feminist. Book lover. 1 wife, 3 kids, 3 cats. (She/her)
http://withoutaladder.com/portfolio/
http://instagram.com/withoutaladder/
Michael Dashow @mdashow.bsky.social Illustrator, character designer, kidLit artist & gameDev art director.
Rep'd by @vickyweberbooks.bsky.social @ CMA
Also made the indie puzzle game Puzzle Spy International (out now!) at @agentepsilon.bsky.social
https://mdashow-links.carrd.co/
he / him
Victoria K. Chapman (she/her) @weyakindesigns.bsky.social Whimsical Art & Stories of Nature & Spirit. Illustrator. Author. Fine Artist. Musician. Dancer. Nature-lover. Mom to humans, dog, and plants. Rep’d by Joyce Sweeney & Rosa Frazier at The Seymour Agency! #12x12PB #KidLitArt www.weyakindesigns.com 💙💜🩷 🌈
Tiff Bartel @tiffbartel.com Viet-Canadian writer, multidisciplinary artist, general goblin on Treaty 1 territory. Queer, neurodivergent, she/they. SCBWI. https://tiffbartel.com
Rep: Katie Blagden @ The Ampersand Agency
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!
JasonHendrickson.com @jasonhendr.bsky.social Definitely not a cryptid pretending to be human or anything.
KidLit Author, Illustrator, Designer. JasonHendrickson.com
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
Eloise Narrigan @eloisenarrigan.com Children's author, illustrator, + product designer in Providence, RI
she/her
Repped by Alexandra Levick at Writers House
🪶 NO ROOM FOR BIRDS will be out Summer 2027 with Greenwillow Books!
www.eloisenarrigan.com/helpful
Nol Franklin @nolfranklin.bsky.social Writer-illustrator making playful picture books that blend nature and everyday humour with a mischievous twist. Based in Ontario, Canada, with my family—plus two well-behaved cats.
https://www.nolfranklin.ca/
Sara Olmos - Teconlene @teconlene.bsky.social Spanish illustrator and graphic designer based in Rome.
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@saraolmosillustration
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SaraOlmosIllustration
Darian Bianco @darianbianco.bsky.social Managing Editor at Apex Book Company. Writer. Reader. Teacher. Coffee Addict. Dog Mom. Rep: @allielevick.bsky.social
Kim Wagner Nolan @kimwnolan.bsky.social #Kidlit Author & Illustrator @LittleThoughtsPress.com raising foster kids & chickens, Winner of #50PreciousWords, #SCBWIDrawThis https://linktr.ee/kimwnolan