Fox & Ink Books (formerly UCLan Publishing) @foxandinkbooks.bsky.social Northern indie publisher | Winner of the IPG Nick Robinson Newcomer Award 2019 | Publishing the very best books in all genres | Home to NYALlitFest
Saf @safprojects.bsky.social Children’s Literature Researcher.📚 Mental Health & Oracy advocate. Girlguiding Leader. Sociologist interested in Education Policy. 🌎 #edusky
Emma Rea @emmarea8.bsky.social Author of adventure stories for ages 7-11 with Firefly Press. Entangled, 2026, set in Venice out now. My Name is River, set in Wales and up the Amazon river was The Sunday Times Children’s Book of the Week. Top Dog, its prequel.
School Reading List @schoolreadinglist.bsky.social #1 UK children's booklisting website according to Ubersuggest. We recommend children’s and YA books to teachers, parents, librarians and schools. Free resources, free reviews and no paywall. #GoAllIn
https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk
EmpathyLabUK @empathylabuk.bsky.social Jump into someone else's story!
Social Enterprise. Read stories, build empathy, make a better world. Founders of #EmpathyDay.
Oundle Festival of Literature @oundlefestoflit.bsky.social Literary Festival hosting big name, local and early career authors all year in the beautiful market town of Oundle. A not for profit organisation set up by a bunch of literature lovers in 2002 to support authors and literature in all its forms.
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/
Waterstones @waterstones.bsky.social All about the books
GŵylCrimeCymruFestival @gwylcrimefest.bsky.social Official BlueSky account of Gŵyl Crime Cymru, the festival of Welsh and International Crime writing.
Coming to Aberystwyth April 25- 27, 2025
@sypwales.bsky.social @sypwales.bsky.social 
Daniel Peak @idanielpeak.bsky.social Telly writer: Not Going Out, Code 404, Horrible Histories.
Book writer: Little Horror, Grimstink
@jtnorth8.bsky.social @jtnorth8.bsky.social 
ALCS @alcs.co.uk We're the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society. Nobody else in the world does exactly what we do. We've been championing writers and making sure they get paid for secondary uses of their work since 1977
www.alcs.co.uk
PaperBound Magazine @paperboundmag.bsky.social Online writing magazine and blog for the young and the young at heart. Featuring new writing & art for MG, teen & YA, plus content for readers and aspiring writers.
www.paperboundmag.com
Prof Sunny Singh @profsunnysingh.bsky.social Writer, reader, thinker. Founder & director of the Jhalak Prize
The Carnegies @carnegiemedals.bsky.social The UK's best-loved book awards for children & young people, celebrating outstanding writing & illustration; judged by librarians @cilip.bsky.social #Carnegies2026
https://carnegies.co.uk/
Other socials 👉 https://linktr.ee/carnegiemedals
The Bookseller @thebookseller.com At the heart of the book trade since 1858📚
News, charts, previews and more, online & in print. Buyer's Guides, conferences & The British Book Awards (Nibbies)✨
Cyhoeddi Cymru / Publishing Wales @publishingwales.bsky.social Cynrychioli a hyrwyddo cyhoeddwyr o Gymru
Represents and promotes publishers in Wales
www.cyhoeddi.cymru
The Wildlife Trust of South & West Wales @wtsww.bsky.social Rebuilding biodiversity and connecting people with nature in South and West Wales. We manage over 100 nature reserves including Skomer and Skokholm Island.
World Book Day UK @worldbookdayuk.bsky.social 📚 World Book Day® - Thursday 5 March 2026 📚
World Book Day is a charity, sponsored by National Book Tokens. Follow here for news, bookish fun and more!
Lucy Lapinska / LD Lapinski 💛🤍💜🖤 @ldlapinski.bsky.social Author in the Highlands 🏴, for kids, teens and adults. Next adult book: THE FROG PRINCE, Summer 2027 🐸👑
John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social Author (The Fault in Our Stars, The Anthropocene Reviewed, etc.)
YouTuber (vlogbrothers, Crash Course, etc.)
Football Fan (co-owner of AFC Wimbledon, longtime Liverpool fan)
Opposed to Tuberculosis
Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social Writer & broadcaster.
🏴 🌈 🖊️📚 🎭 📺 📻 🪴 🐔 🥃
He/Him
www.damianbarr.com
📕 The Two Roberts is my new novel. I’ve curated an exhibition about them for Charleston in Lewes which is now in Nottingham.
📕 Maggie & Me.
📕 You Will Be Safe Here.
PhD, FRSL, FRSE
@gayonwye.bsky.social @gayonwye.bsky.social 
Proud Geek LGBTQ+ Bookshop @proud-geek.co.uk A queer online book shop based in the UK, specialising in LGBTQ+ graphic novels, books, and manga. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️📚✌🏻@proudgeekbookshop elsewhere.
https://linktr.ee/ProudGeekBookshop
Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social Queer-owned and woman-led independent community bookshop. 🏳️🌈 An unapologetically activist, intersectional, feminist, antiracist, lgbtq+ community space.
Find us at https://lighthousebookshop.com/
Paned o Gê @panedoge.bsky.social Siop Llyfrau LHDTC+ arlein ac yn The Queer Emporium |
LGBTQIA+ bookshop based online and The Queer Emporium
The Old Queeriosity Shop @toqs.bsky.social We are an LGBTQIA+ Bookstore based in Plymouth, UK. We currently only ship within the UK.
our website: toqs.co.uk
our linktree: linktr.ee/toqs
queer & trans bookstore @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social Your queer and trans owned liberation bookstore in Madison, Wisconsin. We ship anywhere in the US.
Housmans Bookshop @housmansbookshop.bsky.social Radical booksellers since 1945. Monday to Saturday 11am to 6.30pm. Sunday 12pm to 6pm. Order online at: http://housmans.com/shop
The Common Press Bookshop @thecommonpress.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 London's queer intersectional bookshop! A sanctuary for storytelling, queer literature & culture.
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We are open Tues - Sun 11 am - 6.30 pm | Events 7 pm-late
118 Bethnal Green Rd, Shoreditch, London, United Kingdom E2 6DG
commonpress.co.uk
The BookishType @thebookishtype.bsky.social Queer Indie Bookshop in Leeds
The Portal Bookshop @portalbookshop.bsky.social Sci-fi, fantasy, & LGBTQIA. Queer resistance. Always trying to help. Portalbookshop@gmail.com Mon-Sat 10-5.30, Sun 11-5:30; 5 Patrick Pool, York, UK
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/lalidoesbooks
Cross & Crows Books @crossandcrowsbooks.bsky.social That queerly friendly neighbourhood bookstore in the community of East Van on unceded and occupied MST land. Offering new and used books, small gifts, and Cozy Chairs™ for the queer soul and beloved community since 2023. www.crossandcrows.com 
A Seat at the Table Books - Elk Grove's ONLY Indie Bookstore @seatbooks.bsky.social Inclusive, LGBTQ-owned "third space" bookstore w/ cafe, events, and free wifi in Elk Grove, just south of Sacramento
Wayfaring Booksellers @wayfaringbooks.bsky.social Queer Bookstore in Lansing, MI
wayfaringbooksellers.com
At the REO Town Marketplace ~
Open: Thurs 11-5, Fri-Sat 11-6
New & Used Books
Left Bank Books STL @leftbankbooks.bsky.social St. Louis City's Largest Indie Bookstore
Founded in 1969
Queer woman owned
Bureau of General Services—Queer Division @bgsqd.bsky.social The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division is an independent, all-volunteer queer bookstore and cultural center hosted by The LGBT Community Center, on the unceded land of the Munsee Lenape, now known as New York City. 208 W. 13th St. Rm. 210, NY, 10011
Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop Queer feminist collective in Asheville, NC, operating a bookstore co-op & social movement space since 2008 on Tsalagi land. Ⓐ Ⓔ Ⓥ
Under the Umbrella Bookstore & Cafe @utubookstore.bsky.social A Queer Little Bookstore & Cafe 🍉
Queer owned / queer everything 🏳️⚧️
MASKS STILL REQUIRED 😷
T-F 12-8
S-S 11-6
📍Ute/Goshute/Shoshone land (SL,UT)
Wolf & Wyld's Queer Bookstore @wolfwyld.bsky.social Independent online & pop-up bookstore based in Manitou Springs, Colorado | Specializing in LGBTQ+ books 🐺⛰️📚
https://linkpop.com/queer
The Wedale Bookshop @wedale-bookshop.bsky.social #ScottishBorders independent #bookshop near #Galashiels and #Lauder, #Scotland. Open in historic Stow, Thur 1330-1900 and Fri-Sun 10-12.30, 1-4.30.
Sister shop of @melrose-bookshop.bsky.social
www.wedalebooks.scot
https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/Weda
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
Lit. on Fire Books @litonfirepia.bsky.social Woman, Disabled, & LGBTQ+ Owned and Operated independent bookstore in the heart of Central Illinois. 🏳️🌈✊🍉✊🏳️⚧️✊👨🦽➡️✊
712 W. Main St.
Peoria, IL 61606
https://linktr.ee/Litonfirepia
Reducing Environmental Impact | Reconnecting the Community | Reviving Bohemia
Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social Swindon based independent bookshop, visit us online or in person! bertsbooks.co.uk - or 54 Godwin Court, Swindon, SN1 4BB
Email us on bert@bertsbooks.co.uk 
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. 
Heartleaf Books @heartleafbooks.bsky.social 📚co-op bookshop🏳️🌈
👯♀️worker & consumer-owned
📍occupied Narragansett land
374 Atwells Ave
Providence RI 02903
heartleafbooks.com
Charlie’s Queer Books @charliesqueerbooks.bsky.social Queer books and gag-worthy gifts
Seattle, WA
charliesqueerbooks.com
Goblin Market Manga & Curiosities @goblinmkt.bsky.social Chicago's 1st Manga Shop! 🌈Proudly Queer-Owned & Arab-Owned
Manga • Manhwa • Danmei • Comics • Crafts • RPGs • Games • Curiosities
(Posts, comments, and bizarre opinions about popular media are by Ryvre/@NikaRiots)
Crow's Nest Comics @crowsnest.quest Local queer/trans woman of color owned comic book store in Seattle's Central District. We carry all ages comics, local/small press stuff, queer/trans comics, 18+ comics, art from local artists, MtG, and more!
https://campsite.bio/crowsnestcomics
@gaystheword.bsky.social @gaystheword.bsky.social LGBT+ Bookshop, London
Tues - Sat Open 11am - 6pm
Sunday Open 1pm - 6pm
Monday - Closed
Pop-up location: 58-60 Marchmont Street, London WC1N 1AB
Reach and Teach @reachandteach.bsky.social Semi-official posts for Reach and Teach - Books, Toys, and Gifts by co-owner Derrick Kikuchi.
Unabridged Bookstore @unabridgedbooks.bsky.social new here, eager to talk about books!
📍Chicago, IL
Penny @pennyanne.bsky.social Book lover, mother, publisher Firefly Press
@hayleyeditor.bsky.social @hayleyeditor.bsky.social 
Veronica Price @vonprice.bsky.social Chartered librarian, MCLIP. NHS Knowledge &Evidence Specialist. Former School Librarian. Posts about library matters and books.
Blog: https://vsviewfromthebookshelves.home.blog/
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
Gatlin Perrin @gatlinperrin.bsky.social Welsh non binary children's writer 🏴🏳️🌈
💀⭐️DIRK JONES IS NOT THE CHOSEN ONE out Oct NOW ⭐️💀
Help me get top surgery! https://gofund.me/432f1b78
gatlinperrin@gmail.com
Eira Morgan-Jones @eiramorganjones.bsky.social ☀️ Debut novel out September 2025
📚 Children's and YA author
🏆 Page-Turner Award finalist
🌲 Falls apart if goes too long without seeing trees
🐕🐕 Maid to two jack russell terriers
www.eiramorganjones.com
A Book & Its Author @abookanditsauthor.bsky.social A Book & Its Author is a podcast featuring interviews with & readings by writers working in a variety of genres. Available on all your favorite platforms & here: https://abookanditsauthor.libsyn.com/
Naomi Kruger @naomikruger.bsky.social Freelance Writer and Creative Facilitator. Debut novel MAY published by Seren, shortlisted for Galley Beggar Prize 2023, Eccles Centre Fellow 2021. Short stories, historical fiction, cats.
She/her
naomikruger.com
Bookshop Crawl UK @bookshopcrawluk.bsky.social We run bookshop crawls around the UK, events for booklovers to meet up, explore, celebrate & support bookshops! London annually in Feb, roaming events through the year.
Bookshop.org UK @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social The online store supporting independent bookshops 📚 Certified B Corp | Carbon Neutral Delivery 📚 5 star Trustpilot rating.
uk.bookshop.org
Anne Clark @anneclarklit.bsky.social Literary agent at Anne Clark Literary Agency, representing mostly children's and YA authors (fiction, non fiction, picture books). www.anneclarkliteraryagency.co.uk
Little Island Books @littleislandbooks.bsky.social Independent press publishing the best new Irish writing for young readers. Supported by Arts Council Ireland. Repped in UK by Bounce Sales & Marketing.
Books create waves.
Emma Finlayson-Palmer @finlaysonpalmer.bsky.social Author ✍️ Artist 🎨 Editor 📝 AuDHD 🏳️🌈
Tombstone tourist 🪦 Cryptid cultivator 👣
Writing strange stories from strange places 🖤
#ukteenchat • #WriteMentor
Substack: Notes from the Graveyard Shift 🪦
David Morley @profdavidmorley.bsky.social Professor at Warwick Uni, Poet at Carcanet, Ted Hughes Award for The Invisible Gift, PBS Choice for FURY, Forward Prize finalist, Writer of The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing, Fellow Royal Society of Literature,Thought Fox.
Sarah Broadley @sarahbroadley.bsky.social She/her. Herder of cats. Devourer of Books. Children's writer. Children's book reviewer for @mybookcorner.bsky.social, member of Craigmillar Literacy Trust, CWIG, societyofauthors.bsky.social and supporter of Cymerafestival.co.uk. #ViewsMyOwn #BeKind
Honno Press @honnopress.bsky.social Established in 1986 Honno is a non-for-profit press with a mission to champion the voices of Welsh Women writers. We publish award-winning fiction and non-fiction in English and Welsh.
Kathleen Robb @kathleenrobb.bsky.social Bounce Area Sales Manager
Pippa Goodhart @pippagoodhart.bsky.social Children’s author - You Choose picture books, and many more.
Rhiannon Oliver @rhiannonoliver.bsky.social Children's Poet, Actress & Workshop Leader. South Wales. Dysgu Cymraeg.
Debut children's poetry collection publishing Spring 26 with Firefly Press
Happiest eating chips by the sea
Lisa J Allen @lisajallen.bsky.social Children's author. UNDERCOVER ANGEL books 1 and 2 out NOW for ages 9-12!! https://amzn.to/3QmPi6q & https://amzn.to/3NreKcM with Tiny Tree!!! www.lisajallen.com
Kathryn Clark @kclarkwriter.bsky.social Author, Writing Mentor, Editor. Debut YA novel out July 2025 with Faber Children’s.
https://linktr.ee/kclarkwriter
Lu Hersey @luwrites.bsky.social I write books. Sometimes win awards. Crop circle chaser. Myth lover. Collector of folklore. Here for the magic. https://www.lu-hersey.com/ https://www.patreon.com/Writingthemagic
Tanja at Good Night To Read @gntread24.bsky.social Past Carnegie Medals Judge for NI (2016,2017,2022,2023)& Kids’ Lit Quiz NI heat Co-ord (2006-2019) & Creative Book Blogger at https://goodnighttoread.wordpress.com/ Book Reviewer,Interviewer & Sch Librarian.YLG Nat Comm.Love writing book & nature haikus.
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.
The Book Sniffer @thebooksniffer.bsky.social Reviewer, working in publishing, illustrator, PR and Marketing - picture books, graphic novels, comics and illustrated fiction. Rocket Bird Books, WRD Magazine, SHELF magazine
Letterbox Library @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social Est. 1983. Not-for-profit children’s booksellers celebrating equality, inclusion & diversity. Schools/EY supplier. Co-runs Little Rebels Award. Workers’ Cooperative. www.letterboxlibrary.com
#kidlituk #ukkidlit
National Centre for Writing @writerscentre.bsky.social The National Centre for Writing is a place of discovery, exchange, ideas and learning for writers, translators, readers and everyone who loves words.
Lucy Tandon Copp @lucytcwrites.bsky.social Children’s author of inclusive, heart-warming stories 💛
✨ Rep’d by Lydia Silver at Darley Anderson.
⭐️ LOGAN’S LANTERN available for pre-order! ⭐️
https://linktr.ee/lucytcwrites
Leonie Roberts @leonieroberts.bsky.social Children's Author and EYFS Teacher.
Books 📚 Dogs🐕 Gardening 🌸 Cake 🎂
Seeking representation 👋
Debut book, "My Colourful Chameleon" 🦎
Storyville Books @storyvillebooks.bsky.social Storyville Books is located in Pontypridd, South Wales, and we are the town's only independent bookshop selling new books.
Rachel Burrows @rburrows.bsky.social Undiscovered Voices Winner ‘26
Poems on the Move ‘26.
Pushcart Prize Nominated. Cheshire Novel Prize SL‘25, Guppy Open LL’25
Write Mentor Picturebook SL’23/LL’24
Poetry - The Dirigible Balloon, Northern Gravy, Tyger Tyger, The Toy, LTP, BBC Upload.🏴
Jane Etheridge @janesetheridge.bsky.social Vice Chair Federation of Children's Book Groups. All views my own
Marie Basting Author @mariebasting.bsky.social 🚴BMX and Ancient Rome📜
Children's author #PrincessBMX #MyFamilyandOtherRomans #AuntieMedusaAndMe @chickenhsebooks
Fab school visits
Rep The Shaw Agency
she/her
www.mariebasting.com
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
Jo Bennett @itsjobennett.bsky.social Assoc. Director @edpr.bsky.social (books, arts, culture) | feature writer | editor
ed public relations @edpr.bsky.social Professional Book Champions 📚
A multi-award-winning agency specialising in books, culture and inclusive storytelling
Chorleywood Bookshop @chorleywoodbooks.bsky.social Award-winning indie bookshop in Herts. Lovers of author events & champions of the finest new and backlist books. Proudly supporting readers, schools, authors & publishers for over 50 years.
https://chilternbookshops.co.uk/
O R Sorrel @orsorrel.bsky.social Apocalypse Cow out NOW! 2022 Guppy Open Sub Winner, Carnegie Nom'd, Branford Boase LL, Bristol Teen Book Award SL 🐮🐮🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ they/them
@joolsmorganjones.bsky.social @joolsmorganjones.bsky.social Librarian. Knitter. Reader. Story sharer. Likely to bang on about reading, public libraries and kindness ☺️
Jan Dunning @jandunning.bsky.social 📚YA Author #TheLastThingYoullHear and #MirrorMe published by Scholastic
🏆Winner Oxfordshire Book Award 2024
Rep: Anne Clark Literary
IG:@jandunningbooks She/her
Books: https://linktr.ee/jandunning
Tell Tales Books @telltales.bsky.social More bookshelf than bookshop! I stock books for children.
Smallest shop you’ll ever see, but the warmest welcome. ❤️📚
Nicki Cleveland @mrscleveland.bsky.social HLTA, primary school librarian, children’s book blogger, spaniel wrangler, tea drinker, cricket watcher. Very easily distra
https://missclevelandsreading.com/
A.J.Clack @ajclack.bsky.social YA thriller writer, dog lover and general overthinker. Lie or Die out now. Lie or Die 2: Blood Moon coming Autumn 2025. Rep'd by Saskia Leach
Courtney Jefferies @courtinabook.bsky.social Press Officer at Bonnier Books UK @templarbooks
Rachel Boden @rachel-the-editor.bsky.social 
Zeena Gosrani @zeenagos.bsky.social Writer.
My debut novel, This Dark Heart is out now.