Oriol Vidal -MG/YA book cover artist @oriolvidal.bsky.social Ilustrator & Storyboard artist.
🥐 Chocolate croissant lover 🥐
www.oriolvidal.es
Clare Harlow @clareharlow.bsky.social Writer, bookworm
She/her
https://www.clareharlow.co.uk
https://linktr.ee/clareharlow
Em Lynas @emlynas.bsky.social Kidlit author UK. The Goat and the Stoat and the Boat Shortlisted for THE LOLLIES! Mostly writing funny picture books and MG. Repp'd by @ambercaraveo at Skylark.
Kate Keehan @readeatretreat.bsky.social Senior PR Manager at Hodder & Stoughton. "Arch, witty, pretty, but also sadly penniless." Views mine. My own. My preciousss. She/her.
Alastair Tibbs @alastairtibbs.bsky.social Local Democracy Reporter at the independent.ie. Previously with maghrebi.org
@pamnorfolk.bsky.social @pamnorfolk.bsky.social 
Charlotte Horsman @charlottehorsman.bsky.social Publicity Executive - Nosy Crow. Book enthusiast, dog lover and Tunnock’s Teacake super fan (she/her)
Sally Oliphant @sallytalksbooks.bsky.social Book and arts PR (non-fiction and kid's books focus). Reader, traveller, parent. Likes a cup of tea and a chat, especially about books.
CR: Honey
Brick Lane Bookshop @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social London's Independent Bookshop of 2024.
Fiction, London Books, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Travel, Classics, Children's Books, Cards, Totes, and Short Story Prize.
https://linktr.ee/bricklanebookshop
Mostly Books @mostly-books.bsky.social Award-winning independent bookshop in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. Friendly and knowledgable booksellers, book clubs, author events, school visits and more! Order online, via email, phone and social media. Sister bookshop: Borzoi Bookshop in Stow-on-the-Wold.
FORUM Books / the bound / The Accidental Bookshop @forumbooks.bsky.social Three lovely, friendly, award-winning independent bookshops in Corbridge, Whitley Bay + Alnwick
https://www.forumbooksshop.com
Events: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks
Claire Fayers @clairefayers.bsky.social Children's author. Fantasy and Welsh folklore. Hobbies include boardgames, piano, gardening and cooking. Owned by two cats. She/her. 📚🐱🐱
Book-ish @book-ish.bsky.social 2 bookshops, Crickhowell and Abergavenny. Known for ranting, banging on about books and the odd humorous observation since 2010….
www.book-ish.co.uk
Read for Good @readforgood.bsky.social Watch 'The Magic of Stories', our new short film capturing the joy of storytelling ✨ link in bio ✨
Read for Good is the UK reading for fun charity.
Simone Greenwood @simonegreenwood.bsky.social 📚Children’s fiction writer
🎬Award-winning screenwriter
🐧Penguin WriteNow 2026
🏴Literature Wales’s Representing Wales 2022 (she/her)
📍South Wales, via Cumbria
Becka Moor @beckamoor.bsky.social Book doodler | Snr Designer
Agent: Hannah Whitty | The Plum Agency
www.beckamoor.com
Sifa E. Poulton @sifaelizabethreads.bsky.social Book blogger, nuclear physics PhD student, SFF author, Christian, autistic, acespec, she/her
https://sifaelizabethreads.wordpress.com/links/
Mikka editor Everything with Words Books @everywithwords.bsky.social All things books! Everything with Words, prizewinning indie publisher of children's, YA and adult literary fiction. For a browse of our books :
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Rebecca Ashdown @familyofbeasts.bsky.social Award winning children's book illustrator & author. Seeks beauty in chaos. Represented by Millie van Grutten at RCW Literary Agency.
Naomi Jones @naomijones1.bsky.social Award winning children’s author
Agent: @jodiehodges.bsky.social
Books: www.naomiandjamesjones.com
Words and Pictures: naomiandjamesjones.substack.com
Louise Forshaw @munkeypants.bsky.social Children's illustrator & author of the GRIM FALLS ACADEMY and BAD UNITED series. Just illustrator of 100+ more! 
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.
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!
Erin Literary Cool Cat 🐈📚 @erinliterary.bsky.social MG/KS2 author of The 'Chumley and Hudson Investigate' series, & Co-author of 'Pirates and Pussycats' MG adventure. MG reader/reviewer, 3 chapters away from end of book 3 finale! Autism and cats fuel my adventures.
Terrie Chilvers @cowfishdreams.bsky.social Children's Author ⭐ MICHAEL THE AMAZING MIND-READING SAUSAGE DOG, illustrated by @mrtimdraws ⭐ KOALAS IN CAPES! illustrated by David O'Connell ⭐SNAILS OF THE UNEPECTED illusted by Brenda Figueroa
Website: terriechilvers.com
HarperCollins @harpercollins.bsky.social Publishing great authors since 1817. 📚
Penguin Random House @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social 
The Mysterious Bookshop @mysteriousbookshop.com The world's oldest mystery fiction specialty shop, located at 58 Warren Street, NYC. Home to Penzler Publishers and all its imprints, Mysterious Press, Scarlet, Crime Ink, and American Mystery Classics.
Voted USA Today's #1 Indie Bookshop 2025
Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social I make comics. Bunny Vs Monkey, Looshkin, Megalomaniacs, Flember, Fish Head Steve, Max And Chaffy, and Super Duper Bunny League coming to Nickleodeon in 2024!
Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social Indy publisher of award winning literary fiction
You can order books here : www.bluemoosebooks.com 
Liz Brownlee @lizpoet.bsky.social I'm a children's poet, I love writing animal and shape poems, and the children's poetry world! National Poetry Day Ambassador. Dog Owner. Book reader. Coffee drinker. Friend. Between Bristol and Bath.
Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social https://theemmapress.com/shop/childrens/please-dont-read-the-footnotes-please/
www.robwaltonwriter.co.uk
“playful, zingy and warm”.
Carnegie Prize nominee.Whitley Bay via Scunny.All sorts of writing for all sorts of ages.
@robwaltonwriter on other places.
Neal Zetter @nealzetterpoet.bsky.social Award-winning performance poet, author, educator, entertainer and superhero. I work with all ages visiting schools, libraries etc, in-person and virtually. Latest poetry books: 'Chicken in the Kitchen' and 'Small Poems for Big Imaginations'.
A.F. Harrold @afharrold.com Poet, performer, children's author.
The Imaginary, The Worlds We Leave Behind, Fizzlebert Stump, Greta Zargo and others.
www.afharroldkids.com
Joshua Seigal - 'YAPPING AWAY' out now! @joshuaseigal.bsky.social Poet/Performer/Author. Winner - People’s Book Prize & Laugh Out Loud Award (twice). Books by Bloomsbury, HarperCollins etc. MA Writing & Education. Loves lemurs. Website: www.joshuaseigal.co.uk
NPR @npr.org This is NPR 🎙️
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 
Mr Ripley’s Enchanted Books @mrripleysbooks.bsky.social Children’s Books and Illustration Website. mrripleysenchantedbooks.com
E.L. Norry @elnorrywriter.bsky.social ⛅️ Wellbeing/Safeguarding at an FE college
🌛 Writer
📚 2025 Runaways/26 Outlaws Bloomsbury contemporary MG
✒️ Lydia Silver, The Soho Agency
📝 Freelance mentor/editor
🏫 Yr 5/6/7 Author visits
https://linktr.ee/elnorry_writer
www.elnorry.com
Go and Write! @goandwrite.ca Go and Write! Join Dr. Gerard Collins and Jane Simpson, professional, award-winning authors based in New Brunswick, Canada, on writing retreats in Canada and overseas. Visit www.goandwrite.ca to learn more.
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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 📚🏴
Kate Heap - Scope for Imagination @kateheap.bsky.social Primary English Consultant, children's book blog, author of the Developing Reading Comprehension Skills series, Chair of Governors, Girlguiding, Canadian in the UK
@magicalnaturestory.bsky.social @magicalnaturestory.bsky.social 
Becka Mason @becmason26.bsky.social Senior Publicity Manager at Nosy Crow
Can be found reading, drinking cherry coke or eating garlic bread in spots around London (sometimes all three)
Jules Howard @juleshoward.bsky.social Zoology up-close. Revealing everyday wonders from a simple wildlife pond.
📚 Author of Infinite Life, MEGA and more.
🎙️ BBC Radio 4 and Radio 5 Live.
Sîan🌻 @thesianpages.bsky.social Publicity Manager @NosyCrow
Probably snuggled up somewhere with a cat on my lap and a book in hand...
Nazima Pathan @nazimapathan.bsky.social Author, doctor, researcher and parent. Here for the #kidlitcommunity. My MG novel Dream Hunters came out Aug 2024 Simon and Schuster. #ukkidlit #booksky
Anita Loughrey @anitaloughrey.bsky.social Children's book author, champion of children's literature, specialising in author interviews and blog tours.
Scottish Book Trust @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social A national charity dedicated to changing lives with reading and writing. Home of Bookbug, Book Week Scotland and Reading Schools.
Abena Eyeson @eyesab2.bsky.social 🇬🇧🇬🇭 writer. Rep'd by Gill McLay @bathlitagency.bsky.social. Debut MG RUNNING MY OWN RACE out. Winner Children's Sports Book of the Year 2026. Winner Coventry Inspiration Book Awards 2026. Shortlisted Spark Book Awards 2026. Megaphone Community. Wife. Mum.
@tinabookpusher.bsky.social @tinabookpusher.bsky.social PR Scholastic UK - FKA book pusher Midas, HarperCollins, Bonnier Books and Abrams & Chronicle Books
Bookstagram: https://www.instagram.com/exlibris_tina/
Jo Cummins @booksuperhero2.bsky.social ⭐️Primary advisory teacher
⭐️Children's book blogger
⭐️Former English lead
⭐️Workshop provider
⭐️Awards judge
⭐️Resource creator
😀Children's mental health advocate
www.LibraryGirlAndBookBoy.com
Mr Tom Slattery @slatterymr.bsky.social 👨🏫 Primary Deputy Head Teacher in Burton
📚 Children’s book blogger.
🏡 Live in Birmingham (proud Brummie)
Check out my blog at tomsbookcorner.wordpress.com
The Children's Bookshow @childrensbkshow.bsky.social National tour of the very best authors & illustrators, funded by Arts Council England. We help teachers provide a rich experience of children's literature | UK Registered charity 1162410 | thechildrensbookshow.com
Simon Smith @smithsmm.bsky.social Headteacher, picturebook addict. Sometimes a bit ranty. Passionate about the best job in the world. #PicturebookPage
All views are my own 
National Education Union @neunion.bsky.social The National Education Union represents the majority of teachers and education professionals in the UK. It's time to #ValueEducation.
Teresa Cremin @teresacremin.bsky.social Professor of Education (Literacy), The Open University. Fellow EA, RSA and AcSS. Committed to social justice and reading for pleasure.
RfP Website: https://ourfp.org
Own profile: https://www.open.ac.uk/people/tmc242
ESEA Authors Collective @eseaauthors.bsky.social We celebrate & lift British/UK based ESEA authors and illustrators of all genres.
#eseaauthorslitfest linktr.ee/eseaauthors
Eva Wong Nava @evawongnava.bsky.social Author| Editor| Sensitivity Reader| Art Historian 
National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk All kinds of spaces. All sorts of feelings. All at the National Trust.
Ben Hoare @benhoare.bsky.social 
Waterstones @waterstones.bsky.social All about the books
Junior Einsteins Science Club® @junioreinsteins.bsky.social Award-winning Science events for kids. Founded Ireland☘️ Scientist, Mum, speaker United Nations 🇺🇳 Fun, messy, screen-free hands-on, STEM fun Ireland 🇮🇪 UK 🇬🇧 Canada 🇨🇦 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 Luxembourg 🇱🇺 Ukraine 🇺🇦 International Schools partnerships. Franchise.
@chickenhousebooks.bsky.social @chickenhousebooks.bsky.social We're an independent-minded children's book publisher that loves new writers, artists and ideas. Join us here for the latest news from the coop!📚🐣
Mrs P Primary @mrspprimary.bsky.social Primary teacher, Maths leader, book lover, singing enthusiast, Primary Mastery Specialist and Assistant Maths Hub Lead at YR Maths Hub.
Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social Oh god not again (📺🎬: ITG, 📚: Curtis Brown)
Gareth P Jones @garethpjones.bsky.social Writer of books, composer of musicals, performer of performances. Listen, I'll pretty much do anything for the right price. I'll clean your car windows if you're paying & I have access to a damp cloth.
The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social Small but mighty, award-winning indpendent bookshop in the heart of Edinburgh's lovely Bruntsfield area
https://www.edinburghbookshop.com/
Women's Prize @womensprize.bsky.social Charity changing the world through books written by women📚
Women's Prize for Fiction and Non-Fiction supported by Audible, Baileys, Findmypast
🔗 linktr.ee/womensprize
Bradford Literature Festival @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social explore words, discover worlds
11 - 20 June 2027
https://www.bradfordlitfest.co.uk/
@claphambookfest.bsky.social @claphambookfest.bsky.social 
Canterbury Children's Literature Festival @canterburykidslit.bsky.social A brand new festival to celebrate childrens and YA books in all their forms & connect kids and families across Canterbury and beyond with the amazing world of books. July 11th & 12th 2025,crowdfunding now!
Bournemouth Writing Festival @bmthwritingfest.bsky.social Bournemouth Writing Festival - 24-26 April 2026
Plus lots more throughout the year
www.BournemouthWritingFestival.co.uk
www.RomanceWritingFestival.co.uk
Portobello Book Festival @portybookfest.bsky.social Portobello Book Festival is a volunteer run festival, taking place over the first weekend of October.
Hay Festival @hayfestival.bsky.social ...a world of different...
hayfestival.org 
Harrogate International Festivals @harrogatefestivals.bsky.social We bring the very best in music, literature, crime writing, salon, spectacle and education to Harrogate
Lizzie • they/them @mudlark-s.bsky.social 🇬🇧 bookseller, bookshop manager
here for books, dog pics, and interesting conversations.
📚 30/52
Find me on storygraph! (with an underscore)
Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social Half Man, Half Bookshop.
Moved to Hastings in 2018 to start a wild new adventure with my family.
Not the inventor of the word "brainbow"
https://www.biggreenbookshop.com/
Ed Vere @edvere.bsky.social Picture book maker
www.edvere.com
StokeyLitFest @stokeylitfest.bsky.social ‘One of the best book bashes in the UK’. The Quietus. 5-7 June 2026.
Bounce Sales and Marketing @bouncemarketing.bsky.social The Sales and Marketing Agency for Children's Publishers. We represent 30 children's book publishers from the UK and overseas. 
Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social Giving new life to old books since 2015. Bookshop.org Indie Champion. Find us: backlisted.fm, Apple Podcasts, Spotify. Support us: patreon.com/backlisted.
Firefly Press @fireflypress.bsky.social Independent publisher of quality fiction for children & teens. WINNER Branford Boase first children’s novel Award, Yoto Carnegie Medal, Wales Book of the Year
www.fireflypress.co.uk
Pushkin Children's Books @pushkinchildrens.bsky.social Pushkin Children’s brings the world’s greatest stories to young readers - to be read and read again. Children's imprint of @PushkinPress
https://linktr.ee/pushkinchildrens
Scallywag Press @scallywagpress.bsky.social UK children's books publisher. We publish entertaining & memorable books to a worldwide audience, reprinting old classics and discovering new ones, from fiction to narrative nonfiction and illustrated poetry. 📚 💙
http://scallywagpress.com
Pushkin Press @pushkinpress.com Publishes the world's best stories – to be read and read again.
Follow the all new @pushkinchildrens.bsky.social 🎈
Newsletter, IG & more: https://linktr.ee/pushkin_press
IPG: Independent Publishers Group @ipgbook.bsky.social The largest independent book distributor in North America representing thousands of books from hundreds of international and independent publishers. www.ipgbook.com
Comma Press @commapress.bsky.social Award-winning publisher of short fiction from the UK & beyond. Championing the next generation of writers & translators. Shares do not equal endorsements.
Find us at: https://commapress.co.uk/
Influx Press @influxpress.bsky.social Award-winning independent publisher.
PARADISE by Ben Tufnell OUT NOW
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Contact: hello@influxpress.com
Fly on the Wall Press @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social Manc independent publisher with a conscience.
M.D. Isabelle Kenyon
2024 North England Winner Small Press of Year!
Sustainable, political and accessible
www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk
Profile Books @profilebooks.bsky.social Independent publisher of inventive books, fearless writing and powerful voices. Our authors include Mary Beard, Shoshana Zuboff and Francis Fukuyama.
Gullivers Bookshop @gullivers.bsky.social We're an award winning indie bookshop in Wimborne, Dorset.
We love books, dogs and friendly people.
Est 1968
Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org radical publisher of politics, culture, current events
haymarketbooks.org
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. ❤️📚
Belfast Books @belfastbooks.bsky.social Only working class bookshop in Belfast. Out of print books about 'Troubles' in Northern Ireland at our tiny York Rd store and new books are at www.belfastbooks.co.uk with audiobooks at https://libro.fm/belfastbooks and author services at willmybooksell.com
Fox Lane Books 🦊 @foxlanebooks.bsky.social 🦊Indie bookseller with an online shop📚Lots of signed books & special editions 🦊 Sale sections all year round with book bargains📚Gift packages, book subscriptions & E-gift cards available🦊Bookish gifts📚 FoxLaneBooks.co.uk 🦊
The Bookshop Bridport @thebookshop.bsky.social We are an indie bookshop selling new books for all ages, games, puzzles and stationary. Situated in the heart of Bridport, near to the jurassic coast. 
Green Apple Books @greenapplebooks.bsky.social Independent bookstore in San Francisco since 1967.
Our Sunset location is @booksonthepark.bsky.social
https://greenapplebooks.com/
LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk 20,000 titles across two floors in Bloomsbury, plus the best events in town.
Visit us at 14 Bury Place, London, WC1A 2JL, or browse at https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk
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