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/
Vanessa Ireson @veeantonayak.bsky.social 🪿🐉🌓 Author, illustrator, lifelong learner and Mom.
#PBRisingStars 2023 Honorable Mention
#kidlitChuckleChallenge Champion 2025
#SCBWI #CANSCAIP #12x12PB
#LetsGoGooseGoose #SirSteveandtheChristmasDragon #WhenSunMetMoon
🍁www.antonayak.com
Colleen Dwire @colleendwire.bsky.social Illustrator, wood engraver, printmaker, writer
Angela Goldsmith author @waterstones @beauty-drowned.bsky.social #ProEU Actor/ Author My books, The Graveside Bride and Little Bo Peep and the Monster of Loch Ness available @waterstones @Goodreads @amazon #watersones #goodreads Buy me a coffee here https://ko-fi.com/angelagoldsmith33author https://ko-fi.com/angel
Michele C. Hollow @michelechollow.bsky.social Author and journalist. My MG historical novel, Jurassic Girl, is about Mary Anning's first major fossil find. I also write about health, animals, aging, and autism. Animal lover and reader of banned books, actually all kinds of books. Happily married.
tcandyart @tcandyart.bsky.social Children's Book Writer and Illustrator repped by Andrea Morrison of Writers House. SCBWI Carolinas. Please check out my work at triciacandemeres.com and https://www.writershouseart.com/tricia-candemeres/. #12x12pb
AnneWritesKidlit @anneruggirello.bsky.social Picture book writer 📚 Bluesky newbie
Watercolor dabbler 🎨 Lover of apple crisp
#KidLit #picturebooks #SCBWI #amwriting
#KidlitZombieWeek @kidlitzombieweek.bsky.social Hosts of #KidlitZombieWeek 2026, @kaitlynleann17.bsky.social @rebecca-ensign.bsky.social @monicafreewoman.bsky.social @janmilusich.bsky.social @drenderturmaud.bsky.social @kcstrocchia.bsky.social
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/kidlit-zombie-week/
The Storytellers Foundation | The Storyteller's Shelf Podcast @tstorypodcast.bsky.social https://thestorytellersshelfpodcast.com | Kidlit & publishing conversations. Top 100 & Spotify Award-Winning Podcast. Home of the Big Bang Notable Book List & Storytellers Summit Series. Writing a book? Our writing tools: https://getstoryrise.com
Stephen Fraser @fraserstephena.bsky.social I am an Executive Agent with The Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency, representing children's book writers and illustrators. With a Master's degree in Children's Literature, I have been in publishing for 46 years.
12 x 12 Picture Book Writing Challenge @12x12challenge.bsky.social 12 x 12 is a diverse community of picture book authors and illustrators at all levels. You get accountability & support in the goal to write 1 new PB draft each month + more! Registration open now! https://12x12challenge.com/membership. 
Matthew Fox @mattfoxwriter.bsky.social THE LOVELY DARK is nominated for the Kirkus Prize 2026 🇺🇸 | Kirkus ★ | Financial Times Best Children's Books '23 | Barnes & Noble Children's Book Award Shortlist '24 | No AI |🌱
linktr.ee/mattfoxwriter
Laura Parnum @lauraparnum.bsky.social Author, copyeditor, occasional magician. PERIL AT PRICE MANOR (HarperCollins 2023) and THE HAUNTING OF BELLINGTON COTTAGE (HarperCollins, July 2025). www.LauraParnum.com
linktr.ee/lauraparnum
Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social Woke Irish Europhile from Dublin,Ireland who regards felonious Pedolf as a grifting fraudulent pedophilic narcissistic sociopathic misogynistic racist malignant cancerous traitorous threat to democracy.THIS IS NOT A DATING SITE SO NO DMs FROM LONELY HEARTS
Sean Jackson- children’s picture book author and illustrator @imakestuff.bsky.social New father, husband, hand drawn children’s book artist and writer, teacher, pianist/songwriter, liberal, geriatric millennial destroyer of institutions, finishing my MFA in literacy
Emma Reynolds @emmaillustrate.bsky.social Children's book author-illustrator #kidlit
MG Graphic Novel #DrawnToChangeTheWorld Picture book #AmaraAndTheBats 🦇📚🏳️🌈♾ AuDHD
Loves #Bats .She/Her. Rep'd by Thao Le
Website: emmareynoldsillustration.com
Links: linktree.com/emmaillustrate
Becky Gehrisch - kidlit picture books @gehrisch-arts.com - #kidlit picture book #Author-Illustrator 👩🏻🎨
-Former IC of Cen/South Ohio #SCBWI. 🖌️
www.gehrisch-arts.com
-Creative Director at Bookling Media 🎨
www.booklingmedia.com
Stan Yan - Kidlit Graphic Novelist @zombicatures.bsky.social THE MANY MISFORTUNES OF EUGENIA WANG (‘25 JLG Selection)
@SCBWIRockyMtn member
#kidlitartinstructor at @cuddlefishacademy
#aapi #rosebudauthor
Rep: @annmrose at Marsal Lyon Literary
stanyan.me
AI, NFT, Crypto, MAGA gets you blocked
angela & the Black Writers Group @befabulousyou.bsky.social Co-founder #DoEAiAMediaPublishing +co-host #WritingWhileBlack podcast +facilitate the #BlackWritersGroup. Lover, Writer & Advocate of/4 #BlackLOVE. #COACH + #RETREATS: #vegetarian, #relocation, #yoga, #metaphysics, & #love. #vipassana #meditator.