Melissa Murray @melissamurray.bsky.social Author + Illustrator + Artist
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PBParty 2024 Illustration Showcase HM
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Julia Mills @jamills.com Author/illustrator I AM STUCK Clarion, '23
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Emma Wiklund | Illustrator @emmawiklundart.bsky.social Kidlit illustrator from Sweden, loving to bring stories to life with my illustrations!
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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social Authors of “Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul’s Drag Race & The Last Century of Queer Life,” publishers of tomandlorenzo.com, podcast: Pop Style Opinionfest. Cosmopolitan mag red carpet correspondents. All skeets are by T unless signed by L.
Kiana Mai @kianamai.bsky.social 29 y/o | Storyboard Artist/Director @ DisneyTVA | 🇯🇵🇯🇲 | 🏳️🌈 | she/her 💕
Steenz! @oheysteenz.bsky.social Award Winning Cartoonist - Side Quest
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Richie Pope @ SPX W63A @richiepope.bsky.social cartoonist + illustrator + storyboard artist + character designer
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Duke Stephens @oliveoilcorp.bsky.social [he/him] ignatz award-winning graphic novelist
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Bex Glendining 🍃 @lgions.bsky.social she/they | award winning uk illustrator and comic artist/colourist
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Debut graphic novel 'On Starlit Shores' out now ✨
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🚫 AI or NFT
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✨Shan✨ @shanfiction.bsky.social Illustrator ✦ Cartoonist ✦ IGNATZ Winner ✦ Coretta Scott King and Sibert Award Honoree ✦ Rep by Hannah Mann at Writers House
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🇲🇽 ENG/ESP OK
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Nicole Ham @nicole-ham.bsky.social art and animation blah blah blah | nicole-ham.com
Jamila @jamilarowser.bsky.social Writer • Editor • Comic publisher blackjoseipress.com • Wash Day Diaries co-creator • LA Times Book Prize & Ignatz winner • Eisner nom’ed • Horror stan • Nana is my personality • Always in pain • Always tired • ✊🏾🇵🇷🇩🇴🏳️🌈 🥄•
Trevor Fraley @illustrevor.bsky.social (He/Him) Creator of Things. Illustrator of Disney Villains: Scar series. Represented by ASH Literary Agency 
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tejuabiolaart.carrd.co
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AJ Howard @ayejay.bsky.social Character designer and Illustrator
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(she/her)
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aleciadoyley@gmail.com
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Catherine Johnson @catwrote.bsky.social Boiler suit addict, writer, seasider
Johnathan Edwards @jedwardsart.bsky.social Character Designer & Illustrator
Ky @devisedbyky.bsky.social Hero for hire.
Chrystal D. Giles @chrystaldgiles.bsky.social Author of books for young readers.
📚 Take Back the Block
📚 Not an Easy Win
📚 Listen to the Girls (May 2026)
📚 We Are Joy (June 2026)
chrystaldgiles.com/links
endofdaysonmars @endofdaysonmars.bsky.social Professional comic artist and storyboard artist on Iyanu and the Age of Wonders(2025). Gonna paint some digimon in between work.
akemiart @akemiart.bsky.social Owner at www.mythictexture.com // @mythictexture
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Artist, Writer, Designer. Illustrates children's books, designs & paints for animation, publishes short stories.
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Yvonne Battle-Felton @whyiwrite.bsky.social Author of Remembered and Curdle Creek, former editor at John Murray, Academic at Cambridge Uni, event host and podcaster. I also write kidlit, short scripts, nonfiction essays, poems
Uzo, The Artist @uzotheartist.bsky.social Multidisciplinary artist,
Illustrator & Filmmaker
Founder of ZOMA Studios
🌱 uzotheartist@gmail.com
uzongwu.com
Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini @astrominx.bsky.social Fueled by stories. Bionic Playwright 📝|Filmmaker 📽 |Author 📚|Creative Researcher 🔎|Olivier Award winner #Sleepova ♿ 🌈
Website: https://matildaibini.com
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Vashti Harrison @vashtiharrison.bsky.social Author-Illustrator based in Brooklyn
Maria Motunrayo Ayinke Adebisi @mariamotunrayo.bsky.social 📚Author of the Kòkú Akànbí series based on Nigerian mythology, rep’d by H.G Literary
🎓PhD student in African Art at the University of Birmingham
💃🏾part-time Nollywood Vixen
Sharna Jackson @sharnajackson.com Writer of books and games mostly about art, mystery and murder for you and the kids in your life. Lives on a ship in Rotterdam. Used to work in museums and galleries for ages. Miss it. Addicted to Reddit and Beat Saber.
https://www.sharnajackson.com
Alyissa J @alyissaj.bsky.social Artist and Maker | After Another Studio & Amphora Vintage Owner and Operator | Nature Enthusiast | Vintage Lover | Trend Researcher
Camilla Sucre @succreart.bsky.social Illustrator, vampire enthusiast and resident fashionista 💕
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Davina Tijani @davinatijani.bsky.social Passionate about storytelling | The Nkara Chronicles Series out now with Little Tiger 🐉🧚🏿♀️ 🐘 🐍 Rep'd by Davinia-Andrew Lynch l Author l Freelance Game Writer l https://linktr.ee/davinatijani
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🎥🎨
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Brooklyn-->Poconos-->LA
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📕 WHEN WE RULED out now
paulaakpan.com
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@thebrightagency.com
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ObohDraws🎨🖌 @obohdraws.bsky.social Digital Artist, Illustrator
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Chanté Timothy @heychante.bsky.social She/Her Award Winning Author Illustrator
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Heychante.co.uk
Sharee Miller @coilyandcute.bsky.social Award winning author / illustrator
Rahana 🍄🌻✨✨✨ @rahanabanana.bsky.social Illustrator | music enthusiast | She/her | London | 🇬🇧🇱🇨🇯🇲
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www.rahanabanana.com
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Patrice Lawrence @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social Writer, Feminist, Furious.
Lucy Farfort @lucyfarfort.bsky.social Kidlit Illustrator/Author based in Newcastle UK. SCBWI & SOA member. FAB Prize 2017 winner. Rep'd by Ash Literary.
Picture book - In Our Hands, Jhalak Prize shortlisted & Little Rebel Awards longlisted.
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✨27
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Dhonielle Clayton @dhonielle.bsky.social NY Times bestselling author and cookie enthusiast. Coach at The Novelry.
D.J. Kirkland @ohheydj.bsky.social SF Bay Area Comic book Artist/Writer
CEO of Big Boy Social Club.
SF Fog Rugby Player
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Repped by Jessica Mileo @ Inkwell Management.
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Kev Plummer @kevpdraws.bsky.social Illustrator in Queens NY! NO AI
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Bolu Babalola @beebabs.bsky.social Big B and the B stands for bodacious. Writer, Girl About Town, Purveyor of Prose & Pose. Not Here.
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