Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social The magazine for people who love books | We also publish limited-edition memoirs & biographies and produce a well-loved literary podcast.
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Gili Bar-Hillel @gilibug.bsky.social Publisher (Utz Publishing) and translator, mostly of children’s fantasy. Tiptoeing around explicit words and vague feelings. Often wears socks with Moomins on them. Heartbroken.
הוצאת ספרים עוץ: utz.co.il
Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social artist of sorts
Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature. 
Bloomsbury Education @bloomsburyed.bsky.social We publish the education books everyone’s talking about 📚✨
New books, resources for every age & stage, expert authors and practical ideas for teachers, parents + educators.
SEND • EYFS • CPD • STEM • PRIMARY • SECONDARY • HISTORICAL FICTION • POETRY🌈
Gita Ralleigh @gitaralleigh.bsky.social Writer/Poet/Lecturer/ex-doc
Kids' novels:
Minou Moonshine / Sam Singh @kidsbloomsbury.bsky.social
Poetry:
Empirical
@thebraag.bsky.social
Siren @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
A Terrible Thing Bad Betty Press
https://linktr.ee/gitaralleigh
Rashmi Sirdeshpande @rashmiwriting.bsky.social Neurodivergent (AuDHD). Learner. Dreamer. Award-winning children's author. Musings on books, writing, creativity and ND life. Agent: Lydia Silver
https://linktr.ee/rashmiwriting
Lesley Parr @lesleyparr.bsky.social Author: Bloomsbury Children's, Barrington Stoke
Rep: Sam Copeland at RCW
Made of Port Talbot steel
Chopsy
lesleyparr.com
@ylglondon.bsky.social @ylglondon.bsky.social YLG London is a CILIP volunteer-led community. Notification of events & activities will be posted here. Our communications are not CILIP policy.
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Sam Evans @samevans.bsky.social Community Manager, UK Education at Oxford University Press 📚 Oxford Children’s, OUP Primary, OUP Secondary #UKEd #EduSky
Mum • TechPixie • Sea swimmer • Beach cleaner • Book lover • Charity shop forager • Archaeology & History grad • Views are mine
Sue Divin @suedivinwriter.bsky.social Derry Girls meets mother in Young Sheldon. Writer. Peace worker. Guard Your Heart. Truth Be Told. Is it Friday yet?
Julia Gray @thisisjuliagray.bsky.social I write books and sometimes music.
Sarah Crossan @sarahcrossan.bsky.social Writer based in Sussex.
QuartoKids @quartokids.bsky.social We make beautiful books that educate, entertain and enrich the lives of kids worldwide. 👶🏽💗📚
Faber Children's @faberchildrens.bsky.social Tweets from the children's team on all our books from babies to teen!
Maria Turtschaninoff @turtschaninoff.bsky.social Author of the Red Abbey Chronicles, sold to 30 countries , and Tangled Roots, published by Pushkin Press in the UK 2025
Roy Gill @roygill.bsky.social Writes audio drama and sometimes novels. Stories may involve a blue box. Likes books, dogs, tea and vinyl 🏳️🌈
https://roygill.wordpress.com
Hannah Prutton @hannahprutton.bsky.social Senior Publicity Manager at Nosy Crow (views my own). General lover of books, cats, tea and Gilmore Girls.
Penny Joelson @pennyjoelson.bsky.social Award winning Author of YA thrillers, protagonists have disabilities/health issues. @EMTeenFiction @SourcebooksFire. Rep by @AnneClarkLit
Tutor @citylit
Maggie Womersley @maggiewomersley.bsky.social Writer - Young Adult, NA, Middle Grade/ Winner of Cheshire Novel Prize for Kids 2023/ Undiscovered Voices Deputy Chair/ CNP 2024 Judge/ Likes Spooky stuff, quirky brain science, making dolls and doll houses (don't judge me). 
David Long @writerdavidlong.bsky.social Blue Peter Book of the Year winner. Writes for children and adults, 70+ books translated into more than 30 languages. Occasional ghost. Agent: Penny Holroyde at Holroyde-Cartey.
davidlong.info
Ann Leckie @annleckie.com Author of the award-winning Ancillary Justice. Lives in St Louis.
Nick Crumpton - Taking a break from social media.👋🏻 @lsmonster.bsky.social ニック PhD Zoology🔬
By day, NHM London 🏛️🐋
By night, children's author 📚
SMALL WORLD out now... 🦋
DINOSAUR DESERT out this July... 🦕
nickcrumpton.com
Elizabeth Jenner @misscellany.bsky.social Publishing Director for Nonfiction, Nosy Crow
• 70% water, 30% cats • writer • yoga teacher •
Aoife Doyle @1adoyle.bsky.social ✒️ Irish Mythology-inspired feminist fantasies for MG & YA. Rep @lucyirvine93.
WM Children's Novel Award & PFD Queer Prize '22 Gaeilgeoir. Queer, ND, they/them. Professional nerd 😎🐲
Ben Morgan @benjlmorgan.bsky.social Medea in Corinth - 2nd edition 2025 from Poetry Salzburg
poetrysalzburg.com/medea.htm
https://www.instagram.com/benmorganwriter/
https://benmorganwriter.wordpress.com/
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
Katie @katieedits.bsky.social 🌻 Commissioning editor @ Wide Eyed Editions // UEA MALT // Runs on words, coffee and pop punk. Oh, and celestial red pandas.
These are my own views.
she/her
Tracy Hopkins @tracyshopkins.bsky.social Bookworm, editor, children's book enthusiast, School Library Assistant, blogger, Londoner, mum. All views my own. She/her
Serena Patel @serenakpatel.bsky.social Children’s author
Tracy Darnton @tracydarnton.bsky.social Author of YA thrillers Ready or Not, The Rules and The Truth About Lies, picture book My Brother is an Avocado.
Rep’d by Jo Williamson
Karen McCombie @karenmccombie.bsky.social Children's Author.
Somewhat Scottish, London based, owned by a Westie, crisp fan, she/her.
Oh, and "one of children’s fiction’s most accomplished authors"
according to @Waterstones.
Agent: jhare@theagency.co.uk / Events: @AuthorsAloudUK
Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social Author of Chaos Walking, Monster Calls, More Than this, Burn, Different For Boys. Won a couple Carnegies and an Olivier. Four wins away from an EGOT.
Peadar Ó Guilín @thecallya.bsky.social Award-winning author of The Call and The Invasion. Pubbed by
@dfb_storyhouse and @scholastic. Repped by @mollykh
Also wrote The Inferior ❤️Gaeilge. Eats plants.
Chris Vick @chrisvickwrites.bsky.social Carnegie shortlisted author
Pub: @ZephyrBooks Rep: CatherineClarke -felicitybryan
Works Whales.org
Part of Authors4Oceans
Web: www.chrisvickwrites.com
Prof Sunny Singh @profsunnysingh.bsky.social Writer, reader, thinker. Founder & director of the Jhalak Prize
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.
@chloesackur.bsky.social @chloesackur.bsky.social Co-host of Total 90s Recall podcast.
MA Podcasting graduate of City St George's University of London
Children's & YA book editor
Podcasts, films, TV, books ... and cats
Andrea Reece @reeceandrea.bsky.social Mostly reading. Managing Editor Books for Keeps, administrator Klaus Flugge Prize and Branford Boase Award plus other book-y stuff.
londonkidslitfest @londonkidslitfest.bsky.social We are the UK's largest dedicated children's book festival returning Saturday 26 & Sunday 27 June 2027. Made in Barnes SW13 since 2015!
Neil Philip @neilphilipmyth.bsky.social I post about folklore, mythology, poetry, children's literature, art, cats, nature and anything else that takes my fancy. Currently working on an absurdly over-ambitious "key to all mythologies", The Hidden Matrix for Unbound. 
Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social English Prof. I research 1940s-1960s teen romance & print culture, the female network of editors & librarians who published midcentury #KidLit & #YALit, and fan & fandom studies. YA editor of JPRS. LOVES BOOKBINDING! She/her.
Tom Knight @tomknightdraws.bsky.social Illustrator from the mud flats of Essex.
Catherine Coe @catherinecoe.bsky.social 📚 Children's book author, editor and consultant
🖋️ Founder of @allstorieswrite.bsky.social – for writers from underrepresented groups
🧘🏼♀️ Yoga teacher
🐝 Apprentice beekeeper
🔗 https://catherine-coe.com • https://allstories.org.uk/
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
Pippa Goodhart @pippagoodhart.bsky.social Children’s author - You Choose picture books, and many more.
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
Morag Hood @moraghood.bsky.social 📚Children’s book author/illustrator
🏴 Edinburgh
www.moraghood.co.uk
Peter Bunzl @peterbunzl.bsky.social Bestselling UK Children’s author writing about clockwork, hope and magic. #COGHEART etc. New book #GLASSBORN out now! 🏳️🌈 (he/him)
Mary Watson @marymary.bsky.social Quite contrary. Writer. Down in the woods. 🇮🇪🇿🇦 Next: THE CLEANER (Transworld) Jan 25
Waterstones @waterstones.bsky.social All about the books
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
Sarah Stewart @sarahlstewart.bsky.social Associate Editorial Director @Usborne Fiction. Loves Reeses PB Cups, rhubarb gin and the fact I get to read amazing books for a living.
BookTrust @booktrust.org.uk We are the UK’s largest children’s reading charity. We get millions of children & families reading together from the earliest possible age.
Find out more: booktrust.org.uk
Prof Ben Garrod @bengarrod.bsky.social Monkey-chaser, TV-talker, author, silly runner, Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Science Engagement at @uniofeastanglia (He/Him)
Managed by: https://knightayton.co.uk/broadcast_talent/ben-garrod/
Dr. Mary Roche @marygtroche.bsky.social Author, bookworm, Ed Consultant. Creator of CT&BT dialogic pedagogy approach. Likes: chns lit, picbooks, action research. Co-founder of NEARI. Views all mine.
https://padlet.com/marygtroche/useful-resources-for-picturebook-enthusiasts-t35ovhnmv107
Brian Moses @brianmosespoet.bsky.social Writer, children's poet, anthologist, percussionist.
website www. brianmoses.co.uk
Blog for teachers/children brian-moses.blogspot.com
West Cork Literary Festival @wcorklitfest.bsky.social * We are most active on Instagram * Thanks for joining us and making this year our biggest, buzziest festival yet. Save the dates: July 9-16 2027
https://linktr.ee/westcorkliteraryfestival
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.
Holly Bourne @hollybourne.bsky.social Times bestselling author. I write books for teens and books for adults. Ambassador for Women's Aid. 
Catherine Bruton @catherinebruton.bsky.social Award winning children's author. 'No Ballet Shoes in Syria' 'Bird Boy'. Also writing as Cate Shearwater! Teacher too! Rep'd by Rupert Crew
Lisa Thompson @lthompsonwrites.bsky.social Author of mainly contemporary mystery books for younger readers. (The Goldfish Boy and more).
(And dogs. I love dogs.)
lisathompsonauthor.com
Agent: Adam Gauntlett at PFD
Bali Rai @balirai.bsky.social Writer, author, founding member of King Flame Sound System, reggae fanatic, Liverpool FC fan, from Leicester, GB. Made in (Multicultural) England.
Lisa Williamson @lwilliamsonauthor.bsky.social MG/YA author (Bigg School, The Art of Being Normal etc). Books, whippets, dessert.
Fiona Woodcock @fionawoodcock.bsky.social Author & illustrator of Hiding Heidi, Poppy and the Blooms, Look, Hello and Silver Linings.
Little Lion Girl written by Olivia Hope out now!
Represented by The Bright Agency.
London
https://linktr.ee/FionaWoodcock
Claire Barker @clairebarker.bsky.social Words, pictures and plants. Author of Knitbone Pepper series, Picklewitch and Jack series. Hettie Nettle’s Handbook for Hedgewitches out now. Rep’d by Julia Churchill at AM Heath. https://linktr.ee/clairebarker
Piers Torday @pierstorday.bsky.social Children’s writer - books include The Last Wild, Midnight Treasure and Tree Thing. Plays include Box of Delights (RSC)
Emily Barr @emilybarr.bsky.social Writer of many things.
YA: The Other Girl, is coming from Penguin in May 2025.
Sci fi in the US as Evie Green
Backpack, The Sleeper and various others, back in the day (and working on more)
Screenwriting is incoming... 
Lisa Davis @lisadavisbooks.com Freelance children’s book editor and consultant. Also plays with clay.
American in Belfast, via London and Munich.
www.lisadavisbooks.com
My cat is cuter than yours. 😺
(she/her)
Katherine Woodfine @katherinewoodfine.bsky.social Author, reader
Louisa Reid @louisareid.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Teacher.
Andy Shepherd @andyshepherdwriter.bsky.social Author of the best-selling ‘The Boy Who Grew Dragons’ series out now. Short-listed for Waterstones Children's Book Prize She/her Rep by @jslwilliamson
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. 📚🐱🐱
JP ROSE AKA JACQUI ROSE @jprosewriter.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling crime author. Award winning children's writer. Teamed up to write books with my buddy, Martina Cole. Owned by horses, cats and dogs. Find me in the land of unicorns.
Ed Vere @edvere.bsky.social Picture book maker
www.edvere.com
Lauren St John @laurenstjohn.bsky.social Children's author & conservationist. @BornFreeFDN ambassador & @manechance patron. She/her. THE LION CUB’S SECRET out on 9 October 2025
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
Sophy Henn @sophyhenn.bsky.social Writer, illustrator, idiot.
Represented by Jodie Hodges at United Agents.
For school visits please contact www.authorsalouduk.co.uk
Jenny McLachlan @jennymclachlan.bsky.social I write funny books for children and teens and sometimes I illustrate them too.
⭐️The Land of Roar
⭐️Fairy Vs Boy
⭐️Friends Like Us
@emilydrabs.bsky.social @emilydrabs.bsky.social 
Michelle Harrison @mharrisonauthor.bsky.social Author: 13 Treasures, A Pinch of Magic, Twice Upon a Time, There’s A Beach in My Pants & more.
www.michelleharrisonbooks.com
Clare Helen Welsh @clarehelenwelsh.bsky.social Former teacher, children's author, writing tutor and founder of #BooksThatHelp
Helen Cooper @helencooperbooks.bsky.social Author and illustrator of ‘Pumpkin Soup’ trilogy. ‘The Bear Under the Stairs’ The Taming of the Cat’ and many others - mainly Children’s books. Northerner living in Oxford.
helencooperbooks.co.uk
Hannah Love @aitchlove.bsky.social Senior PR Manager at Scholastic UK. 1/4 of Down the Rabbit Hole. Occasional reviewer or event chair. Generally excited.
Robert Muchamore @robertmuchamore.bsky.social Dashingly handsome author of CHERUB, Henderson's Boys, Rock War and Robin Hood.
@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/
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
Jodie Hodges @jodiehodges.bsky.social Children’s Literary Agent at United Agents
Kate Weston @kateweston.bsky.social Author of crime and YA books:
👰🏻♀️ You May Now Kill the Bride
🩸 Murder on a School Night & Murder on a Summer Break
🩷 Diary of a Confused Feminist & Must Do Better.
Sarah Webb @sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social Award-winning Irish children's author, children’s book reviewer, book events programmer and Events Manager at Halfway up the Stairs Children’s Bookshop
Founder of #DiscoverIrishKidsBooks
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/SarahWebbWriter
Tanya Byrne @handle.invalid Bad at social media, better at books | Pre-order REBEL HEARTS now | Publicity: Beth Carter at HACHETTE CHILDREN'S GROUP | Represented by: Claire Wilson at RCW | https://linktr.ee/tanyabyrne
Tracey Mathias @traceymathias.bsky.social Writer, trying to work out what happens next.
Author of Silence is Also a Lie (YA love story, thriller, political dystopia), writer in residence at DaCapo music foundation. Welsh, Londoner, love books, walking, music. Occasional photos, mostly of trees. 
Katie Edwards @katiebedwards.bsky.social ✍🏼 Commissioning Editor, Health + Medicine, @uk.theconversation.com |📰 Freelance Columnist, bylines in The Independent, The Guardian, The New Statesman, The i Paper |📚Writer, represented by Rogers, Coleridge and White Literary Agency
Sarah Horne @sarahhorne.bsky.social Illustrator
sarahhorne.studio