Action/Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Thriller Festival @actionfantasyscifi.bsky.social A showcase of the best Action/Adventure/Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Thriller Films and Screenplays from around the world.
Festival takes place every single month.
https://filmfreeway.com/ActionAdventure
Thriller/Suspense Film Festival @thrillersuspense.bsky.social Entering its 10th year, this festival is a showcase of Thriller/Suspense Films & Screenplays from around the world, using the popular audience feedback video.
https://filmfreeway.com/ThrillerSuspenseFestival
https://thrillersuspensefestival.com
Rob Gotobed @robgotobed.bsky.social Stand-up philosopher, scribe, bongo drummer and professional time-traveller. (Once dated Anne Boleyn)
Amazon: bit.ly/4hA0B7W
Apple: http://bit.ly/3K6WdB9
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2992620/
AllAuthor @allauthor.bsky.social 📚 Discover Books & Authors
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ejoyd.bsky.social @ejoyd.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Lover of dark chocolate. 2026 #KidlitChuckleChallenge HM 2024 #50preciouswords HM #SCBWI #PB #kidlit #travel
Karla Adams @karlaadamsillu.bsky.social 🌸🐸Illustrator 🐸🌸
Rep'd by Adriana Dominguez at ACM Kids & Illustration
💌 holakarlaadams@gmail.com
instagram.com/karlaadamsillu
karlaadamsillu.com
Sameer Kankali Ⓥ☮✌🏼🌱💚🍉🐸🐮🐷📚📖♟️✊🏼 @sameerkankali.bsky.social MUNDUS SINE CAESARIBUS 💙🦋
#Activist #HumanRights #AnimalRights #UBI #ClimateChange #Books #Tech #Poker #Chess
He/Him/His
❌👑
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
https://filmfreeway.com/WILDsoundFilmandWritingFestival
Janice Woods @north4woodsss.bsky.social Children's author, teacher, picture book fan, and lover of all things nautical. #kidlit #storystorm #SCBWI #12x12 #50PreciousWords HM 2023, 2024, and 2026.
Summit County Libraries @summitlibraries.bsky.social #1 Most Followed Library in the USA!
https://summitcountylibraries.org/
Located in beautiful Summit County, Colorado.
Lauren Hoffmann @mrshoffy.bsky.social 📚Picture book connoisseur
😻Animal adorer
😆Comedy nerd
🎃Halloween zealot
🥄Spoonie
🧕Hoodieholic
💳Library Evangelist
♻️Recycling enthusiast
KidLit Collective @kidlitcollective.bsky.social We are KidLit Collective, a collection of creative kidlit authors and illustrators supporting each other since our 2020 debuts and beyond. Art by @nielanderamy
ØROJI (Eunbee Kim) @orojiart.bsky.social Warm, playful picture books bursting with character and a little magic.✦
Picture Book Author–Illustrator · Hand-drawing + digital collage
🇰🇷 Seoul, Korea · SCBWI Member ·🔗orojiart.com
Anne Marie Corey @amcorey.bsky.social Children’s Book Author/Illustrator. Hollins MFA Grad Student. Beautifying the world one child at a time. #SCBWI
annecorey.myportfio.com
Sandy Jonas @sandyjonas.bsky.social Author/illustrator, she/her kidlit and cozies 🇨🇦 SCBWI member
Rep’d by Maura Kye-Casella
Librarians of Littles @littleslibrarians.bsky.social A podcast about being a librarian working with our youngest students.
New episodes every Wednesday.
We discuss books, ways to connect to Makerspace, and give tips and tricks.
Susan Wroble @susanwroble.bsky.social THE DAWN CHORUS (Holiday House, 2/16/27) #Kidlit #STEM @SCBWIRockyMtn member, Therapy dog handler, Leader 2E support group, https://susanwroble.com, KidLit Bird Book Reviews https://www.10000birds.com/author/susan. Repped by Sara Megibow at MLA
wann @wlthyme.bsky.social 24 She/they, Draw what I adore 🛋️🐛
https://linktr.ee/wlthyme
Jeannine Vetrano Smith @jvsmithauthor.bsky.social Picture book author, canine educator, messy cook,Ga-ga for Golden Retrievers, writer4life, proud to be human not AI
www.jeanninevetranosmith.com
Semper Anticus Press @semperanticuspress.bsky.social Indie publisher launching soon!
Main site: www.book-shelfie.com/submissions
semperanticuspress@gmail.com
Mike Freveletti @frevma.bsky.social picture book writer | occasional poet | improviser | intermittent funny man
#picturebook #kidlit #12x12pb #PBParty #SCBWI
Patricia J. Murphy @pattyjmurphy.bsky.social Award-winning writer/author/creator for BIG/little humans, literacy advocate + marketing/publicity specialist. Visit me at: www.patriciajmurphy.com
Jedi M @jedibyknight.com Biologist. Mom. Nerdy redhead from Ohio.
Call me M (she/her)
Blog: jedibyknight.com
Jenn Harney @jennharknee.bsky.social Illustrator. Some time author. Hoping someone brought donuts.
Portfolio jkharney.blogspot.com
Daphne Odell @artistdo.bsky.social MFA, artist, occasional mustang trainer, mama. Make art, find joy, care for others and fight like hell for the good in this world. 🚫ai
Scott Hand @artifactscott.bsky.social Cincinnati<Ohio<Midwest
Branding @ artifactbeer.com
Station Manager @ radioartifact.com
Arts and sustainability Architect http://trilobitedesign.com
Painting/design/construction/acoustics/bicycles/urbanism
(he/him)
Luisa Uribe @lupencita.bsky.social Colombian illustrator, eater of sweets. She/her.
PATCHWORK MEMORIES -written by Monica Rojas- out Sept. 1!
www.luisauribe.com
Tina Hoggatt @thoggatt.bsky.social Writing and illustrating stories for young readers. Fond of books, animals, nature, and baseball. Northwestie.
Hamline MFAC, #scbwi #C2C, #12x12
Heather Stigall @heatherstigall7.bsky.social 📚KidLit Author
#SCBWI PA East Critique Group Coordinator
👻GILBERT & THE GHOST (Beaming Books 2025)
🐰PAISLEY'S BIG BIRTHDAY (Clavis Books, 2023)
🚌PAISLEY’S BIG FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL (Clavis Books, 2027)
picture book obsessed, creator of stuff
Hannah Roy LaGrone @hannahlagrone.bsky.social Mom of 2 toddler boys, poet and picture book writer, former ESL/bilingual teacher #12x12PB #PBparty finalist #50preciouswords ‘26 winner
Maria Marshall @mmarshallauthor.bsky.social Children's writer, book blogger (The Picture Book Buzz), poet, editor, bird watcher, photographer, nature lover ... #SCBWI #12x12 #Cybils Judge
linktr.ee/MariaMarshall_
Antwan Eady @antwaneady.bsky.social Author ✍🏽NIGEL AND THE MOON | POEMHOOD (YA Anthology) | THE LAST STAND | THE GATHERING TABLE ‘25 | MICAH’S RISE |🐅🤙🏽 | Agent: Steven Malk |he/him
Mary K @maryloveswords.bsky.social *jazz hands* MaryKuehner.com Early lit librarian. Storytime pro. PB author seeking representation. Proudly neurodivergent (OCD/ADHD). “She reads a lot of shouty books.” - that one kid at Storytime. She/her.
Haven Iverson @havenivy.bsky.social Picture book author of Slow Down, Tumbleweed (Sounds True) & forthcoming Into the Wilderness (Macmillan/ Roaring Brook) 📚Rep’d by Rachel Orr at Prospect Agency📕 Editor and collaborator at Wordhaven 📚Mom to teens, dogs, and a tarantula 🐶🕷️Avid backpacker 🏕️
Nina Crittenden @ninacrittenden.bsky.social kid book maker. tea drinker. minnesotan. ice out. ninacrittenden.com
Julia @juliagertrud.bsky.social Librarian. Storytime is the best time.
youth services & rare books and special collections
#librarylife | #bells #changeringing | #neurodivergent #NEISvoid #chronicpain #bendybrain hEDS ADHD
Aron Nels Steinke @mrwolfcomics.bsky.social Eisner-winning cartoonist. Public speaker and former classroom teacher. Creator of the Mr. Wolf’s Class series and SPEECHLESS (Graphix/Scholastic)
Links to all my stuff: https://linktr.ee/mrwolfcomics
Charlene Chua @charlenedraws.bsky.social 🇨🇦 🇸🇬 Illustrator, author (The Pink Pajamas, S&S 2025) | Rep: Tracy Marchini | Co-host @kidlitart.bsky.social chat | 🚫AI/NFT
🎨 CharleneChua.com
🖼️ Links - charlenechua.com/links
✏️ Alt account @sygnin.com
Mia Araujo @miaaraujo.bsky.social Author-Illustrator 🇦🇷🇺🇸
Afia in the Land of Wonders (Scholastic, 2025)
Co-host, Painted in Color podcast 🎨
Repped by Regina Brooks, Serendipity Literary
📩mia@art-by-mia.com
https://art-by-mia.com/links
Lora Stead Author @lorastead.bsky.social Is it writing time yet?
Kidlit, '23 PBParty Finalist, SCBWI, 12x12, InkedVoices, UT League of Writers, former ESL/1-8 grade teacher. Rep'd by Joyce Sweeney at Seymour. ☀️
Forthcoming debut WHERE DADDY IS (Atheneum, 2029)
https://youtube.com/@lorastead
Eliza Kinkz @elizakinkz.bsky.social Makes Funny Books for kids and their grown-ups 
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
@ogemora.bsky.social @ogemora.bsky.social 
Jake Lockett, Order MY LIFE AS AN ASTHMANAUT Now! @jlockettauthor1.bsky.social #PB author of MY LIFE AS AN ASTHMANAUT (Free Spirit Publishing, April 14, 2026)
Order here: https://bookshop.org/a/115186/9798885547970
More tales found in Cricket Media & online!
Website: https://www.jakelockett.com/
Shirley Ng-Benitez @shirleyngbenitez.bsky.social Bay Area Children's book Author/Illustrator, and absolutely anti-AI.
DOWN, THROUGH, UP - debut picture book releases March 2, 2027, pre-orders available now at: shirleyngbenitez.com
—Everyone’s a story.
Jen 🖤 @justjennifer90.bsky.social #OASIS 🖤 🏰 #AEW #ManCity 💙🦈 she/her
Free Palestine. Abolish 🧊.
QuietLibrarian @quietlibrarian.bsky.social She/her Wife, School Librarian (15+ years), Dog mom (Deja), French language learner, Flute player, Runner (13.1x61; 26.2x4), MLB stadium chaser (16 current, 8 past)
Located in WNY
https://linktr.ee/kmpierce5
Beth S. @bibliophilebeth.bsky.social Introvert. Swiftie. Cassandra. Walking contradiction disguised as a school librarian.
Kellee Moye @kelleemoye.bsky.social Mom & Wife, Middle School Librarian, Educator, Reader, @ALANorg 2024 President, Unleashing Readers blog, Educator Guide author, Mental health advocate, 🌈, #blacklivesmatter, #endhate, Cat mom, IST/FJ, LEGO, Go Cubs go! (she/her/hers)
Joe @iamjoeprince.bsky.social Children’s and Teen Collection Development Librarian. 2026 Caldecott Committee. Vacation monster. Voracious reader. Husband of weirdmusic657, vati to Ouiser 🐈 Kylie 4eva.
I delete/block followers I don’t know.
Luna Melt Reminds You That Republicans Rape Children @luna-melt.bsky.social They rape children.
Margo Jantzi @margojantzi.bsky.social Elementary School Librarian
Teacher Librarian who integrates technology with elementary students in Gds. PreK-5 National Board Certified
Read Widely, Think Deeply, Act Kindly
Yvonne Martin @ymartin.bsky.social Teaching PYP Music while masking. Have been called a stirrer - no idea why. Enjoy quilting and other kinds of making.
Brook Gideon @brookgideon.bsky.social Wrangler of words, watercolors, pets, and plants. Lover of sharks, science, and second breakfast. Salty.
School Librarian @tiffreads.bsky.social School librarian and mom running on iced coffee and audiobooks. 17-at-heart. She/her.
Wayne C Spencer @kidgalactus.bsky.social Cartoonist, illustrator, dinosaur, and dinosaur enjoyer. Represented by Peter Ryan @ Stimola Literary Studio
- Newgrounds: https://kidgalactus.newgrounds.com/
-Commisions: https://artistree.io/kidgalactus
- Kofi Page: https://ko-fi.com/kidgalactus
Norm Feuti @normfeuti.bsky.social Award-winning author, illustrator & cartoonist living in Massachusetts.
📚BOOKS: A Kid Like Me • Beak & Ally • Hello, Hedgehog! • The King of Kazoo
🗞COMICS: Retail • Gil
normfeuticartoons.com
Bitsy Parks @bitsyparks.bsky.social First Grade Teacher
Choice Literacy Contributor
Passionate about books, trees and engaged & happy learners.
megan @mooglee.bsky.social teacher, reader, mom, peanut butter cup enthusiast
Sondra Eklund @sonderbooks.com Librarian. Writer. Book Reviewer. Math geek. Knitter. Progressive Christian. She/her. No DMs from strangers.
More at https://sondraeklund.com
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social Poet, Memoirist, Translator, Expat, Lover of Life
Laura @lauramakesthings.bsky.social ✎Freelance Artist / illustrator
⚘ Based in Upstate, NY
➳All inquiries- Hello@laurababiuk.com
https://www.laurababiuk.com/
Kathy P. Kelly @kathykellyauthor.bsky.social Picture Book Author
ONCE UPON A SLIME- Flamingo Books/PRH, January, 2027
DEAR SQUIRREL: NOTES FROM THE NUTS LEFT BEHIND - Flamingo Books/PRH, September, 2027
Member of SCBWI, Inked Voices, 12x12 PB Challenge
Rep'd by Lynnette Novak
KathyPKelly.com
@dori-king.bsky.social @dori-king.bsky.social Children’s picture book writer, yogi, meditator, and community volunteer.
Twalterickson @twalterickson.bsky.social Librarian, Michigan
☀️ Victoria | The Contented Reader @thecontentedreader.bsky.social Book blogger sharing honest reviews & recommendations for readers of all ages at The Contented Reader ✨ She/Her 🖥️ thecontentedreader.ca
Mandy @mldavisreads.bsky.social Multilingual children's librarian. Focus on collection development. Hobbies include gardening, backyard chickens and ducks, Orioles baseball, and genealogy. Reviews at https://www.goodreads.com/mldavisreads and storygraph. 
Nancy Hudgins @nancyhudgins.com 🎈Celebrating🎈
Books Good Enough For You: The Storied Life of Ursula Nordstrom, Editor of Extraordinary Children's Books
Rep’d: Rachel Orr, Prospect Agency
#MG #SCBWI #BoydsMill #InkedVoices #nonfictionkidlit
Rusty Fischer | Children's Author @rustyfischer.bsky.social Rusty Fischer's poems for children have appeared in Reader’s Digest, Good Housekeeping and Woman’s Day. His latest poem, “Socks,” is currently featured in The Dirigible Balloon.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/byseries/36446
Debbie Palen Illustration @debbiepalen.bsky.social Illustrator of picture books seeking representation. Feminist, animal lover, Penguin Random House, Scholastic, Free Spirit Publishing, NWF. ✉dpalen@fmgirl.com portfolio: https://www.debbiepalen.com linktr.ee/dpalen
#KidLitArt #childrensbooks #kidlit
Jen Arena @jenarena.bsky.social Kids book author and kids book editor
Check out some of my books! Acorn Was a Little Wild (S&S), Besos for Baby (Little Brown), GIVE (Knopf), Marta! Big and Small (Roaring Brook)
agent: Stephanie Fretwell-Hill, Red Fox
jenarenabooks.com
Jennifer Laughran @literaticat.bsky.social literary agent with a lot of opinions 👀 also a podcast 👀 also my puppy looks like baby chewbacca! www.jenniferlaughran.com / www.andreabrownlit.com
Suzanne Beaky Illustration @suzannebeaky.bsky.social Children’s Illustrator. Cat Lover. Avid Gardener.
You can find my portfolio at http://www.suzannebeaky.com
Stefan Karlsson @stefankarlsson.bsky.social Poet & kidlit writer. Marbling & book artist.
Based in Portland, OR 🌲
https://stefankarlssonwrites.wixsite.com/author
https://linktr.ee/nautiluspaperco
Robin Brett Wechsler @robinbwechsler.bsky.social Children's author, freelance editor/writer. Avid reader, walker, voter, museum goer, bird feeder, ice cream eater, ‘80s music listener. Cat lady.
12x12 I Courage to Create I SCBWI member
Writers' Loft member and PBCG leader
2025 PB Rising Stars HM
Ainissa Ramirez, PhD @ainissaramirez.bsky.social Scientist. Speaker. Writer. #Kidlit #Picturebook
OUT NOW⚡SPARK: Jim West's Electrifying Adventures in Creating the Microphone via @mitpress.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/SPARKbk 🎤
American Veteran (Canadian grandparents) @rosierocket63.bsky.social We need to make a fix it list and all of the list matters equally.
1. Businesses want AI and Americans want UBI Universal Basic Income
2. Americans want UH Universal Healthcare
3. Overturn Citizens United Corporate greed.
Hilton Ariel Ruiz @hiltonarielruiz.bsky.social Filmmaker behind The Amityville Lost Tape & Zombie with a Shotgun - @zombiewithashotgun.bsky.social
Watch➡️ https://tinyurl.com/3fwy6f3j | https://tubitv.com/movies/100043140/zombie-with-a-shotgun
More 🎥 🌐 https://linktr.ee/hiltonarielruiz
Toshi(ki) Nakamura | 中村俊貴 @artoftoshi.bsky.social *Available for work*
Character Designer/Kidlit llustrator🏃
Clients: WAG, Netflix, DWTV, HarperCollins, 小学館 etc | TIS会員
Rep’d by Hannah Mann at Writers House
📎 artoftoshi.com/illustration
🎥 https://youtube.com/@toshiatelier
bio.site/artoftoshi
@carolynsauer.bsky.social @carolynsauer.bsky.social 
Seth Rosenthal @sethrosenthal.bsky.social
5'10"
37 years old
https://www.patreon.com/SecretBase
https://youtube.com/@secretbasesbn
@notgoingback2024.bsky.social @notgoingback2024.bsky.social Horrified German interpreter & translator and lover of democracy watching the US sleepwalk into an autocracy if there is no serious resistance and debunking of myths. These past few years have been a steep learning curve. Let us keep learning together!
Heidi Lewis @heidilewis.bsky.social Author and vintage ephemera/mixed media collage artist. Ask me about the lost art of letter writing.
My picture book, LOUIE MATTAR’S FABULOUS CAR, illustrated by the amazing Jordi Vila Delclòs comes out in August (Creative Editions).
heidilewis.info
Rahele Jomepour Bell @rahele.bsky.social Book Maker represented by @the Cat Agency
Elaine Kaufmann @ek-2nn.bsky.social Elementary school librarian
Great Novel Reads @greatnovels.bsky.social Fiction-only book discovery platform.
Authors: List your novel.
Readers: Explore stories worth reading.
No noise. Just novels.
👉 greatnovelreads.com
Dawn Byrne she/her @dawnbyrne.bsky.social Writer, turtle mom, I read so I can breath, !children's picture books!, sky gazer, archery, crazy plant person dawnbyrne.com
#SCBWI
#picturebooks
Cassandra Berger @cassandradraws.bsky.social Artist, writer, teacher, etc
First picture book coming out fall 2026!