Emma Jayne @emmajaynedesigns.bsky.social Illustrator and pattern designer. Love to create designs for kid's books, stationery, gifts and apparel. For work enquiries please email me at emma@emmajayne-designs.co.uk
Instagram: @emmajayne_designs
Portfolio: portfolio.emmajayne-designs.co.uk
Nimblewitlit Mag @nimblewitlit.bsky.social Epistemic Literary's new adventure for a young audience!
Our all ages eMag will extend the conversation to a younger audience by exploring similar themes.
Issue 1: https://epistemiclit.com/nimblewitlit/taking-a-stand/
www.EpistemicLit.com/nimblewitlit
Kathleen @halifaxkat.bsky.social Reader, Writer, Sometimes runner, Big fan of my dog, Blueberry, and slightly addicted to baseball cards.
B. Dias @cryptidscribbler.bsky.social Likes to look at pictures, very occasionally posts.
Acrylics, watercolors and whatever else.
🇵🇹, 🇬🇧 dabble in 🇫🇷
Steph Lau (she/her) @stephlaubooks.com Author, illustrator, former pastry chef.
🐍🪨 MEDUSA'S PET ROCK (HarperCollins): OUT NOW!
❄️🩰THE ABOMINABLE SNOW DANCER (Penguin Workshop, 2025)
Rep: @allielevick.bsky.social
Website: bit.ly/stephlaubooks
Becca Syracuse @bookdesignbee.bsky.social Associate Art Director • Children's Illustrator
Rebeccasyracuse.com
She/her
Rep'd by Natascha Morris/ The Tobias Agency
Luisa Uribe @lupencita.bsky.social Colombian illustrator, eater of sweets. She/her.
PATCHWORK MEMORIES -written by Monica Rojas- out Sept. 1!
www.luisauribe.com
Claire Woodend @clairewoodend.bsky.social Budding picture book writer.
CANSCAIP '25 Long List (x2)
#PBParty '25 Honorable Mention.
Trivia nerd. Would do anything for my cats.
Victoria, BC. 🏳️⚧️
Kathy Jo Watson @kathywatson.bsky.social Kid Lit Writer. Music and theater fanatic. Space Nerd.
Author of MY CITY IS A FORT and featured in BOY MOMS.
#SCBWI
#365PictureBooks
𖦹ʏʙ.ᐟ @whimsybonk.bsky.social 🎨 Artist That Likes Pink
🖍️ Lowpoly Aficionado + Pixel Art Pupil
✏️ https://whimsybonk.carrd.co/
🖌️ (They / Them)
Semper Anticus Press @semperanticuspress.bsky.social Indie publisher launching soon!
Main site: www.book-shelfie.com/submissions
semperanticuspress@gmail.com
Buckeye Children's & Teen Book Awards @buckeyekidsread.bsky.social Ohio's reader's choice book awards, nominated by and voted on by students of Ohio. Website: bcbookaward.info
Kate Aston @kateaston.bsky.social #KidLit and library storytime SUPERFAN. Mom of now grown daughters who taught me to recognize books kids beg you to "read it again!" at bedtime. Here for the beauty. Writer of kidlit and poetry. Cheerful lurker. No access to chat.
Mike Freveletti @frevma.bsky.social picture book writer | occasional poet | improviser | intermittent funny man
#picturebook #kidlit #12x12pb #PBParty #SCBWI
Gina Perry @ginaperry.bsky.social Picture Book Author Illustrator, THE KING OF BOOKS Feiwel & Friends, SNOW DAY WITH DADDY '28 Christy Ottaviano Books / Creator of #KidLitArtPostcard / Rep’d by Sean McCarthy www.ginaperry.com
brittanybaugus.bsky.social @brittanybaugus.bsky.social Illustrator
SCAD grad
Represented by Natascha Morris of Tobias Literary Agency
Aurora @aurora-brn.bsky.social Illustrator, mostly kid lit 🐢☀️🌸🤸♀️
seeking representation
aurorabrn.com
aurorabrnart@gmail.com
Joe Lillington @joelillington.bsky.social Picture book Illustrator based in the UK!
I make #joesbrushset brushes for @Procreate - https://ko-fi.com/joesbrushset/
Some #gamedev!
https://linktr.ee/joelillington
ArtHole @arthole.bsky.social Undone.
sage! @rsagesmith.bsky.social illustrator + designer based in oc, ca
scbwi member!
portfolio - https://www.rsagesmith.com/
Jacob Hansen @jacobhansenwrites.bsky.social Repped by Sorcha Fairbank
#SCBWI member
#chucklechallenge ‘24 winner
#kidlit Author
Indianapolis
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
Stinky Allyson! @stinky-allyson.bsky.social 
Wiebke Bolduan @wiebkebolduan.bsky.social comics & illustration
pronouns: dey/dem (german), they/them (english)
wiebkebolduan.myportfolio.com
https://linktr.ee/wiebkebolduan
Tom Rogers @tomrogers.bsky.social Comic Artist of Little Charlotte, Herald, Marvel TL;DR, Oddballs, Heroes of 9/11, Amazing Moments in Sports, Brisk Lemonade, & BG assists - recently, Metamorpho!
linktr.ee/tomrogerscomics
patreon.com/tomrogerscomics
tomrogersart @ gmail
NO genAI or NFTs
@iagaa.bsky.social @iagaa.bsky.social 
The Bath Bomb Dealer 🛁 🫧 @jumpyjellybeanbathbombs.com Woman Owned Business | 30+ | Capricorn | Mama x 1 | Business + Personal Account | Handcrafted, Organic, Vegan Friendly | EST Sept. 2015 | College Graduate | DnD Lover | Gardener 💨
Ko-Fi 👉🏽 https://ko-fi.com/jumpyjellybeanbathbombs
Nduja @ndujaa.bsky.social I like art and follow artists.
I'm currently trying to learn to draw
From Italy - he/him
Guy Parkhomenko @guyparkhomenko.bsky.social Artist in Brooklyn, NY
guyparkhomenko.com
Financial Media Group @financialmedia.bsky.social Financial Media Group offers full digital marketing turn key solutions for small to medium sized & publicly traded companies.
Amy Farris @amylizfs.bsky.social Voice actor and picture book enthusiast, I'm on a mission to ID "read-aloud-ability"--those enigmatic elements that make picture books entertaining for both the narrator and the audience.
🔗 HearMeOutReviews.Substack.com
🔗 VoiceOfAmy.com
Just Kerby @lazyflux.bsky.social He/Him. Game developer and professional gamemaster.
- Co-founder of Starshot Games
- Primed by Cortex podcast
https://linktr.ee/kerbylambert
Catarina Oliveira ✦Illustration✦ @catoliveirastudio.bsky.social ✦ I'm Cat ✦ she/her ✦ 44 ✦ neurodivergent
✦ Portuguese-Canadian Kid Lit Illustrator
✦ Rep'd by The T2 Agency
✦ 📍 in Portugal
✦ Book a Portfolio Review ⤵️
catarinaoliveirastudio.com
✦ instagram.com/catarinaoliveirastudio/
#KidLitArt #illustration #kidlit
Creative Boom @creativeboom.com The independent home of art & design 👀
www.creativeboom.com
Kindlei – Smarter Kindle Book Discovery @kindlei.bsky.social Where Kindle books stay visible, not buried.
For indie and traditional authors who want lasting discoverability.
📘 List your book → kindlei.com
KidsWord & AllKidsBooks – Explore, Read & Share! @allkidsbooks.com 🌟 Join our vibrant community of children's book lovers!
🔗 KidsWrd.com | AllKidsBooks.com
👧 Parents & Teachers: Find the best books for young readers.
✍️ Authors & Illustrators: List & showcase your books to a global audience.
Ian Eagleton @ianeagletonauthor.bsky.social He/him
Children’s author, dad, former teacher of 13 years 🏳️🌈
Contact: ian@thereadingrealm.co.uk
Agent: Neil Dunnicliffe at Spring Literary
Yankee Candle Foxtrot @mattieroi.bsky.social Protect Trans Kids.
I’ll be at PAXU 2025!
Ste Gen Mo Dem 💙📚 🐕🌳 @stegenmodem.bsky.social Supporting Dems Everywhere SG 60 miles South of St Louis @piperformissouri.bsky.social @reichard4rep.bsky.social @fpwellman.bsky.social @wellmanformo.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social @labarnitz.bsky.social @iquitcigs.bsky.social 📚🚭💙
HarperStacks @harperstacks.bsky.social Home of the HarperCollins Children's Books School and Library team. Find us at HarperStacks.com
Sheri Bentley @sheribbooks.bsky.social Writer. Literacy Coach. Lover of people and words. #SCBWI #KidsChoice-Winner #KidLitVibes-Winner #50PreciousWords-HM #KidlitChuckleChallenge-HM Pub'd in @DirigibleBalloon
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 📚🏴
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
Stephen Briseño @stephenbriseno.bsky.social Husband. Dad. Middle School English Teacher. Kidlit author.
THE NOTEBOOK KEEPER ('22)
QUEEN OF LEAVES ('23)
TEXT STRUCTURES FROM PICTURE BOOKS ('23)
TAMALES FOR CHRISTMAS (‘24)
and more on the way!
Rep: Lilly Ghahremani
www.stephenbriseno.com
Cristy Watson @authorcristywatson.bsky.social Award-winning author, poet and lover of Nature
Simone Beach @simonebeach.bsky.social Headteacher of the primary school I went to when I was little. Worked here for over 20 years and still love it. We were evacuated 16/01/23. Can’t wait to be back together as one school. Also love books.
Jessica Ralli @jessicaralli.bsky.social Manager of #EarlyLiteracy Programs & Special Initiatives @ Brooklyn Public Library | #KidLit Writer @ RISE X Penguin Workshop | LJ Mover and Shaker 2020 |
Angela Antonelli @skybrary.bsky.social #Librarian, K-4 | #Kidlit Writer | #SCBWI | #12x12 | #CTCASL Board Member | #STEM
Andrew Allsop @handle.invalid Children’s book author, #PBParty Finalist ’25, #PBRisingStars Mentee ’23, WriteHive Mentee ’24, member of SCBWI, repped by @kaitlynleann17.bsky.social at Bradford Literary Agency.
P. J. Purtee, AKA Jill (Shields) @pjpurtee.bsky.social SCBWI
PBs
Poet: The Toy, Little Thoughts Press
Mira Reisberg's Children's Book Academy (featured poems)
Honors: Madness! Poetry (Elite 8), #50PreciousWords, Valentiny, Halloweensie, Holiday, Spring Fling
School volunteer
Hx: pediatrics
http://pjpurtee.com
Evelyn Day @evelynday.bsky.social #Kidlit writer, #SCBWI, #PB, #KidlitChuckleChallenge HM ‘25 & ‘24, Classically trained movie watcher, Poetry nerd, AuDHD, and Oxford comma enthusiast!
@carolynchaffin.bsky.social @carolynchaffin.bsky.social Mom of 4
Elementary school library clerk
Book collector
Iced Chai latte addict
Jill Bennett @jillshanti.bsky.social Teacher, book fanatic, reviewer and blogger
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/
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Postscript (Book Formatter, Cover Designer and Socials Post Maker): https://book-shelfie.com/postscript
javier macias @highintensities.bsky.social Ceñirse a la norma no mola.
paisa de frio @apsychil.bsky.social 
Brooke Baum @brookebaum.bsky.social 🌟 2025 #PBRisingStars Mentee
🎨 #kidlit author-illustrator
📚 Former children's bookseller and school librarian
😴 Current tired mom
🤓 Self-taught and still self-teaching
Represented by Marissa Brown at Pippin Properties
brookebaum.com
EYE MAMA PROJECT @eyemamaproject.bsky.social Award winning Eye on care by photographers worldwide ! Empowerment and visibility platform sharing motherhood truths since 2021 , a curated photographic portfolio ! www.eyemamaproject.com for press News & book ! Rip insta 30k. Founder curator karni Uk
molly fairhurst @mollyf.bsky.social artist/ illustrator
UK mollyfairhurst.com
etsy.com/uk/shop/mollyfairhurstshop
job enquiries please e-mail Anja Haas hello@pudelunlimited.com
ainsley @ainsmg.bsky.social ⋆｡𖦹 °✩ pratt '27
illustration / graphic design
ainsmg.cargo.site 
FReadom Fighter @qtpilibrarian.bsky.social Librarian. USN (Ret) spouse. Mom. Gardener. Gamer. Anime. PBS. PTX. Tattoos. Whiskey. Cis-het, she/her.
Passionate about literacy, gardening (native, esp!), and animal rescue.
Opinions my own.
Digital Jim🇨🇦 @canadajim.bsky.social 🇨🇦Canadian horticulturist out and about and enjoying being an owner of Canada!
Looking 50km south at the 🇺🇸 border and wondering what the hell is going on over there!
Shirley Blair 🇨🇦🍉 @himalayanchildren.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Boycott US 🇨🇦 Elbows up 🇨🇦
Science, Cdn poli, archeology, prehominids. Cdn media. So tired of muting posts about the US-not interested. Switching to Gander. US owned medis shd be banned. In memoriam: 💔Coulten Boushie I stand with the hereditary chiefs
Mavi Kanarya @mavilikanarya.bsky.social Kanaryam güzel kuşum
Ben sana vurulmuşum
Seni çok sevdiğimi 🐦
Anlatıyor duruşum.🐦
Catherine 🇨🇦 🌎 @capeacadia.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Fighting the good fight to #KeepCanadaCanadian 🇨🇦🏳️🌈
#NeverVoteConservative #CanadaSky
#CanadaResists #NeverPoilievre
🇨🇦Canadians - Put a 🇨🇦 on your profile name so I can spot and Follow you!
Ally to anti-Felon 47 Americans 🇺🇸
I Follow all 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺Resisters!
N.J. Gallegos is Dr. Spooky (she/her) @drspookyer.bsky.social I like big cats. ER doc. Horror author. Artist. Cohost of The Scream Kings Podcast. Member of HWA. Pro-choice. BLM. I voted for her. Star Wars & BravoTV fanatic. She/her. 🌊🏳️🌈
Personal site: https://njgallegos.com
Podcast: https://www.screamkingspodcast.com
Michelle Barker @michellebark.bsky.social Senior #editor at DarlingAxe.com. Award-winning #author, Ironman #triathlete. michellebarker.ca
Brooke @bpwrites.bsky.social #Author with an ever-growing writing & reading list. @brookepercy1 where *a certain letter* doesn’t mark the spot.
#WritingCommunity #vss365 #vssdaily #BlueSkyRelay
🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇨🇦
Laura Segal Stegman @laurastegman.bsky.social Middle Grade Author: Summer of L.U.C.K + Ready or Not + The Chambered Nautilus (Young Dragons)
| SCBWI | Publicist/Creator PR Tips for Authors
linktr.ee/LauraStegman
Real Blue Patriot @realbluepatriot.bsky.social Happily married, HD Biker, Musician, Lover of Good People.
WOKE AF REBEL
🚫 FuckTrump
🚫 Fuck Elmo
🚫 FuckMAGA
🚫 FuckFascism
🚫OnlyFans
🚫Crypto
🇺🇸🏳️🌈🇺🇦 🇨🇦🇲🇽
#TeamBlue
#ResistTheTraitor
#SlavaUkraini
#FightForDemocracy
#TrumpIsAPutinStooge
#FightForUkraine
Stephanie Simpson McLellan @stephaniemclellan.bsky.social Award winning kidlit author
New: TWO TALES OF TWENTY-SIX - Innovative 1st Reader-Picture Book Hybrid. (Red Deer Press)
https://StephanieMcLellan.com
@hossam1254.bsky.social @hossam1254.bsky.social 
Mikael Forsström @mickedesign.bsky.social Multidisciplinary freelance designer with a love for the craft of design! Based in Stockholm, Sweden.
www.mikaelforsstrom.com
I Swiped the Wrong One rom-com feature film @iswipedthewrongone.bsky.social A typical rom-com with an atypical rom-com ending, I Swiped the Wrong One is a SAG-AFTRA micro-budget feature film telling the story of four thirtysomethings who attempt to navigate the world of 21st century online dating.
Steven Jacobs @jacobs.land papa and partner. caretaker of two dogs, one old house, and a lot of someone else’s computers.
📍 lancaster, pennsylvania, usa
Sarah Doan ˙ ᵕ ˙ @lilacdoodz.bsky.social Children's book author illustrator ✐ Rep'd 𝑏ყ James McGowan ᴀᴛ BookEnds Literary #kidlit
˗ˏˋ sarahtdoan.com ˎˊ˗
Lil A 🐴💙 @lilatheofficial.bsky.social Gen Z | Democrat 💙 | Musician & Music Producer | YouTube: @LilATheOfficial
NEW ALBUM SOON - ⱠΛ
85% - DONE
Followed by @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social, @meidasjordy.bsky.social, @theliamnissan.bsky.social, @markhamillofficial.bsky.social and more
Jean Mills @jeanmillswriter.bsky.social 🇨🇦 YA MG Author. Skating Over Thin Ice ~ Larkin on the Shore ~ The Legend ~ Bliss Adair and the First Rule of Knitting ~ Wingman ~ After the Wallpaper Music ~ 🥌 🎵 🫖 #LeafsForever 
Lisa Cowan Pineo @lisacowanpineo.bsky.social Writer currently working on a MG novel. Mom to a ND son and a trans daughter. Ally. Lover of horror, LGBTQIA2+, MG, YA and romance books. She/her 🇨🇦🏳️⚧️♾️
Find me at:
Instagram: @pineolisa
Goodreads: Lisa Pineo (user 62350303)
StoryGraph: @lpineo
Stephanie Gibeault @stephaniegibeault.bsky.social Children's Author & Freelance Writer | nonfiction and fiction, picture books and middle grade | rep'd by Jacqui Lipton | #SCBWI, #12x12PB | She/Her | https://linktr.ee/stephaniegibeault
🐇💨🐕🐶🐩🐵🐝
Hannah @fairmerthefarmer.bsky.social Manitoban graphic designer and illustrator.
The mind is willing but the body is weak and that’s life as an artist with chronic pain.🕺
She/her
🏳️🌈🇨🇦
https://linktr.ee/fairmer
Gytha Ogg 🐈⬛ 🦔 🧁🍷 @gythaoggandgreebo.bsky.social Citizen for a better world, wife, mother. Militantly decent (GNU STP). Shameless library advocate. Learner. Plant slant. Shoring up my post-apocalyptic skill set? No, those are just my hobbies. New gardener, knitter, sewist, baker.
Svatli @svatli.bsky.social I'm from #Iceland, deeply passionate about #climate issues. As a #humanist and #atheist, I embrace a worldview centered on reason, compassion, and evidence, while remaining open to the many facets that define me.
Kyle Reed @cutdrawglue.bsky.social I illustrate books, like CHOMP-O-RAMA by Maria Birmingham and published by Owlkids Publishing, available now.
Repped by Astound.
www.cutdrawglue.com
Jen Lynn Bailey @jlbaileybooks.bsky.social Children's author. VCFA, SCBWI, CANSCAIP, MASC
THIS IS THE BOAT THAT BEN BUILT (Pajama Press 2022, illus. Maggie Zeng)
Forthcoming PBs with Groundwood (2027) and Owlkids (2028)
https://linktr.ee/jenlynnbailey
Louise Holland @hollyberrybooks.bsky.social Beach walking northerner, with amazing kids, a lovely husband (rescued from the south) and shelves and shelves of books.
Sameer Kankali Ⓥ☮✌🏼🌱💚🍉🐸🐮🐷📚📖♟️✊🏼 @sameerkankali.bsky.social MUNDUS SINE CAESARIBUS 💙🦋
#Activist #HumanRights #AnimalRights #UBI #ClimateChange #Books #Tech #Poker #Chess
He/Him/His
❌👑
mer salée @mer-salee.bsky.social 
Nancy Heiss @nancyheiss.bsky.social Language and Literacy Education PhD student at UGA, studying Literacies and Children's Literature. Linguist. Poet. Homeschooling mom to six.
#LDSforHarris
CrankyGoat 🇨🇦 @crankygoat.bsky.social Vancouver Islander, introvert and outdoor enthusiast who loves hiking, kayaking, rowing, canicross, rucking, natural sciences, environmental ecology, art and reading a good book cuddled with our dog. Life is meant to be savoured … not hurried along.