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/
Robin Stevenson @robinstevenson.bsky.social Author: Pride Puppy; Pride Colors; Queer History A-Z; A Hug on the Wind and 30+ more.
Spring 2026: The Book of Jupiter
Spring 2027: Pride Puppy Countdown!
www.robinstevenson.com
https://linktr.ee/pridepuppy
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Charlotte @bilautaly.bsky.social Not everything I post represents my personal opinion. I enjoy following news, politics, and events around the world.- S @sadillustrations.bsky.social @sadillustrations.bsky.social
gabriel nari @gabrielnari.bsky.social an author-illustrator of children's books looking for representation and also, maybe, a hobbit.
portfolio: https://www.behance.net/gabrielnari
Wait That's Interesting @waitinteresting.bsky.social Surprising facts, odd history, science curiosities & things that make you stop and say “wait… that’s interesting.”
Daily doses of wonder ✨
Alex Jungroth @alexjungroth.bsky.social I'm a programmer. I also like drawing and writing. I'm a trans woman. she/her 🏳️⚧️
Sarah Wheeler @sarahsart.bsky.social Artist • Illustrator
Member of SCBWI
Nicola Schofield @nicolaschofield.com Children's book illustrator and author in the UK. Urbansketcher. Creating colourful worlds & characters
🌐 https://nicolaschofield.com
✏️ https://nicolaschofield.com/newsletter/
💌 Hello@nicolaschofield.com
Represented by Sally Kim at ABLA
#kidLitArt
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Sasha @typeofcrayon.bsky.social 📚 Book lover | Deep thinker | Forever curious
Finding wisdom in stories and life
Karla Adams @karlaadamsillu.bsky.social 🌸🐸Illustrator 🐸🌸
Rep'd by Adriana Dominguez at ACM Kids & Illustration
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Jeanne Walker Harvey @jeannewharvey.bsky.social #kidlit author! I value the power of words, art, dancing & chocolate.
I love writing picture book bios about inspiring creative people!
Recent books: THE GLASS PYRAMID, ELSE B. IN THE SEA, ABLAZE WITH COLOR & DRESSING UP THE STARS. jeanneharvey.com
Andriiy @andriiy76.bsky.social 
Sadee Schilling @sadeeschilling.bsky.social teacher & artist 🎨 comics, #kidlit illustration, cut paper collage 🦋🐝AuDHD 📚grounded by books, my ginger kitty, fairy lights & tea 🏕 Colorado ☀️ https://www.sadeeschilling.com
Jessica Braidan @jessicabraidan.bsky.social 📚 Color & Discover series — fact-and-coloring books for curious kids 4 and up. Surprising facts + bold pictures to color + try-it activities. Read, create, discover, screen-free. 🦕🚀🐴 jessicabraidan.com
https://www.facebook.com/jessica.braidan/
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
Sara Olmos - Teconlene @teconlene.bsky.social Spanish illustrator and graphic designer based in Rome.
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@saraolmosillustration
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SaraOlmosIllustration
Elke @theremaybecats.bsky.social Illustrator & Storyteller.
Rep'd by: Caryn Wiseman @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
Portfolio: www.theremaybecats.com/links
Sandy Jonas @sandyjonas.bsky.social Author/illustrator, she/her kidlit and cozies 🇨🇦 SCBWI member
Rep’d by Maura Kye-Casella
Meryl Suresh @merylwrites.bsky.social #kidlit author in training
#SCBWI
2025 #12x12challenge
2025 #PBRisingStars HM
a 2025 #KidLitZombieWeek Winner
Steve James @stejdesigns.bsky.social Leeds based freelance illustrator
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https://www.advocate-art.com/steve-james
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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
Koko @mikekoko.bsky.social Walking on my hands 🤸🏽♂️, diving into kidlit—whether reading or writing 📚, and solving puzzles 🧩.
#PBRisingStar #SCBWI #12x12 #GoldenEggAcademy
AnneWritesKidlit @anneruggirello.bsky.social Picture book writer 📚 Bluesky newbie
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social ACTIVISM AGAINST FASCISM
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Maximize Bluesky Friends to exchange dialogue in America's darkest hour.
Michelle Denise Wood @mdwillustration.bsky.social 🖍️Illustrator, author, mom to girls
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⭐️#PBRisingStars 2024 Honorable Mention
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✨michelledwoodillustration.com
✏️michellewooddraws.com
📒 Seeking representation
Kate Arnold @illustratebykate.bsky.social Illustrator | Cat Enthusiast | SCBWI Member
Represented by Emelie Burl at Susan Schulman Literary Agency
www.katearnold.net
#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/
Sue Sutherland, Author - TWELVE DAYS AT GLACIER @suemt.bsky.social Debut picture book author - TWELVE DAYS AT GLACIER, granola girl, weaver, quilter, traveler, photographer, 12x12, Montana SCBWI
Coming Soon - HOW HANNAH GOT HER LUMP OF COAL (2026), TWELVE DAYS AT YELLOWSTONE (2027), & NOTHING BUT NET TROUBLE
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Author Craig Read @craigread.bsky.social Dwayne And The Dinosaur Dilemma now available, either from myself paperback £10 each, or Hardback £15 each, or Amazon at £15 & £25
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DearEditorDotCom @deareditordotcom.bsky.social Deborah Halverson—“The Editor”—posts writing tips, inspirations, news, & alerts when she answers new questions from writers on DearEditor.com
Faith Gluskin @authorfaithgluskin.bsky.social #PICTURE BOOK Writer/#Teacher/#amquerying/Author of Gorillas’ Night Out (Indigo River Publishing/2019) and Matzah Means So Many Things (Yorkshire Publishing/2022). Member of #SCBWI
@whothefami.bsky.social @whothefami.bsky.social Hierarchy only exists in the minds of those who have not broken free of such illusions. https://whothefami.substack.com
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Ramya G Spaulding @rgspaulding.bsky.social Author/illustrator looking for representation #12x12 #PB #MG #engineer #STEAM #scbwi #2021PBParty Finalist, #2025PBParty HM, #2025PBRisingStar HM. Will not engage in DMs from unknown people.
www.rgspaulding.com
Andy Panda @andyxpanda.bsky.social Aspiring childrens book author / illustrator, activist, Pelicans and Storm fan and Dad.
Sheree Boyd @shereeboyd.bsky.social Illustrator | textile designer | dog aficionado (ask me about my dogs) | Texan trapped in New York
http://shereeboyd.com/
www.instagram.com/doodlesndogs/
https://www.redbubble.com/people/ShereeBoyd/explore?asc=u&page=1&sortOrder=recent
Kaushani Mufti @padfootblack25.bsky.social 🌟Kidlit and Middle-grade Illustrator from🇮🇳
🌟Open to Representation
🌟 SCBWI India - Illustrator Co-ordinator
🌟 https://kaushanimufti.com/
✉️ kaushani.mufti@gmail.com
Andrew Fox Ⓥ @foxphorescence.bsky.social Reader, writer, book collector, and all-around biblophile.
Learning to channel the soft whisper of the muses.
Autodidact.
INFJ
#WritingCommunity
#Shelley #Keats #Tennsyon #HartCrane #Stevens #Whitman #Dickinson #Bloom.
Vegan FTA
Good vibes only. ~ ~ ~
Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social I'm the author of 80+ books and an established editor who has helped more than 400 authors achieve their publishing dreams. My books include writing guidebooks, a novel, children's books and more. Visit inventingrealityediting.com- A amour30.bsky.social @amour30.bsky.social
Willbeer @willbeer.bsky.social Chess playing Japanese fan.
Soon to be high school math teacher
Ronni Runyon - Illustrator 🌷 @ronnirunyonillo.bsky.social See the world as a kid again!
Children's book illustrator, SCBWI member
ronnirunyonillustration.com
Becky Levine @beckylevine.bsky.social Kidlit writer, knitter, beginning drummer. Come for the writing and books, stay for the cat, yarn, and travel pix. Opinions are my own. Unless you love them, in which case I'm happy to share. She/Her
www.beckylevine.com
Andrea Yomtob @yomtobillustrator.bsky.social PB Illustrator/Author
SCBWI, 12x12, #PBParty 23/24/25 Finalist, ACCD Alumna, CGAnimation Career, Garden Enthusiast, Mother of 2❤️in LA.
Rep'd by Rob Broder, MNLM
All art handpainted ©Andrea Yomtob
www.andreayomtob.com
YouTube: @ArtGrowStudio
C.W. Allen 📚 @cwallenbooks.bsky.social Writing long stories for kids and short stories for former kids
• RELATIVELY NORMAL SECRETS
• THE SECRET BENEFITS OF INVISIBILITY
• TALES OF THE FORGOTTEN FOUNDERS
🚫 AI is the worst
League of Utah Writers President
cwallenbooks.com
Kevalkumar @kevalkumar.bsky.social Motivational Quotes Writer
Nadiad, Gujarat, India 🇮🇳
Contact:+918866868474
Lilith Treah 🏳️⚧️ @riveroceansea.bsky.social 19 blk 🏳️⚧️queen 🖤pots autism disabled tired of just existing to lay in tears.
BLM ✊🏿 Black Beauty 🖤
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
Deborah Weeks/A Woman for An Eternity @deborah-10.bsky.social 🌟I’m a 73 year old Humboldt hippie, feminist, socialist democrat. Proud mother of two grown men. No grandchildren, 5 cats and 2 dogs plus 3 grand dogs with 1 grand cat. A Sagittarius put on this planet in 1952.
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Maria is Writing @mariakidlit.bsky.social #Kidlit PB/MG writer and enthusiast
Parent
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#Scbwi
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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
Linda J Thomas @lindajeantm.bsky.social Creativespace Explorer—
Writer/Poet/Editor/Mixed Media Maker
#12x12PB #SCBWI #ChildrensBookInsider #50PreciousWords Honorable Mention 2025 & 2026 #ValentinyWritingContest Honorable Mention 2026 #The100DayProject 2026
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
Andrea “Andi” Wearne @awearnepb-mg.bsky.social Mom, wife, Special Education Para, Aspiring Children’s Author, Member of SCBWI, Minnesotan
#scbwiminnesota #kidlit #amwriting #neurodivergentkid
The Incredible Hulk @incredible-hulk.bsky.social Dr. Robert Bruce Banner.
Most sage advice I have:
Don’t make me angry.
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John Does Book Covers @johndoesbookcovers.bsky.social I’m a visual artist creating high-quality, professionally designed book covers that capture the essence of each story. Check out my pre-made book covers at www.bookcovers.com/artist/unique_digital/ and my wife's at www.bookcovers.com/artist/unides_rem/