Rachael Scotson @rachaelscotson.bsky.social Making it up as I go.
MAWYP @BathSpaUni.
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social Writer/illustrator of the LOKI: A Bad God's Guide books, Writer of Otherland & The Dragon in the Library. https://louiestowell.com. No terfs. Many fluctuating fandoms incluing BtVS + Doctor Who. This feed isn't for kids.
Simon James Green @simonjamesgreen.bsky.social Author & screenwriter. Boy Like Me, Finn Jones Was Here, Gay Club!, Heartbreak Boys, and more!
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Kaushani Mufti @padfootblack25.bsky.social 🌟Kidlit and Middle-grade Illustrator from🇮🇳
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Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie Author of Nature’s Acre. Founder, Gardeningwell.ie — wildlife gardening in Ireland (Stamullen, Co Meath).
Walled garden + school/community projects.
Peat-free, pesticide-free. Native plants, pollinators. Media: gardeningwell.ie/press/media
Wheeker Books | Clara Ministral @wheekerbooks.bsky.social 📚 Literatura norirlandesa / Northern Irish literature
🖋 Clara Ministral, traductora editorial
📧 hola@wheekerbooks.com
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Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social Poet, New York Times bestselling author of Paleolithic Era novels, nonfiction writer, award-winning screenwriter.
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Maisie Chan 🐼 CHI CHI THE PANDA out now! 🎋 @maisiechanwrites.bsky.social 🏆 Winner of the @JHALAKPRIZE & @BRADFORDBOASE for Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths
🐯 Tiger Warrior author
🔎 Very Merry Murder Club author
Screenwriter @bbcwritersroom Scottish Voices.
Lit Rep: @chloeseager
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Brummie
Caroline Fielding @cazapr1.bsky.social Chartered School Librarian, CILIP @YLGLondon Committee, National conference exhibition manager, Bea keeper. She/her
Lauren Mallon @lauren-mallon.bsky.social PhD Researcher | Geographer, Intersectional Feminist, Planner & Policy Nerd | Foundation Chartered Manager (fCMgr) | RT /= endorsement
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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
Sullivan Upper School Library @sullivanupperlib.bsky.social An 11-18 co-ed grammar school in Holywood, Co. Down
Pat Zietlow Miller (she/her) @patzmiller.bsky.social Picture book author. Reader. Bookstore and library lover. All about my kids and cats. Repped by Ammi-Joan Paquette. #Kidlit website: www.patzietlowmiller.com
BookishPerseus @bookish-perseus.bsky.social 22yrs
Book Count: 2002
TBR: 6770
2026 Reading Challenge: 171/200
Stephen Daly 🏳️🌈 @thatstephendaly.bsky.social YA Writer, photographer, producer
The Last Death Poet - April 2026
Repped by Silvia Molteni at PFD
Lew Swift @lew-swift.bsky.social Norfolk based teacher and aspiring children's writer/screenwriter. Here to find a word that rhymes with blancmange. He/him
iria @academiria.bsky.social phd from uvigo on irish young adult literature and sapphic representation 📚| project member @comunitasimunitas.bsky.social [‘Communitas/Immunitas’ PID2022-136904NB-I00] | collaborator @feminario.bsky.social | sub lecturer at UEx | she/her
BooksForTopics @booksfortopics.bsky.social 🏆 Award-winning children’s booklisting website 📕 Recommended children’s books sorted by age or topic - visit us at http://www.booksfortopics.com
#EduSky #EduSkyPrimary #BookSky
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Barrington Stoke @barringtonstoke.bsky.social Growing a love of reading for 25 years. Great authors, great stories, no barriers: leading publisher of dyslexia-friendly books.
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Michelle Willms @michellewillms.bsky.social NORTHERN GIRLS: TRUE STORIES (Baraka Books). 2026 Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. Mother bear.
Northern Girls: www.barakabooks.com/catalogue/northern-girls/
TSR Review: www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/northern-girls-true-stories-by-michelle-willms
Robert T Kirkwood @talking-books.bsky.social Content producer for RNIB Connect Radio and The Read On podcast. Mainly shows about books and accessible reading. Used to be a Klingon.
@clarecanavan.bsky.social @clarecanavan.bsky.social Library loving bookworm 📚
Tom Lordan @tomlordan.bsky.social Irish Art Critic | The Irish Times, Frieze, Paper Visual Art | Philosophy & Aesthetics - Filosofia y Estética - Philosophie & Ästhetik
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Sarah Sharman @poemplaynovel.bsky.social English teacher. Volunteer for Breakthrough T1D.
Sheila M Averbuch @sheilamaverbuch.bsky.social Children's #author of middlegrade thriller FRIEND ME (Scholastic Press). Studied history & literature at Harvard. From US & Ireland. Living in Scotland. NEW BOOK: PITCH YOUR BOOK - write the letter that hooks an agent on your novel bit.ly/SMApitchorder
Elgin Academy Library @libraryatea.bsky.social Dynamic, Diverse, Distinct. Gold Reading School. Librarian Shelagh Toonen, CILIP Scotland Vice-President. Website: https://t.co/umVPeoG0ey
portiadery @portiadery.bsky.social Writer #kidbooks #kidlit
Research: Education;Literacy @OpenUniversity
Founded @AfriYWO to help kids read
Alumna @IDS_UK @WashFellowship @QueensLeaders
School Reading List @schoolreadinglist.bsky.social #1 UK children's booklisting website according to Ubersuggest. We recommend children’s and YA books to teachers, parents, librarians and schools. Free resources, free reviews and no paywall. #GoAllIn
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Sara Barnard @saramegan.bsky.social (It rhymes with Cara.)
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sarabarnardofficial.com 
Susan Park @susanfirghilpark.bsky.social writer, poet, nature lover and complete book geek living in the Pacific Northwest surrounded by forest, birds, squirrels, chipmunks and chickens. Member SCBWI.
Margaret McDonald @margaretmcdonald.bsky.social 🌊📚 Glasgow Boys @faberbooks Carnegie Medal, UKLA and Branford Boase Winner 2025 🍾💘 shortlisted YA Prize & Waterstones Prize 🤍 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸 Alba gu bràth 🏴
Zoe @zoewriter.bsky.social Writer of children's stories. SCBWI-BI Undiscovered Voices 2022 winner. Represented Hannah Shepherd.
Henry Coles @pitest.bsky.social Fiction: Scottish Book Trust New Writer 2023. SCWBI Undiscovered Voices 2024. Repped by Lucy Juckes at @jennybrownagency.bsky.social
https://henrycoles.com
Tech: Made mutation testing popular - Java Champion
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Charlotte Dormer @cnkdormer.bsky.social Academic Liaison Librarian running a library for trainee teachers. Previously a primary school librarian. MCLIP, AFHEA. She/they. Autistic. Opinions my own etc. (Languages: 🇬🇧 🇸🇪 )
YLGSE Committee & Carnegies Judge 25-26
Clare Furniss @clarefurniss.bsky.social Author. Latest book is Carnegie shortlisted THE THINGS WE LEAVE BEHIND: ‘Compulsive, poignant YA dystopia’ Guardian. RLF Writing Fellow.
Agent: Catherine Clarke, FBA
www.clarefurniss.com
Photo: Tom Pilston
Jill K Wilson @jillkwilson.bsky.social Writer of historical/ crime-ish, speculative type things. P/T lecturer in FE. GEA graduate. A winner of Irish Novel Fair 2023. Mslexia LL 2020 (YA)
Sue Purkiss @suepur.bsky.social I write books for children, and other things too. Like gardening, museums and art galleries, nature, and looking at things and listening to people…
Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social I’m not terrific but I’m competent
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Stephen Dilley @stephenjdilley.bsky.social English teacher & HoD, bookworm, UKLA Book Awards team, Branford Boase Awards 2026 judge, Just Imagine reviewer, primary school governor and very amateur musician.
All views my own.
Swapna Haddow @swapnahaddow.bsky.social Children’s author working with Scholastic, Farshore, Magic Cat, Faber&Faber, Macmillan. Writes for Oxford University Press as Swapna Reddy. Represented by Millie van Grutten at RCW Literary Agency. She/her. Ōtepoti, Aotearoa.
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Louis Coiffait-Gunn @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social CEO @cilip.bsky.social the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals https://www.cilip.org.uk/
Maura Farrelly @blikablika.bsky.social School librarian. YLG National committee and conference team. Former Carnegies chair of judges. She/her
Mslexia @mslexia.bsky.social The UK's bestselling magazine for women who write.
Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social Bookshop
34 Main Street, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland
info@ravenbooks.ie ¦ (01) 278 9509 ¦ 086 3390231
Mon-Sat 10-6, Sun 12-5
The Gutter Bookshop, Dublin @gutterbookshop.bsky.social Two lovely bookshops in Dublin, Ireland - named after that famous Oscar Wilde quote... Store Manager Marta posts here whenever she gets a moment.
Dee Stevens @deestevens.bsky.social Making TV @ Tiger Aspect Kids (Mr Bean / Charlie & Lola / Super Happy Magic Forest)
Making books @ Knights Of (Children’s Publisher of the Year 2022)
Selling books @ Round Table Books (Children’s Bookshop of the Year 2023)
Irish | they/them
Kennys Bookshop & Art Gallery @kennysbookshop.bsky.social Independent bookshop and art gallery in Galway, Ireland. Free delivery in Ireland and we ship worldwide. New, used and rare books.
www.kennys.ie | www.thekennygallery.ie
SAM BLAKE @samblakebooks.bsky.social No 1 bestselling Irish crime writer (adult & YA) 💙📚
Chair Society of Authors, views my own.
Agent: Simon Trewin RIP
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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.
Bookaneer808 @bookaneer808.bsky.social Avid reader, bookseller, likes birds and puns
She/her
Creator of annual #ReadIrishWomenChallenge - runs every April
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📖 We Chase Shadows by Richard Osman 🛩
Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan @chandrikanm.bsky.social Writer, Performer & Cultural Consultant, Multidisciplinary Messer, #STEAM dreamer. She/🤷🏾♀️🏳️🌈♾️ www.chandrika.ie
An Siopa Leabhar @ansiopaleabhar.bsky.social Leabhair. Litearthacht. Litríocht.
📍66 Sráid Camden Íochtarach, D02 X201
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Ruth Ní E @rowfas.bsky.social Work in kids books. Craft to excess. Badly in need of a sarcasm font. she/her/sí/í
Lorraine Levis @lorrainelevis.bsky.social 📚Head of Sales for Bloomsbury in Ireland 📚 Author of ‘Once Upon A Reader: Raising your Children with a Love of Books'
📚 Big Ol’ Nerd 
Jacq @bibliojacq.bsky.social book rep by day, book dragon by night 
INOTE @inotenews.bsky.social Irish National Organisation for Teachers of English 
Rory Codd @rorycodd.bsky.social 📍 London • He/Him 🇮🇪🏳️🌈
💙 Gaming, Books, Pop Culture
📚 Publicity Manager at Harper360, HarperCollins
🎓 M.Phil Children’s Literature, Trinity College Dublin
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Kirsten Barrett @mrskirstbarrett.bsky.social EAL
Education
Challenging Stereotypes
Children's Books
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Chair of SATEAL
Regional Coordinator BITC
MaryEsther Judy @fallenstarmary.bsky.social Childrens books reader, reviewer, blogger & editor; artist; weaver of words & wool; and good human (I hope)
Teresa Cremin @teresacremin.bsky.social Professor of Education (Literacy), The Open University. Fellow EA, RSA and AcSS. Committed to social justice and reading for pleasure.
RfP Website: https://ourfp.org
Own profile: https://www.open.ac.uk/people/tmc242
John Menton @mrjmenton.bsky.social 👨🏫English Teacher
⚽FCBayern
📚"The Anxious Generation"
📺"House of the Dragon"
🎧"Football Weekly"
Amanda Dunne @amandadunne.bsky.social PhD researcher at TCD in early adolescent books (young teen). British Book Awards Individual Bookseller of the Year 2024. Reader, compulsive book recommender.
Ruth McKee @ruthmckee.bsky.social Debut novel, Wild Iris (Dedalus)
"...filled with luminous detail and a voice that is tender, intimate and pitch perfect."—Catherine Dunne.
ruthmckee.org
Dr. Lou @handmadelou.bsky.social PhD in children's literature, children's books enthusiast, library worker. My day-job is managing a gigantic warehouse full of books, so it's a good thing I like them so much ❤️✨she/her
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
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Clara Maria Fiorentini @clarafiorentini.bsky.social Fio-ren-tini 🇮🇪🇮🇹
Teacher Educator / Lecturer in Literacy Education 💬📚📝
Past-President: Literacy Association of Ireland (2024)
Literacy | Children’s Literature | Read-alouds
Views = mine
Occasional blogger: www.claramariafiorentini.com
Ailish Brassil @ailishb.bsky.social PhD candidate in English @ UCC 👩🏻💻📖
DCU Alumna. 👩🏻🎓
Postgrad Officer - Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature.
Reviewer/book admin for Children’s Books Ireland. 📚
An Post Irish Book Awards @irishbookawards.bsky.social 🍀 Ireland's biggest celebration of Irish books & authors. Follow on #APIBA
linktr.ee/irishbookawards
Discover Irish Children's Books @irishkidsbooks.bsky.social The aim of Discover Irish Children’s Books is to highlight and celebrate Irish children’s books.
Check out our website:
https://discoveririshkidsbooks.ie/ 
@isscl.bsky.social @isscl.bsky.social 
Kathleen Moran @kittymo1.bsky.social National Coordinator JCSP Library Project https://jcsplibraries.com/
Chair LAI School Libraries group https://schoollibrariesireland.com/
LAI/CILIP Ireland Library Staff Champion 2023
Book lover-Educator-Dog walker. Living life & always learning 
JCSP Library Project @jcsplibraries.bsky.social JCSP Demonstration Library Project. School library project supporting literacy and learning in Irish schools.
Info@jcsplibraries.ie
jcsplibraries.com
Sarah Rees Brennan @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social Writer of books, drinker of tears! Carnegie nominated, Locus and Nebula shortlisted. LONG LIVE EVIL, a portal fantasy in which the villains unionise, is my #1 Sunday Times & USA Today bestselling adult fantasy debut. She/her
Charlot Kristensen @zolwia.bsky.social She/Her | Grey ace | 🇩🇰🇿🇼 living in 🇮🇪 | Award Winning Illustrator | SALON SATURDAY (OUT SEP 2025) | Rep’d by Thao Le |
Looking for work - contact me at charlotk@hotmail.com
NO AI, NFT
linktr.ee/zolwia
Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com Optimist, writer, swearer. common person. Co-founder Big Book Weekend with @MollyFlatt. Proud Primadonna. Professor, University of Leicester. FRSL. Photo by Paul Chambers. No DMs please. To email use contact@kitdewaal.com
Bob Johnston @bobjohnstonbooks.bsky.social 'Our Big Day' LGBTQ+ award-winning picturebook published 2022. Currently subbing agents w/ a gay novel for adults. Husband, dog lover, cat misser, biscuit eater, previously @gutterbookshop ... he/him 🇮🇪 linktr.ee/bobjohnstonbooks
Ruth Frances Long / Jessica Thorne @rflong.bsky.social Author, Librarian, general book nerd, SFF, Irish, she/her
(pretty much always a library in my books)
http://www.rflong.com/
https://www.patreon.com/c/RuthFrancesLongJessicaThorne
Dave Rudden @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social Storysmith. DOCTOR WHO. KNIGHTS OF THE BORROWED DARK. And CONN OF THE DEAD - coming soon!
Anna Carey @urchinette.bsky.social Writes things. My new book, Our Song, is out now. First book The Real Rebecca won an Irish Book Award. Latest book The Boldness of Betty, about teen strikers in 1913, was shortlisted in 2020. Co-hosts @svhpodcast She/her
Helen Corcoran @hcor.bsky.social QUEEN OF COIN AND WHISPERS and DAUGHTER OF WINTER AND TWILIGHT from The O’Brien Press | Agent: Eric Smith at Neighborhood Literary | 🇮🇪🏳️🌈 she/her
helencorcoran.com
Eve McDonnell @evemcdonnell.bsky.social Children’s writer & artist 💫 Mama to best twins. Wonderlarker. ELSETIME 🪶 (2020), THE CHESTNUT ROASTER 🌰 (2022), THE LAST BOY 🧹 (2024)
Derek Landy @dereklandy.bsky.social Writer
Eibhlís Carcione @eibhliscarcione.bsky.social Children's writer-Carnegie nominated. Irish poet. BLACK GABLES. THE MIDNIGHT HOUSE. WELCOME TO DEAD TOWN RAVEN MCKAY Rep'd by Silvia Molteni PFD
eibhliscarcione.com
Cork, Ireland
Sinéad O'Hart @sineadohart.bsky.social She/Her/Sí/Í; children's author, podcaster (shows.acast.com/storyshaped), dormant medievalist. linktr.ee/sinead.ohart. Rep: Clare Wallace. Art: Úna Woods. Free Palestine.
Courtney Smyth @cswritesbooks.bsky.social Irish. writes murder, likes books | author of The Undetectables series: THE UNFATHOMABLE CURSE out now with Titan Books
THE UNSOLVABLE CASE next (sept 2026)
| Rep: The Bent Agency
they/them 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
https://campsite.bio/cswritesbooks
Fiona Longmuir @fionalongmuir.bsky.social Storyteller. Calamity. You aint never seen nothing like a Glasgow girl.
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.
Claire Hennessy @chennessybooks.bsky.social Writer, book critic, creative writing facilitator.
Latest book: IN THE MOVIE OF HER LIFE (short stories, Doire Press).
Website: http://www.clairehennessy.com/
Blog: https://clairehennessy.substack.com/
Workshops: https://www.clairehennessy.com/store
Serena Molloy @serenamolloy.bsky.social Irish children's author.
'Wider Than The Sea' Winner of the Eilís Dillon Award KPMG CBI. Sunday Times (IRL) Children's Book of the Week. SL The Week Junior Awards '24.
'The Tree That Sang to Me' out now with Hodder.
https://serenamolloy.com/
Susan Cahill @susancahill.bsky.social 🌧THE WORLD BETWEEN THE RAIN 🌧 middle-grade children’s fantasy, out now!
🌟Longlisted for Branford Boase Award 2025
🎙️STORYSHAPED: podcast about children’s books that shape us
https://linktr.ee/susancahillwrites
Alison Weatherby @alisonweatherby.bsky.social Author of THE SECRETS ACT, Chicken House, 2022. Shortlisted for Young Quills Award 2023. Rep by PFD.
Amy Clarkin @amyclarkinwrites.bsky.social Powered mostly by coffee and vibes. Chronically ill (M.E), bisexual writer. The PSI Investigations series What Walks These Halls, Who Watches This Place & Where The Shadows Hide, published by The O’Brien Press, are in all good bookshops now. 👻 🏳️🌈
Alex Dunne @alexdunnewrites.bsky.social 🇮🇪 author in 🇨🇦
THE BOOK OF SECRETS (2022)
THE HARP OF POWER (2023)
Winner: Eilís Dillon Award @ KPMG Children's Books Ireland Awards 2023
she/her
Gráinne O’Brien @grainneobrien.bsky.social Bestselling author with O’Brien Press. Solo coming April 2025 with Little Island. Bookseller with Kennys Bookshop. Rontu Literary Service. www.rontuliteraryservice.com
Aislinn O’Loughlin @ashilockiewrites.bsky.social Writer-y Book Nerd | BIG BAD ME - OUT NOW from Little Island Books
🧛♂️🐺 (she/her) 💖💜💙 | Rep: Amber Caraveo #teamskylark
Celine Kiernan @celinekiernan.bsky.social Award winning author, cynical optimist, and social media sloth. Can't spell - get used to it.
she/her @celine_kiernan on insta
Conor Kostick @conorkostick.bsky.social Writer and historian https://litrpg.substack.com/
Sheena Dempsey @sheenadempsey.bsky.social Children's books, illustrations, comics.
Pablo and Splash Books 1 and 2 out now (Bloomsbury)
Agent: Sallyanne Sweeney
sheenadempsey.com
Leona Forde @leonaforde1.bsky.social Children's Author, Post Primary Teacher, Mom of 4. Proud Corkconian