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
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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social bsky pitch event for unagented creators from marginalized communities
next event Sept 30, 2026 8AM-8PM ET
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Boyds Mills @boydsmills.bsky.social Boyds Mills positively impacts children by amplifying the voices of storytellers who inspire children to become their best selves.
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CBIG Illustrators @cbignyc.bsky.social CBIG, Children’s Book Illustrators Group, is a NYC based group of illustrators and author-illustrators who create work for children’s publishing.
Website: https://www.cbig-nyc.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cbignyc/
jen rofé @jenrofe.bsky.social Senior Agent at Andrea Brown Literary Agency
www.jenrofe.com
www.andreabrownlit.com
Kids Comics Studio Anthology @kcsanthology.bsky.social Kids Comics Unite Studio members are up to something exciting as we create an anthology of kids comics coming in 2025!
Kickstarter: http://kck.st/4jEJkdv
Check us out at: https://kidscomicsunite.com/anthology/
Maria Vicente @mariavicente.com senior literary agent & senior advisor | P.S. Literary
board member | Association of American Literary Agents
🜂 🜄 🜁 🜃
resources & workshops ⤵️
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Farnaz Nadim @farnaznadim.bsky.social Visual Artist 🎨 Illustrator
Represented by Christy Ewers at The CAT Agency
@thecatagency.bsky.social
www.farnaznadim.com
Annie Hobbs @anniemcbeth.bsky.social 🖌️🎨 Ink & Paint Artist @ Disney Animation
📚 KidLit Illustrator: Rep’d by Gaby Cabezut @The Seymour Agency
Portfolio: Www.AnnieHobbsIllustration.com
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
Sarah Lovell @sarahlovellart.bsky.social British Illustrator living in BC
Lover of books, animals, magic, forests and tea .
Proudly represented by Essie White at Essie White Literary Agency .
Laura Zarrin @laurazarrin.bsky.social Children’s Book author/illustrator and Abstract Collage Artist.
www.LauraZarrin.com/hello
Paula @paulajbecker.bsky.social Illustrator/cartoonist/writer. Clients include, Random House, Highlights, Owlkids, KidCanPress, Scholastic, etc.
www.paulajbecker.com
www.instagram.com/paulajbecker
Ana Lobo @lobomaravilha.bsky.social Children's Illustrator
SCBWI member
Currently seeking representation
https://lobomaravilha.carrd.co
The Writing Barn @thewritingbarn.bsky.social ✍️ We go beyond craft classes to transform pre-published writers into career authors with varying tools and community offerings to suit YOU.
Craft + Community + Connections = a Thriving Literary Life!
Sera Rivers @writeloudly.bsky.social Writer. Literary Agent at Speilburg Literary. Status updates and MSWL at SeraRivers.com Rep’d by Katie Shea Boutillier at Donald Maass Literary Agency
Lisa Katzenberger @lisakatzenberger.bsky.social Mom of twins
#KidLit Author of:
A LOVE LETTER TO MY LIBRARY
CROC & GATOR: Swamp Ranger School
I CAN DO IT EVEN IF I'M SCARED
IT BELONGS TO THE WORLD
IT WILL BE OK
#12x12PB #Insulin4All #T1Dmom
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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
Hannah Sheppard @hannahlitagent.bsky.social Founder and Literary Agent at www.HS-LA.com @HSLANews.bsky.social
#WeNeedDiverseBooks.
Story lover. Vintage typewriter obsessed. Feminist. She/Her/Ms
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Jes Trudel 🇨🇦 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ @jestrudel.bsky.social Literary agent with The Rights Factory. Founder of WritingCommunity.ca. CLOSED TO QUERIES.
Tatjana Mai-Wyss @tatjanamaiwyss.bsky.social illustration + surface design, based in South Carolina. Telling stories with pictures. Represented by the Bright Agency
https://www.tatjanamaiwyss.com/
PLUGO @plugoarts.com artist • author • illustrator • comics • Kung Fu Tai Chi 👊🏽🤚🏽
NYC born 🇵🇷 Bay Area CA. resident 🖌🎨🖼📚 🟥PLUGOarts.com ▪️MMC winning graphic novelist of aTigersTale.com
A Tiger’s Tale @tigertales.bsky.social The MMC Grant winning wuxia graphic novel series for young martial artists of any age. 🐯 aTigersTale.com
Cesar Lador @cesarlador.bsky.social Human, dad and dreamer
Comic book artist and watercolorist, represented by JVNLA
Kids Comics Unit Member and SCBWI NZ Illustrator Coordinator
https://linktr.ee/cesarlador_illustration- M Maureen Murphy Houser @momrfho.bsky.social Author Illustrator
Bob Thibeault @teabowart.bsky.social An aspiring author/illustrator, a member of the New England Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators (NESCBWI), The Writer’s Loft.org, Kids Comics Unite (KCU), and Sequential Artist’s Workshop (SAW).
Stacy Serenity Allen @artisfood.bsky.social Printmaker, author, poet
onecreatordan(Open for art jobs) @onecreatordan.bsky.social 29/Comic artist, works on comics, philly
CONTACT: onecreatorart@gmail.com
PORTFOLIO: http://bit.ly/3sRDI7M
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#originalart
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Bethanie Murguia @aquapup.com Seeker, explorer, creature adorer. I make graphic novels & picture books, including WAGNIFICENT (Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan). www.aquapup.com
R. LaFille @rivkahlafille.bsky.social Graphic Novelist, Educator, and Kidlit GN Creator Advocate. Repped by Janna Morishima. Hartford, CT -- Austin, TX -- NYC
FIVE WISHES, Candlewick (2027) -- CREATIVE WRITING WITH MISS MARY MAC, First Second (2025)
https://linktr.ee/rlafille
Maritza Ruiz-Kim @marzkim.bsky.social #KidLit Artist Writer. ND Fam.
Turtle on a marathon
💚SCBWI Co-RA, SF North & East Bay
...drawing writing gardening sewing...
Always Making Something.
https://maritzaruizkim.com
My name sounds like🧜♀️mer-izza🍕
Kids Comics Unite @kidscomicsunite.bsky.social Hello! We are Kids Comics Unite, an online organization offering career development for comics creators in children’s publishing 🦊✏️
Join our ever-growing community today!
kidscomicsunite.com 🦊 linktr.ee/kidscomicsunite
Kaz Windness she/her @kazwindness.bsky.social •📕Out now: WORM AND BUTTERFLY (S&S)
•📘Out soon!: TIME TRAVELING CHICKENS (S&S)
•📚Check out: “When You Love a Book” (PRH)
Award-Winning Children’s Book Author-Artist, Art Professor, Autistic-ADHD 🌈📚Books, Classes, Social Media: linktr.ee/KazWindness
Sofia Warren @sofiawarrenart.bsky.social New Yorker cartoonist, author
Sofiawarren.com
Sofiawarrenart.substack.com
Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social bestselling, award nominated comics person. teaching artist via AAWW.
MOONCAKES, TIDESONG, INFINITY PARTICLE. more tk. agent: Linda Camacho. opinions my own. she/they
no crypto, no nfts, no ai
https://linktr.ee/artofwendyxu
Jem is OPEN to queries @jemiscoe.bsky.social Founder + Agent @Starling Literary + Media, representing authors & Illustrators. Wife, mom of 3, MFA grad, & former Asst. Director for film & TV. https://www.starlingliterary.com | http://querymanager.com/query/Jemiscoe
Kelly Sonnack (like "Sonic") @ksonnack.bsky.social Children's Agent. Reader. Mama.
Header art by Marissa Valdez.
Francy Judge @francyart.bsky.social Author/illustrator #SCBWI / 2022, 24 & 25#PBParty Illustration Showcase/ 2025 3rd pl #50PreciousWords 2023&24 HM/ #WritersDigest 1st pl poetry / Christian. Selling prints at http://Francyartshop.com
francesjudge.com
Manuscript Wish List® @manuscriptwishlist.bsky.social 📚The new, non-Twitter home of #MSWL! We are a way for agents and editors to tell writers what they *wish* they had in their inboxes. Full agent profiles here: https://www.manuscriptwishlist.com/ Newsletter: https://manuscriptwishlist.com/subscribe 
anoosha syed ✏️ @anooshasyed.com award-winning author/illustrator for children’s books, character designer & art educator📚
✎ resources, books, & more links ↓
https://www.anooshasyed.com
Sourcebooks Library @sbkslibrary.bsky.social The Sourcebooks library team offering updates, news, reviews, and a whole lot of library and educator love! 📚 linktr.ee/sbkslibrary
@jennytanartlab.bsky.social @jennytanartlab.bsky.social 
Mallory Grigg @mallorygrigg.bsky.social Senior Art Director at Macmillan Children's Publishing Group working with Balzer + Bray, Feiwel & Friends, Henry Holt BYR, FSG BYR, Roaring Brook Press, Swoon & Squarefish. She/Her
Andy Salinas Aceves @andylozano.com Animator and Illustrator from Kansas City!
Regional Advisor for KsMo SCBWI
Trying out new socials
Miriam Bos @miriambos.com 🎨 Published illustrator, author & surface pattern designer
🦊 https://www.augustenSuus.nl
📮 https://www.miriambos.com/newsletter
🔗 Link in bio: https://www.miriambos.com/links
🔗or check my other links: https://temp-unmutglzohxbceeuewtn.jouwweb.site/links
Katy Tanis @katytanis.bsky.social Illustrator, Children's Book Author, Explorer, Lemur Lover, Rollersport Enthusiast, Textile Designer, ADHD.
📘*🦉🦉 Love Under the Stars
📘*🐧🐧 Edward & Annie
📘*🦁🦁 Love in the Wild
Repped by @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
Portfolio: https://www.daughterearth.com
Phyllis Harris @phyllisharris.bsky.social Children’s book author-illustrator. Rep’d by @KTerrette.bsky.social at Martin Literary.
Books:
THE GIFT SHOP BEAR 🧸🎄❤️
CLAUDE 🎨🐶 3 Starred Reviews
THE DAY KINDNESS CAME🌲🐻
Illustrated over 30 children’s books.
Website - https://www.phyllisharris.com
Natascha @socalledyalife.bsky.social Senior Literary Agent at The Tobias Literary Agency. Account for #MSWL only. Query me at https://querytracker.net/query/natascha
Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/natascha
Website: www.nataschamorris.com
Juanita Londoño | Kidlit Illustrator @juanitalondo8o.bsky.social 🩷Rep’d by Robyn Newton at @the_bright_agency
🌼Clients: HarperCollins, Simon and Schuster, Quarto, Familius, Target
🖍️Domestika course
PB Rising Stars @pbrisingstars.bsky.social We give experienced picture book creators the platform to pull up-and-coming, historically excluded creators up the turbulent publishing ladder.
www.pbrisingstars.com
Kelly Dyksterhouse @kellydhouse.bsky.social Literary Agent, The Tobias Literary Agency | #kidlit | AALA | SCBWI | 🐱and 🐶 | writer-hiker-daydreamer | www.KellyDyksterhouse.com
Yusra @yusrarts.bsky.social Hello! Im a background and vis dev artist in animation, and I illustrate too! Prev: A24, Disney TVA, Nick, Titmouse & more.
Indian based in LA. Available for work.
Portfolio: yusrashahid.com // Email: yusra.arts@gmail.com // Print shop: yusraland.etsy.com
Sydney J. Stone @sydleys.bsky.social Critter connoisseur and lover of breakfast food.
✏️ Kidlit Illustrator | Spooky and Fantastical
💁♀️ Rep’d by @kellydhouse.bsky.social
📚 SCBWI Carolinas
IG 📷: instagram.com/sydleys
Portfolio 📁: sydneyjstone.com
Thaís Mesquita @thaismesquita.bsky.social Artist, illustrator, and author
Represented by Alex Gehringer at The Bright Agency
www.thaismesquita.art
⚲ Germany
Ignacio Gallup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social College teacher, Atlantic World historian, Poirot + Morse aficionado
he/him/his
Katherine Thorne @sparklemarkers.bsky.social She/her. Picture book writer/illustrator.
Rep: @swekstein.bsky.social
2024 Round Table Mentee, #PBParty Honorable Mention, #50PreciousWords HM.
Keep posting about your books; I want to read them!
sparklemarkers.com
Joy Kolitsky @joykolitsky.bsky.social Illustrator, writer, storyboard artist based in NJ
www.joykolitsky.com
Represented by Amy Stern, Sheldon Fogelman Agency
TeMika Grooms @temikatheartist.bsky.social artist
Jerry Bennett @thejerrybennett.com Graphic novelist, full time illustrator,
Global U.S. Illustrator Coordinator for SCBWI. (Is having six cats too many? I didn’t think so.)
https://artistjerrybennett.substack.com/
https://linktr.ee/artistjerrybennett
Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com Executive Art Director at Scholastic (Picture Books). Educator at Pratt (Typography) & CCNY (Critical Writing). Speaker (SCBWI et al.). Writer of Fiction (Agent: @liznealon.bsky.social). 523rd Bluesky account. NYC. He/Him. www.brianlarossa.com.
💙❤️
Yu Kito Lee “Yuey” @studio-yuey.bsky.social Hello! I’m Yuey, a Japanese #Kidlit illustrator and a mama of 3 based in Los Angeles.
Represented by Kait Lee Feldmann at KT Literary.
Member of #SCBWI.
https://www.studio-yuey.com
✉️ hello@studio-yuey.com
Shannon Atwater @skatwater.bsky.social New Orleans Based Illustrator and Author 📚
Mardi Gras Enthusiast 💜💚💛
www.shannonkelleyatwater.com
SCBWI @scbwi.bsky.social Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators
Supporting quality children’s books & the artists who make them since 1971.
Lian Cho @liantomato.bsky.social Author and illustrator of many goofy books.
I won an award and I won’t shut up about it.
I also run a newsletter about my silly life.
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
Megan Higgins @dogwoodfinch.bsky.social Children’s book illustrator represented by The Bright Agency. I’m originally an Ohio lady, but I live in Austria.
Clary Huang @claryillustration.bsky.social 🎨Children’s book illustrator
✨The Illustration Department & SCBWI member
🔔Available for PBs, board books, and editorial projects
🚀Rep'd by Tracy Marchini Literary
Portfolio: claryillustration.com
•••
🐌Snailing It! (Sourcebooks, Spring 2027)
@chaowentan.bsky.social @chaowentan.bsky.social 
Bee 🌙 @avoidbee.bsky.social They/Them
🐸 Professional Frog 🐸
✨ Story Artist, Animator, Illustrator ✨
KCAI 21’ | Sheridan Computer Animation 25’
Currently a storyboard lead on a short film coming out in November
Links: https://avoidbee.carrd.co/
Tags: #oc | #art | #sketchbook
Thalia Nalapraya @thalianalapraya.bsky.social Aspiring story artist and fulltime deadline bringer to the artists (production coordinator for story)
Current: Netflix Animation Studio
Playing: Witcher 3 (again) ⚔️
Reading: Katabasis by RF Kuang 🧙♀️
Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com 🇨🇦 Author/illustrator. Illus books by Judy Blume, Michael Ian Black, others. Author news, more: https://debbieohi.com/links/ Atmosphere updates: https://debbieohi.com/standard-reader
📚 I WANT TO READ *ALL* THE BOOKS
🎨 I'M BUSY
DebbieOhi.com
Matthew Cordell @cordellmatthew.bsky.social Dad. Husband. Illustrator and author of books. 2018 Caldecott Medalist.
Matthew Burgess @matthewburgessj.bsky.social Poet, Professor, & Children's Book Author. Brooklyn College. Forthcoming: Words With Wings & Magic Things, illust. Doug Salati (Tundra / Penguin Canada, 2025) & Fireworks, illust. Cátia Chien (Harper Collins, 2025). www.matthewjohnburgess.com
Saki Tanaka @sakitales.bsky.social Author and illustrator excavating magic ✨
BETWEEN WORDS, @scholasticinc Summer ‘24
Represented by Wernick & Pratt
www.sakitales.com
@talithashipman.bsky.social @talithashipman.bsky.social Author-illustrator, Designer, Chocolate Chip Eater
K. Risa Mcloughlin @krmclough.bsky.social Hi there, I draw children's books (and sometimes even write them)- why don't you stay a while?
🏳️🌈
(Los Angeles based)
Repped by Lori Steel at SteelWorks Literary
https://www.krmcloughlin.com/
BEAR @bearhoweart.bsky.social Artist and Illustrator
Repped by Adria Goetz at KT Literary
BecomingArt.Substack.com
Bearhowe.com
Youngillustratorsstudio.com
Svetla Radivoeva @svetlaradivoevaart.bsky.social CG animator and Children's books illustrator
🇧🇬 Bulgarian born, living in 🇵🇹 Portugal
Author/illustrator of MALINAS JAM
Website: https://www.svetlaradivoeva.com/
Instagram: @svetlaradivoeva
Simple Mischief Studio @simplemischief.bsky.social A creative studio with a soft spot for puppets.
Meridth McKean Gimbel @hellomeridth.bsky.social 🌟Award winning writer & artist
🗣️they/them/elle
🧳Rep: Allie Levick at Writers House
📕GETTING TO KNOW YOUR TRANSCESTORS 2028 🏳️⚧️
🕸️ https://www.meridthsayshello.com/links
🧦 Here to steal your left sock
Folktale Week @folktaleweek.bsky.social The annual art challenge focusing on all things folktales, fairytales, local legends and mythology! We provide 7 prompts each November. 
Hallie Christensen | Author @halliechriswrites.bsky.social Author (Fantasy/Cozy, Humor, RomCom, Paranormal, #MG #A)
Currently on subs!! | Agent: Bethany Hendrix - Spencerhill Assoc.| Member of SCBWI | she/her #kidlit
✨️ https://linktr.ee/halliechristensen
Jessica Watts @jesssicawatts.bsky.social Mama, silly story writer
Rep'd by Emily Keyes
jwattswrites.com
TCL Comics - Lewelin Polanco @tclcomics.bsky.social Comic writer ✍🏾
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Writing the kinds of stories I’d like to see more of in the world. 🏳️🌈✊🏾✨
TCLCOMICS.com
Deb JJ Lee @jdebbiel.bsky.social Goes by Joey (they/them)
New prints Nov 2026
award-winning creator of IN LIMBO (2023)
Newsletter: jdebbiel.substack.com
Portfolio: debleeart.com
Michelle Jing Chan (she/her) 🌈 @michellejingchan.bsky.social ✏️ 🎨 Kidlit Author-Illustrator
💜 Rep: @jemiscoe.bsky.social
📚2025: PRIDE, 100 DAYS, WEIWEI'S WINTER SOLSTICE
💻 https://linktr.ee/michellejingchan
Kevin Michael Rowe @kevinmichaelrowe.bsky.social comic creator / writer / party dude
you can check out my stuff at www.hopefulrowemantics.com
Greg Tjosvold, Comic Book Writer @tjosvold.com Comic book writer; technology explorer; Scrivener is my jam. Vancouver, BC 🇨🇦
🔗 https://gregt.link/
Pallie Paul Allor Loves You 🏳️🌈 @paulallor.bsky.social Comics writer (Hollow Heart, Past the Last Mountain, Tet, Marvel Rivals, TMNT and GI Joe stuff, much more), letterer and editor. Writing instructor at Comics Experience.
they // them
paul.allor @ gmail
www.paulallor.com
Nikolai Fomich @nikolaifomich.bsky.social Teacher/writer/journalist. 2020 Platform Comics Finalist. He/Him. Russian-American & Brazilian.
FLOWERS FOR HENRY available here! https://tinyurl.com/2j9vs585
Loish @loish.bsky.social I’m a digital artist!
Free tutorials & brushes: loish.school