Veronica Bartles @vbartles.com Author: THE PRINCESS & THE FROGS and TWELVE STEPS, recycle-knitter, graphic designer (web/book design, etc.) #KidLitConfections cookie queen, book-grandma, #ActuallyAutistic. (she/her) https://vbartles.com
Melinda Layten - Writes about Hazel an Immortal Cat @mlayten.bsky.social What the Fire Didn't Take - Debut Middle Grade Novel about 2 autistic girls 2000 years apart and the cat who knew them both. Modern day Minnesota meets Library of Alexandria and what it means to learn and be heard. #Autism #Querying
Sara Axelbaum (she/her) @bysaraaxelbaum.bsky.social RevPit 2026 Short List.
Aspiring published author of Middle Grade children's novels. Mom. Fan of inclusion and kindness. Doer of all the things. Lover of all the life.
Always tired. Never bored.
www.SaraAxelbaum.com
Hanley Brady @hanleybrady.bsky.social 🦦🌈 Fantasy writer who loves D&D, fantasy art, & video games. Cat mom to 5 chaos floofs. ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏻
www.hanleybrady.com
Kristen C. Strocchia @kcstrocchia.bsky.social Children’s poet & writer • Speaker • Mom of 7
Kidlit Honors: Ann Whitford Paul Awards 2024 & #PBParty 2025
Writes lyrical/quirky PB & speculative upper MG/YA
SCBWI East PA | M.Ed Curriculum & Instruction | kcstrocchia.com
1 of 6 hosts: #KidlitZombieWeek
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
ashleylaffin @ashleylaffin.bsky.social Debut PB The Balloonimals available now!🎈Wife & mom💗 MFA Grad. Writer. Marketer. SCBWI member & guest blogger April ‘24. Kids’ Choice KidLit Writing Contest HM ‘24📚
#PitchDis @pitchdis.com An online pitch event for unagented disabled authors.
2026 Pitch Dates - September 8-10.
Visit the official site www.pitchdis.com
Hosted by @despinakarras.com
Logo and banner by @mxcarmilla.bsky.social
J. Allen - DailyWriterVibes @dailywritervibes.bsky.social 📄 WIP: 55k/65k
✍️ Author & Counselor
📚Here to spread writing motivation!
Author of Finding Calm from
The Katrina Calm Series Book 1
Andrea L. Mack @andreamack.bsky.social PB & MG writer. Kidlit book blogger (www.andrea-mack.blogspot.com). Grade 1 teacher. #12x12PB member. Mixed media collage artist. My writing projects often combine my love of baking, birds and board games with my passion for caring for our Earth. She/her.
IslandTwinArtists @islandtwinartists.bsky.social Hi! We're Dori and Kate! 💕 Identical twins, kidlit author-illustrators, educators, SCBWI members, bakers, nature lovers, moms of super kids and pets, neurodiverse 💞
✨ Joyfully seeking representation ✨
www.IslandTwinArtists.com
Brian Kirby @boringstorybook.com Author/illustrator of humorous stories for kids.
https://briankirbystudio.com
SCBWI Ohio: North | #pbparty Finalist ‘24 & ‘25 | #kidlit booster
Represented by @KaitlynLeann17.bsky.social at
@Bradfordagents.bsky.social
Greg Pincus @gregpincus.bsky.social Writer. Likes to rhyme, though not when writing movies or novels. But you should see my shopping lists! Has never bought an orange. #kidlitchat cohost for 14+ years on ex-Twitter (and now here on Tuesday nights at 9 PM EST!). Still bats and throws righty.
Bonnie Adamson @bonnieadamson.com Illustrator; writer of various things;
former #SCBWI IC and ARA; #pbparty26 Illustration Showcase;
co-host of #kidlitchat, Tuesdays at 9E/6P;
art and books at bonnieadamson.com
Salon of Shame @salonofshame.bsky.social Tickets and Readers: https://linktr.ee/salonofshame
Seattleites reading on stage from their worst adolescent writing! Cathartic for readers, hilarious for the rest of us. Arrive with shame, leave with joy 🦄🥰💃
Despina Karras @despinakarras.com 🌪️Certified weather geek | Award-winning contemporary romance writer | Disability rights advocate | @pitchdis.com founder | 🐶 & 🐱 mom | Coffee addict | ♊️
Repped by @evascalzo.bsky.social
www.despinakarras.com
www.medium.com/@despinakarras
Natasha Rimmington @natasharimmington.bsky.social 🖌Childrens Book Illustrator 🖌 Rep'd by The Bright Agency.
Loves bears, binturongs and all fuzzy animals. Here to support artists 🫶
https://www.natasharimmington.com/
Reggie Perez @reggieperez.bsky.social Children's book author/illustrator and Librarian
Alzamon | Middle Grade Comics & Artwork @alzamon.bsky.social Alberto González, Costa Rican 🇨🇷 children's illustrator, middle grade comics author, character designer. Not sure of what I'm doing but I do anyway.
Portfolio 👉 alzamon.com
Newsletter 👉 newsletter.alzamon.com
Elsewhere 👉 go.alzamon.com
Hanna R. Neier @hannaneier.bsky.social Author of WHEN YOU WRITE BACK (Feiwel & Friends, 3/9/27) | Freelance Writer and Editor | Words in Lilith Magazine, POPSUGAR, Kveller etc | Rep'd by @lecrockett.bsky.social at @triadaus.bsky.social
www.hannaneier.com
Pallavi Jesrani @paljes.bsky.social Mommy, #kidlit writer, poet with poems in The Dirigible Balloon, The Little Thoughts Press, Tyger Tyger, The School Magazine, #12x12pb, engineer, STEM, SCBWI, amateur painter.
Denise Ganley @deniseganley.bsky.social Writer. Vegan. Pluviophile. Perpetually on Wizard Time. She/her. Arizona. Mural from Don Vegan in Quebec City. Photos 📸 by me.
Steph Lau (she/her) @stephlaubooks.com Author, illustrator, former pastry chef.
🐍🪨 MEDUSA'S PET ROCK (HarperCollins): 9/22/26
❄️🩰THE ABOMINABLE SNOW DANCER (Penguin Workshop): out now!
Rep: @allielevick.bsky.social
Website: bit.ly/stephlaubooks
MrsPowellsBooks @mrspowellsbooks.bsky.social K-2nd grade librarian & Author of THE LIBRARY KITTY book duo and HEROES NEED HELP (a chemo themed picture book written with my college kid).
AcademicPlayBooks.com
Andrew Auseon @andrewauseon.bsky.social MG/YA Author. Video Game Designer.
SPELLBINDERS: OVERPOWERED now available!
spellbinderbooks.com
andrewauseon.com
Represented by Aevitas Creative Management.
Larissa D. Elliott @larissadelliott.bsky.social Picture book author repped by @charlottewenger.bsky.social. Sometimes writer of YA & MG. Wife. Mommy. Band director. 🇵🇭🇺🇸. She/her. #12x12pb. #Kidlitart on IG @ larissa.d.elliott. ADHD is my superpower.
Rachel Gozhansky Illustration @rachelgozhansky.bsky.social #KidLit Illustrator and Writer: SCBWI, 12x12.
Womens' Lax Official.
Graphic Designer (data and presentation design).
Dog mom. Enthusiast of technology, fantasy fiction, movies, boardgames, the outdoors
RachelGozhansky.com
C. Meaks Meaker @cmeaksmeaker.bsky.social they/them
Playwright, essayist, screenwriter, horror researcher, adjunct prof, and enby dyke. NYC. Lambda Fellow '24. https://linktr.ee/cmeaksmeaker
Bee! 🐝 @beecarmine.bsky.social Writer, artist, certified risk taker
100% AI free, grass fed and pasture raised
🔎 Seeking representation!
www.beecarmine.com
A.C. Bodnar (she/her) @acbodnarart.bsky.social Children’s Author/Illustrator seeking representation
Nerd and Forever DM, drawing whimsical pictures and writing about a robot who loves birds
No AI ever
Authors Against Book Bans
🖤🩶🤍💜 ~ 💙💛🩷
Also on Instagram @acbodnarart
acbodnarart.com
Laken Brimicombe @lakenbrimicombe.bsky.social 🇨🇦Middle grade writer
🐈⬛Cat mom
Kate Taylor @kitskate.bsky.social Nature nerd, children's author, happy hiker
Mermaid Writer @mermaidwriter.bsky.social SCBWI NY Eastern Up! Critique Coordinator
Kidlit writer, published poet, gemologist-in-training, wannabe polyglot, occasional mermaid, reluctant zebra 🍰💜🩶🤍💚 #kidlit #scbwi #amquerying #actuallyautistic
🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 Pronouns: you choose (anything but he)
Kent @kentsthings.bsky.social Writer and reader. Cat, American bully, pitbull, shore bird, marine animal, and cow enthusiast. Writer's Digest 89th, 90th, and 92nd Annual Writing Competition Honorable Mentionee!! #kidlit #picturebooks #YA #amwriting #amquerying #booksky
Brian Gene Olson @bgowriter.bsky.social #Kidlit #poet from the PNW. Words in LADYBUG, BABYBUG, THE SCHOOL MAGAZINE, HIGHLIGHTS HELLO. #SCBWI. #80s kid. Member of The Poets' Garage.
http://briangeneolson.weebly.com
https://willowcroft.blog/2021/04/09/five-things-friday-mini-interview-with-author
Stephanie Buosi @stephaniebuosi.com Canadian #freelance illustrator. Earth advocate, tree-hugger, turtle protector, mother of cat, mother of little human.
Website/Portfolio: www.stephaniebuosi.com
Melissa H. Mwai @me-mwai.bsky.social https://melissamwai.com/
Author, Illustrator, Podcaster | Rep'd by Jacqui Lipton.
Preorder: National Geographic Kids Encyclopedia of African American History & Culture (Dec ‘26)
#SCBWI | #PBCHATMentee | #ADHDwriter | #KDZPodcast
Melissa Murray @melissamurray.bsky.social Author + Illustrator + Artist
SCBWI | CBIG | 12x12
PBParty 2024 Illustration Showcase HM
https://melissamurray.net
#kidlitart #kidlit
kidlitchat @kidlitchat.bsky.social #kidlitchat happens every Tuesday night at 9E/6P, co-hosted by @bonnieadamson.com and @gregpincus.bsky.social. The topic is posted here as each chat begins, as well as any important chat news.
Banner art by Brian Kirby: @boringstorybook.com
Mal @mal-malme.bsky.social Mal or they/them pronouns.
Performer, Writer, Activist, Artist.
Trans humans are sacred. And dogs are love.
Writing: theater, essays on Substack, middle grade and YA fiction
#amquerying #writingcommunity
https://malpronouns.substack.com
J.S. Puller @pullerwrites.bsky.social Author of THE LOST THINGS CLUB, CAPTAIN SUPERLATIVE, THE DEATH OF ROBIN HOOD, WOMEN WHO WEAVE, and a bunch of unpublished plays. she/her #willyoubesuperlative
Website: https://pullerwrites.wordpress.com/
Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/pullerwrites
Brittany J. Thurman @brittanyjthurman.bsky.social Award-winning 📖 🏆Author of:
Fly; Fearless Boulevard of Dreams & The Takeover;Forever and Always
Up Next:
OPAL WATSON: PRIVATE EYE
COME CATCH A DREAM
QUENTIN & ALFIE
THE FIRST LIBRARY, 2025
Rep'd by @agentzacker
http://brittanythurman.com
Writing Day Workshops @writingdaywksp.bsky.social WDW hosts writers conferences, both in person & online, with attending agents, classes & more. https://linktr.ee/writingdayworkshops
Neurodiverse Kidlit Collective @ndkidlit.bsky.social We lift up and support neurodivergent storytellers, making more room for authentic stories in children’s literature, to help young readers be seen and create increased empathy and understanding by neurotypical readers.
https://ndkidlit.org
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
Adam Jarvis 🇨🇦 @nemacocy.bsky.social Father, Author, Teacher. Find me at https://adamjarvisauthor.com
Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com Author of novels fantastical & historical, avid gardener, co-founder of SFWA's pub industry watchdog Writer Beware. Casting a small light in a wilderness of writing scams (plus an occasional cat pic)
https://writerbeware.blog
https://victoriastrauss.com
Rainbow Book Fair @rainbowbookfair.bsky.social Welcome to the 14th Annual Rainbow Book Fair! The Largest LGBTQ+ Book Fair in the U.S.
Save the date! May 9th, 2026
MiddleGradeHub @middlegradehub.bsky.social A hub for middle grade writers
Taryn Souders - Middle Grade Author @tarynsouders.bsky.social Author of Agatha, Anthony, and Edgar-nominated books like: The Mystery of the Radcliffe Riddle, Coop Knows the Scoop, The Secrets of the Broken House, and more.
Shannon Balloon / Middle Grade Matters Podcast @shannonballoon.bsky.social I’m a middle grade writer and host of the Middle Grade Matters podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. 
AL Wyss | #BookSky Middle Grade Fantasy @alwyss.bsky.social I’m an author #coach, #editor, and #fantasy author 📚🧚♀️🔥 I love #FB and enjoy supporting #indieauthors.
www.TheWriteWyss.com
Valinora Troy *Middle Grade Fantasy Author* @valinoratroy.bsky.social MG Fantasy writer; MA in Creative Writing; #WritingCommunity; #Cybil2021 panellist; #kidlit #indie #middlegrade #Fantasy #Trilogy #TheLuckyDiamond out now. Find my books: https://bit.ly/41dGRgs
Roch Hercka - Middle Grade book illustrator @rochhercka.bsky.social Illustrator for hire! https://hertz.artstation.com
Authorcade @authorcade.bsky.social A community of authors working to connect with educators, inspire young readers, and drive home a love of books and reading.
Middle Grade Escapades @mgescapades.bsky.social A community of authors debuting with middle grade books in 2025.
middlegradeescapades.com
https://mainpointbooks.com/book/9781250331342
Penguin School & Library @penguinschoollib.bsky.social The School & Library Marketing department of Penguin Young Readers! Book news, educator and library resources, good vibes, and more!
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Sarah Wynne @sarahwynne25.bsky.social Children's book author from Chester, educator and reader of all things kidlit.
A Reading Agency 2023 Book of the Year & The Times Best Middle Grade Murder Mystery, Murder in Velvet.
Chapter book, Dogs of Doom due 31st Aug!
Website www.sarahwynneauthor.co.
Jessica Maison @jessicamaison.bsky.social Nebula Award winning sci-fi and horror comics writer, author, and screenwriter trying to do more right than wrong. Wicked Tree Press founder, Mary Shelley's School of Monsters creator, and co-host of Monster V. Monster.
https://linktr.ee/wickedtreepress
Joanna Masters 🏳️⚧️ @joannamasters.bsky.social MG science fiction and fantasy author. Still writing under my old name, Jonathon Mast.
https://joanna-masters.itch.io/
Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org Lambda Literary, celebrating LGBTQ+ storytellers since 1985. Home of the Lammy Awards, Writers in Schools, the Emerging Writers Retreat for LGBTQ Voices, and the Lambda Literary Review.
lambdaliterary.org
lambdaliteraryreview.org
linktr.ee/lambdaliterary
Lee & Low Books @leeandlow.bsky.social Independent, POC-owned children's book publisher specializing in diversity since 1991. © 2026 Lee & Low Books.
Erin Petti @erinpettiauthor.bsky.social #kidlit #middlegrade author!
rep: Jennifer Wills of the Seymour Agency
www.erinpettibooks.com
Shaina Cordas is ✨ON SUB✨ @shainacordas.bsky.social Pitch Wars Mentee (21/22) ✨ MG + YA author ✨ 2025 RevPit shortlist✨ a safe place for stories ✨rep: Kirsten Lang at Zeno Literary
The Author Village @theauthorvillage.bsky.social The Author Village is a collective of forward-thinking and award-winning children’s book creators, educators, and librarians available for in-person and virtual school and library visits, conferences, workshops, and professional development experiences.
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