Ching Hsieh @wordsbyching.bsky.social Taiwanese American kidlit writer based in MTL.
🌟 PB Rising Stars HM '26
#12x12challenge #SCBWI
IG: @wordsbyching
Judi Rhee Alloway 🪷Author @judirheealloway.bsky.social 🕵🏻♀️”Top Woman Innovator” @usdol
👩🏻💻”Top Minority Business Leader” @phlbizjournal
👩🏻🏫 Founder, “Best Business Center” Women’s Biz Coop
🏆 Friend of Lois 11/22/2008 & Bill 5/22/22
🍵Break your T.E.A. chain reactions:
🫶🏽www.judirheealloway.com
🫱🏽🫲🏾www.womensbizcoop.com
Elia Sheldon @eliasheldonauthor.bsky.social ✨ YA Fantasy & Romance
📖 KNOCK ON WOOD • Querying
💥 IMPOSTER SYNDROME • WIP
💫 SCBWI | Period drama & book lover
👇 Let's talk books!
Ashton J. Thomas @ashtonjthomas.bsky.social Writer of speculative fiction.
@ashtonofwords on tiktok
she/her
ashtonjthomas.com
SS Tava @one-leaf.bsky.social mom, writer, painter, foodie...
Projects:
a) Skandar X Wonka X Lord Of Flies #UpperMG #POC
b) Mad-Max Fury X Suits X Devil Wears... #A
Maggie C. @seethewaymcs.bsky.social Writer, Poet, Intersectional Feminist, Artist, Top 25 Under 25 Environmentalist, and WWF Canada Living Planet Leader! #amquerying a YA Fantasy 🇨🇳🇨🇦
S. Hope Sharma @hopesharma.bsky.social Writer, healer, burnout fighter. Spreading hope in this messy world.
Tien Taylor @tientaylor.bsky.social Fantasy writer | #weneeddiversebooks mentee 25'
Veena B.Sankar @v-na-macadamia.bsky.social Spec/Sci Fic ✍🏽
Bc we are living sci Fi, could the genre then be called contemporary?
Jo @jodmello.bsky.social Daydreamer l Storyteller 💫
Books l Beach l Streets I Sunsets l Coffee l Cake I F**K AI
@lanebraxon.bsky.social @lanebraxon.bsky.social 
Cornopolous, Robespierre of the City State @cornopolous.bsky.social Gravy. Always gravy. And your Mom.
(Also rugby, Padres, Vikings, chargers(?) ASU and your Mom)
Elizabeth Edgewood @elizabethedgewood.bsky.social elizabethedgewood.com
💘 Writer of magical romances
⚔️ Currently querying HOW TO ESCAPE YOUR FATED MATE, an adult fantasy rom-com
🌁 Based in San Francisco, CA
@elizabethedgewood on IG
Autumn A is querying @adkissonholmes.bsky.social 
Sara Skott @skottsara.bsky.social 
Solace Sylum @solacesylum.bsky.social Writer. Martial artist. Ethics nerd. Night owl.
🏳️🌈 🇨🇦 ☮️
sydney 𑣲⋆ | currently querying! @writinganddreams.bsky.social ya writer | reader | infj
⋆˙⟡ until the sun fades (ya romantic paranormal)
Ossei Odontidae @filitadraws.bsky.social Writer of all things comedy
Italian-Filipino
Kala is ✨️querying✨️ & ✍️🏽something 💫new💫 @kpbooksnstuff.bsky.social UK Writer✍️🏽
LL: Joffe Books Prize 2024
Love 📚; Old Hollywood 🎥 &musicals 🌟; Theatreland; Ella Fitzgerald🎙& Cole Porter 🎶
#amquerying my Greek isle set Bookclub mystery
See📍'd post
Kim 🪽| EDITING @k1mm1.bsky.social book worm and food connoisseur
K.A. Nielsen @kanielsenwriter.bsky.social I write voicey speculative literary fiction for readers who wanna get weird & feel the feels, especially if you're 🏳️🌈 or have religious trauma 🫠
From the US. Living in the UK.
More active on insta: @_kanielsen_
www.kanielsen.net
she/they
@natashabooks.bsky.social @natashabooks.bsky.social A marketing girlie who writes the dark fantasy novels she wishes she had growing up. Follow my writing journey on Instagram! @natashagordonbooks
Anastasia Mosharova @ana-mosharova.bsky.social Former Soviet immigrant, raised in Germany, studied in England, now based in Spain. Travelling actor, passionate writer, mother of two, proud bisexual, believer in people.
Querying THE DAWN OF AQUARIUS, an Upmarket Queer Coming-of-Age Romance set in 1969.
SE Kinrade @shadyjadetiger.bsky.social Writer on dialysis. Caffeine fiend.
Currently querying THE LEADING MAN, 81k upmarket women’s fiction
Find me on Threads @hark_a_jo
Claire Every @cripademia.bsky.social 📜 Romanticising books in apocalyptic times
✒️ Writer of a book of beauty & terror
📔 Helps run the Cripademia book club
📸 Mostly on Instagram
🪈 Querying
Reading: Wheel of Time
#DVpit 2026
Emily Shete @emilyshete.bsky.social Middle School Teacher, Author, watching NASA from the querying trenches.
Ruchi @ruchi-writes.bsky.social Hello, I'm Ruchi and I write SFF novels (currently pitching my e-sports romance)
https://www.tumblr.com/ruchi-writes
https://linktr.ee/ruchidave
Tamara 🌽👻🍁🎃🧛♀️ @tamaratoday.bsky.social Ivy League Grad. Fantasy and Horror Writer. Creator of BULLIED on Wattpad. Avid Reader. Former B&N Bookseller. She/Her
#BlackLivesMatter #StopAAPIHate #TransLivesMatter
@TamaraToday_ on IG and Twitter
Lindamaya667 @lindamaya678.bsky.social Diving into authors progress
Amber Jain @amberjain.bsky.social Currently querying TO CATCH A RED HANDED KILLER.
Writer of SFF. EDS Zebra.
Toes in the sand, head in the stars.
Weston Reindl @westonsaintjames.bsky.social Middle-grade writer telling stories I wish I had growing up #LGBTQ+ #AmQuerying
Kelsey Gomez @kelseymgomez.bsky.social 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞
𓇼 Writer for ✨🌊 Upper MG-YA ✨🧞♀️
𓇼♡ Disney & my pug
𓇼Neurodivergent
𓇼♡ Languages
⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚Currently querying my Modern Fantasy Ocean book
➜ Dark Tides🌊
⋆.˚ 𓆉 Dylan’s🐳 & Zelda’s🐙 story
𓇼 Instagram: @Kelseymgomez
⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚
𓇼Ticktock: @KelseyMGomez
Justine Lombardi @jlombardi.bsky.social Fantasy and horror author obsessed with weird myths, funky folklore, and arcane insults. 🏳️🌈 💖💜💙 Hot mess bisexual who can't find her keys. Dyslexic and proud to be neurodiverse. Debut dark fantasy NO MAN'S DAUGHTER. https://linktr.ee/authorjustine
Syd Writes 🖋️👩🏽🌾🐈🍁🏚️ @mmewhodunnit.bsky.social Torontonian | Adult Mystery Writer | Gardener | Animal Lover | She / her.
samira is querying her MG fantasy🍉🍉🍉 @goodsamiratan.bsky.social 🇬🇭 Professional over-thinker and aspiring author|she/her/hers|Black|Muslim|RTM mentee-2025
🇵🇸 Free Palestine
🇨🇩 Free Congo
🇸🇩 Free Sudan
💜💜💜
Jia Moya @jamoy.bsky.social Previously JA Moy
YA SFF writer.
She/her.
Mixed-Race Chinese/Latinx/Irish-descent
Anti-AI
Elena B Sato @elenabsato.bsky.social YA fantasy writer 🐉 | part-Japanese | stories of magic, girlhood & diaspora 🩷
Paulette Hampton @paulieham.bsky.social Writing about the things that go bump in your head
https://paulettehampton42.wixsite.com/writer-poet
S. Park @stpark.bsky.social YA Sci-fi writer in progress | professionally inventing problems for fictional characters
V. S. Vasan @vsvasan.substack.com I write epic fantasy and am currently querying HERALD OF ASHES. Perpetually curious, I love reading, writing, nature, exploring rabbit holes, and slow living. Oh, and also cats and chai, but who doesn't?
Lauren Miller @lkmiller.bsky.social Writer ✍🏻
Yarn enthusiast 🧶
Gamer 🎮
Archer 🏹
thealternative.social @creatinganewworld.bsky.social I created a social network in which 50% of the profits will be given to homeless charities. The social network is www.thealternative.social Please join and invite people to it.
Suki @querytoapp.bsky.social Founder of QueryTo: an app for querying authors still using Word or Excel to track queries.
www.queryto.app
https://queryto.app/blog
https://queryto.app/events
Lianna S. Feng @li-feng-stories.bsky.social 🇨🇳🇺🇸 Aspiring Author 📝 💕
🌎 International Security Specialist
🎙️Co-host of The Bestsellers Beginning Podcast
🕵🏻♀️🔪 Querying: SHE LIES ALONG THE PEARLING PATH (Political Mystery/Thriller)
👾 WIP: THIS IS HOW WE DIE (Contemporary Mystery)
Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social 🏠 Founder & Agent at Neighborhood Literary.
📚 Award-winning Author.
👴🏽 Perpetually Tired Dad.
Latest book: With or Without You.
Next: The Adopted Kids’ Guide to Surviving Seventh Grade (Crown, Spring 2027)
🚪 https://www.neighborhoodliterary.com
Charity man @charityman100.bsky.social Ugandan living in Kenya 28 years Gay 🏳️🌈 Activist & community advocate I believe in love, equality, freedom and living authentically. Pronouns: they/them. Language: English. 🌈
For personal email nelsonlukonge100@gmail.com
QuyetPawz - Mutual Aid @qpmutualaid.bsky.social Only those I follow can reply.
Follow me and I'll check if your account boosts mutual aid or posts mutual aid. 💜
MA threads return in September 2026.
Do not tag me to boost MA posts, you will be unfollowed.
https://voggtech.ca/qp/
Griet van Lente @vanhelsingssister.bsky.social Blogger about child literacy in rural America, also features writer for small town Oregon. Favorite published story, Exorcism, In County (Danse Macabre), blogger: https://makingspiritsbright.org/it-take-a-village-to-read-a-book
Shanice Felix ✏️📖😍 @shanicefelix.bsky.social Agented SFF writer of Black & magical heroines who can't throw a punch but keep fighting for their HEA 🥰❤️
For the girls, gays, & gay girls
Isekai | Dystopian | Werewolves
@fallingin on Wattpad & Quotev (TATM)
Rep: Katie Shea Boutillier & Rachel Saylor
Naima Amrin @romizabooks.bsky.social Naima R Amrin is an upper Middle Grade Australian writer of South Asian background. In 2025, she participated in the Cultivate Mentorship Program for Emerging Writers from Diverse Backgrounds, funded by Create NSW (government organisation), Australia.
Chris Kenn @chriskennauthor.bsky.social Dark microfiction about the things we don’t say. But we carry. Stories that say less, so the reader can find more.
Read more here: https://chriskenn.substack.com/
Patricia Toht @patriciatoht.bsky.social Children’s author, poet, Rhyme Doctor, reader, former bookstore owner and library associate. https://www.patriciatoht.com/
Rob Gotobed @robgotobed.bsky.social Stand-up philosopher, scribe, bongo drummer and professional time-traveller. (Once dated Anne Boleyn)
Amazon: bit.ly/4hA0B7W
Apple: http://bit.ly/3K6WdB9
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2992620/
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.
Carrie Logsdon McCullough @zoodocwrites.bsky.social Mom, Grammy, retired zoo dentist, kidlit author, Regional Advisor #SCBWI Ohio Central & South, #12x12, #CtC, #STA, #PBRisingStar mentee ‘24&’25, PBRS Collective, Back in the query trenches carrielogsdonmccullough.com
LGBTQ+ Toronto & LA Film Festival @lgbtlatoronto.bsky.social Monthly festival showcasing the best of LGBTQ+ films and screenplays from around the world, using the audience feedback format.
https://lgbttorontofilmfestival.com/
https://filmfreeway.com/LGBTTorontoFilmFestival
Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social Ireland’s biggest independent bookstore - new, secondhand & bargain books - where you find what you didn’t know you were looking for!
An Post Bookshop of the Year 🏆
Paula Henson @paulahenson.bsky.social Award-winning author of WHO NEEDS A FOREST FIRE #NautilusAward #SkippingStoneAward #IndieExcellenceAward #middlegrade #nonfictionkids #picturebooks #educator #kidlit #12x12 www.paulahenson.com www.terrabellabooks.com
Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social Baltimore-based indie bookstore. Currently online until we get a new space for the bookstore. Generally won't DM people, unless maybe you're a publisher and we need info to stock your books.
https://carpelibrumbaltimore.com/
Wonderland Bookshop @wonderlandbookshop.bsky.social An independent bookshop for children and young adults in Retford, North Notts. Quite possibly the cutest little bookshop in the world. British Book Awards Children's Bookseller of the Year 2025.
wonderlandbookshop.co.uk
Iris Wong @rhymeswithpapyrus.bsky.social PB and MG writer // reader of everything!
#intersectionalkidlit
I made this to try out #DVpit ✌️
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
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/
Cindy Sommer @cindysommpb.bsky.social Award-winning children's book author of PB SAVING KATE'S FLOWERS (Arbordale) Crystal Kite winner, #KidLit, #SCBWI, #12X12PB Gold Member, ISO Agent, Querying PBs. www.cindysommer.com
Stewart Guy @stewartguy.bsky.social Naturalist. Wildlife Photographer.
Aka StewRat. Founder of Wildlife.net
Share, Inspire, Protect.
Wildlife @worldwildlife.bsky.social Wildlife Community for those who care about species & habitat conservation. Photography, Art, Videos of Birds,Mammals,Reptiles,Plants,insects
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61578489868735
https://www.tiktok.com/@wildlife.net?_t=ZN-8yV9vhsHk0c&_r=1
Laurie Smollett Kutscera @lskutscera.bsky.social #MG #PB Author-illustrator MAYA’S TREASURE, Peter Pauper Press /
MISADVENTURES OF A MAGICIAN’S SON, Blue Whale
www.LaurieSmollettKutscera.com
#kidlit #SCBWI #12x12
Finalist #PBparty #50PreciousWords
Rep’d by The Purcell Agency
Rescue doggies rock!
Departure ticket @departureticket.bsky.social Departure ticket for a specialized travel and tourism blog
👇
https://www.departureticket.com
Alejandra Diaz Mattoni @alejandradmattoni.bsky.social Writer
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
Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social Scurrying through the mire of existence. #AmQuerying a novel about a trip through the lives of ancestors.
NYC! 🏙️
Follow me at Medium.com/@edwardrstapleton
LaTasha Vines @latashavines.bsky.social Victim to Victor: HER2+ My Breast Cancer Story https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F2Z5MFL7
DearEditorDotCom @deareditordotcom.bsky.social Deborah Halverson—“The Editor”—posts writing tips, inspirations, news, & alerts when she answers new questions from writers on DearEditor.com
The Village with All of the Flash Writers @heyflashvillage.bsky.social The VILLAGE 🏘 is a place where the world 🌍 feels a tiny bit smaller. Founded by SMOKELONG for the Global Flash Community
Follow 150+ flash publishers.
Read editor interviews.
Enjoy discounts on collections.
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Professor Darkness @professordarkness.bsky.social US Fed writer/editor, progressive, history buff, husband, proudest girl dad 🥰 with my amazing wife, pessimist, proudly ANTIFA, dark humor, wildly introverted, athiest. USAF DAV. Proud Democratic Socialist! 8647!
Ravi @ravikd.bsky.social 
Maria is Writing @mariakidlit.bsky.social #Kidlit PB/MG writer and enthusiast
Parent
Bunny person
#Scbwi
Nature
Foodie
KIM F-M @kimf-m.bsky.social 💙 We are NOT going back! 💙
UNITED WE STAND, TOGETHER!
#DEMOCRACYMATTERS, #Liberal
#RESIST, #BlueCrew
#INSPIRATION 😊
#VoteBLUENoMatterWho 💙
#BeARaindropMakeWaves 🌻
Knowledge = TRUE POWER!
Health, Nutrition, Fasting, Exercise!
💙WildDesertResister!!! @wilddesert.bsky.social 💙Gen X ex Expat. 🚫NO DMS!!!!!!!💙💙💙Political junkie, gamer, Mom, G-ma, kitchen witch, soap maker, slow crocheter, 420 friendly -married 39 years to the love of my life. LGBTQ+🏳️⚧️ Ally, Tullamore Dew rocks, please. She/her. 🖖 Also Fuck Patriarchy
Madison Jurgensmeyer @mraejurgey.bsky.social Aspiring #PBAuthor ✏️ Member of #SCBWI #amquerying
Gardening 🌱 Baking 🧁 Reading 📚
Dr. Travis Langley @drtravislangley.bsky.social Batman & Psychology author, Popular Culture Psychology editor, psych professor/chair, social psychologist, Wheel of Fortune champ. Teach on media, crime, mental health.
16 books, most recently on Stranger Things, Spider-Man, The Handmaid's Tale.
#blue
Nev @alphukit.bsky.social Outdoors and all things nature type of guy.
I love camping, hiking, foraging and travelling anywhere, anytime.
Kim Ryan - Middle Grade Fantasy Author & Illustrator 📚✨🎨 @kruss1013.bsky.social MG Fantasy Author of Elvina Wispwhistle Books • Artist • Classically Trained Mezzo-Soprano • Lyricist • Frmr Marketing Exec. • 9/11 Survivor • Believer in Fairies and Magic •🌟🧚🐉
Amazon➡️ https://a.co/d/0fiZla5M
Website➡️ https://elvinawispwhistlebooks.com
Emily Smith @emilysm.bsky.social Concept Artist | Children's Book Illustrator | Animator
📚 Complete Book Solutions
📩 DM for Orders
IG: https://www.instagram.com/emilysmith_304/
@miriamknowak.bsky.social @miriamknowak.bsky.social Pre-pub PB writer. Querying. Goal: write publishable, fun books that help children feel valued and understood. Jesus follower, wife, mom, grandma. I like to clean, watch birds and horses, and play with kids. SCBWI, CBI, Inked Voices, Lyrical Language Lab.
brackenlowehalt.bsky.social @brackenlowehalt.bsky.social An overgrown station. A lantern that never quite goes out. We share the Brackenlowe Halt Archives: calm, kind stories for little hearts, from a time gone by.
brackenlowehalt.co.uk
#childrensstories #childrensstorybooks #writing #books #booksky