Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social A nerd at large. Writer of stuff.
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Caroline Kind @carolinekind.bsky.social MG author, educator, researcher, reader, learner | She/Her | Halifax, NS |
Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com Minneapolis. Author and illustrator of award-winning comics and funnybooks. Keeps hens. Tells fortunes. Is queer. I cannot tell if you're joking. Literal* cartoon. He/him, They/them
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Carol Gordon Ekster @cekster.bsky.social #kidlit #author, retired #educator, yogi, #scbwi, #12x12, #edusky #couragetocreate Repped by Nicole Resciniti @seymouragency.bsky.social
Umut Guner @umuttgunerr.bsky.social Historian & Academic
Medieval History | Islamic Political Thought | Turk, Arab and Persian Worlds | Social History | Islamic Societies | Sufism
Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social TIPS: Email me at nhannahjones@nytimes.com or send a Signal nhannahjones.67 //Founder Center for Journalism & Democracy at Howard Univ// Staff writer at NYT Mag// Creator #1619Project// History blerd//Smart and Thuggish
William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol All the world’s a stage
Cambridge Somerville Independent @csindie.bsky.social News, arts, community, resources and events for Cambridge and Somerville, Massachusetts.
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Diane Zahler @dianezahler.bsky.social writer of middle-grade fiction about princesses, magic, and bubonic plague
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Lucy Worsley @lucyworsley.bsky.social Hello! I'm Lucy, I'm a historian, I write books like biographies of Agatha Christie and present a VERY GOOD @BBCSounds podcast called #LadyKillers. For ages I was Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, now an Ambassador for the charity.
Tracy Borman OBE @tracyborman.bsky.social Historian, author and joint chief curator of Historic Royal Palaces. A Lincolnshire lass and chancellor of Bishop Grosseteste University.
ACLU @aclu.org A nonprofit, nonpartisan, legal and advocacy 501(c)(4) organization. Visit our site for more about us and our affiliated organization, the ACLU Foundation.
Legal Defense Fund @legaldefensefund.bsky.social America's premier civil rights law organization fighting for racial justice through litigation, advocacy, & public education since 1940.
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Janai Nelson @janainelson.bsky.social President & Director-Counsel of LDF (NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.) the nation's premier racial justice & civil rights law organization.
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Harold Underdown @hunderdown.bsky.social I'm a children's book editor, teacher and workshop presenter, owner of The Purple Crayon website -- www.underdown.org --and part of Kid's Book Revisions Plus: @kbrplus.bsky.social.
I post about #kidlit and other things.
Maria is Writing @mariakidlit.bsky.social #Kidlit PB/MG writer and enthusiast
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Kelly Conroy @kellyconroy.bsky.social Children's Writer, Rhymer, Reader
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Rep'd by Sarah Stephens | SCBWI | 12x12
You Are My Everything - Tiger Tales '24
I See You In The Stars - Familius '26
*Mostly on Instagram
Jenny Andrus | #KidLit @jandrus.bsky.social Children's Book Writer/Librarian
ELSA'S CHESSBOARD (Neal Porter Books, Apr 25)
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Rep: @sarah_redfoxlit
#KidLit #WritingCommunity #PB #EduSky
@sayuri-stabrowski.bsky.social @sayuri-stabrowski.bsky.social 
Heather Kinser @heatherkinser.bsky.social Picture book author: IN A CAVE, NATURE IS A SCULPTOR, SMALL MATTERS | rep'd by @sarah_redfoxlit | Inform, Delight & Shine a Light!
SCBWI/12x12/InkedVoices
Anden Wilder @andenwilder.bsky.social artist|author|illustrator
rep’d by @redfoxliterary
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Lynn Street Books @lynnstreetbooks.bsky.social THE BLUE JAYS THAT GREW A FOREST (2025), NO FEATHERS IN YOUR HATS! (2027)
VCFA. 12x12. Writing lyrical nonfiction and fiction for curious kids.
Rep'd by @SFretwellHill @RedFoxLiterary. http://linktr.ee/lynnstreet
Writing About Writing About Writing @writingabtwriting.bsky.social A free blog about writing books, and books about writing, and reading books about writing.
Writing About Writing About Writing is a project by @thatemilymunro.bsky.social
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YAbookscentral @yabookscentral.bsky.social Website devoted to YA, Middle-Grade, and Kids books.
We offer book reviews, blog content featuring author Q&A, guest posts, excerpts, cover reveals, and giveaways!
Authors- Check out how to advertise your book with YABC!
Barbara Kimmel | #KidLit @barbarakimmel.bsky.social Children's Book Author
#KidLit #Writer #Author #WritingCommunity #SCBWI
www.barbarakimmelwrites.com
🕎 Hanukkah Hippity-Hop (Kar-Ben)
👑 Purim Possibilities (PJ Publishing)
🦊 Rep'd by Eve Adler, Red Fox Literary
KidLit Foxes @kidlitfoxes.bsky.social 🦊📚A Clever, Crafty Den of #KidLit Creators from Red Fox Literary
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#WritingCommunity #PictureBooks #ChildrensBooks #KidsBooks #kidlit
London Museum @londonmuseum.bsky.social 
sr_toliver @srtoliver.bsky.social Associate Professor @ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | #Literacies, #EduSky, #AcademicSky, #BlackSky |she/her| Award-winning author (😆) | website: www.ReadingBlackFutures.com 💖💚
Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social Associate Professor in History @uninorthampton.bsky.social, Departmental Tutor @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social. Current research interests: late medieval family, gender, literary culture; medievalism and the extreme right.
NH House Democratic Caucus @nhhousedems.bsky.social The Official Account of the New Hampshire House Democratic Caucus. #NHPolitics
Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social speculative fiction (Teixcalaan series, ROSE/HOUSE), climate & energy policy (all statements my own), Byzantinist (nonpracticing but never not true).
unfortunately, I care about power lines now
she/her. halfway between Santa Fe and NYC.
12 x 12 Picture Book Writing Challenge @12x12challenge.bsky.social 12 x 12 is a diverse community of picture book authors and illustrators at all levels. You get accountability & support in the goal to write 1 new PB draft each month + more! Registration open now! https://12x12challenge.com/membership. 
Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop @pvww.bsky.social Literary arts organization based in Western MA (and virtually), founded by writer @joybaglio.bsky.social! We host writing workshops, craft classes, readings, & events with authors of all genres!
www.PioneerValleyWriters.org
Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social Surprised historian, not surprised eels.
Doctor of medieval things. Talkin’ eels, history, and maps. Spaniel mourner. Alt-text artist.
I draw custom maps and artwork on commission:
https://surprisedeelmaps.com/
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social Roman historian, digital humanist & contributor at Hyperallergic
Book 📕 Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (Feb. 2025) : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273144/strike/
Pasts Imperfect:
https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
American Medieval Podcast @americanmedieval.bsky.social American Medieval is a podcast about the Middle Ages, but with an American twist. If America has never been modern, it’s because we’ve always been slightly medieval.
Host @profgabriele.com, part of @multitude.productions
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Jessica Stremer Kidlit Author @jstremer.bsky.social Children's Book Author
GREAT CARRIER REEF 🌟🌟 LIGHTS OUT;
FIRE ESCAPE 🌟🌟; PLIGHT OF THE PELICAN; WONDERFULLY WILD 🌟 TRAPPED IN THE TAR PIT; WHEN OLD BECOMES NEW ('26)
Christopher @c007goat.bsky.social Vancouverite. 2001. Pescatarian. Screenwriter. Songwriter. Playwright.
Patreon.com/JustChristopher
Erin Goatkeeper @handtotheneedle.bsky.social maker of art, yarn, fabric, garments, food, & music. Cherokee 🧶 she/her
Kimberly Alexander @ksalex10.bsky.social Historian: Material Culture, Museums, Educator & Author
De Gruyter Brill Medieval & Early Modern Studies @dgb-mem.bsky.social Academic books, journals and news from the Medieval and Early Modern Studies department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
Bloomsbury History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social Publishing the latest research and news on all aspects and periods of history.
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Dr Gabrielle Fields @gabrielle-fields.bsky.social 'Queen Victoria’s Library'. PhD @ Historic Royal Palaces and University of Exeter. Funded by the SWW-DTP 📚
Melissa Shiels, PhD @melissashiels.bsky.social Early Modern Irish Historian, Dress/Fashion Historian, Dress Recreation, Living History.
Recreating historic dress since 2002 from 10th century Viking, Normal, Medieval, 1530s-1570s, late 18th-century, Regency, and mid-Victorian.
Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association @rmmra.bsky.social The Rocky Mountain Medieval & Renaissance Association is a nonprofit academic society dedicated to the advancement of learning in global Medieval and Renaissance studies.
https://rmmra.org/
KathrynOfKingsport @kathrynofkingsport.bsky.social Writer, editor, lover of Renaissance literature + history, Shakespeare, and Anne Boleyn. 👑
The Medieval and Early Modern Research Network (MEMRN) @memrn.bsky.social We’re MEMRN 🏰⚔️ We provide accessible training opportunities and host events online & in-person. Creating a supportive and vibrant community of passionate people, we promote lifelong learning for everyone.
Find out more 👇
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🏰 Ben Paites 🏛️ @benpaites.bsky.social Senior Curator at Colchester Museums. Mainly Roman archaeology and LGBTQ+ history. Also cat dad to Artemis and enthusiastic Gaymer. He/Him
Author of 50 LGBTQ+ Finds: https://www.amberley-books.com/50-lgbtq-finds.html
Website: www.benpaites.uk
April Kincaid @chickenmomma.bsky.social Passionate Chicken Advocate and Rescuer. Tudor History Buff. Victorian Reenactor. Antiques Collector. Plant Based Athlete. Adventure Travel Enthusiast…Multifaceted, Imperfect and Complicated Human.
History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X
Patricia Bracewell @patbracewell.bsky.social Author of the Emma of Normandy Series: Shadow on the Crown, The Price of Blood, The Steel Beneath the Silk. Writer, reader, scholar, medievalist, traveler, gardener, occasional tennis player.
www.PatriciaBracewell.com
Megan Barber @mbarberhistory.bsky.social MA History Student at University of Winchester | Postgrad Member of RHS | Researching Monarchy & Public History
👑🏰
Dr Owen Emmerson @drowenemmerson.bsky.social Historian & Assistant Curator at Hever Castle. Consultant: #WolfHall (BBC, 2024). Broadcaster: Boleyns: A Scandalous Family (BBC); Blood, Sex, & Royalty (Netflix).
Kelly Crull 🦊 @kellycrull.bsky.social Author, illustrator, and photographer of picture books for children. THE BLACK MAMBAS (Lerner 2025), WASHED ASHORE (Lerner 2022). Rep’d by Deborah Warren. #kidlit 🇪🇸🇺🇸
Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social Reader.
Multilingual author & literary translator. Kidlit. Poetry. SF/F/H. Comics. 🌈
He/él
I’ve translated: Maggie Nelson, Danez Smith, George Takei, Juan Villoro, Carmen Boullosa, Trifonia Melibea Obono, Koleka Putuma, etc.
Ainissa Ramirez, PhD @ainissaramirez.bsky.social Scientist. Speaker. Writer. #Kidlit #Picturebook
OUT NOW⚡SPARK: Jim West's Electrifying Adventures in Creating the Microphone via @mitpress.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/SPARKbk 🎤
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
Waterstones @waterstones.bsky.social All about the books
Penguin Books @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social We publish fiction and nonfiction adorned with the famous dignified but flippant logo.
Penguin Random House @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social 
HarperCollins @harpercollins.bsky.social Publishing great authors since 1817. 📚
Random House Children's Books @randomhousekids.bsky.social 
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
Ali Herring, literary agent @herringali.bsky.social Senior Literary Agent, Spencerhill Associates. Twin mom+1 📚 Eclectic in life & books. I 💙 Jane Austen & SFF in equal doses. #TeamSpencerhill Ali-ens 👽 rock! My site/MSWL: https://aliherringwrites.wordpress.com & how to query: www.spencerhillassociates.com
Dana Murphy @manadurphy.bsky.social part-time garbage person, full-time literary agent at @ Trellis Literary Management
Joy Deva Baglio @joybaglio.bsky.social Speculative Writer: Fiction in One Story, Ploughshares, Tin House, Apex, etc. Yaddo Fellow. Founder of Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop. Rep'ed by Peter Steinberg. Novel in progress. Bagpiper.
https://linktr.ee/joy.deva.baglio
https://www.joybaglio.com/
Lauren Spieller @laurenspieller.bsky.social LitAgent @FolioLiterary + @FolioJr
Full Adult + Kidlit wishlist on Pub Marketplace!
YA author w/ S&S
I love dogs like it's my job
She/Her
Ann Rose @annmrose.bsky.social agent: Marsal Lyon & #rosebudauthor wrangler | author | opinions are my own | she/her
rep: Eva Scalzo
layout: Ana Scribe
We Need Diverse Books @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social We Need Diverse Books is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit revolutionizing what we read to create a world where everyone can find themself in the pages of a book.
🔗 bio.site/WeNeedDiverseBooks
Samantha Wekstein @swekstein.bsky.social Senior Literary Agent @TLA, She/Her, Terp🐢, ENFJ, ♑, dog lover
Illustrators: http://wekstein-illustrators.weebly.com.
Pitch to: http://QueryManager.com/SamanthaWekstein
Editing: https://samanthaweksteineditorial.square.site/
https://linktr.ee/swekstein
James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social Writer from Manchester. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out now! 🐈⬛
https://lnk.to/LikeaCatLovesaBird
Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
Mark Hoffmann @studiohoffmann.bsky.social Children’s books & editorial illustrator, professor
🎥 Host of Gab ‘n’ Doodle on Insta
🚫 No AI Art
Proudly rep’d by:
Kidlit- Nicole Tugeau @the_t2_agency.bsky.social
Editorial- @i2iart.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/studiohoffmann
Laken Brimicombe @lakenbrimicombe.bsky.social 🇨🇦Middle grade writer
🐈⬛Cat mom
Kari Lavelle @karilavellewrites.bsky.social Author of the BUTT OR FACE? series, ODE TO GRAPEFRUIT: HOW JAMES EARL JONES FOUND HIS VOICE (illustrated by Bryan Collier), and WE MOVE THE WORLD (illustrated by @nabihaiderali.bsky.social)
Alice Loxton @historyalice.bsky.social History broadcaster and Sunday Time bestselling author
📚 UPROAR! / Eighteen
🎥 @bbc @channel5_TV @skyarts
🪶 @telegraph @thetimes
Jane Kurtz @writerjane.bsky.social I write essays and children’s books. I follow my curiosity and wonder. I volunteer to create bilingual books for and about Ethiopia. I’ve been a longtime faculty member at Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Children’s and YA literature
Karyn Curtis @karyncurtiswrites.bsky.social Middle Grade, Picture Book writer, former editor, horse girl, #MGWaves
Rebecca Sherman @rebeccagent.bsky.social Senior Literary Agent at Writers House. Good for children’s book and theater recommendations. Let’s share some joy and whimsy here, okay?
Amanda MacGregor @amandamacgregor.bsky.social Writing, reading, reviewing, libraries, dogs, children’s lit, mental health, and Teen Librarian Toolbox. All opinions solely my own. She/her.
Sally Morgridge @smorgridge.bsky.social 
USBBY @usbby.bsky.social The United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY) is a nonprofit organization devoted to building bridges of international understanding through children's and young adult books. 
Christina Moorehead @allthebooks.bsky.social Program Dir.@ CTCB. Gen. Secretary USBBY. Publisher Liaison @ PublisherSpotlight. Teacher. Book festooned writer. Random Artist. Rescue animal softie. Kidney Donor. Nerdfighter. Mythical Beast. Banana Slug. Kwaj Kid. And yes, this Trekkie has her towel.
Nancy Boyd @brightwings.com Writer, Coach (2009 International Coach of the Year), Founder of the Soul Path Academy -- we evolve faster together 💙
Animal lover, foodie, social justice fanatic, polymath, planet saver, queer, spiritual-but-not-religious Buddhist
https://brightwings.com
Nadia Ali @nadiaawriter.bsky.social KidLit Author:
RAISAH AND THE BOAT TRIP (2023),
HUMPHREY THE EGG_SPLORER (2023)
THE ANIMAL SOCIETIES SERIES (2023)
12x12 Challenge
Lauren Johnson @historylauren.bsky.social Historian / Heritage Live Interpretation bod.
AHRC-funded PhD (refugees, religion & diplomacy in early modern Europe) and a book about Margaret Beaufort in progress…
Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social Director of Publications, @historians.org | Emerita, @nursingclio.bsky.social | she/her
Tony Robinson @sirtonyrobinson.bsky.social Actor. Writer. TV Presenter
https://linktr.ee/TheHouseOfWolf
Bruce Topperwien @btopperwien.bsky.social Legal practitioner - health law, veterans law, administrative law. Musician. Conductor of ANU Chinese Classical Music Ensemble. Canberra, Australia.
The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com The Booker Prize and the International Booker Prize celebrate the best English-language fiction. https://thebookerprizes.com
Ellen Bunn @ellenbunn3.bsky.social K-8 school librarian. reader of kidlit/ya diverse fiction and 5 kinds of nonfiction. former elementary science/science & literature teacher. paleoanthropologist. organic heirloom tomato grower and avid cook.
Children's Literature Assembly, NCTE @nctecla.bsky.social The Children's Literature Assembly is an affiliate of NCTE celebrating authors, illustrators, scholars, & readers of children's literature.
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/
Olivia Sanders Rook @daisiesandearlgrey.bsky.social Librarian, reader, writer.
Samford 24’
U of A 26’
she/her
https://substack.com/@daisiesandearlgrey?r=1hzgnn&utm_medium=ios
Sara Spike @saraspike.bsky.social Cultural historian of rural communities and coastal environments in Atlantic Canada. The ocean and the woods. Visual cultures. Senses. Fog. Flora.
Adjunct Prof, Dalhousie University.
Executive Committee, NiCHE.
PhD, settler, she/her
https://saraspike.ca
Dr Joanne Paul @drjoannepaul.bsky.social A "sparkling historian" ✨- The Times #thehouseofdudley
"visceral and illuminating ... her style is cinematic" - Wall Street Journal
💚🇨🇦
Christiana Doucette @doucette515.bsky.social Author | Poet | SDWF Kids Write Judge | MGpies | SCBWI Mentee: Joy McCullough | Agent: Leslie Zampetti | #KidLitChat [Tuesdays 9pm ET] | MG Hub | Highlight’s Kay Yoder Scholarship for US History ‘24 | Intern for Kaitlyn Sanchez | https://bit.ly/3Zf7FiH
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.
Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social Historian: mobility & recordkeeping of #earlymodern Catholic minorities. Book: confessional mobility and English Catholics in Early Modern Europe. Also grumpy about the state of UK Higher Education so likely to talk about how it is being failed...(She/Her)
Writers Guild of America East @wgaeast.bsky.social Writers Guild of America East, AFL-CIO, is a labor union representing writers in film, television, news, podcasts, and online media.