Elizabeth Botsford @elizabethbotsford.bsky.social Middle grade novel writer. Longlisted, Yeovil Literary Prize 2026. Shortlisted, Jericho Writers Friday Night Live.
Sue Sutherland, Author - TWELVE DAYS AT GLACIER @suemt.bsky.social Debut picture book author - TWELVE DAYS AT GLACIER, granola girl, weaver, quilter, traveler, photographer, 12x12, Montana SCBWI
Coming Soon - HOW HANNAH GOT HER LUMP OF COAL (2026), TWELVE DAYS AT YELLOWSTONE (2027), & NOTHING BUT NET TROUBLE
LaTasha Vines @latashavines.bsky.social Victim to Victor: HER2+ My Breast Cancer Story https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F2Z5MFL7
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
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Allison Hackworth @allisonhackworth.bsky.social Neurodiverse mom, wife, and nurse who absolutely loves creating colorful, spooky picture books with her husband! 📚📖✏️🎨🖌️👻💀🧟🧛🏼🦇🎃♥️🧡💛💚💙💜
Maria is Writing @mariakidlit.bsky.social #Kidlit PB/MG writer and enthusiast
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Stephanie Jackson - seeking rep! @sjwritesforkids.bsky.social Kidlit writer, mostly PB & MG. '26 Honorable Mention, #PBRisingStars! Member SCBWI, The Authors Guild. Mom x4. 12x12 challenge. Words published w/ Cricket magazine, Dirigible Balloon, STEMTuesday.com. Seeking rep. StephanieWritesForKids.com
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
Saoirse Doyle- Sweet Dreams celebration🍓🍰😴 @ladyofart123.bsky.social a future book writer and illustrator
working on two debut books:
"the meditating crocodile and other tales" (short story collection) and "our magically cherished things: an Autumn beginning" (novel)
AI is Not allowed
Get Launched @getlaunched.bsky.social Make yourself the 'Go To' person in any industry and earn a side income from running small networking events.
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Reece @thiccreese.bsky.social on Signal: reece_rogers.01
Kirsty Dale @kirstydale.bsky.social Writer - thriller, speculative, weird. Avoiding reality whenever possible. Very busy procrastinating and consuming other people’s stories.
Veblen Director Programme @veblendirectors.bsky.social Helping ambitious people get their first board seats. Regardless of your background.
Darren Bigelow @erawan2567.bsky.social “Always be yourself, unless you can be a pirate. Then always be a pirate.”
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Wren @wrenriosart.bsky.social Wren • 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 • she/her • afro 🇵🇷 • comic book artist • sappy indie darling • Rep'd by Saritza Hernández
Nancy Castaldo Books @nancycastaldobooks.bsky.social Author and photographer of books for curious minds. 🇺🇸🇮🇹
Rep'd by Jennifer Laughran @literaticat.bsky.social
Andrea Brown Literary @andreabrownlit.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/NancyCastaldo
Marietta Apollonio @mariettaa.bsky.social Author-illustrator of:
Wombat And The Family Tree
Jack The Library Cat
Traditional and digital illustration
Rep'd by Andrea Colvin Creative Agency
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📚
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Blankpage00 @blankpage00.bsky.social Just a man flesh and bone.
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Tina Schofield @tinaschofield.com Illustrator + surface designer + woodland explorer + vegan animal rescuer & gardner + bunny mom 🐇🐇 + environmentalist 🦋🌿
✨NO Ai✨
I've worked in the fine china & gifting industry for many years. Check out my website for more 🎨🧚♀️
https://linktr.ee/dulcey4
Yaroslava Apollonova @odnatamyara.bsky.social Kidlit illustrator and mixed-media artist, nature lover | ADHD
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Ameena | Kidlit Author & Illustrator @ameenasiddique.bsky.social ⭐️Animation & VFX Producer / PM⭐️
⭐️Children's Book Author & Illustrator⭐️
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Vasilia Graboski @vgraboski.bsky.social Infant Mental Health Therapist, Children’s Book Writer, Treat Maker, Tea drinker
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
Alex Villasante @magpiewrites.bsky.social Author of Lambda Award Winner, THE GRIEF KEEPER, short story writer, co-founder Latinx Storytellers Conference and LKBF. Pre-order FIREBLOOMS now 🧡🇺🇾🏳️🌈 linktr.ee/avillasante
Callum Laing @callumlaing.bsky.social I help ambitious people raise capital, get board seats, take companies public. Let's get more entrepreneurs and builders on bsky!
Author of 4 best selling business books
The Horn Book @thehornbook.bsky.social Independent, opinionated, and stylish: essential multimedia publications for everyone who cares about children's and young adult literature. Visit us at hbook.com.
Taiko Endo @taikoendo.bsky.social • author of character-driven love stories
• literary agent assistant @andreabrownlit
• fangirl. friend.📍california
www.taikoendo.com
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
Deborah Kalb @deborahkalb.bsky.social DC area. Ex-journalist, writer, editor, book blogger, podcaster, author of OFF TO JOIN THE CIRCUS and other books.
Phephe Rose @phepherose.bsky.social Architect, Illustrator & Advocate for the Creative Arts
KidsWord & AllKidsBooks – Explore, Read & Share! @allkidsbooks.com 🌟 Join our vibrant community of children's book lovers!
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Layne Johnson | Children’s Author - Is Querying @laynejohnsonkidlit.bsky.social Layne Johnson is a picture book writer/aspiring illustrator. #SCBWI. Humor and Heart|STEAM and SEL|ADHD #amquerying
Website: https://laynejohnsonkidsbooks.com/
Maryellen Annese @maryellenannese.bsky.social ✍🏻Kidlit writer
🍎Teacher and mom👧🏻👦🏻
#PBParty 2024 finalist, #PBChat mentee 2022 #SCBWI #kidlit http://www.maryellenannese.com
Evie Richner @evierichner.bsky.social Children’s book writer and illustrator. Artist. Teacher.
www.eviewoltilrichner.com
Hope @notesonanote.bsky.social Respect. Integrity. Honesty. Accountability. The truth always comes to light. 🦋
normacardenas.bsky.social @normacardenas.bsky.social assoc prof of practice | research food, identity, culture, and pedagogy #LasMusas #PBChat #WNDB #RUCCL Mentee #SCBWI #12x12 Ella/She
Tracey Jaffart @traceyjaffart.bsky.social Author/Illustrator
Eliza Spies with Her Big Little Eye: In the Rock Garden 2022
Eliza Spies with Her Big Little Eye: In the Woods 2025
Lover of nature and kindness.
Librarian for 16 years.
Member #SCBWI since 2010
Emma Miller 😁📚🍁 @emmadmiller.bsky.social Canadian Author & Creator of "The Doonies" children's book series! 📚🍁 https://thedoonies.ca
- Follow on: Bluesky, LinkedIn, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, Threads, Spotify
- Find our podcast on YouTube and Buzzsprout 📱✨️📚😁❤️🍁
Claire Blumenfeld @cblumenfeld.bsky.social K-12 Reading Specialist, PBWriter, reader, mom, SCBWI #12x12PB #InkedVoices mentee www.ClaireBlumenfeld.com
CRANKY HANK and THE NOISY NEIGHBORS: A PURIM STORY (spring 2027, Kar-Ben)
Valerie Estelle Frankel📚👩🏫🌌🎲🎮🏰📜🧷🧛🏻♂️🦇🎭✡️✍️🧙🏻🎃 @valeriefrankel.bsky.social 👨🎓Professor, 📚author of 100 books on drwho💫starwars✨outlander #sfwa🚀 #scbwi #kidlit Cali https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B004KMCLQK pitch me on #academic #Jewish #sff https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/jewish-science-fiction-and-fantasy/
Mindy Alyse Weiss @mindyalyseweiss.bsky.social I write #PB & #MG with humor, heart & hope 💖
#PBParty host | #SCBWI FL Crit Group Coordinator | #12x12PB | http://linktr.ee/MindyAlyseWeiss | https://mindyalyseweiss.com/
Repped by @joycesweeney.bsky.social
Shelley the Editor @editorshelley.bsky.social I am a technical editor by day and a freelance editor by night. I have 20 plus years of experience and you can find me at shelleyseditingservice.weebly.com for more information.
Ibarra V. Gomez @ibarravgomez.bsky.social Author of kids’ horror fiction and a voracious reader, watcher, and player of stories! Contact: ivg@eml.cc
Michelle S. Kennedy - Children's Picture Book Writer and Poet @michelleskennedy.bsky.social https://www.michelleskennedy.com/
https://x.com/MichelleSKenned
#PBWriter. Wife & mom. Loves Jesus. #SCBWI Southern Breeze Co-Asst. Regional Advisor, #12x12, #PBParty Finalist '24, '23, & '22 and #50PreciousWords HM '26, 25 and '23.
Cara Stout / Vienna James @carastoutauthor.bsky.social ENCHANTED TO MEET YOU & A KNIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS (PRH UK / Harper US)
THE NIGHTMARE KEEPER (‘26) Montlake
www.carastout.com
Rep’d by @jemiscoe.bsky.social
Stephanie Seales @blackbookbruja.bsky.social Children's book-writing, woods-wandering, water-loving magical elf
Sometimes here, sometimes not
MY DADDY IS A COWBOY (Abrams, 2024)
More books to come!
Kim Campbell @pblove.bsky.social Former Children's Librarian💗 | Big Dreamer | Lover of picture books, the KidLit world, libraries, community, & fart books | Haiku Writer
Website: www.booksbutterfliesandbeing.com
KidLit Acrostics flipbook: https://heyzine.com/flip-book/fe5beff236.htm
The Brown Bookshelf @thebrownbookshelf.bsky.social The home to 28 Days Later, we are an award-winning website dedicated to highlighting both under the radar Black children's lit creatives and the vanguards whose shoulders we all stand on. Your go-to source on #BlackKidLit since '08. thebrownbookshelf.com
Jessica Echeverria @jecheverria.bsky.social Editorial Director, Lee & Low Books 📚
Adrianne Murray @adriannemurrayy.bsky.social 🧑🏾💻 Pre-Pub PB Writer
🧐 Researching agents
👩🏽🎓👩🏽🎓 Proud Mom
👩🏽🏫 30 Year Teacher
🗽Brooklyn .
#BCHQ #SCBWI #PB
Corey King @ckinginator.bsky.social Children's book author, #SCBWI, MBA, musical theatre is my love language, Repped by Lindsay Auld of Writers House
Tammi Sauer @tammisauer.bsky.social Children’s picture book author repped by Laura Rennert at Andrea Brown Literary Agency
tammisauer.com
Megan McNamara @writtenbymegan.bsky.social Story Maker-Upper 📺 TV Writer: ESE on All American: Homecoming I Staff Writer on LA’s Finest 📚 Kidlit Writer: Member of Storyteller Academy I PB Rising Stars HM 2025 I Blogger of @keepwritingkidlit.bsky.social (she/her)
Kam Asanyi (they/them) 🏳️🌈 ♿️ @kamasanyi.bsky.social 💛🤍💜🖤
#kidlit author
Stonewall Award Honoree
MARLEY’S PRIDE (Barefoot Books)
OUR WORLD USA (Barefoot Books)
MADINA'S BIG, FABULOUS, WIN (Disney Hyperion '27)
BELLY GROWLS (Henry Holt '27)
🇭🇹 |♿️|🐈⬛+🍄 ❤️
Rep’d by James McGowan
Cynthia Cliff @cynthiacliff.bsky.social Published Kid-Lit Author & Illustrator
Self taught artist * Silly heart * Tree hugger
www.CynthiaCliff.com
Represented by Andrea Brown Literary Agency
Author/Illustrator Books: Pie for Breakfast * The Wild Garden * A Weekend Trip * A Day at the Museum
CK (They/Them preferred but any) @ckwritesbooks.bsky.social Born Intersex (Bigender easier for peeps to understand ) Autie///Chkee/Chsaw/white///HI///Repped by Page Turner///POPI'S ALL SOULS SONG///A COSTUME FOR CHARLY (Crystal Kite Finalist)///#kidlit #12x12 Insta: https://www.instagram.com/ckmalonewrites/
Liz Lazar (she/her) @lizlazarlit.bsky.social #PB writer, former reading teacher, boy & dog mama, 🎶 & 🌎 lover. Highlights/Boyds Mills Scholarship Winner 2026, #12x12 Scholarship Winner 2025 & 2024, #PBParty HM 2024, #PBRisingStars Mentee 2023, #SCBWI #KidLit #CBA #LyricalLanguageLab ✨Seeking Rep
Jean Reagan @jeanreaganbooks.bsky.social Children's author of TURBO'S SPECIAL DELIVERY (ill. by Eduardo Marticorena) and the HOW-TO series with Knopf, Random House, ill. by Lee Wildish: HOW TO BABYSIT A GRANDPA, etc. 
Jessica Haster @jessicahaster.bsky.social Writer, educator, book lover, music junkie, cherry chapstick addict, aspiring napper #SCBWI #12x12PB #CTC #PB #MG #YA 
Valerie Bolling @valeriebolling.bsky.social Author of books for children and teachers | Longtime educator | DEIAB advocate | Born in NY | Raised and resides in CT
https://valeriebolling.com
Authors Guild; SCBWI; 12x12; Boyds Mills, #kidlit #PB #earlyreaders #booksforteachers
Cait Darfler..... is on SUBMISSION! @caitdarfler.com picture book writer. mom. geologist. environmentalist. gardener. jigsaw puzzler. #SCBWI #kidlit 🏳️🌈
PBParty2025 Finalist!
www.caitdarfler.com
Rep'd by Joyce Sweeney @joycekay.bsky.social
Justin Colón @justincolonbooks.bsky.social Children's Author. Professional Voice & On-Camera Actor. Backyard Beekeeper. Classical Pianist in training.
Author Website: justincolonbooks.com
Critiques & Consultations: kidlithive.com
Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social Disabled writer 💪🏼
Artist 🖌️
Kidlit devotee 📚
Geek 📡
she/her
Rep’d by: ✨Emily Keyes✨
@esckeyes.bsky.social
👉🏻 http://priscillagilman.net 👈🏻
Rachel Funez @rachelfunez.bsky.social #Kidlit #Author | #12x12 | #SCBWI | repp’d by Vicki Selvaggio @Storm Lit | @vickiselvaggio.bsky.social
Debut #PB: SONIA AND THE SUPER DUPER DISASTER | Illustrated by Kelly Kennedy | Free Spirit Publishing
VickieWV @vickiewv.bsky.social Retired teacher, pretend photographer, lover of wildlife, jigsaw puzzler, sudoku warrior, writer of family saga/historical fiction
#5amwritersclub
#bluedotredstate
DoriH @drdorih.bsky.social Assoc Prof @ Ohio State Univ. - community activist - equity focused - black woman magic - diverse texts - critical literacies - ZPB🕊 - DEIB creative ♊️ 🏳️🌈 🏀 🎮 📚 my posts are my own
Christy Mandin @christymandin.bsky.social New York Times bestselling author-illustrator of picture books.
www.christymandin.com
Anna Osborn @annagotangcoosborn.bsky.social Jefferson Middle School: A STEAM Academy. Middle school reading specialist. AVID site coordinator. EL Department Chair. My favorite pastime is daily joy reading young adult lot with brilliant middle schoolers and my school dog Skye.
Taj McCoy (she/her) @tajmccoy.bsky.social Author, Literary Agent (open to queries), Higher Ed Consultant, Private Chef… tumbleweed.
Author website: https://tajmccoywrites.com
Agency website: https://ldlainc.com
Rep: https://bsky.app/profile/jemiscoe.bsky.social
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!
Kelsey E. Gross @kelseyegross.bsky.social #kidlit author. FALL: A SEASONS STORY (August 2026, Beach Lane), SPRING: A SEASONS STORY (spring 2028, Beach Lane), WINTER: A SOLSTICE STORY (2023) & SUMMER: A SOLSTICE STORY (2024) from Paula Wiseman/Simon & Schuster. #12x12PB #SCBWI kelseyegross.com
Joyce Uglow, award-winning kidlit picture book poet @jpuglow.bsky.social #PB poet 🌳🌸🌞🌙💦 #RA #SCBWI #12x12 #CtC | Storied Ink on Substack https://substack.com/@jpuglow #NSTA #ALA #CrystalKite WI Fellowship of Poets
https://joyceuglowauthor.com repped by Liza Voges at Eden Street
Trenise @booksbytrenise.bsky.social 🇯🇲 🇺🇸 | #KidLit author | ⭐️ Co-Director of PB Rising Stars ⭐️ | BOOKed and Busy 📚| Repped by Jem at ABLA| Movie buff | Fueled by College Football ❤️💛✌️, Taylor Swift, Showtunes, 2010s hip hop and SPITE | Storyteller. Creator. Wonderer
Arriel Vinson @arriwrites.bsky.social She/her. UNDER THE NEON LIGHTS (PenguinTeen, 6/3). Reese’s Book Club LitUp Fellow. Tin house YA '21. Educator. Rep: Jodi Reamer. IG: arriwrites. Pronounced Ar-ee-el.
Website: arriwrites.com
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/arriwrites
Sara Fajardo @safajarwrites.bsky.social Dual immersion teacher and author I Crack Goes the Cascarón '25 I Alberto Salas Plays Paka Paka con la Papa '25 I A Tanta Wawa for Abuelo '26
Repped by Nicole Geiger-Full Circle Literary
#LatinxPitch Co-founder
she/Ella
www.sarafajardowrites.com
Angela H. Dale @angelahdale.bsky.social Short Form Writer, Long Form Parent, Repped by Tricia Lawrence, EMLA.
Picture Books:
Goodbye, Hello: A Going Home Travel Adventure, Holiday House 2024
Bus Stop, Cameron Kid, 2022
(moved from ahdale.bsky.social for username consistency across platforms)
@authorseinawedlick.bsky.social @authorseinawedlick.bsky.social 
I Smoked Kirkmas @dknight10k.bsky.social Host:🎙Pardon The Insurrection Podcast🎙
YouTube ▶️:
https://youtube.com/@pardontheinsurrection
🍎 Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pardon-the-insurrection/id1629782102
🎶 Bad Built 🎶 album on Spotify:
https://spotify.link/n7xMlQgTjOb
Lisa Tolin @lisatolin.bsky.social Editorial Director @ PEN America (formerly Today Show, NBC News, AP) and I write for kids. HOW TO BE A ROCK STAR (2022) CAN YOU IMAGINE? (Atheneum, 2025). #12x12
Julie Hauswirth @juliehauswirth.bsky.social I write PBs! | IF MY SISTER WERE A WORM (Holiday House ‘26) | Yeehoo Press Star Award '23 | SCBWI Most Promising Fiction MS 24' | Rep’d by CoCo Freeman
https://www.juliehauswirth.com
Alexia M. Andoni @alexiaandoni.bsky.social Children’s book author & illustrator. Child Development Specialist. Nature-lover & traveler.
LOVE MAKES OUR FAMILY (S&S Beach Lane, March ‘27) @pbcreativecrew #SCBWIMI #12x12PB #PBParty finalist ‘23 repped by @writeloudly.bsky.social
Ana Paola Glz @anapaoglz.bsky.social Kidlit Illustrator · Children’s Books
Pastel vibes · Sweet characters · Gentle stories
🇲🇽 ES/EN — Freelance illustrator
⬇️ Portfolio + contact
https://anapaoglz.carrd.co/
Brenna Jeanneret @brennajeanneret.bsky.social #Kidlitauthor #PB #GN #NF
THE LAW OF BIRTHDAYS ('24)
A BIKE IS NOT JUST A BIKE (26)
DUDES OF DISPOSAL ('26)
Co-host of You May Contribute A Verse
@JoshMonkwords.bsky.social
https://brennajeanneret.com/index.html
Rosileetina @rosileetina.bsky.social 21 | ND (ASD/ADHD) | She/He/They 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | Black Artist | Queer | Repost with Credit! | Free 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇨🇩🇦🇲🇭🇹
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
Katrina Tangen @katrinatangen.bsky.social Kidlit Author | COMING OCT 6: RAMP IT UP! (Charlesbridge) | COPY THAT, COPY CAT!: INVENTIONS INSPIRED BY ANIMALS (Barefoot Books, 2023) | 12x12 | SCBWI SoCal | Disabled by ME/CFS https://linktr.ee/katrinatangen
Diana Castillo | Author/Illustrator @dianaacastle.bsky.social Cuban Mermaid & Author/Illustrator, repped by Saritza at Andrea Brown Literary Agency!
📖 Snap! Crunch! Munch? (Holiday House, 2025)
📚 Detective Fuego series (Simon Spotlight, 2027 & 2028)
#Kidlitart & #Comic Portfolio: dianacastleart.com
Kelly Sonnack (like "Sonic") @ksonnack.bsky.social Children's Agent. Reader. Mama.
Header art by Marissa Valdez.
Brenda Maier @brendamaier.bsky.social Children’s author, gifted education specialist, and mom of five. Hobbies include traveling, tricking kids into thinking for themselves, and reading way past my bedtime. brendamaier.com