Rhael Mcgregor @raysdrawlings.bsky.social Award Winning Comic Artist & Writer from Winnipeg, MB! ✨
Métis & Two-Spirit/Queer (They/Them)
PUBLICATIONS
Recent: 'I Learned Love from Shoujo Manga' & 'Touching Grass' (2025)
Popular: 'Tinder' (2018), 'Dracudate' (2021), 'Home' (2024), 'Mortified' (2024)
Mathias Ball+ﾟ*｡:ﾟ+ | illustrator open for work 🍊 @mathiasball.bsky.social ✧ Illustrator available for freelance work ✨
✧ Shop: @Sulkypup 🌿
✧ Repped by Natascha Morris @ The Tobias Literary Agency
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they/them or he/him
https://www.mathiasball.com/
Leigh Therriault💫 @leightherriault.bsky.social Canadian writer & poet 🌙✨️ AuDHD ☆
A STRANGE PLACE FOR A GHOST 👻 coming Sep 2027 from Orca Book Publishers 📚
Rep: Liz Nealon at Great Dog Literary
leightherriault.com
Erin L. Thomas @erinthomas.bsky.social Author, Daydreamer, Lover of Yarn
I write books for kids and teens from my home in Whitby, Ontario. I love knitting and sewing, and have a thing for old sewing machines and typewriters. I'm happiest when surrounded by my wonderful family and pets. 
📚Sophie Adriansen📚 @sophieadriansen.bsky.social ✨Écrivaine (Max et les poissons, Hystériques, Linea nigra, Hacker, Un arbre à soi…)
✨Scénariste (La fémis + BD : La Remplaçante, Nina Simone, Voie de garage, Chère Maman…)
✨Œil de lynx
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Claire Eamer @eamer.bsky.social I live on a small 🇨🇦 island and write stuff. Often about science. Often for kids. But not always. Website: http://www.claireeamer.com/?m=1
Karen Krossing @karenkrossing.com #KidLit Author, Editor, Mentor.
Latest: ONE COSMIC ROCK. THE CLOUD THAT STUCK.
Upcoming: FOREVER FRIES.
Agency: @curtisbrownltd.bsky.social
VCFA Alum. Faculty at Whale Rock Workshops.
Settler heritage. She/her. Bi/pan. 🏳️🌈
https://karenkrossing.com
The Revelstoke Review @revelstokereview.bsky.social The newspaper of record for Revelstoke, B.C., since 1914 🗞️ Part of Black Press Media.
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Heather Camlot @heathercamlot.bsky.social Children's author & editor. Latest: Becoming Bionic, The Prisoner and the Writer, Secret Schools, I Can't Do What? Montrealer in Toronto. 
Kam White 🌟✨💫🌟✨💫 @spacejamkamart.bsky.social I'm Kam! Black - Native (Chahta & ᏣᎳᎩ)Comic artist/Illustrator that mostly draws his ocs?| DC Milestone Initiative Artist| Email: spacejamkamart@gmail.com
spacejamkam.com
Anne Tenning @annetenning.bsky.social First Nations educator, writer, PhD student.
SusanHughes @susanhughes.bsky.social editor/story coach specializing in kidlit | author of kids' books | freelance writer | she/her | upcoming bk: MISS MATCH | recent bks: HOORAY FOR TRUCKS!; SAME HERE; WALKING FOR WATER; LIGHTS DAY AND NIGHT | www.susanhughes.ca
Forest of Reading @forestofreading.bsky.social The Forest of Reading is Canada’s largest recreational reading program!
Chris Paul Rainbows 🏳️⚧️ 🌈 🇨🇦 🍉 @chrispaulrainbows.com they/them
Author. Illustrator. Creative strategist. Storyteller. New book out: Guinea Pigs Don’t Wear Pants. Mayor of Gay Gardens. I once grew too many pumpkins 🎃 and ordered a really gay cake 🍰.
www.chrispaulrainbows.com
Julie Sedivy @juliesedivy.bsky.social Writer and language scientist, author of LINGUAPHILE: A LIFE OF LANGUAGE LOVE and MEMORY SPEAKS: ON LOSING AND RECLAIMING LANGUAGE AND SELF.
Carter! ✨ @megacarter.bsky.social Meaghan Carter she/her
Creator for webcomic GODSLAVE, TO KNOW A WITCH, artist for THE IRON BARGE comic series, and the GIRL HAVEN graphic novel.
♦️PORTFOLIO
https://www.megacarter.com
🦦 IRON BARGE
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Government of British Columbia @governmentofbc.bsky.social Official Government of BC Bluesky account.
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Elaine 🍀 tiny.clovers @tinyclovers.bsky.social Artist 🖌️ at a video game studio
Children's book illustrator 🎨 Represented by Bridgette Kam at Westwood
Personally managed by my tabby cat Sally in Vancouver, BC
https://www.elainechen.ca
https://www.instagram.com/tiny.clovers
Natasha Zimmers (she/her) @natashazimmers.bsky.social Picture Book Writer
(TINY HIKER- Orca Book Publishers 2026)
Nature Adventurer
Outdoor Educator
Teacher
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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. 
Association of Canadian Publishers @cdnpublishers.bsky.social The Association of Canadian Publishers is the voice of Canadian independent book publishers. 
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
Catarina Oliveira ✦Illustration✦ @catoliveirastudio.bsky.social ✦ I'm Cat ✦ she/her ✦ 44 ✦ neurodivergent
✦ Portuguese-Canadian Kid Lit Illustrator
✦ Rep'd by The T2 Agency
✦ 📍 in Portugal
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catarinaoliveirastudio.com
✦ instagram.com/catarinaoliveirastudio/
#KidLitArt #illustration #kidlit
La Pastèque @lapasteque.bsky.social Éditeur BD et albums jeunesse depuis 1998.
Heather✨ @etherah.bsky.social illustrator & character designer | she/they
heatherwilson.art
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Mackin Educational Resources @mackinlibrary.bsky.social Serving more than 60,000 PK-12 libraries & classrooms worldwide with print books, eBooks, and much more for over 40 years! linktr.ee/MackinLibrary
BC Library Association @bcla.bsky.social BCLA is the professional association for library workers and libraries from all library sectors in British Columbia.
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Stephen E. Aitken @stephenaitken.bsky.social Author/Illustrator of picture books, middle grade non-fiction, fiction, on environmental subjects: ecosystem conservation, climate crisis etc.
Kellyanne @ellarebee.bsky.social I'm a very good finder, better known as a librarian.
Opinions posted here are mine and mine alone.
Kristin | Inclusive and Diverse KidLit @readwithredandmags.bsky.social •she/her
•former ECE with sociology background, current homeschool mama and KidLit obsessed book reviewer and content creator
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@mahtabnarsimhan.bsky.social @mahtabnarsimhan.bsky.social Writes books for young, curious minds.
Repped by Naomi Davis, Bookends Literary
The Ghost Queen is a JLG Selection : 11 Feb, 2025
https://www.mahtabnarsimhan.com/
Meaghan @megsscribbles.bsky.social Writer. Illustrator. Ink enthusiast. 🍁
My books for young readers include The Bear House, Movers, and Cheat Code. Lydia Cooper is a Lie coming (Summer 2026).
Books: https://meaghanmcisaac.com/
Illustration: https://draw.meaghanmcisaac.com/
Books BC @booksbc.bsky.social The Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia (Books BC) works to support the long-term health and success of BC Book Publishers and book-related communities. www.books.bc.ca
@ruthlinka.bsky.social @ruthlinka.bsky.social 
Bruce Keith @brucekeith.bsky.social Ebooks, books and cats. Oh and sailing...
Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social We are Authors Against Book Bans. We stand united against the deeply unconstitutional movement to limit the freedom to read. We unequivocally support diverse voices on our library shelves, in our schools, and in our culture.
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com
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
Éditions Fonfon @editionsfonfon.bsky.social Maison d'édition spécialisée en albums jeunesse illustrés et inspirée du développement durable
Nimbus Publishing Ltd. @nimbuspub.bsky.social 📍 Halifax, NS
Publishing award-winning Atlantic Canadian books since 1978, and okay-ish Bluesky posts since right now.
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Corrie Locke-Hardy @feeding-revolution.bsky.social Author, indie bookseller, freelance consultant. Camp Director of Queer Kidlit Camp (Memorial Day Weekend 2025) 🏳️🌈
Picture books, eh! @picturebookseh.bsky.social We write, illustrate and support Canadian, and we’re releasing our seventh year of picture books in 2026. Follow us for news about 🇨🇦 PBs, blogs by 🇨🇦 PB creators and more, eh!
Website: https://picturebookseh.weebly.com
Running the Goat Books @runningthegoat.bsky.social A Newfoundland-based micropress specializing in children's books and letterpress-printed chapbooks.
Visit our bookstore and printshop in Tors Cove.
https://linktr.ee/runningthegoat
Find Marnie at her personal account: rtgbooks.bsky.social
Mo Duffy @moduffy.bsky.social Founder and Editor of Pownal Street Press. https://pownalstreetpress.com/
arsenalpulp.bsky.social @arsenalpulp.bsky.social Leading 🇨🇦 indie publisher of LGBTQ2S+ & BIPOC stories | Literary fiction, non-fiction, graphic novels, poetry, and YA & children’s books 📚🏳️🌈
arsenalpulp.com
Frances Backhouse @franbwrites.bsky.social Author of books for kids & adults about beavers, bears, birds & more (www.backhouse.ca). Independent journalist. Associate Editor of SEJournal. Concerned citizen of Planet Earth.
Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social Long Time Internet Guy
Kim Spencer @kimspencerwrites.bsky.social Gitxaala Nation 🤎 Award-winning author • Storyteller
https://linktr.ee/kimspencerwrites
TEACH Mag @teachmag.bsky.social Delivering pragmatic articles and resources to K–12 educators everywhere.
teachmag.com
Julia Vasileva @dreamist.bsky.social Picture book maker • Drawing stories, beach walking, reading books •📍Vancouver 🇨🇦 • https://dreamist-art.com/
Patricia McCowan @patriciamccowan.bsky.social Kidlit author of HONEYCOMB and UPSTAGED, Orca Book Publishers, as well as numerous short stories. Writes and lives in Toronto. Member CANSCAIP, SCBWI, WUC
Vancouver Writers Fest @writersfest.bc.ca Connecting people to exceptional books, ideas, and dialogue.
📚 Special Events Year-Round
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📖 2026 Festival Oct 18–25
KidLit TV @kidlittv.bsky.social 📚We're an Award-Winning website celebrating children's books & reading with Videos 🎥 Podcasts 🎧 KidLit Crafts & Activities 🎨 🏅An ALSC BEST DIGITAL TOOL 🐛CARLE HONOREE
Founder: Julie Gribble @juliegribble.bsky.social #kidlit
Viking Books @vikingbooks.bsky.social Celebrating 100 years of publishing great books. Here are some posts about them.
Penguin Books @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social We publish fiction and nonfiction adorned with the famous dignified but flippant logo.
Common Deer Press @commondeerpress.bsky.social Publisher of uncommon books for children & teens. #picturebooks, #chapterbooks, #MGBooks and #YABooks
Cormorant Books @cormorantbooks.bsky.social Cormorant books is a Canadian independent book publisher of fiction and nonfiction. We’ve been publishing diverse Canadian voices since 1986.
Anvil Press @anvilpress.bsky.social Independent Vancouver book publisher. anvilpress.com
Brooke Carter @brookecarter.bsky.social 📚Award-winning author
💭Professional daydreamer
👻 Next book: GHOST GIRL 2: The Fog of Forgetting
linktr.ee/brookecarter
Gail Anderson-Dargatz @anderson-dargatz.bsky.social Canadian. Mentor. Editor. Author of The Cure for Death by Lightning, The Almost Wife, The Almost Widow and many other books. Her latest novel, The Atlas Keeper, hits the shelves Aug. 26, 2026. Visit Gail at https://linktr.ee/Gail_AndersonDargatz
Mark Leiren-Young @leirenyoung.bsky.social 🐋 📚 🏆 Author, playwright & hockey nut in Canada Host @SkaanaPod https://leirenyoung.substack.com/ https://linktr.ee/leirenyoung 🇨🇦
Joe | The Book Pusher @joethebookpusher.bsky.social 
Elise Gravel @elisegravel.bsky.social Auteure et illustratrice de livres engagés et drôles pour enfants. Woke et anti-antiwoke. Ces jours-ci, je publie davantage pour les adultes qui se soucient des droits humains. Libérez la Palestine.
Hanna Stroud they/them @myliteracyspace.bsky.social Literacy Tutor & Consultant
Children’s Book Reviewer
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@thekidlitmama.bsky.social @thekidlitmama.bsky.social 
Wai Mei Wong @wmwongcreator.bsky.social Picture book author
Forage enthusiast
Based in Toronto, Ontario
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.
Joanne Levy @joannelevy.bsky.social I write books for kids and make things with wool, wood, and a bit of magic.
Some of my books: LET IT GLOW (with Marissa Meyer), BIRD BRAIN, SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS , THE SUN WILL COME OUT, FISH OUT OF WATER, SMALL MEDIUM AT LARGE.
www.joannelevy.com
The Guardian @theguardian.com The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com
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Spencer B Miller @spencerbmiller.bsky.social Educator, reader and writer. 📍Treaty 7 | Calgary
I write a monthly newsletter called The Merit Badger 🦡 where I award made up merit badges to standout Canadian content 🍁📚🎥📺.
Subscribe: TheMeritBadger.ca
Instagram: @SpencerBMiller
BC and Yukon Book Prizes @bcyukonbookprizes.bsky.social Our mission is to recognize and promote the achievements of the book community in BC and Yukon through the BC and Yukon Book Prizes and related programs. The 10 Prizes are presented annually recognizing authors, illustrators, and publishers.
Rebecca Wood Barrett @rwoodbarrett.bsky.social (she/her) author | #MGFiction | pre-order now! ~ My Summer Camp Has Mega Sloths (May 2025 Orca) http://orcabook.com | My Best Friend is Extinct (Orca) | artistic director Whistler Writers Fest | MFA UBC | T1D
The Canadian Children's Book Centre @kidsbookcentre.bsky.social We support the reading, writing, illustrating and publishing of Canadian books for young readers. 🇨🇦🧒🏽📚 bookcentre.ca
SCBWI @scbwi.bsky.social Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators
Supporting quality children’s books & the artists who make them since 1971.
Octopus Books @octopusbooks.ca Woman owned, independent, and committed to making the world a better place.
116 Third Ave, Ottawa
Anishinaabe Territory
Canada
octopusbooks.ca
tiktok.com/@octopusbookstore
instagram.com/octopusbooks
facebook.com/octopusbookstore
American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social Empowering and advocating for libraries and library workers to ensure equitable access to information for all. 🌎’s largest library association.
Find us at https://ala.org.
We follow the ALA Code of Conduct: https://www.ala.org/user-guidelines
Barnes & Noble @barnesandnoble.com 📚Book lover & whatnot📚
BarnesandNoble.com
The Lane Anderson Award @laneandersonaward.bsky.social The Lane Anderson Award has been celebrating Canadian science writing for more than 10 years! To learn more visit our website. 🌱 📚 www.laneandersonaward.ca
Owlkids Publishing @owlkids.bsky.social Publishing award-winning books and magazines for children ages 2 to 14 since 1976 📚
shop.owlkids.com
Deborah Kerbel @deborahkerbel.com Award-Winning 🇨🇦 #kidlit author of more than 30 books
(picture books, graphic novels, middle grade, young adult, non-fiction)
https://linktr.ee/deborahkerbel
NEW in 2026:
GOTCHA DAY (Orca)
NO UNGAPATCHKA! (Owlkids)
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
Robin Stevenson @robinstevenson.bsky.social Author: Pride Puppy; Pride Colors; Queer History A-Z; A Hug on the Wind and 30+ more.
Spring 2026: The Book of Jupiter
Spring 2027: Pride Puppy Countdown!
www.robinstevenson.com
https://linktr.ee/pridepuppy
🏳️🌈🍁📚
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
Troy Wilson @troystory.bsky.social www.troystory.ca
Author of 10 trad pub picture books.
(And 10 million unpubbed ones.)
Maria Birmingham @mkbirmingham.bsky.social Mom. Kidlit writer. Leaf fan.
Recent books: Can We Talk?; Chomp-O-Rama; When Nature Calls ; Are We Having Fun Yet?; Are We There Yet?; Odd Couples: A Guide to Unlikely Pairs
mariabirmingham.com
The Canadian Society of Children's Authors, Illust & Performers. @canscaip.bsky.social The Canadian Society of Children’s Authors, Illustrators and Performers (CANSCAIP) is a national arts service organization dedicated to supporting the creation of Canadian literature and performance for young audiences. https://canscaip.org/
Michael F. Stewart @openmike.bsky.social Writes books for kids and young adults. VCFAWYCA, Canscaip, SCBWI, #kidlit, #canlit
Seeking Draven, Red Deer Press, 2024
Turn to Burn, Renaissance Press, 2025
Joan Marie Galat @jmgalat.bsky.social Author and speaker. 30+ books. Topics include #activism, #astronomy, #darkskies, #nature, #ecology #pollution. #SCBWI Crystal Kite winner #STEM #STEAM www.joangalat.com & moondotmedia.com 
Lana Button Books @lanabutton.bsky.social Books for kids dealing with life at school.
School presentations Kindergarten | Elementary |
Preschool| Toddler
Children's author with an ECE focus
Linda Ludke @lindamludke.bsky.social Librarian, book lover, vintage enthusiast and children's book reviewer for Quill & Quire and Booklist 
@jeffreycanton.bsky.social @jeffreycanton.bsky.social 
Alina Pete @alinapete.bsky.social (They/them) Award-winning Indigenous (nehiyaw) cartoonist & writer. Editor Indiginerds, CFFT: North America, Life Finds A Way, Weregeek
Pets: Nutmeg, Merry & Pippin, Pico, Jellybean
Portfolio: https://www.alina-pete.com/
https://linktr.ee/alinapete
Rina Singh @storiesbysingh.bsky.social Children’s Author Spoken Word Coach
Gregor Craigie @gregorcraigie.bsky.social Sleep-deprived early morning radio host of CBC On the Island. Author of Our Crumbling Foundation, On Borrowed Time, Walls, Radio Jet Lag & Why Humans Build Up.
Alison McGauley @alisonmcgauley.bsky.social #Author of big-hearted stories for little readers. #teacher #parent #chronicillness #IBD #arthritis
https://linktr.ee/alisonmcgauley
Katrina Chen @katrinachen.bsky.social Author—#AStrongerHome | 安信 @ComSavings President | Life & Empowerment Coach | Former MLA/Minister - forever advocate ✨
Please connect through Instagram @KatrinaCHome for more updates! ;)
Carol Matas @carolmatas.bsky.social 48 books, mostly novels for #MG or #YA. #Holocaust, #Historical #Fantasy #Paranormal #PB
#SCBWI #CANSCAIP #TWUC #PEN #KIDLIT
https://carolmatas.com
Read Local BC @readlocalbc.bsky.social Celebrating the vibrant community of authors, publishers, bookstores, and libraries in our province. Tag your posts with #ReadLocalBC and #BCBooks 📚
ReadLocalBC.ca
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