Merry Eliza 💜⁷ ⟭⟬ ⟬⟭ @googieheim.bsky.social APOBANGPO. ARIRANG. BTS IS BACK.
Beasts. Books. Bangtan. Urban Diné. 50ish. Softy. Queer, deadly auntie. Very Pisces. INFP-T. Lifelong Angelino living in NC. I voted Harris/Walz.
Vibha Surya | Kidlit Illustrator @vibhasurya.bsky.social Illustrator + Designer
Seeking art representation
🧚🏻♂️Clients:PRH•Scholastic•Harpercollins•Hachette
Ram Gulrajani Author 📚 @rockape65.bsky.social From suspense to soul-stirring stories I writes them all Love the arts, writing, painting, strumming my guitar & generally being creative. From Gibraltar originally Website: https://t.co/8gSEmJ7TCu Team Site @iquitcigs.bsky.social
Barbara Stocker 💙📚 @bluebirdbhs.bsky.social Activist Democrat Missourian living in Virginia @piperformissouri.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social @fpwellman.bsky.social @wellmanformo.bsky.social @iquitcigs.bsky.social @reichard4rep.bsky.social @stegenmodem.bsky.social Team Site
Brooklyn Book Festival @bkbookfest.bsky.social Largest Free Literary Festival in New York.
https://linktr.ee/bkbookfest
2026 Dates
Virtual Festival Day: September 20
Children's Day: September 26
Festival Day: September 27
City-wide Bookends: September 20-28
Ami Schroder @amischroder.bsky.social Reader and reviewer of books 📚, crafter of things, school librarian, Co-founder of VA READS http://www.vareads.com , 2026 Newbery Committee
#skybrarian #schoollibrarian #EduSky
Anne Armstrong @childbookart.bsky.social wonder hunter | art agent #kidlitart | tree + neighborhood advocate
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makiturnsthepage @makiturnsthepage.bsky.social 📚 a multi-genre bookstagrammer lost on bluesky ✨
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CR: my dear you 🎧 whistler
booksta: https://www.instagram.com/makiturnsthepage/
@destinylovesbooks.bsky.social @destinylovesbooks.bsky.social 
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Toddling The Stacks @toddlingthestacks.com You should be reading #kidlit, and we'll help you see why.
A children's literature podcast by award-winning educator and Princeton-educated literature PhD @seangill.net
New episodes drop on Mondays!
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Jess Piper Fan Page 💙 📚 @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social The Dem Voice of Missouri with her 262 Substack https://jesspiper.substack.com/ / @piperformissouri.bsky.social / @reichard4rep.bsky.social @wellmanformo.bsky.social @stegenmodem.bsky.social @iquitcigs.bsky.social @morgfair.bsky.social DMs ok 📚
Andrea Brown Literary Agency @andreabrownlit.bsky.social We are a full service literary agency repping the best books in the world since 1981. (Not that we're biased.) We LOVE books and their creators! www.andreabrownlit.com
@borakara.bsky.social @borakara.bsky.social 
Jane Bexley @janebexley.bsky.social Bestselling Author / Illustrator featured on @NPR.org and Last Week Tonight w/John Oliver
Momx4 with a soft spot for delightful wordplay #PBparty 2025 finalist #kidlit #12x12PB #SCBWI
janebexley.com
GW @gwoltjer.bsky.social Read books. Touch grass. Enjoy sunshine.
Husband. Father. Professor. PRPL Director. Baseball fan. Jesuit.
Tanya Konerman, Kidlit Author 📚 @tanyakonerman.bsky.social PB/MG; Nature/Verse/Prose
Agent: Mona Kanin
'28 OTIS: THE KING OF KATMAI 🐻🌊👑
‘25 MUD TO THE RESCUE! 🐘🦩🦫 🐢
‘24 HAUNTED STATES OF AMERICA 👻
SCBWI; WFH | hiker 🥾 | veggie 🌽|
bird&bear lover 🐤🐻 | nature 📷 | 💙
www.tanyakonerman.com
Jackie Thomson @jackie-thomson.bsky.social I'm a picture book illustrator, gardener, and mini book maker. If I'm not in the studio, I'm reading in the garden. http://www.jackie-thomson.com
MituMalhotra.bsky.social @mitumalhotra.bsky.social Doodles, Designs, Writes for Children & Young Adults @vcfawcya @cbigNYC
Picture bks, Illus. MG, YA verse & prose. mitumalhotra.com https://www.instagram.com/mituart/ Repped by Rachel Letofsky at Transatlantic Agency
@jiaconoauthor.bsky.social @jiaconoauthor.bsky.social Canadian author/illustrator of "The Monsters No Grownup Sees"
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/jiaconoauthor
Tricia FUCKING BRILLIANT Lawrence @trishtoneylawrence.bsky.social She/her. Senior agent @ Aevitas Creative Management. Founded real/brilliant, inc. Writer/surface pattern designer. Reign/Sounders/Seahawks fan. I'm always reading. 
Authors League Fund @authorsleaguefund.bsky.social Emergency fund for professional writers. Find our application form, FAQs, and more at www.authorsleaguefund.org.
Gabe Soria @bitchinville.bsky.social Writer of comics, books, RPGs, etc.: Sword & Backpack (Penguin), MegaGhost (Dark Horse), Jimmy Olsen’s SuperCyclopedia (DC Comics), Life Sucks (Fantagraphics), and blah blah blah. NO KINGS/NO AI.
Lauren Whitney (she/her) is querying! @laurenem6.bsky.social Mom of two, #kidlit writer, elementary school librarian, movie-lover, crazy LEGO lady
she/her
RIVERS.JOHNSON @rivers30.bsky.social Illustrator looking for an agent. Open for commissions.
Rivers.illustrations@gmail.com
Jennifer Wray @10bagspacking.bsky.social Regular ol’ middle-aged Midwestern mom: Vegetarian. Heart attack survivor. I was dead-ish for about five minutes. Tongue-tied. No middle name. Ate fire once. She/her.
That about covers it. 
Maria is Writing @mariakidlit.bsky.social #Kidlit PB/MG writer and enthusiast
Parent
Bunny person
#Scbwi
Nature
Foodie
Celina Sun @celinasun.bsky.social Associate Editor @ Penguin Workshop🐧📚
she/her▪️中文还可以▪️believer in magic▪️drinker of tea▪️all these feelings are mine~
#WeNeedDiverseBooks
Allison Hackworth @allisonhackworth.bsky.social Neurodiverse mom, wife, and nurse who absolutely loves creating colorful, spooky picture books with her husband! 📚📖✏️🎨🖌️👻💀🧟🧛🏼🦇🎃♥️🧡💛💚💙💜
bookreviewsbydad.bsky.social @bookreviewsbydad.bsky.social These are book reviews by Dad, not book reviews by Son.
Bluesky by Mom (for now) once we have 200 followers Dad will be taking over! (He’s new at this social media stuff, so getting him started)
Deborah Freedman @deborahfreedman.net author & illustrator of children's picture books,
+ gardener, woods walker, cloud & bird watcher
www.deborahfreedman.net
@neschen.bsky.social @neschen.bsky.social PhD in theater, Lecturer in English and Queer Studies. Pop culture, fan studies, comics, Shakespeare and Elizabethan theater, Long 18th century drama, mid-century media, film noir, drag queens
Jessie Bond @libraryfairyjess.bsky.social Youth services librarian. she/her 📚
“I have always imagined paradise will be a kind of library.” -Jorge Louis Borges
Kellyanne @ellarebee.bsky.social I'm a very good finder, better known as a librarian.
Opinions posted here are mine and mine alone.
Megan Hirsch is writing @meganhirsch.bsky.social Upper Middle Grade 🥸
I write with the foundational belief that middle grade readers are as smart as, or smarter than, I am.
Website: meganhirsch.com
Nev @alphukit.bsky.social Outdoors and all things nature type of guy.
I love camping, hiking, foraging and travelling anywhere, anytime.
Maia K. Nolan(-Partnow) @maiaknp.bsky.social YA author and occasional rabblerouser. ⭐️ Alaska-grown Midwest transplant. ⭐️ Drummer in a Judy Blume tribute band. ⭐️ Please do not talk to me about basketball. ⭐️ https://maiaknolan.com
Rep: Paula Weiman, ASH Literary
Eagle Harbor Book Co. @eagleharborbooks.bsky.social Established in 1970, Eagle Harbor Book Co. is a full service, locally-owned and proudly independent bookstore located on Bainbridge Island, WA. With an extensive selection of books and gifts, we're the perfect "destination bookshop"
Nadia Fisher @ariadelsole.bsky.social Author-illustrator•Illustrator•DC•No AI
Preorder AT THE COOKOUT ‘26 (✍🏽🎨)
Latest: I AM THE SPIRIT OF JUSTICE (🎨) ‘25 • LPBD: SIMONE BILES ‘24 (🎨)
Rep’d by @Jemiscoe.bsky.social @starlingliterary.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/Ariadelsole
Bruce Edwards @nomadplanet.bsky.social Have day job, would prefer to write and draw. Have written for TV and Heavy Metal. Really bad with directions.
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
Junior Library Guild @jrlibraryguild.bsky.social A collection development service providing libraries with the best new-release books for children and young adults.
@umayilerk.bsky.social @umayilerk.bsky.social 
Nol Franklin @nolfranklin.bsky.social Writer-illustrator making playful picture books that blend nature and everyday humour with a mischievous twist. Based in Ontario, Canada, with my family—plus two well-behaved cats.
https://www.nolfranklin.ca/
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!
Yan Jiang @garlicbunnyy.bsky.social Kidlit illustrator
Looking for an agent
RISD26’ 🇨🇦🇨🇳
www.jiangyan.myportfolio.com
@mplswaytogrow.bsky.social @mplswaytogrow.bsky.social 
Sheri Bentley @sheribbooks.bsky.social Writer. Literacy Coach. Lover of people and words. #SCBWI #KidsChoice-Winner #KidLitVibes-Winner #50PreciousWords-HM #KidlitChuckleChallenge-HM Pub'd in @DirigibleBalloon
Becky Walker @beckywalkerbooks.bsky.social ✍️#Kidlit author (rep’d by Stephen Fraser)
📚Debut 2027, Charlesbridge
FRASER & HENRY GROW A FRIEND, May 25,2027
💻business owner
🧳explorer of the world
👋🏼Love making friends!
https://linktr.ee/beckysuzannewalker?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
Carrie Finison @carriefinison.bsky.social Writer, reader, rhymer, dreamer. Author of Don't Hug Doug, Dozens of Doughnuts & other picture books that don’t start with the letter D.
Find me online: carriefinison.com
Jessie Romigh @jessieromigh.bsky.social Children's book writer & illustrator seeking representation. Finding whimsy & humor with a dash of puns. Illustrations are hand-drawn, inked, & painted with watercolor. SCBWI-Austin Chapter. She/Her
www.jessieromigh.com
#kidlit #picturebook #kidlitart
Kirsten Miles, Author 🌹 @kirstenmiles.bsky.social Author 🖊 Vegan 🥬 Libra ♎️
EDM forever 🪩 Write Your Heart Out ❤️
Visit me at kirstenmilesauthor.com 💕
🏳️🌈🇸🇪💋✈️⛵️🌊
I do not read DMs here.
Alex Segura @alexsegura.com New York Times and USA Today-bestselling/award-winning author of many comics and novels.
https://linktr.ee/alex_segura
Greg Howard @greghowardbooks.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Author-THE TRAVELERS (8/25/26), THE VISITORS, MIDDLE SCHOOL'S A DRAG: YOU BETTER WERK!, THE WHISPERS, & SOCIAL INTERCOURSE.
Nicole Ball @nballreads.bsky.social Michigan school library media specialist, preK-12 📚
She/her
MASL │ ALA │ AASL
Views are my own 
Lakengren Little Free Library @lakengrenlfl.bsky.social Read. Return. Repeat.
A Little Free Library in the beautiful neighborhood of Lakengren, Eaton, Ohio. Charter #134050.
Book descriptions, whenever available, are included in the image ALT text.
Gardners @gardnersbooks.bsky.social Britain and Europe's leading and largest independent wholesaler - has been involved as an integral link in the book supply chain for over 40 years.
🔗 gardners.com – 📍 Eastbourne, UK
Steve James @stejdesigns.bsky.social Leeds based freelance illustrator
https://stejdesigns.wixsite.com/mysite
https://www.advocate-art.com/steve-james
GNOSIS 🦋 @gnosis40.bsky.social #Pro-Choice; #LGBTQIA 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️; Pro-Civil Rights; Bodily Autonomy For All; Pro-Voting Rights 🗳️; #Khive; #Feminist; #Leguminati 🫘; #MeidasMighty Ⓜ️Ⓜ️✊; #NAFO 🫡; #Bibliophile 📚; Unapologetically Democratic; #NoDemUnder5K 🌊; #NoOligarchy 🚫;
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Llewelyn Pritchard @llewelynpritchard.bsky.social https://trumpsauthoritarianassault.blogspot.com/2025/07/betrayed-by-power-how-corrupt-elites.html ‘BETRAYED BY POWER’ Bsky Starter Info. Packs; previous account HACKED BY TRUMP'S RUS MATES @llewelynpritch.bsky.social 30K
Avery Grant (she/her) @avesillustrations.bsky.social 🌷Avery Grant
🌸Children’s Book Illustrator 🌿28 🌃 NYC
🎨Seeking Representation
🌟Say Hello! ⬇️
www.avesillustrations.com/portfolio/childrensbookillustration
@clueless9.bsky.social @clueless9.bsky.social 
Pam Adams @pamadamswrites.bsky.social 
Charles Dabritz @cdabvt.bsky.social Middle School Librarian, Teacher, Dad & Geography nerd ( ‘13 NGS Grosvenor Teacher Fellow)
Jen Bricking @artofjen.bsky.social Illustrator, skateboarder, nature enthusiast. I make pictures for books, games and things. Repped by Shannon Associates.
www.jenbricking.com
@royalsmurf2023.bsky.social @royalsmurf2023.bsky.social She/Her Bi Pansexual, Autistic, Up and coming Animator, Artist, Lover of Smurfs and Nicktoons @papercutzgn.bsky.social 's s#l fan! Come join the chaos with me!
Gill Evans. Counselling Psychologist AFBPsS. @gillevansx.bsky.social Psychologist living in Philadelphia from the UK.
Gill Evans author of The Anxious Therapist, YouTuber and Wordler. Honourable Mention for my book by Hay House.
Go to my website Anxioustherapist.com for £1 or $1 kindle book. Download kindle app free.
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers @ebyrbooks.bsky.social Creating conversation & opening children's minds to a larger world since 1995 🌎📖💡
📘 Picture books
📕 Fiction, nonfiction, & YA
📗 Award winners
linktr.ee/eerdmansyoungreaders
Amber Ren @amberren.bsky.social ✦NYT best-selling illustrator rep by Jen Rofé.
✦Children’s Book Illustrator|Animation Artist|Cat Butler
https://www.amber-ren.com/
Sam Sinclair @samqsinclair.bsky.social Mama to my little besties👫
Wife to my big bestie👩❤️👨
Bluesky newbie 🦋
Interior designer by day🛋
#KidLit author by dreams✨
#SCBWI member📚
@b-g-s.bsky.social @b-g-s.bsky.social 
Publisher Spotlight @pubspotlight.bsky.social Sharing news about kids books from international publishers and domestic library and teacher conferences https://www.publisherspotlight.com
BookishPerseus @bookish-perseus.bsky.social 22yrs
Book Count: 2060
TBR: 6965
2026 Reading Challenge: 202/200
Marie Hermansson @mariehermansson.bsky.social Illustrator of Picture Books. American living on the West coast of Sweden. I'd enjoy hearing about your book project! ✨
Portfolio site: www.MarieHermanssonIllustration.com
Kei @captainkey.bsky.social 
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
Reading in the Middle @readinginthemiddle.bsky.social Annisha Jeffries, a librarian and advocate for children's literature, hosts Reading in the Middle, where each episode delves into the fascinating realm of middle-grade books.
Stephen Watkins @fogforestwaves.bsky.social Husband. Dad. Unrepentant geek. Aspiring renaissance man. Bookish gentleman-adventurer. Sometimes antisocial, always antifascist. Sco Ducks!
Laura K Zimmermann @laurak-pbwriter.bsky.social Children’s Author | Professor | Rep’d by @KaitlynLeann17.bsky.social at @Bradfordagents.bsky.social | MUSHROOM RAIN | UNDER THE FOREST FLOOR coming Spring 2028 | #SCBWI | she/her
Rebecca Weber 🙂🐈⬛📰 @rweberwrites.bsky.social #SCBWI Author - THE PAINTER'S BUTTERFLY and LOOPHOLE (Artemesia Publishing)/Beta reader/@litkidsmagazine.bsky.social founder/House flipper/Bostie & girl mom/#MGpies #YANation
"You are the one you've been waiting for all of your life!"
Evil Hag Info @evilhaginfo.bsky.social Fan-source of information about the Latina actress, comedian, producer and writer Aubrey Plaza. Not affiliated with Aubrey or her team.
Evil Hag Productions @evilhagproductions.bsky.social Stream "KEVIN" now on Prime Video!
www.FurreverFriendsAstoria.net
https://linktr.ee/EvilHagProductions
Cat Alyst 🏳️⚧️🇨🇦 (they/them) @catalystmeow.bsky.social 🟨⬜️🟪⬛️nonbinary trans person,
they/them (Ex: “They are a friend”), Millennial, atheist, autistic, trauma survivor, volunteer, 🇨🇦ally to 💙Democrats
🇺🇸resources:
momsrising.org
swingleft.org
blackvotersmatterfund.org
fieldteam6.org
iwillvote.com
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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/
Cathy Ballou Mealey @catballoumealey.bsky.social Picture book author
Scone lover
Hannah Gramson @hgramson.bsky.social I'm a freelance writer & editor of children's, MG, and YA books. https://reedsy.com/hannah-gramson
Stephen Macquignon @smacquignon.bsky.social First Runner-up Tomie dePaola Award. Member of The Illustration Dept and SCBWI.
Represented by Curated Edge Art Agency
https://www.curatededgeartagency.com/
https://macquignon.wixsite.com/stephenmacquignon-
Jessie A @jessieatkin.bsky.social Author, storyteller, writer, reading aficionado, Star Wars enthusiast, Mets devotee, student, sister, twin 🖤🤍💜
OODLES OF NOODLES (📖 out now)
http://www.jessieatkin.com/
Jeanne Walker Harvey @jeannewharvey.bsky.social #kidlit author! I value the power of words, art, dancing & chocolate.
I love writing picture book bios about inspiring creative people!
Recent books: THE GLASS PYRAMID, ELSE B. IN THE SEA, ABLAZE WITH COLOR & DRESSING UP THE STARS. jeanneharvey.com
Faith Lane @faithatswl.bsky.social Agency Assistant @ SteelWorks Literary
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
Sarah Wergin @swergin17.bsky.social 𝚆𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚏𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚍𝚘𝚖, 𝚏𝚕𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚜, 𝚋𝚘𝚘𝚔𝚜, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚘𝚘𝚗, 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚋𝚎 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚕𝚢 𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚢? 𝙾𝚜𝚌𝚊𝚛 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚍𝚎 ♥
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@autumnbh7.bsky.social @autumnbh7.bsky.social 
Elara Rosequartz @elararosequartz.bsky.social 🧚♀️ I write chapter books for young dreamers like me who love fairies and friendship.
💖 No villains - just sparkle, heart, and adventure.
📚💙 Ages 6–9
www.fairyacademybooks.com
Digital creator, parent managed account.
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
Sower Books @sowerbooksne.bsky.social An inclusive indie bookstore with foster cats in Lincoln, Nebr., USA -- all ages, all interests, ALL 💜 SowerBooksNE.com
Adriana Gutierrez @felizreading.bsky.social Writer~Teacher~ Mama~❤️📚#50PreciousWords Win ‘23 #SpringFlingKidLit Win ‘23 #SunWriteFun Win ‘23 and ‘24 #FallWritingFrenzy Win ‘23 #12x12PB
@tropicalrainforest.bsky.social @tropicalrainforest.bsky.social