Daisy J. Hung (she/her) @daisyhunguk.bsky.social Social justice advocate, writer, embroidery artist. Debut Nonfiction - I AM NOT A TOURIST: Conversations on Being British Chinese (out March 2025). Agent: Imogen Morrell, Greene & Heaton
daisyjhung.com
Elizabeth Wong, Author WE COULD NOT SEE THE STARS @geolizwrites.bsky.social Malaysian in between London and KL. Author & geologist. Writes literary speculative fiction. Read my novel: WE COULD NOT SEE THE STARS 🌟 
Sarah Dronfield @sarahdronfield.bsky.social Historical fiction editor at https://www.sarahdronfieldproofreader.com/. Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading.
Anna Williams @editoranna.bsky.social Editor (mostly music) living in Edinburgh
Professional Member of the CIEP
Oboist, occasional choral singer, lapsed pianist
Marieke Krijnen @mariekekrijnen.bsky.social Academic copyeditor, she/her, at www.mariekekrijnen.com. PhD from Ghent University. Specializes in urban studies, urban and human geography, Middle East studies, political economy, Chicago style. Advanced Professional Member of the CIEP.
🚂 fan!
The Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP) @the-ciep.bsky.social The UK’s only chartered body for the editorial profession. Championing excellence. Supporting growth. Connecting professionals. Shaping the future. https://www.ciep.uk/directory.html
Divia @thelifeofdivia.bsky.social 📚 7 years publishing experience in book sales, marketing, publicity and rights - open to opportunities
🎖️London Book Fair Trailblazer Shortlistee 2022
All opinions are my own
Chris Lightwing @chrislightwing.com Filmmaker, cinema operator, rescue volunteer.
Michael Scott Author @flamelauthor.bsky.social Author of the New York Times' bestselling series, The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel http://dillonscott.com 
Lauren Fortune @laurenfortune.bsky.social Fiction Publisher at Scholastic. Reader, editor, plot thickener.
Catherine Coe @catherinecoe.bsky.social 📚 Children's book author, editor and consultant
🖋️ Founder of @allstorieswrite.bsky.social – for writers from underrepresented groups
🧘🏼♀️ Yoga teacher
🐝 Apprentice beekeeper
🔗 https://catherine-coe.com • https://allstories.org.uk/
Darrell Wakelam @darrellwakelam.bsky.social Freelance artist and provider of 3D ART workshops & training. Author of the best-selling book Art Shaped. Free ART ideas and projects at www.darrellwakelam.com
Lesley Parr @lesleyparr.bsky.social Author: Bloomsbury Children's, Barrington Stoke
Rep: Sam Copeland at RCW
Made of Port Talbot steel
Chopsy
lesleyparr.com
HarperCollins @harpercollins.bsky.social Publishing great authors since 1817. 📚
The Book Nook @booknookhove.bsky.social Children's Bookseller of the Year 2018, finalist 2023. Spreading the joy of reading since 2009. We believe there's a book out there for everyone.
Christopher Such @suchmo83.bsky.social Experienced primary teacher, school leader and author.
Feel free to DM if you are looking for professional development relating to reading or just free advice.
Claire Lewis @clairelewiswrites.bsky.social Hi! I write & illustrate PBs/poems/MG & work for @thebookery.bsky.social. Words/pics in The Toy, PaperBound, The Dirigible Balloon, Little Thoughts Press & Tyger Tyger. Debut PB:The Go Away Rain Dance, HB Publishing House
https://linktr.ee/claire_f_lewis
Alex Milway @alexmilway.bsky.social Children’s author and illustrator of Hotel Flamingo, Big Sky Mountain and many other books. Makes things.
Sarah Connell @sarahconnellwrites.bsky.social Writing, global affairs, full-time cat-herding
✍️ Rep’d by Steph Thwaites at Curtis Brown
🌊PaperBound & Northern Gravy 🌊 ✨Winner Mslexia YA Novel Prize
Robynn Hyde @robynnhyde.bsky.social #Kidlit author #pb #cb
Member of #12x12PB #SCBWI #MightyKidLit
#50PreciousWords Winner '26
#PBandKidJudges HM '25
Lover of horror & humour
#KidlitCraze Blog
robynnhyde.com/kidlit-craze
Emma Perry @emmaperry.bsky.social ▪️ Children's author writing stories & poems filled with giggles & warmth.
▪️Teacher
▪️Shortlisted for Sheffield Children's Book Award 2023
▪️www.emmaperryauthor.com she/her
Louisa MacDougall @louisamacdougall.bsky.social Children's author based in the Hebrides. Rory and the Snack Dragons, the Highland Cowgirl & the Great Auks Great Escape. Mostly #kidlit books and wildlife. louisamacdougall.co.uk
Yvonne Banham @eviewriter.bsky.social Author MG/Teen Horror & Paranormal Fiction #DeloresMackenzie
Hiker; Trail Runner; Cute dogs; Not-so-cute-dogs; Gothic Fiction; Cake; Strong Coffee; Often found in dungarees and Docs (yes at my age!)
Elena Arévalo Melville @earevalomelville.bsky.social Award winning Latin American author illustrator of children’s books in UK. School visits, libraries, festivals. Professional outsider, migrant, loiterer. she/her
Los Nombres Secretos
Elki is not my dog
Umbrella
https://linktr.ee/Elena_Arevalo_Melville
Vikki Fenton @mrsfe77.bsky.social Headteacher and MG book addict. Also partial to horses and dogs. Views my own. 
Lynda Graham @lyndajgraham.bsky.social UKLA Book Awards Team. Croydon NEU Committee.
Helen Tamblyn-Saville (she/her) @helentamblyn.bsky.social Wonderland Bookshop owner (Children's Bookseller of the Year 2025), former councillor, politics nerd, tenpin bowling fanatic, researching comics, community rail. Based in North Notts. Kidlit is my bag. helentamblynsaville.com.
Technology Books for Children @techbooks4kids.bsky.social Tech #books for #children changing perceptions about tech, through encouraging #readingForPleasure on tech topics #techBooks4kids #kidlit
www.technologybooksforchildren.org
Beverly Clarke MBE @msbclarke.bsky.social ⭐️ Bridging the gap between education and industry.
⭐️ Strategic Adviser, Education Consultant, Founder, Speaker, Author, Podcast Host and Trustee.
⭐️Also a Career and Life Coach
www.BeverlyClarkeConsulting.co.uk
Emma Thomas | kidlit @seaglassdraws.bsky.social Illustrator with a particular love for storytelling, character, colour and texture! Also loves gardening, nature and is a mum to one.
www.emmathomasart.co.uk
Jake Hayes @tygertale.bsky.social Writer, bookseller, audio describer | Children's books blog tygertale.com | Bath Spa #MAWYP grad | Dr Who | pop music | theatre | #TygertaleVintage books https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/tygertale
Wendy Davis @daydreamerdavis.bsky.social 🏆Hachette Children’s Novel Award Winner 2026
👻 MG writer of horror & fantasy #KidLitUK
📚 Book lover
🐶 Dog lover
☕️ Coffee drinker
🍫 Chocolate fiend
Kate Walker @katewalkerauthor.bsky.social Children's author
Loves reading 📚 writing ✍ editing and plants. Kate-walker.co.uk
Stephanie Sorrell @sophistikitty.bsky.social Sailor, writer and cat fanatic. High character and sundry merits 🦁 DANDY THE HIGHWAY LION 🦁 out now!
Glen Blackwell - History Through Today's Eyes @gblackwellbooks.bsky.social Children's author of The Blitz Bus, The Titanic Tunnel and The Disappearing Diamond. Also hosts History Through Today's Eyes podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6jUOr55S8tCzxMPkh7bubb
www.glenblackwell.com
Lu Hersey @luwrites.bsky.social I write books. Sometimes win awards. Crop circle chaser. Myth lover. Collector of folklore. Here for the magic. https://www.lu-hersey.com/ https://www.patreon.com/Writingthemagic
Diana Mayo @dianamayoillo.bsky.social Illustrator, represented by Andrea Morrison at Writers House.
Currently working on a picture book with Farrar Straus & Giroux
Tom Griffiths @checkemoutbooks.bsky.social Dad. Husband. Headteacher. NPQH. Children’s book blogger. Passionate about reading for pleasure. Children’s Book Awards 2025 judge. #Neighbours superfan
Libby Hartwell @libbyhartwell.bsky.social Children’s writer. 🏆Winner of Little Tiger IAmInPrint Picture Book Prize ‘23. 🏆Winner of SCBWI Slushpile Challenge ‘24. Runner-up Write Mentor Chapter Book Award ‘24. SL for Searchlight Awards ‘24. SL for Write Mentor PB Award ‘24 & ‘25 #MAWYP
Clara Owen @clarasellsbooks.bsky.social [she/her]
Schools Co-ordinator with Scottish Book Trust ✏️📚
Former Bookseller; always a reader 📖
I also enjoy coffee, climbing, mountains and cats! 🧗♀️🏔️🐾
Opinions always my own ✨
Graham Fairweather @fairweatherdr.bsky.social School Librarian in Scotland (He/Him)
Read for Empathy judge.
Opinions my own.
Child's Play (International) @childs-play.co.uk Award-winning independent children's book publisher, inspiring a lifelong love of reading for more than 50 years #Bookswithusallin #Learningthroughplay www.childs-play.com https://linktr.ee/childsplaybooks
Laura Howard 📚 @bylaurahoward.bsky.social Children's Writer | Write Mentor PB Award LL 25, 24, Searchlight Awards PB LL 23, Writing Magazine PB Prize LL 23, Books That Help RU 24 #KidlitUK
Caroline Coyle @cazarr.bsky.social Writer of stories for children and adults
#kidlit
Guy Parker-Rees @guyparkerrees.bsky.social Illustrator of books including Giraffes Can't Dance - author of Dylan books (now on TV as Dylan's Playtime Adventures). Mycologist🍄🟫. Would rather be an elephant.
Rob Crossley @robcrossley4.bsky.social Primary AHT, Y6, curriculum lead, loves kids books and GNs, Dad. https://latetothepartyreader.blogspot.#lovereadingscrapbooks #TextsOfToday
Proud geek.
Rich Charlesworth @rcharlesworth.bsky.social AHT & Reading lead.
Writer - Children’s Literature, Masculinity, Fatherhood. @GoldUnivMACL
@the_UKLA regional rep.
#OURfP #UKLAchat #LetsTalkGraphicNovels
He/Him
Holly Dyson @eduwordsmith.bsky.social Navigating motherhood after infertility. Teacher and leader. 📖
Steve Skidmore @justonesteve.bsky.social Children’s author. Available to write and talk! www.steveskidmore.net
Salomey Draws @salomeydraws.bsky.social Author-illustrator, fairytale lover 📚🩷 Creator of the "Brielle and Bear" teen graphic novels & "The Prince and the Angel" fairytale 👑✨ Brielle & Bear 2~Pre-Orders open! ✨
https://linktr.ee/sa.dokuart
Myles McLeod @mylesmcleod.bsky.social BAFTA winner. Author, Screenwriter, Voice Actor, Poet.
https://linktr.ee/mylesmcleod
Author of the Knight Sir Louis series of books (illustrated by my brother Greg) and published by Guppy Books
http://knightsirlouis.com
Sue Wallman @suewallman.bsky.social Author of 8 Young Adult thrillers including LYING ABOUT LAST SUMMER, I KNOW YOU DID IT and WATCH YOUR BACK. Does school visits. Often found drinking wine, eating crisps & reading. Agent: Becky Bagnell #theArchers
Hilary Hawkes - author @hilarymhawkes.bsky.social Children's author. Writing picture books and Middle Grade. Repd for foreign rights by Wellread and Boekenreis. Also lover of nature, gardens, mugs of tea and peaceful places. GEA, Scattered Authors, CWIG
Terrie Chilvers @cowfishdreams.bsky.social Children's Author ⭐ MICHAEL THE AMAZING MIND-READING SAUSAGE DOG, illustrated by @mrtimdraws ⭐ KOALAS IN CAPES! illustrated by David O'Connell ⭐SNAILS OF THE UNEPECTED illusted by Brenda Figueroa
Website: terriechilvers.com
Kristabelle Williams @libthroughthis.bsky.social School Librarian in South East London, UK. Literacy Co-ordinator + studying for NPQLL. MA LIS. SLA School Librarian of the Year 2020/2021. Trade Unionist @NEULibrarians #JoinAUnion #GreatSchoolLibraries
Vivian French @vivianji.bsky.social Writer of children's books, co-founder of Picture Hooks. (www.picturehooks.org.uk)
Currently hosting small neurotic dog...
K Garnett @kategarnett.bsky.social School Librarian (Primary and Secondary) formerly Guernsey 🇬🇬 now East London
Sue Purkiss @suepur.bsky.social I write books for children, and other things too. Like gardening, museums and art galleries, nature, and looking at things and listening to people…
Sophie Gilmore @sophieillustrates.bsky.social Author and illustrator / cicada-catcher /five leaf clover-finder
Nazima Pathan @nazimapathan.bsky.social Author, doctor, researcher and parent. Here for the #kidlitcommunity. My MG novel Dream Hunters came out Aug 2024 Simon and Schuster. #ukkidlit #booksky
Morag Hood @moraghood.bsky.social 📚Children’s book author/illustrator
🏴 Edinburgh
www.moraghood.co.uk
Rebecca Cobb @rebeccacobb.bsky.social Children’s book illustrator and author.
Cressida Cowell @cressidacowell.bsky.social Author and illustrator of How to Train Your Dragon, Wizards of Once and Which Way to Anywhere
Dhonielle Clayton @dhonielle.bsky.social NY Times bestselling author and cookie enthusiast. Coach at The Novelry.
Sharna Jackson @sharnajackson.com Writer of books and games mostly about art, mystery and murder for you and the kids in your life. Lives on a ship in Rotterdam. Used to work in museums and galleries for ages. Miss it. Addicted to Reddit and Beat Saber.
https://www.sharnajackson.com
Maria Motunrayo Ayinke Adebisi @mariamotunrayo.bsky.social 📚Author of the Kòkú Akànbí series based on Nigerian mythology, rep’d by H.G Literary
🎓PhD student in African Art at the University of Birmingham
💃🏾part-time Nollywood Vixen
Davina Tijani @davinatijani.bsky.social Passionate about storytelling | The Nkara Chronicles Series out now with Little Tiger 🐉🧚🏿♀️ 🐘 🐍 Rep'd by Davinia-Andrew Lynch l Author l Freelance Game Writer l https://linktr.ee/davinatijani
Chris Callaghan @chris-callaghan.com Children's Author
'When the War Comes In' - Out Now 🛠
Writes about chaos & chocolate 💥🍫
A Geordie living in London 🖤🤍
Ex RAF Engineer & Enviro Scientist 🌍
Loves wine gums
https://www.chris-callaghan.com/
Emma Read she/her @emmaread.bsky.social Children’s author-The Housetrap & the Milton Series (Chicken House) | editor at EmDashED | WriteMentor | socially awkward weirdo science nerd
Andy Shepherd @andyshepherdwriter.bsky.social Author of the best-selling ‘The Boy Who Grew Dragons’ series out now. Short-listed for Waterstones Children's Book Prize She/her Rep by @jslwilliamson
Marie Basting Author @mariebasting.bsky.social 🚴BMX and Ancient Rome📜
Children's author #PrincessBMX #MyFamilyandOtherRomans #AuntieMedusaAndMe @chickenhsebooks
Fab school visits
Rep The Shaw Agency
she/her
www.mariebasting.com
P J Canning @pjcanningauthor.bsky.social Children's author. 21% Monster series published by @Usborne. Agent: @kickbackbooks. He/him
Jasbinder Bilan @jasbinderbilan.bsky.social Costa Award winning children’s author ASHA, TAMARIND, AARTI, XANTHE, NUSH and more! agent Kate Shaw I write magical adventures with animals and nature in them mostly @chickenhouse @barringtonstoke @walker
www.jasbinderbilan.co.uk
Lindsay Galvin @lindsaygalvin.bsky.social Author 🐙🐉🚢 MG historical adventures: @chickenhsebooks chapter books: @bigcatreading
and more!
Rep: @litagentclare
She/her
Serena Patel @serenakpatel.bsky.social Children’s author
Claire Linney Author @clairelinney.bsky.social 🇬🇧📚Black British history enthusiast, children’s author and avid reader of diverse and inclusive children’s and YA books.
Loretta Schauer @lorettaschauer.bsky.social Children's author and illustrator repd by Claire Cartey at HolroydeCartey.com
'Yetis Don't Exist!' out now. ❄️ Latest fiction: 'The Legend of Ghastly Jack Crowheart' 👻
www.lorettaschauer.com
I live in the beautiful city of York, UK.
Justyn Edwards @justynedwards.bsky.social Author of the GREAT FOX series. Capable of typing and making things up simultaneously.
Agent: morgangreencreatives.com
Me: justynedwards.com
JP ROSE AKA JACQUI ROSE @jprosewriter.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling crime author. Award winning children's writer. Teamed up to write books with my buddy, Martina Cole. Owned by horses, cats and dogs. Find me in the land of unicorns.
Jenny McLachlan @jennymclachlan.bsky.social I write funny books for children and teens and sometimes I illustrate them too.
⭐️The Land of Roar
⭐️Fairy Vs Boy
⭐️Friends Like Us
David Barker @dbarker22000.bsky.social Author of cli-fi thrillers, children's adventure books and pantomime scripts. Published by Bloodhound Books, Tiny Tree & Lazy Bee respectively. Tennis, golf, am-dram and surfing when not writing.
https://davidbarkerauthor.co.uk
Lauren St John @laurenstjohn.bsky.social Children's author & conservationist. @BornFreeFDN ambassador & @manechance patron. She/her. THE LION CUB’S SECRET out on 9 October 2025
Mark Griffiths @markauthor.bsky.social Writes books, plays, comics, comedy, Doctor Who, plus children’s fiction for Bloomsbury as Mark Powers. Doctor Who novel “The Self-Made Man” out now. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/455621/doctor-who-the-self-made-man-by-who-mark-griffiths-doctor/9781405
SF Layzell @sflayzell.bsky.social I write queer stories & edit books sometimes https://sflayzell.com/
Buy Cottonopolis, a MG set in 1840s Manchester, shortlisted for Little Rebels https://sflayzell.com/cottonopolis/
Views mine, contact via website
Matthew Fox @mattfoxwriter.bsky.social THE LOVELY DARK is nominated for the Kirkus Prize 2026 🇺🇸 | Kirkus ★ | Financial Times Best Children's Books '23 | Barnes & Noble Children's Book Award Shortlist '24 | No AI |🌱
linktr.ee/mattfoxwriter
Laila Rifaat @lailarifaat.bsky.social Children's author. ALIYA TO THE INFINITE CITY & ALIYA ABOARD THE TIME TRAIN out now! Repd by Lucy Irvine at PFD. Find me on insta: @lailarifaat_author
Website: lailarifaat.com
Buy my books: https://shorturl.at/bKjQi
Eve Ainsworth @eveainsworth.bsky.social Award winning working class author. Writes children’s books and adult romance/suspense.
Safeguarding Lead. Part time Lady Stardust.
Somebody I Used To Love - 2024
Pieces of Us - 2025
Loves football, fudge and fascinating fascinations.
Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social Novelist (My Name is MacKenzie Bly, Old Baggage, Small Bomb at Dimperley, Wed Wabbit etc), ex TV producer (Room 101, Father Ted), voracious reader, owner of an adored and ancient dog.
Darren Chetty @darrenchetty.bsky.social Welsh Indian South African Dutch Londoner. PhD in Philosophy of Education. Specialising in Philosophy for Children, Children’s Literature, & Antiracist Education
Rep: Rachel Mann, CAA https://www.darrenchetty.com/ https://linktr.ee/DarrenChetty
Dan Santat @dansantat.bsky.social NY Times bestselling children's book author of Beekle ('15 Caldecott) A First Time for Everything ('23 National Book Award) Creator Disney's The Replacements
Sarah Harrison @sarahharrison.bsky.social Children's author from Lancashire.
School of Doom out now! @chickenhousebooks.bsky.social
Terry Pratchett fan. Owned by cats and dogs.
Agent: Louise Lamont at LBA Books.
https://linktr.ee/sarahharrisonauthor
Jonathan Emmett @jonathanemmett.com 📚 Children’s author and paper engineer.
🕸️ Website & Blog: jonathanemmett.com
🌱 Green. Humanist. Tabletop gamer.
🇬🇧 Living in Nottingham, UK.
🌍 Dismayed by our generation’s indifference to climate breakdown.
Farah Shah @fawa.bsky.social ✏️ Illustrator & author & maker
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⭐️ Rep’d by Emily Talbot @unitedagents
www.fawashah.co.uk/links
Mel Taylor-Bessent @meltaylorbessent.bsky.social ✨ Children’s Author: The Christmas Carrolls, Race To Imagination Island, Riley Wright
🖥️ Authorfy Director / Host of ‘Write for Fun’ on YouTube
💌 info@meltaylorbessent.com
Mostly Book Talk @mostlybooktalk.bsky.social A podcast about children’s and YA books for teachers and librarians. Interviews with authors and also anyone doing interesting reading for pleasure activities, plus lots of book talk. #kidlitUK
www.mostlybooktalk.com
Edward Ross @edwardross.bsky.social Comic artist. Creator of Filmish: A Graphic Journey Through Film and Gamish: A Graphic History of Gaming. New book Graphic Novel Builder - The Illustrated Guide To Making Your Own Comics OUT NOW!
He/Him