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Toby Tottle @tobytottle.bsky.social Children's author in the UK. Writing stories for little readers and big feelings. Debut in progress.
MOTUNRAYO PUBLICITY HUB @publicitybymotun.bsky.social Aspiring Author
Helping authors & artists focus on their craft! VA services & music promotion: editing, playlists, social buzz & more. motunrayopublicityhub.com
Dave Blackwell @daveblackwell.bsky.social Medical Engineer and Indie Author from Kent, UK. I am profoundly deaf and write comedy based on my experiences.
The Hospital is now available - check it out.
Lindsay H. Metcalf @lindsayhmetcalf.bsky.social Author of nonfiction and poetry for kids and teens. Former journalist. OUTDOOR FARM, INDOOR FARM out now; TOMATOES ON TRIAL coming summer 2025. lindsayhmetcalf.com
Shelly Pollock @shellyleap.bsky.social Co-author of LION LIGHTS with Richard Turere — the true story of a 12-year-old Maasai inventor who made peace with lions. 🦁 Winner, Children’s Africana Book Award. Former teacher. 14 years writing from an RV.
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!"
Sameer Kankali Ⓥ☮✌🏼🌱💚🍉🐸🐮🐷📚📖♟️✊🏼 @sameerkankali.bsky.social MUNDUS SINE CAESARIBUS 💙🦋
#Activist #HumanRights #AnimalRights #UBI #ClimateChange #Books #Tech #Poker #Chess
He/Him/His
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Andrea Koehle Jones 🌿 Author @andreakoehlejones.com 📚 Author of The Wish Trees & Don't Let Ned Plant a Tree There!
💚 Children's books that grow empathy, hope & care for the planet.
https://linktr.ee/andreakoehlejones #CanKidLit #BookSky
Sarah Elizabeth Mead @sarahmead.bsky.social Book lover. List maker. Theater nerd. Writer. #Kidlit author
Rep'd by Katie Monson.
#SCBWI #RACWI #12x12
www.readwithmead.com
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
Caroline Kind @carolinekind.bsky.social MG author, educator, researcher, reader, learner | She/Her | Halifax, NS |
Carolyn Le @carolynle.bsky.social Kidlit illustrator/author, teacher, and chocolate lover. Portfolio: https://carolynle.com
Oksanna Crawley @oksanna.bsky.social Mom, teacher, inclusion, LOTR, oceans, cake, Super Hammy
#CANSCAIP; #SCBWI; #TWUC #kidlit
Katie Crumble Series: Katie Crumble & the Case of the Terrible Naughty https://linktr.ee/KatieCrumble2Preorder
www,oksannacrawleyauthor.com
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KÜÇÜK PEMBE KANAT @kucukpembekanat.bsky.social https://youtube.com/@suenosereno.youtube?si=200P4unYRSYiIKlA
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Jessica Braidan @jessicabraidan.bsky.social 📚 Color & Discover series — fact-and-coloring books for curious kids 4 and up. Surprising facts + bold pictures to color + try-it activities. Read, create, discover, screen-free. 🦕🚀🐴 jessicabraidan.com
https://www.facebook.com/jessica.braidan/
• MarieBee Banville • @mariebee10.bsky.social Artist • Illustrator • Writer
Member of SCBWI and CANSCAIP
She/her - LGBTQ+ 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ ally
Canadian 🇨🇦
Nature lover 🍁
Cancer thriver 💪
WriteStats @writestats.bsky.social Data-Driven Insights for Writers and Publishers.
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Summit County Libraries @summitlibraries.bsky.social #1 Most Followed Library in the USA!
https://summitcountylibraries.org/
Located in beautiful Summit County, Colorado.
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/
Searchlight Awards @writingawards.bsky.social A competition for un-agented YA and children’s authors, dedicated to discovering exceptional new voices and connecting them with literary agents.
https://www.searchlightawards.co.uk/competitions/
G.G. Sherrill @ggsherrillreads.bsky.social Writer, Aspiring Middle-Grade Novelist, Traveler, Fan of Nature, Folklore, Underdogs, Paranormal/Spooky, Humor, Encouraging Boys to Read, Making a Difference.
www.ggsherrill.com
Fleur Bradley Visscher @fleurbradley.bsky.social Probably off on a Colorado hike somewhere. Author of Get a Clue & MG mysteries Midnight at the Barclay Hotel & Daybreak on Raven Island (Viking), Double Vision trilogy (Harper). MWA, SinC, SCBWI member.
Amanda Hoving @amandahoving.bsky.social Writer of things. Teacher of humans. ENTHUSIASTIC reader working in a library!!! 📚❤️(Aspiring hermit.) Words in McSweeney's, Slackjaw, Highlights ... https://amandahoving.com/
AnneWritesKidlit @anneruggirello.bsky.social Picture book writer 📚 Bluesky newbie
Watercolor dabbler 🎨 Lover of apple crisp
#KidLit #picturebooks #SCBWI #amwriting
The Storytellers Foundation | The Storyteller's Shelf Podcast @tstorypodcast.bsky.social https://thestorytellersshelfpodcast.com | Kidlit & publishing conversations. Top 100 & Spotify Award-Winning Podcast. Home of the Big Bang Notable Book List & Storytellers Summit Series. Writing a book? Our writing tools: https://getstoryrise.com- A AlayneKayChristian.bsky.social @alaynekaychristian.bsky.social Alayne Kay Christian--Author TURKEY ON THE RUN!
SCBWI, 12X12. Former acquisitions editor, an award-winning children’s book author, and a picture book writing mentor/teacher.
Lisa Lowe Stauffer @llstauffer.bsky.social Author of TWO BY TWO, kid lit writer, world traveler, SCBWI Southern Breeze co-coordinator for published members
Linda Joy Singleton @lindajoysingleton.bsky.social Author of over 55 middle-grade, YA, and picture books. Loves speaking at schools, libraries, and conferences. Owned by five cats. Writing news and frebies at Www.LindaJoySingleton.com
Lens Creator @ztk999.bsky.social ✨ Professional Snapchat Lens Designer
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Kaushani Mufti @padfootblack25.bsky.social 🌟Kidlit and Middle-grade Illustrator from🇮🇳
🌟Open to Representation
🌟 SCBWI India - Illustrator Co-ordinator
🌟 https://kaushanimufti.com/
✉️ kaushani.mufti@gmail.com
myfamapp.bsky.social @myfamapp.bsky.social Share with family, not the internet. That’s MyFam.
Create your own private family space:
- Shared Photo & Videos
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Clay Adamah @clayadamah.bsky.social (they/ze)
Author-Illustrator of #KidLitArt (long-press)
https://linktr.ee/clayadamah
just reading books, drawing stuff,
and tree-watching with birds. 🌳 👀 🐦
🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
Human made - No AI
Illustrator of Kismet, No! (PJP 2027)
Shampoo 🧼🛀 @shampoooficial.bsky.social Tomar banho é Bom 🧼🛀
Gosto de tomar banho bem cedinho, sendo 03 ou mais vezes ao dia !
É gostoso
Andrea Wickert @librarymusthaves.bsky.social 🌳 Parent | ♡ Book Lover |📍Upstate NY
🖼️ Author + Illustrator
✨ Finding you the best children’s books
💻 Portfolio: andreawickert.com
📖 IG: instagram.com/librarymusthaves
🍄 Shop: shop.hedgerowgeneral.com
@jiaconoauthor.bsky.social @jiaconoauthor.bsky.social Canadian author/illustrator of "The Monsters No Grownup Sees"
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/jiaconoauthor
Brackenlowe Halt Storyworld @brackenloweproject.bsky.social A quiet storyworld legacy project for children and grown-ups. Gentle tales, old railway memories and his journals.
( Brackenlowe Halt is a fictional storyworld rooted in the railway and social history of Hull and East Yorkshire)
brackenlowehalt.co.uk
Laura Parnum @lauraparnum.bsky.social Author, copyeditor, occasional magician. PERIL AT PRICE MANOR (HarperCollins 2023) and THE HAUNTING OF BELLINGTON COTTAGE (HarperCollins, July 2025). www.LauraParnum.com
linktr.ee/lauraparnum
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
Origin Books @originbooks.bsky.social We're Origin Books — a book printing company that helps authors and publishers bring their vision to life.
DearEditorDotCom @deareditordotcom.bsky.social Deborah Halverson—“The Editor”—posts writing tips, inspirations, news, & alerts when she answers new questions from writers on DearEditor.com
Mike Freveletti @frevma.bsky.social picture book writer | occasional poet | improviser | intermittent funny man
#picturebook #kidlit #12x12pb #PBParty #SCBWI
Stacey Gustafson @staceygustafson.bsky.social Picture book writer, SCBWI, stand-up comedian. 
Marta Pilosio Illustration @martapilosio.bsky.social Italian author-illustrator with a passion for books, folktales, fairytales, legends and history. SCBWI member. Represented by Erzsi Deàk at Hen&ink Literary.
Bindy James @bindyjames.bsky.social Kidlit Illustrator - animals, plants, kids in nature
📍Yugambeh Country/Logan, Aus
🔹 Represented by Astound US
🔸 SCBWI member
Welcome to Whalebone Mansion-Out Fall 2025
bindyjames.com
Kelly Clasen, PhD @kellyclasenwriter.bsky.social 🌻Kidlit author & writing professor. Rep'd by Reiko Davis.🌻
#SCBWI #InkedVoices #MG #PB
kellyclasenwriter.com- A amour30.bsky.social @amour30.bsky.social
Stephanie Allen @stephallen.bsky.social Fantasy writer and tired millennial who works in special education. Former gen ed teacher, school library assistant. Completed three degrees before being diagnosed with ADHD. Probably trying to find coffee right now. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/stephallen
Agnes Bellegris @agnesbelle.bsky.social Painter and aspiring #kidlit writer. #12x12 member, #poetry. #Equine enthusiast. Lifelong learner trying to make the most of this thing called life. www.artwithagnes.com
Joan Schoettler @joanschoettler.bsky.social Writer and author of children's picture books and middle grade novels.
A DOCTOR AT HEART THE STORY OF GROUNDBREAKING SCIENTIST AND TEACHER VIVIEN THOMAS,
BOOKS TRAVEL THE WORLD, and
THE HONEY JAR: AN ARMENIAN'S ESCAPE TO FREEDOM
Caterina Salvatori @caterinawrites.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Picturebook writer. Dog mom.
Crystal Lorons @crystallorons.bsky.social This ATL 🍑 is here in 2026
Freelance Journalist
Ghostwriter for 📖 & 🎶
#RevPit '22 Winner
#SCBWI
Disabled #LupusWarrior
Model
Wife
#CatMom
#GamerGirl
#AmWriting & #AmQuerying #KidLit #ChickLit
She/Her
www.CrystalSmallsWright.com
https://x.com/CrystalLorons
Marta Serraggiotto | children's book author-illustrator @martaserraggiotto.bsky.social 🧸kidlit author-illustrator | SCBWI member
🎨seeking agency representation
🇮🇹based in Padova, Italy
✏️Kidlit diary on Substack
https://www.martaserraggiotto.com/portfolio-2/
Adam Jarvis 🇨🇦 @nemacocy.bsky.social Father, Author, Teacher. Find me at https://adamjarvisauthor.com
Katie L. Carroll @katielcarroll.com Award-winning author of books for kids, teens, and those who are young at heart
She/they
https://katielcarroll.com/
Lillian Ebeling @rebel-ebeling.bsky.social Illustator, storyteller, gamer
She/her
https://linktr.ee/Rebelebeling
Anne Marie Corey @amcorey.bsky.social Children’s Book Author/Illustrator. Hollins MFA Grad Student. Beautifying the world one child at a time. #SCBWI
annecorey.myportfio.com
Annika Carmen Schmidt @fuenfsiebenfuenf.bsky.social haiku, poetry, scifaiku, micropoetry,
kidlit in English, German, French, Plattdeutsch.
born: Wesermarsch, based: Berlin-Wedding.
@crawford3cathy.bsky.social @crawford3cathy.bsky.social 
Sporty Pet @melyssamercado.bsky.social For all my fellow Writers, Football Fans, and Pet Lovers!
Always be in the Game!
Grab yours here while supplies last!
https://sporty-pet-shop.fourthwall.com/cart
Rachel @rachelbachman.bsky.social Artist. Librarian. Enthusiast.
Manifesting my dream of becoming a
✨children’s book author✨
#kidlit #kidlitart #librarian
Abraham Schroeder 🎩🦇 @thegentlemanbat.bsky.social Artist, Designer, Children's Picture Books #SCBWI: The Gentleman Bat, Too Many Tables
http://www.TheGentlemanBat.com
https://instagram.com/thegentlemanbat
http://www.facebook.com/TheGentlemanBat/
Amy Leskowski @amyleskowski.bsky.social Rep'd by Keely Boeving. PB writer, #scbwi, #12x12, copyeditor, dog mom, mom of 3, actor, instructional designer, baseball fan, soccer mom, baseball mom, Red Sox Nation, rhymer, pickleball player, cake decorator
Kristina-Marie (Tina) Matranga Howlett @tinamariehowlett.bsky.social Children’s Book Writer/Illustrator
🌎KristinaHowlett.com
📷 www.instagram.com/tinamariehowlett/
#SCBWI #LittleFreeLibrarySteward #VFW
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
Liz @panthorca.bsky.social MG Writer, KidLit, SCBWI, Signed Ink
Rep’d by Metamorphosis Literary Agency
Co-host of WRITING SCHEMES AND PUBLISHING DREAMS podcast
https://linktr.ee/writingschemespodcast
Reesa Guerra @reesaguerra.bsky.social 🌩️ Middle Grade Horror Fantasy writer 🌩️
Member of #SAGAFTRA
Celiac/Gluten-Free
I 👁️🗨️👻
Unless I'm familiar with you or you're really cool, please no DM's.
Kimberly Parsons @kimberlyparsonsart.bsky.social Hello! Daily original pen and ink illustrations 🎨 Vermont 🌲
Essie Brammer @essiebrammer.bsky.social Writer of MG. Finalist Mslexia C&YA Novel '24, SL Wells Book 4 Children '24, Yeovil Lit Prize C&YA '23 & Firefly Press '22, LL Guppy MG '21 & Mslexia C&YA '20 📚. Member of #MGnificents, #MGPugFish and #MiddleGradeHub. Neurodivergent. STEM IRL 🧮. She/her.
Judy Ann Davis @judyanndavisauthor.bsky.social Multi-Award-Winning Author and Writer : "Writing romance with a touch of mystery." https://judyanndavis.blogspot.com/ and
https://www.judyanndavis.com 
Linda J Thomas @lindajeantm.bsky.social Creativespace Explorer—
Writer/Poet/Editor/Mixed Media Maker
#12x12PB #SCBWI #ChildrensBookInsider #50PreciousWords Honorable Mention 2025 & 2026 #ValentinyWritingContest Honorable Mention 2026 #The100DayProject 2026
@margaretzotkiewicz.bsky.social @margaretzotkiewicz.bsky.social 
IslandTwinArtists @islandtwinartists.bsky.social Hi! We're Dori and Kate! 💕 Identical twins, kidlit author-illustrators, educators, SCBWI members, bakers, nature lovers, moms of super kids and pets, neurodiverse 💞
✨ Joyfully seeking representation ✨
www.IslandTwinArtists.com
Hilary Van Hoose @hilaryvh.bsky.social TV Writer for Nickelodeon, TeamTO & a couple still under NDA 📖Freelance Journalist 📜Disability Belongs Fellow 🏆NBC fellowship SF 🦄Children’s Media Assoc. volunteer 🎓TV/Film MFA from USC
@mplswaytogrow.bsky.social @mplswaytogrow.bsky.social 
Louis Shalako @louisshalako.bsky.social Louis Shalako, founder of Long Cool One Books, is the author of twenty-seven books, available from major online retailers. Louis studied Radio, TV and Journalism at Lambton College, later studying fine art.
@toastiepostie.bsky.social @toastiepostie.bsky.social 
Gita Ralleigh @gitaralleigh.bsky.social Writer/Poet/Lecturer/ex-doc
Kids' novels:
Minou Moonshine / Sam Singh @kidsbloomsbury.bsky.social
Poetry:
Empirical
@thebraag.bsky.social
Siren @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
A Terrible Thing Bad Betty Press
https://linktr.ee/gitaralleigh
Simon Webster @storytimewithsimon.bsky.social International Australian author, self published. Writing kids books, adult parodies, educational resources and non fiction....
Dare to dream.....
Get Launched @getlaunched.bsky.social Make yourself the 'Go To' person in any industry and earn a side income from running small networking events.
Earn through entrance fees, membership fees, sponsorships & deals. GetLaunched.org
writerharrison @harrisonwriter.bsky.social 🍁 #Canadian - #Author - #Poet 🍁
amazon.com/author/phillipharrison
I try to write in ways that feed both the mind and soul. ♊ & #GenX #stationaryaddict
💫 Creator of imagined worlds 💫
Courtney Pippin-Mathur | Kidlit artist & writer @pippinmathur.bsky.social author/illustrator, teacher, painter of journals, maker of creatures and things, she/her
www.pippinmathur.com
MelonieWithAnO @meloniewithano.bsky.social She/Her MG and YA Fantasy writer now #amquerying Member of #SCBWI. Wife. Mom to one human and 3 beasts. Average Musician. Newb archer. #WritingCommunity
Same name on IG
#RoundTableMentor mentee 2025
meloniependleton.com