SCBWI SF North and East Bay Region @scbwisfneb.bsky.social Welcome to SCBWI SF North & East Bay!🤗 Follow us! Facebook and Pinterest: SCBWI CA/San Francisco North & East Bay Region Instagram: scbwinortheastbay
Denise Gallagher @denisegallagher.bsky.social Author. Illustrator. SCBWI Illustrator Coordinator LA/MS Region. Loves to draw. Loves really weird animals. Denisegallagher.com
Astrarium Digital @astrariumdigital.bsky.social ✨🎮Helping indie games find their players! 🎮✨
We help indie developers grow wishlists & launch with confidence - games don't fail because they're bad, they fail because no-one sees them.
📅 Let's chat:
https://calendly.com/accounts-astrarium/30min
Tita Berredo @titaberredo.bsky.social Children's books Writer and Illustrator
MA Children’s Lit&Illo at Goldsmiths UOL
SCBWI International Illustrator Coordinator
Art Director of Words&Pictures
SOA volunteer
Love dinosaurs, live with husband and two Maine Coon cats!
Gerard @gerard0913.bsky.social Infuriatingly humble internet nerd. TechMan, Dallas first Grandson, Incurable communicator. “Don’t involve in any ones down fall”✌️
Ibarra V. Gomez @ibarravgomez.bsky.social Author of kids’ horror fiction and a voracious reader, watcher, and player of stories! Contact: ivg@eml.cc
AnneWritesKidlit @anneruggirello.bsky.social Picture book writer 📚 Bluesky newbie
Watercolor dabbler 🎨 Lover of apple crisp
#KidLit #picturebooks #SCBWI #amwriting
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
Mike Ressler @mresslerdraws.bsky.social Picture book illustrator
Seeking representation
ELTON CHIJIRI @eltonchijiri.bsky.social I am the Zimbabwean artist Sculptor do the African Stone sculptures, Wood sculptures, Metal sculptures, Crafts and Batiks. All my sculptures are the African original sculptures. All Sculptures i posted is AVAILABLE for SALE.
Email: chijirielton2@gmail.com
Señora Coquis @senoracoquis.bsky.social 
Scott Soeder | Kidlit Illustrator @scottsoeder.bsky.social Illustrator-Author
Favs: Comics, funny characters and sharks!
SCBWI Illustrator Coordinator Midsouth Region
Rep’d by Allison Remcheck | Stimola Literary Studio
scottsoeder.com
EdenWhisper @edenwhisper.bsky.social I do not blindly follow any camp; I only support those who are truly willing to speak out for the people.
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
ValeTer @valeter-portraits.bsky.social Portrait photography. Based in the United States, Seattle Area.
IG: https://www.instagram.com/valeter_portraits/
Web: https://portraits.valeter.net/
Illustration Jobs @illustration-jobs.com https://illustration-jobs.com is a free job board for illustrators.
Operated by two lovely humans 🇱🇧 🇵🇭 not bots or AI.
Leonid @leonidbon.bsky.social Exploring early projects 👀
Focusing on potential airdrops & long-term gems
Currently seeing Pudgy World as a promising one 🐧
DearEditorDotCom @deareditordotcom.bsky.social Deborah Halverson—“The Editor”—posts writing tips, inspirations, news, & alerts when she answers new questions from writers on DearEditor.com
Pablo Bojados Rodríguez @pablobojados.bsky.social Escritor de cuentos infantiles 📖💕
Psicólogo 👨🏻⚕️
Amante del manga y de los videojuegos 🎮
En mi cuenta encontraréis un respeto incondicional 🌈
Mi pequeño canal de YouTube: @pablobojados_psicologia
¡Suscríbete! 🤗
📍Castellón
Pat Cummings @betnoire.bsky.social Olympic medalist, Grammy winner, ballerina emeritus, storyteller, bookie.
Chijirie Art & Crafts @chijirielton.bsky.social I am the African Artist/Sculptor doing the Superb African stone sculptures and Crafts. I do supplies the African stone sculptures, wood sculptures, metal sculptures, crafts and Batiks. Thank you
GOD BLESS YOU ALL 🙏
Ezeneezer @ezeneezer.bsky.social Legit 70's Hippie child • she/her
Lives in the Low Lands on wine & weed, music & soul food, nature & books.
Has the best wheels.
Lover of clouds.
Ally 🌈
It's sweet being me ♥️
P@trik @layouta.bsky.social graphic designer
music is my life | I like everything beautiful, contemporary art, photography, cats and of course life :-)
I follow the motto:
be a voice not a echo
Allison Hackworth @allisonhackworth.bsky.social Neurodiverse mom, wife, and nurse who absolutely loves creating colorful, spooky picture books with her husband! 📚📖✏️🎨🖌️👻💀🧟🧛🏼🦇🎃♥️🧡💛💚💙💜
ash s. ➡️ Rose City ComicCon!!! @housegoblin.bsky.social ash s(zymanik) | he/they | I draw cats and color comics #NoAI
https://linktr.ee/housegoblin
Flipturns 🏊♀️ 📷 🦋 @flipturns.bsky.social 🏊♀️ swim teacher , 🐕 animal care tech, 🎸 musician/music therapist, 🧠 mental health tech, science &k elementary Ed. I care about people, animals, and the environment. Dealing with genetic diseases. I refuse to let them still me. 💙 JUST KEEP SWIMMING 🏊♂️
Rachel @rachelbachman.bsky.social Artist. Librarian. Enthusiast.
Manifesting my dream of becoming a
✨children’s book author✨
#kidlit #kidlitart #librarian
Josh Lewis @joshjlewis.bsky.social Author • Illustrator • Art Director
#kidlit #kidlitart
Author of Ray’s Big Day (Scholastic, 2024)
Illustrator for LEGO Little Golden Books
Agent: Natascha Morris @socalledyalife.bsky.social, the Tobias Literary Agency.
joshjlewis.com
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
Setheus @feathered.dragonsare.gay He/Him | Bird and feather lover | HPC,bioinformatics | Cars, Oboe, Cameras, Art | 🏳️🌈 | Dallas/Plano, TX | 18+ Only
banner - @whiteraven90.bsky.social
pfp - Hax/FA
Jessica Fujimori @jessicafujimori.bsky.social 
ROCKY LASTER🌱🦍 @rockylaster.bsky.social Feral Alaskan Hoosier. 17% Sasquatch DNA. High Priestess of the Leguminati 🫘. Allegedly Afraid of🐀 Mice. Watermelon Enthusiast 🍉. Awesome Dad🎖. Adoring Husband. Impossibly Humble. Susceptible to Flattery, 🥑's, and Wizardry. Balding Vegan Earthling 🌎
Mona Kanin, she/her/hers @mskanin.bsky.social I embrace careful thinkers and shapers.
The opposite of destruction? The Arts!
Domingos @domingosmcc.bsky.social I know not what tomorrow will bring…(Pessoa)
💙💛 Україна українцям! 💙💛
🚫 Nazifascists&Maga🚫 Bitcoin 🚫 Get-rich schemes
I reject fanaticism and outdated orthodoxies!
Linda Ludke @lindamludke.bsky.social Librarian, book lover, vintage enthusiast and children's book reviewer for Quill & Quire and Booklist 
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
Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social Poet, New York Times bestselling author of Paleolithic Era novels, nonfiction writer, award-winning screenwriter.
https://marymackey.com/
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
Tanners Killer Art @tannerskillerart.bsky.social I must draw the lines
@elaineviets.bsky.social @elaineviets.bsky.social 
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
Terri Clemmons @terriclemmons.bsky.social #kidlit author of MARA HEARS IN STYLE (Beaming Books; Illust. Lucy Rogers), PB & MG Writer, Educator, HOH, Baker of Cookies & Cakes
Repped by Tracy Marchini at Tracy Marchini Literary
Julia Vasileva @dreamist.bsky.social Picture book maker • Drawing stories, beach walking, reading books •📍Vancouver 🇨🇦 • https://dreamist-art.com/
Valerie Bean @valdraws.com Children’s illustrator represented by
@sophiesheumaker.bsky.social at
@bookendsliterary.bsky.social
Truthisiexist @truthisiexist.bsky.social NSFW alt of trustmeiexist! I post sometimes! Rambly little bastard! Ear pen is pretty cool!
28! Trans! Fuck yeah baybe!
Pfp: @miffix.bsky.social
Banner: @weirdnessMaster.bsky.social
Begone AI | Minors vaporized
VegPlotter: Online Vegetable Garden and Allotment Planner @vegplotter.com The best online Vegetable Garden & Allotment planning software to get you organised in the garden.
Fully featured garden planner vegplotter.com
Frost dates and growing zone calculator frostdates.com
@cloudrose.bsky.social @cloudrose.bsky.social she/her; pfp from picrew no. 1480383 - occasionally NSFW
Kokopelli Design @kokopellidesign.bsky.social Wenn euch was gefällt: https://ko-fi.com/kokopellidesign61223/shop
Oder einfach fragen. :)
Malen, Zeichnen, Häkeln, Stricken, Schmieden, Holzwerken, Perlen....what's next? #Mittagspausenvogel #kleineKunstklasse #Handarbeitsclub
🌈Yaswm.
@retrograd.bsky.social @retrograd.bsky.social 
Strathven @strathven.bsky.social 31| he/they | No AI/NFTs | creator of The Gray Old Trees: https://thegrayoldtrees.com/ | https://www.patreon.com/StrathvenArt
Davis Bickford @davis.social Artist • Game Dev
Pug Dad • Husband • ND • he/him
Half of @twigbit.games
🔗 Links!: davis.social
Art-only feed: https://bsky.app/profile/davis.social/feed/aaabpqcklbun6
🦋
vera @vv-veravery.bsky.social Artist learning comics, eventually (･θ･) | They/Them
🚫No AI training pls
Jeff McClelland @jeffmcclelland.bsky.social I make comics! I like Weird Al. I once played a dead body on a television show, and then I got booked on the next season of the very same show
Veblen Director Programme @veblendirectors.bsky.social Helping ambitious people get their first board seats. Regardless of your background.
Sophie Poulin @sophie-poulin.bsky.social Tiefling from the CZ 😈 Game Analyst 🎮 Looking for D&D and TTRPG inspired friends 🥹
@opendoorediting.bsky.social @opendoorediting.bsky.social 
Marcela Chermont ✏ Illustrator @marcelachermont.bsky.social 🖍️ Illustrator of books #kidlitartist
🐩 fearlessly drawing animals from the wilderness
inside my head 🦩🪴🦉🦒🐛
📚 Rep’d by Monica Rodriguez at Context Literary Agency
📍 www.marcelachermont.com
📧 hello@marcelachermont.com
inprnt.com/gallery/marcelachermont/
MiliFayArt.bsky.social @milifayart.bsky.social Story Artist, Illustrator, Author, Globe Trotter 🏆 Roger Allers Story Artist – Notable Contribution 2026! 🌎 On art and writing. ✍🏻 Staying positive most of the time. 💕 ☀️ 😊 https://milifay.art
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
@karicort.bsky.social @karicort.bsky.social Staying vigilant.
🌮Every accusation is a confession.
Raikka 🩵 Team Tragedy @minicapuccino.bsky.social artista, ilustradora, piadas de tio do pavê, voyeur de barraco e fofoca, videogames, desenhos, adoradora de bichinhos e basicamente um desastre ambulante que chegou à vida adulta sem saber como.
... mas pensa num coração bom.
@buba787.bsky.social @buba787.bsky.social 
Plotless Podcast @plotlesspodcast.bsky.social Two women, no plots, no problem
https://open.spotify.com/show/09pac7Cnbw6rWImc6Uwdnt?si=7ww1Q27QT_K22vCHk2pdqQ
https://www.plotlesspodcast.com/
https://www.instagram.com/plotless_podcast?igsh=MWlhcmF1ZW80M3k4MA%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
Gio Clairval @gioclair.bsky.social Writer from Paris and Lake Como
http://gioclairval.blogspot.com/p/stories.html?m=1
Shannon Rampe @shannonrampeauthor.bsky.social Author of weird and wonderful fantasy stories. Science fantasy, hard-boiled historical fantasy, cozy dungeon crawling adventure, and more. Newsletter at www.shannonrampe.com. Also blogs about ttrpgs @thenovelgamemaster.bsky.social
he/him
I Quit Smoking 🚭 📚 🐕 @iquitcigs.bsky.social Anti-Smoker My Website campralquitsmoking.net See How I Quit 20 Years Ago Fought Nicotine 35 Years Supporting others who Quit 🚭 STL MO ❤️To Promote Authors 📚 & Ozarks 🌄 Photographer 📷 Pez Add @piperformissouri.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social 💙
Renee Agatep @goingbyrenee.bsky.social #poet #writer #kidlit #2e #2eMom
📚 OHIO RADIO (Wolfson / Indiana University Press)
💀 THE ICEMAN'S PURSE
🖊 GoingbyRenee.com
Repped by @awfulagent.bsky.social
Artist Emily Drouin @emilyatplay.bsky.social Award-Winning Illustrator of Comics, Children's Books, Animation & more! 🎨 emilyatplay.com
National Cartoonists Society Member & Vice Chair NE Chapter, SCBWI, Kidlit, Founder @kidscon kidsconne.com
Facebook.com/emilyatplay
Instagram.com/emilydrouinart
Louise McLaughlin author she / her @louisemclaughlin.bsky.social 📚💙 Scottish fantasy author of D-Notice series- Cassie discovers saving the world with Glaswegian retired gods is a tough gig.
FREE BOOK links
Deviation: Wandering gods https://BookHip.com/HBMLCLS
Darkness https://BookHip.com/XNZJLNF
P. J. Purtee, AKA Jill (Shields) @pjpurtee.bsky.social SCBWI
PBs
Poet: The Toy, Little Thoughts Press
Mira Reisberg's Children's Book Academy (featured poems)
Honors: Madness! Poetry (Elite 8), #50PreciousWords, Valentiny, Halloweensie, Holiday, Spring Fling
School volunteer
Hx: pediatrics
http://pjpurtee.com
A.T. Sayre @atsayre.bsky.social #Writer. Curmudgeon. Militant smart-ass. Loveable rogue. Well, maybe not THAT loveable. SFWA member.
atsayre.com
Sonya Afnan @sonyaafnan.bsky.social Writer | illustrator | Iraqi-Chaldean † | SCBWI
Rep: Jordan Hamessley at JABberwocky Lit Agency
www.sonyaafnan.com/portfolio
Sunny Apocalypse🤗💛💙🇺🇸🇺🇦🇬🇱🌎🕊️ @teedublavee.bsky.social Here to save democracy in America✌️
Pro-kindness. Pro-human. 🤗❤️
Free Civics Workbook: https://sunnyapocalypse.com/civics-workbook
It’s going to take all of us ✌️
Billy Crickets @billycrickets.bsky.social 🌸 Webcomic artist | Illustrator | Cosplay & Plush artist | Sculptor 🌸
Any pronouns
Commissions open
❌ No AI, no fascists, no bigots ❌
Tom Cat 23 @tomcat23.bsky.social Poet. Artist. Music and other noise maker. Modular synth builder. Child of fortune and student of life. Graduated hammer college. Dad of 2 wonderful kids. 
Lynn Wartski Sculpture @lwartskisculpture.bsky.social Sculptor, needle felted + mixed media anthropomorphic figure sculpture, mono-prints #sculpture #art #needlefelt
Posts about current work, available pieces at: http://wartskisculpture.com
Videos of work: www.youtube.com/@lynnwartski1368
Anya @greenrainart.bsky.social Author-illustrator of children’s books
She/her
#kidlitart
Anyakopotilova.com
Rep’d by Eve Adler at Red Fox Literary
Cara: https://cara.app/greenrainart
Joy Lanzendorfer @joylanzendorfer.bsky.social Author of RIGHT BACK WHERE WE STARTED FROM. Work in The New Yorker, New York Times, The Atlantic, Washington Post, and others. www.ohjoy.org
Madeleine Gunhart @madeleinegunhart.bsky.social Author of WHEN DEATH CAME TO HONEYBLOOM (Spring 27) and other upcoming cozy fantasy. Tarot reader. The other PNW cryptid. She/they
Represented by @thejordache.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/madeleinegunhart
Melizza Chernov ✨Open to Commissions✨ @melizzachernov.bsky.social #Kidlit Artist/Writer, love of #naturewalks #dogs, #books and #boardgames!
https://www.melizzachernov.com/
https://www.melizzachernov.com/contact
email: melizza@melizzachernov.com
Auston Habershaw @aahabershaw.bsky.social Science Fiction/Fantasy author and English professor; shorts in Analog, F&SF, BCS, and elsewhere. Author of The Saga of the Redeemed and If Wishes Were Retail and also Faceless Galaxy; website aahabershaw.com
Repped by @awfulagent.bsky.social
He/Him
Meghan Wilson Duff 🦑 @mwduff.bsky.social Picture book author, psych prof (clinical), excels at typos, in a tide pool if possible, 🦑 IDIC 🖖 they/them www.meghanwilsonduff.com
They're concentration camps & it's genocide. No one should be okay w/ it.
AI slop = blocked
Laurie Sawyer @lauriesawyer.bsky.social Visual storyteller whose style fits perfectly into kidlit. Dog lover who can be found hiking with my two Huskies on the weekends. SCBWI member
Portfolio: LaurieSawyer.artstation.com
IG: @huskysketches
John Zeleznik @johnzeleznikauthor.bsky.social Father, Husband, Teacher & Writer. Jedi Knight & friend to Captain Solo. Winter is coming. Mets, Orange, Isles, Bills fan. Novelist & writer NOT the artist with the same name! Opinions stated are mine alone.
Winter's Discord: https://a.co/d/03HllUfX
Publisher Spotlight @pubspotlight.bsky.social Sharing news about kids books from international publishers and domestic library and teacher conferences https://www.publisherspotlight.com
Upstart Crow @unwashedrepublic3.bsky.social Prfrm t opn mic nghts wrt my own sngs, mss arnd wth dgtl rts + dgtl ftgrfy
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50501 #SaveTheBees #SlavaUkrainii pro #Union Identify as here and now
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Independent Publishers of New England @ipne.org Publishing nonprofit where the cool indies hang and collaborate to "make better books and sell more of them." IPNE.org. Please add to relevant lists. 🙏🏻📖