Abie Longstaff @abielongstaff.bsky.social 📚 Children's author of picture books, chapter books and Middle Grade.
🌟 Chair of the Children's Writers and illustrators Group at Society of Authors. 💃Posts are my own.
Sophy Henn @sophyhenn.bsky.social Writer, illustrator, idiot.
Represented by Jodie Hodges at United Agents.
For school visits please contact www.authorsalouduk.co.uk
Gareth P Jones @garethpjones.bsky.social Writer of books, composer of musicals, performer of performances. Listen, I'll pretty much do anything for the right price. I'll clean your car windows if you're paying & I have access to a damp cloth.
Jo Cotterill/Kenrick @jocotterillbook.bsky.social Children's author moving into screenwriting. BAFTA Rocliffe new writing shortlistee 2023. She/her.
jocotterill.com
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.
Smriti Halls @smritihallsauthor.bsky.social Reader, writer, dreamer; hopist; mum;
#1 Bestselling, award-winning children’s author; Books in 40+ languages. Agent: Jodie Hodges
www.smriti.co.uk
I’M STICKING WITH YOU series, RAIN BEFORE RAINBOWS, THE LITTLE ISLAND & lots more…
Clare Helen Welsh @clarehelenwelsh.bsky.social Former teacher, children's author, writing tutor and founder of #BooksThatHelp
Elys Dolan @elysdolan.bsky.social Illustrator, author and all round good egg. Lecturer on the MA Children’s Book Illustration, Cambridge School of Art. 
Timothy Knapman @timothyknapman.bsky.social Writer of children's books, musicals, plays, operas and the rest. More details at www.timothyknapman.co.uk - if you dare...
#KidLitUK
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.
FiB @fionawritesbooks.bsky.social Picture book author, plogger, less plastic, more books, audiologist
Rep’d by Alice Williams Literary
Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social ✏️ Comics writer and artist
🍩 Creator of AWARD-WINNING and/or BEST-SELLING comics such as MEGA ROBO BROS and DONUT SQUAD!
🤖 buy books & ticket links: www.linktree.com/neillcameron
🍩 www.neillcameron.com
Sally Nicholls @sallynicholls.bsky.social Author of books inc 'Ways to Live Forever', 'Things a Bright Girl Can Do', 'The Button Book', 'A Chase in Time'. 'Leaving the House' out now. Lives in Liverpool with husband and two kids, Quaker, bridge-player, woolly liberal. Profile pic by Ellie Snowden.
Dave Rudden @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social Storysmith. DOCTOR WHO. KNIGHTS OF THE BORROWED DARK. And CONN OF THE DEAD - coming soon!
Mini Grey @mini3grey.bsky.social Help! I haven't time for this!
My shop: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/MiniGreyShop
Stephanie Sorrell @sophistikitty.bsky.social Sailor, writer and cat fanatic. High character and sundry merits 🦁 DANDY THE HIGHWAY LION 🦁 out now!
Lucy Ann Unwin @lucyannunwin.bsky.social Children's writer. Non-fiction debut INSIDE YOUR BRAIN out in June published by Thames & Hudson. Fiction HOW TO BE A REVOLUTIONARY and THE OCTOPUS, DADU & ME out now. Represented by Emily Talbot at United Agents. www.lucyannunwin.com linktr.ee/lucyannunwin
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
Robyn Wilson-Owen @robynwilsonowen.bsky.social Illustrator and author repped by Neil at Spring Literary and published by Andersen, Egmont/Farshore, Boxer and Tiny Owl
Illustration tutor at Falmouth University and The Open University.
Tutor in creativity for Cam Uni online.
www.robynwilsonowen.com
Nicola Kent @nicolakent.bsky.social Author/illustrator of books for young children.
Rep'd Jodie Hodges, United Agents
Latest: Croc's Cooking Day, Bear's Wash Day, Measuring Me
www.nicolakent.co.uk
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
Ben Davis @bendavisauthor.bsky.social Author of the Carnegie nominated THE SOUP MOVEMENT and the LENNY LEMMON series. And other stuff. Remember to breathe.
https://linktr.ee/bendavisauthor
Gary Panton @garypanton.co.uk Author of THE NOTWITCHES and THE NOTWITCHES: PRISON BREAK. All the links for ordering can be found at garypanton.co.uk/books/
Represented by Rachel Mann at CAA.
📍Perth, Scotland
🌐 garypanton.co.uk
Simon James Green @simonjamesgreen.bsky.social Author & screenwriter. Boy Like Me, Finn Jones Was Here, Gay Club!, Heartbreak Boys, and more!
www.simonjamesgreen.com
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
Hannah Moffatt @missdeplume.bsky.social Hello, I’m a children’s author from London. SMALL! & SMALL BITES BACK out now.
HELP! ALIENS STOLE MY GRANDAD out 28 May
Publisher: Everything With Words
https://hannahmoffatt.com/
david tazzyman @gumdraw.bsky.social Illustrator
Brenna Jeanneret @brennajeanneret.bsky.social #Kidlitauthor #PB #GN #NF
THE LAW OF BIRTHDAYS ('24)
A BIKE IS NOT JUST A BIKE (26)
DUDES OF DISPOSAL ('26)
Co-host of You May Contribute A Verse
@JoshMonkwords.bsky.social
https://brennajeanneret.com/index.html
Joffre White @joffrewhite.bsky.social Author, a UK Patron of Reading and a Reading & Writing Motivator. Delivers motivational & inspiring sessions in schools and at events across the UK and beyond. Believes every school should have a library & a librarian at its heart.
Mo O’Hara @moohara.bsky.social Writer/ performer/ children’s author. 
Marzieh Abbas | Kidlit Author @marziehabbas.bsky.social 🏆📚
🇵🇰📝
Constantly curious, chai-drinking award-winning children's book author, poet, and aspiring illustrator.
📕Excited for Eid (LBB, 2024)
📙Friday Fun (LLB, 2024)
📘Aarzu All Around (S&S, 2025)
📗The Camel Library (F&F, 2025)
📕Radiant Ramadan (LBB, 2025)
Jen Carney @jencarney.bsky.social Author-illustrator based in UK.
Story Yeller @georgekirktales.bsky.social Teller of Tales
Maker of Make Believe
Player of Ukuleles.
Lender of Books.
#Autistic
#ADHD
rep'd @agentalicewilliams
Bessie's Bees out 3rd July 25 with Templar Books
Gary Northfield @stupidmonster.bsky.social Cartoonist/illustrator/author/magician/trapeze artist/grump
Rep'd by United Agents https://www.unitedagents.co.uk/gary-northfield
Tamsin Mori @tamsinmori.bsky.social MG #UKkidlit writer - author of the Weather Weaver trilogy and Gargoyles. Discovering magic in the everyday. Endlessly curious. Book worm tending towards book dragon.
Loves: cats, crochet, creative people.
Cath Howe @cathhowe.bsky.social Children's author, creative arts, London, rep'd by Anne Clark, @nosycrow, @pearson, BloomsburyEd, HachetteKids
Helen Docherty @helendocherty.bsky.social Children's author (Superwolf, Someone Just Like You, The Snatchabook), language nerd & mum of teenagers. I love broccoli & dark chocolate (but not together). Gower / Wales / Cymru. SoA. I will probably post pictures of my dog as well. www.helendocherty.com
Lisa Williamson @lwilliamsonauthor.bsky.social MG/YA author (Bigg School, The Art of Being Normal etc). Books, whippets, dessert.
Clare Harlow @clareharlow.bsky.social Writer, bookworm
She/her
https://www.clareharlow.co.uk
https://linktr.ee/clareharlow
Sheena Dempsey @sheenadempsey.bsky.social Children's books, illustrations, comics.
Pablo and Splash Books 1 and 2 out now (Bloomsbury)
Agent: Sallyanne Sweeney
sheenadempsey.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
Meg Grehan @megcathwrites.bsky.social Books, poems and trees 😌
Author of five novels-in-verse with Little Island 🧡
📍Donegal
meg-grehan.com
Daisy May Johnson @chaletfan.bsky.social Author of How To Be Free, How To Be Brave & How To Be True. I also research school stories, juvenilia, and girlhood in children's literature.
didyoueverstoptothink.com
Matt Robertson @drawingmatt.bsky.social I’m an award winning Norfolk based children’s book author and illustrator.
Represented by Emily Talbot at United Agents. matttheillustrator.com
Vicky Woodgate @vickywoodgate.bsky.social Writer - Illustrator of children’s books.
Published by | Big Picture Press | DK | Scholastic | Hachette
Likes | books (obvs) | cats (also obvs) wildlife | birding | drawing | comics and Hedgehogs ….
www.vickywoodgate.com
Rep by Bell Lomax Moreton
Dominic Yoboué @dominicyoboue.bsky.social Children’s Author & Teacher
📚Reviving a LOVE for reading in the young generation with diverse stories 🌎✨
#KaraBook OUT NOW! 📖💛
https://linktr.ee/dominicyoboue?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=e330d785-7381-4272-996a-bf049e5d2698
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
H S Norup @hsnorup.bsky.social Children’s author of
💚🧚 THE CHANGELING CHILD
💙🧚 INTO THE FAERIE HILL
🥢👻 THE HUNGRY GHOST
❄️⛷️ THE MISSING BARBEGAZI
@PushkinPress | #SCBWI | Reader | She/Her | first name: Helle | 🇩🇰 in🇨🇭via 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇸🇬🇦🇹
www.hsnorup.com
Eve McDonnell @evemcdonnell.bsky.social Children’s writer & artist 💫 Mama to best twins. Wonderlarker. ELSETIME 🪶 (2020), THE CHESTNUT ROASTER 🌰 (2022), THE LAST BOY 🧹 (2024)
Sarah Todd Taylor @sarahtoddtaylor.bsky.social Author of the Alice Éclair and Max the Detective Cat series and Arthur and Me. Loves singing, cats and guinea pigs.
Steve Skidmore @justonesteve.bsky.social Children’s author. Available to write and talk! www.steveskidmore.net
Alastair Chisholm @alastairc.com Author: 🚀OrionLost ☁️REEK 🐲OneHungryDragon 🐉DragonStorm
🐺#IAMWOLF out now! 🤖 #BLITZERS out now!
Rep: https://www.rupertcrew.co.uk. He/him. Likes biscuits.
More: https://alastairc.com/links
#KidLitUK
Paula Harrison @paulabooks.bsky.social Bestselling children’s author with books in 30+ languages. Video series Paula Grows Authors on YouTube. Kitty series (OUP) Fairytale Ninjas (HarperCollins) The Rescue Princesses (Nosy Crow) and more! Repped by Jodie Hodges.
Nikki Sheehan @nikkisheehan.bsky.social Author and creative writing mentor. RLF fellow. Screenwriter. Agent: Julia Churchill. Dark and stormy.
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
Mama G @mamagstories.bsky.social "Everyone's favourite pantomime dame," (Metro) - sharing stories about being who you want and loving who you are! 'Oh Yes I Am!' out now!
petitepantos.com/links
Judith Eagle @juditheagle.bsky.social Children’s author: The Secret Starling; The Pear Affair; The Accidental Stowaway; The Stolen Songbird. Published by Faber; rep’d by Lucy Irvine at PFD
Victoria M. Adams @victoriamadams.bsky.social Those em-dashes are all mine, my precious. We do not use the nasssssty AI because it stinks. Silly hobbitses
Sarah Ziman (aka BardyMum) - Bison Rule, OK! is out now! @bardymum.bsky.social Poet, mainly for children (more fun!) but I occasionally adult…
Won YorkMix Poems for Children '21,
Kids’ collections: Why did my brain make me say it?
Bison Rule, OK!
School visits in Watford, St Albans, London & further afield
www.sarahziman.co.uk
Claire Barker @clairebarker.bsky.social Words, pictures and plants. Author of Knitbone Pepper series, Picklewitch and Jack series. Hettie Nettle’s Handbook for Hedgewitches out now. Rep’d by Julia Churchill at AM Heath. https://linktr.ee/clairebarker
Matty Long @superhappymatty.bsky.social Black lines & bright colours 🔸️ Check out my new series CROAKY 🔸️ SUPER HAPPY MAGIC FOREST is on iPlayer and CBBC now! 🔸️
www.mattylong.com
Insta: @superhappymatty
Sally Doherty @sallywrites.bsky.social MG author: Toby and the Silver Blood Witches, Max and Monty with Collins Primary
Winner of the Book Bloggers' Novel of the Year Award 2022
Owned by three-legged rescue dog
ME/CFS
https://linktr.ee/SallyDoherty
Attie Lime @attielime.bsky.social Poet. 99% Children's Poetry.
Schools. Events. Festivals.
Poems on Toast Sept 2026 🎉
Blue Jelly and Strawberries
A Welly Full of Christmas
Mum. Ex-teacher. Notebooks. Tea.
East Midlands now, Northumberland then.
www.attielime.co.uk
Anna Brooke - Death by Chocolate **coming March 12!** @annabrookewriter.bsky.social Children's author rep’d by @stubbleagent @RCW.
Books: Death by Chocolate, Monster Bogey, Monster Stink, Two Little Dicky Birds & HELP! Travel writer (The Times/Frommer's) https://www.annabrookewriter.com/where-to-buy
https://linktr.ee/annabrookewriter
@glenblackwell.bsky.social @glenblackwell.bsky.social 
Dr. Olga Werby @olgawerby.bsky.social I am scientist who writes science fiction and fantasy books and develops educational materials for all ages to use in schools, museums, zoos, or at home. You can read my blog at interfaces.com or see some of my ed materials at SupermarketScience.com
Sarah Siggs @ssiggs.bsky.social Former SEND Teacher. Jumped land to live on a ship. Author of MUD BOY - an anti-bullying resource for young children - published by JKP. Author of HUG WORDS - helping children to worry less and wonder more.
Julia Green @jgreenauthor.bsky.social Author of many children's books; most recent ETTIE AND THE MIDNIGHT POOL & The Boy Who Sailed the World. Emeritus Professor of Writing for Young People at Bath Spa Uni. Live at the northeast coast. Love walking, wild swimming, reading.
Serena Molloy @serenamolloy.bsky.social Irish children's author.
'Wider Than The Sea' Winner of the Eilís Dillon Award KPMG CBI. Sunday Times (IRL) Children's Book of the Week. SL The Week Junior Awards '24.
'The Tree That Sang to Me' out now with Hodder.
https://serenamolloy.com/
A. M. Dassu (Az) @amdassu.bsky.social Award-winning, former World Book Day author | Carnegie Nom x3 | Books: BOY,EVERYWHERE | FIGHT BACK |BOOT IT | KICKED OUT and 12 others from pb - teen | PublishersWkly⭐️, ALA Notable Book, a Guardian & Kirkus & Booklist BOOK OF THE YEAR
Instagram: @a.m.dassu
Maudie Smith (aka Amanda, Mands, Moobag) @maudiesmith.bsky.social Children's book writer with a side of veg and flowers. Based near the Bath
https://www.maudiesmith.co.uk/
https://contactanauthor.co.uk/Author/17/maudie-smith
@pollypoem.bsky.social @pollypoem.bsky.social Hi, I’m a children’s author and poet.
My books include:
🪱Darwin’s Super-Pooping Worm Spectacular!🪱
🦈🍦Do Sharks Like Ice Cream? The Surprising World of Statistics 🦈🍦
Ros Dando ✨A Gift of Wild available now!✨ @rosdando.bsky.social Level 43 AuDHD chaos gremlin. Author, artist, teacher, and owned by three cats. 141 RAADS-R score. Ace and tired.
A GIFT OF WORDS and A GIFT OF WILD (middle grade contemporary fantasy) out now from D&O Publishing
Found in the wilds of Cumbria, UK
Janelle McCurdy @janellemccurdy.bsky.social Gaming content creator and author of MIA AND THE LIGHTCASTERS (UK) | THE LIGHTCASTERS (US)! Rep'd by Rachel Mann CAA. Game reviews + book info on my website: https://linktr.ee/JanelleMccurdy 💫🎮
📧Janellemccurdyinfo@gmail.com
Peter Bently @peterbently.bsky.social Children’s author. Winner of UK Children’s Book Award and Roald Dahl Funny Prize
Sue Hendra @suehendra.bsky.social I write stories and draw pictures
Curtis Jobling @curtisjobling.bsky.social Words & Pictures
WOLF KING for @NETFLIX
Wereworld / Max Helsing / Haunt / Raa Raa the Noisy Lion / Bob the Builder / Frankenstein's Cat
Patron Children's Adventure Farm Trust & Warrington Wolves Foundation
Chaotic Good
Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social Dad. Science Teacher. Author of books including “Why Don’t Things Fall Up?”, "Mr Shaha's Recipes for Wonder" and “How to Find a Rainbow”. Lots of free stuff and more about me at alomshaha.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
Cathy FitzGerald @cathyfitzg.bsky.social Makes radio documentaries for BBC (magic carpets, angry ghosts, broken hearts). Author of Pinch Perkins & the Midsummer Curse. Rep: LBA Books.
Lou Treleaven @loutreleaven.bsky.social Children's author rep'd by Caroline Wakeman. Mostly on Instagram as @loutreleaven.
Jennifer Claessen @jenniferclaessen.bsky.social Children’s author & theatremaker.
NETTA BECKER AND THE TIMELINE CRIME out now!
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
Dawn Treacher @dtreacher.bsky.social I am an author and illustrator of children's picture books and fantasy adventure novels, artist and toy designer.
Susan Cahill @susancahill.bsky.social 🌧THE WORLD BETWEEN THE RAIN 🌧 middle-grade children’s fantasy, out now!
🌟Longlisted for Branford Boase Award 2025
🎙️STORYSHAPED: podcast about children’s books that shape us
https://linktr.ee/susancahillwrites
Penny Chrimes @pennychrimes.bsky.social Children's author. TIGER HEART, THE DRAGON AND HER BOY, WILDER, MOONSHIFTER. HERO THE HIGHWAY GIRL coming in September with @FireflyPress
Agent Lisa Babalis, Curtis Brown. Bookings Authors Aloud.
Jim Beckett @jimbeckett.bsky.social BUZZ SAUSAGE WOLF out now! 🐾📚
jimbeckett.co.uk
Naomi Jones @naomijones1.bsky.social Award winning children’s author
Agent: @jodiehodges.bsky.social
Books: www.naomiandjamesjones.com
Words and Pictures: naomiandjamesjones.substack.com
Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social Novelist. Poet. Reader.
🏺OVID’S HEROINES 🍼INCARNATION 🐇FIERCE BAD RABBITS 🔮 DELPHI 🏰THE UNTAMEABLES 🧚🏾THE MODERN FAIRIES, ✍️LIVES OF THE FEMALE POETS 🌊THE OTHERNAUTS, etc
Substack: Clare’s Poetry Circle
Alexandra Dawe @alexandradawe.bsky.social Writer and artist in Devon, UK. Inconsistent poster. Dawe is pronounced 'door'. No AI in my art or writing, ever.
Rep'd by @belllomaxmoreton.bsky.social
The Stitchwort Curse published by @foxandinkbooks.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/alexandradawe
Bex Hogan @bexhogan.bsky.social Author of YA (OWL KING, NETTLE, BLACK HEAT and VIPER, VENOM & VULTURE) and young MG (BRONTE TEMPESTRA series). Probably daydreaming. Or napping.
Clay Pipe Music @claypipemusic.bsky.social ‘An entrancing record label built on a foundation of Arcadian sounds and gorgeous graphic design.’ Shindig.
Website: www.claypipemusic.co.uk
Bandcamp: https://claypipemusic.bandcamp.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/claypipemusic_francescastle/
World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social The official Bluesky account of the World Bollard Association™️. MERCH STORE - https://worldbollardassociation.team-togs.com/shop/storeorderform.php
The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com Satirical news by & for autistic people (poor things). Founded by Sara Gibbs & Elsa Williams; run by Sara Gibbs & Sarah Amero
It’s a Superpower?? is out now: https://allmylinks.com/itsasuperpower
www.thedailytism.com
www.patreon.com/TheDailyTism
Barrington Stoke @barringtonstoke.bsky.social Growing a love of reading for 25 years. Great authors, great stories, no barriers: leading publisher of dyslexia-friendly books.
https://linktr.ee/BarringtonStoke #GoAllIn2026
Ed Jefferson @edjefferson.com writes/codes/talks about things no-one else would bother to. e dot jefferson at gmail. he/him. was @edjeff.
internet weblog: https://edjefferson.com/blog
Elon Musk's Jet Tracking @elonjet.net ElonJet | Tracking Elon Musk’s Jet by @jacks.grndcntrl.net
Also follow @spacexjets.grndcntrl.net
Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com Dad | Professor of applied sciences @AcademicaUoAS | Dubliner | PhD @KingsCollegeLon | Keats devotee | persecuted by an integer
https://www.carlhendrick.com/
Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social Eats and writes for The Financial Times. Piano for the JR Sextet; chairs Kitchen Cabinet for R4. Doesn’t accept comps. jay.rayner@ft.com
https://linktr.ee/jayrayner1
Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social Photo sharing bot for planetary and deep space images.
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